Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1916 — Charles Gallagher Dies After Brief Illness. [ARTICLE]

Charles Gallagher Dies After Brief Illness.

Charles A. Gallagher, aged 41 years, died suddenly Sunday as he was about to be taken into a Lafayette hospital for treatment from hemorrhage of the stomach. Mr. Gallagher became critically ill Sunday morning and tvas advised to go to a hospital for treatment. He was accompanied by his sister, Mrs. Lawrence Kellner, and husband of near Remington, and Dr. Sluyter of Wolcott in an awtomobile and seemed to stand the trip very well until the car reached the hospital, when death overtook him.

The remains were shipped to Remington Monday*%nd funeral services will be held at the Sacred Heart Catholic church, of which church he was a member, this, Wednesday, morning at 9 o’clock, and burial made in the Catholic cemetery west of town.

Mr. Gallagher was unmarried and was a brother of Harry Gallagher, proprietor of the depot restaurant, Jack Gallagher, also of Rensselaer, and. has a brother Will residing in Baltimore who reached here yesterday to attend the funeral. Another sister lives in Dayton, Ohio. His father, Anthony Gallagher, resides with his daughter, Mrs. Lawrence Kellner. Previous to his death he was working as a teamster at Wolcott. Mrs. John C. Karry Dead. Mrs. Catherine Karry, aged 40 years, 1 month and 20 days, died Saturday evening, following a brief illness from Bright’s disease, at her homp in the northwest part of the city. She had given birth to a son about-eight days ago and that probably had a tendency to hasten her death. Th© funeral services were held at St. Augustine’s Catholic church Monday morning at 9 o’clock, and were in charge of Calkins & Worland. Interment was made in Mt. Calvary cemetery. Mrs. Karry was a sister of Nick Schmitter, who resides on a farm northeast of Rensselaer. She also leaves to mourn their loss three children, two having died in infancy; a husband, four sisters, three brothers and her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Tobias Schmitter, of JJelphi, all of whom were present except a brother who lives in Michigan. Mrs. Karry was born in Tippecanoe county in 1876, and was married to Mr. Karry in 1904 at Terre Haute, from which place they moved to Rensselaer last fall.