Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1902 — DEATH OF MRS. HEALEY. [ARTICLE]

DEATH OF MRS. HEALEY.

Margaret Healy, relicit of the late Sylvester Healy, died at her home on Front street quite suddenly Tuesday afternoon after a few days illness from pneumonia. The funeral was held from St. Augustine’s Catholic church Thursday at 10 a. m., and interment made in Weston Cemetery. [Margaret McCarthy was born in Killarney, Ireland, in 1840, and was married to Sylvester Healy iu 1859, In 1861 she with her husband came to America, settling in Massachusetts for about two years, when they removed to Indiana and settled in Rensselaer, where she has resided continuously to the time of her death. She was the mother of sjven children. One died in infancy while three, Mary, Lucy and Agnes, reached young womanhood ere the grim messenger called them to the other shore. John, Jerry and Maggie still survive and all reside in Rensselaer. Mrs. Healy had been in very poor health since the death of her daughter Agnes, and since her husband's death, which occured Nov. 6,1899,6 he has scarcely been out of the house. She bore her sufferings with patience and fortitude, surrounded with the tender, loving care of the remaining children. Her fatal sickness was of only three days duration, when I her savior called her home.]