Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1907 — FOUND DEAD IN BED. [ARTICLE]

FOUND DEAD IN BED.

Mrs. Margaret Shea, who lived alone in the east part of town, was found dead in' bed Saturday morning, having evidently passed away peacefully the night before while Bhe slept. Neighbors, seeing no one about the house in the morning as usual and getting no response to repeated raps at the ‘door, notified the officers, and Christie Vick and E. *M. Thomas, the nightwatch, entered the bouse and found her dead in bed. Deceased had complained of feeling badly the night before and it is supposed her death was from natural oaus&fj} therefore no inqueet was deemed necessary. The funeral was held Tuesday at 10 a. m., from St. Atigustine’s Catholic church and intermeift made ig Mt. Calvary cemetery, south of town. Mrs. Shea tfas a native of Ire* land. Her husband, Michael Shea, died about 20 years ago. Six children, three sons and three daughters, survive her, namely: Jerry, of Gillam tp.; Miohael, of St. Louis, Mo.; Cornelius, of Nevada; Mrs. George Worden, of Bemington; Mrs. Nora Greenhull, of Idaho, and Miss Josie Shea, of Oklahoma. She was about 70 ( years of age. Of the children living away, Miohael of St. Louis, was the only one here to the faneral.