Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1902 — Death of Mrs. Margaret Healy. [ARTICLE]

Death of Mrs. Margaret Healy.

' Mrs. Margaret Healy, whose death was briefly mentioned in Tuesday’s items, was born in County Cork, Ireland, in 1839, -ied in Rensselaer Ind., Dec. 31st, 1901, aged about 62 years. The immediate sickness which caused ber death was pneumonia, and was of very brief duration, she having taken to her bed only three days before. She had • been in poor health for a long time, however, and had scarcely been out of her house for two yearsHer maiden name was MoCarthy and io 1859, at the age of 20, she married Sylvester Healy, and came with him to this oountry the following year. They lived in Massachusetts about two years, and oame to Rensselaer in 1862, whioh place has ever since been her home. She was the mother of seven children, three sons and foqr daughters. , Only three of thi?se survive her, all living in Reusselaer, Jeremiah, John and Maggie Healy. One son died in infancy. Three daughters, Mary, Lucy and Agnes, all of adult age or nearly so, died in rapid succession some ten or twelve yeaflg ago. Her hnsband died Nov. 6th 1899, or two years and nearly two months ago. The funeral was held Thursday at 10 a. m., at St. Augustine’s Catholic ohnrch, by Rev. Father Meyer. Interment was in the family lot, in Weston cemetery, where the other departed members of ber family are buried.