ELIZABETH "LIZA" HAGARTY
HAGARTY, GIBSON, MCDERMOTT, NETTLETON, CASS
Posted By: Maureen Moore (email)
Date: 5/7/2007 at 14:55:02
This Was extremely hard to read. If anyone would like to help clear this up, I can send them a copy to try and transcribe it a bit better, just email me. This was my G/G Grandfather Laurence Hagarty's sister, and I thought it very amazing she had the very first piano in Greene!!
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AUNT ELIZA HAGARTY
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Softly and noiselessly some feel ?, Lone ? ways me church? without leaving a mark; They move ? ? Lazy ? in the ?.
As still as the ? stares at the stars in the dark, and find they you, in the Father's Breast,
Where Earth's unshaken? be known ? ?.
And the ? heart's shall be bright and blest. (**this is extremely hard to ready).
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The above lines apply to Miss Elizabeth Hagarty, who passed out into Great Hes? of Eternity that surrounds our lives, on Thursday August 25, 1927.
In Dublin City, Ireland, on June 29, 1837, Aunt Liza ushered into this tale of tears. The youngest of 12 children, her father died while she was a mere child.
Her mother possessed some of the same zealot? courage? as the mother of Andrew Jackson, came to this country in 1848(9?), to embrace it's freedom and to USA? it's Cag?. The mother brought with her Patrick, Laurence, Jes (or Jas),Thomas, Ann, Maria and Elizabeth, all deseaced.
Ann subsequently became Mrs Cass and Maria, Mrs. Nettleton, living in New York City for several years. They came to Butler County in 1858, settling in Dayton Township, their nearest neighbors were at Clarksville and a few in Bennezette Township .
Compelled to stand on their own feet and rely on their own strength, this sturdy family of Pioneers, expended their just efforts to mug? hewing the humble cabin, their home and amid the unbroken acres.
Aunt Liza, when she came to Butler county, was 21 years old. It was her fate to live beyond four score and ten and to rarely live the allocated three and ten in one ? ?. When Aunt Liza came here bearing the pioneer gateway, what imagination would there to tre? open the domain of prophecy and predict the overzealous changes of seventy years residence in this vicinity. Amid all these changes, Aunt Liza pursued the even tenor of life. The world passed on to ? and ? , ? and she chose to live in better days, the of the loved and ?, past, keeping faith with her greatest love- music. Aunt Liza possed the first piano in Butler County. It was brought from Dubuque oxen. She saw the cross raised on the church near the Coldwater. She lived to see it taken down half a century later. Her feet trod the pedals, first her hands touched the keys and of the little organ installed in that church. Her long earthly career was filled with the sweet things of life, and yet, there were neighbors who never heard the tread of her feet or the sound of her voice. Some thirty years ago she left the old homestead to come to Greene to reside in the home which she purchased.
There was a striking similarity of the quiet ending of Aunt Liza's life and ?, ? of the noon hour of a later summer day, while the rustle of leaves sang a requiem around her home.
The funeral of Aunt Liza was held on Saturday morning at St. Mary's Church.
The funeral Mass was read by Rev. Father Hogan, who in just a few words, paid a fitting tribute to her life and her earlier days. Her remains were taken to Coldwater Cemetery where just beyond ? ?, where her mother and sisters are sleeping. Aunt Liza was laid on the dreamin? pillow. May the sods at ?, ?, as gently upon her as the life she lived.
Those from out of town who attended the funeral were: Miss Elizabeth Hagarty and Mrs Annie Gibson of Davenport: Miss Mury Tulty?, Mrs. M. McDermott and Nell McDermott, of Waterloo: Dr. F. R. Nettleton and wife, Mason City.
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Card of Thanks
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We sincerely thank all our neighbors and friend for their kindness during the sickness and death of Aunt Eliza Hagarty
--Her Nieces and Nephews.
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also on this page:IN KIND REMEMBERANCE OF MISS ELIZA HAGARTY
----------------------------------------------------------------------"Our old time friends are leaving us one by one:
and going over to the silent Lord;
as the setting of the sun;
I remember her in her girlhood days;
When we each had our log cabin home;
In the old Pioneer days as o'er on the prarires we did roam,
When friends were truly friends, and our homes was a home of rest,
We would gather the beautiful flowers, that grew ?.
And afer we'd gather at the Hagarty home, and listened to sweet Eliza?,
That ? the piano did flow, When Eliza's nimble fingers would fly key to key,
In her girlhood days with her heart so light and free,
?, those days are gone and she has crossed the dark blue sea,
and her weary soul is resting as happy as can be.
And God Bless the faithful ones, who cared for her in her
declining years, and give them peace and comfort,
And a home where there are no tears.
-------AUNT JANE
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