Michael Garvey died 1899

GARVEY, SHEEHY, HORGAN

Posted By: S. Ferrall (email)
Date: 4/3/2006 at 22:09:36

Died.
Michael Garvey, formerly well known here, died at his home at Carrington, N.D., last week. He was a relative of the Sheehys. Jas. Horgan and his mother went up to attend the funeral. The friends have our sympathy. The Carrington Record has the following to say of Mr. Garvey's sickness and death:

Last week, shortly after M. Garvey was reported as improving, he took a change for the worse, and on Saturday it was thought best to amputate his injured limb close to the hip, as the bones entering the formation of the knee joint had become deseased. Drs. Crawford and MacLachian, of New Rockford, and Howard, of this place, had been summoned and the operation was performed that night. For a day or two it was thought that Mr. Garvey's condition was improving and that there was some hope of his recovery -- then came the sad tidings that he was gradually sinking and suffering intensely, and on Thursday evening shortly before 7 o'clock he passed away.

The deceased leaves a wife, Monica and baby daughter, Mary, and five sisters, Mrs. Price Morris and Mrs. Jos. Sheehy, who reside here, and three other sisters who live in the east. To them no words of sympathy can be said except that their God was his God and that He doesth all things well.

Of Michael Garvey himself we can say that as a personal friend or as a public citizen we never knew him to be otherwise than true and kind, and imbued with that vein of good fellowship that made him the good comrade that he was at any and all times. All who knew him will mourn the loss of a good man and citizen. Funeral services will be held Monday, Feb. 6th, at 11 a.m., at which high mass will be sung.

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source: Postville Review,
February 10, 1899