Maggie M. Leavey

LEAVEY

Posted By: Cyndi Vertrees (email)
Date: 11/4/2011 at 10:17:23

Mrs. Maggie M. Leavey
Lake City Graphic
Lake City, Iowa
Nov. 30,1893

Died at the residence of John Burt's on Friday, Nov. 24, 1893, of pneumonia, Mrs. Maggie Leavey, aged 26 years, 5 months and 10 days.

Miss Maggie M. Carroll was born at Chamois, Osage, county, Missouri, June 14, 1867. She was married to Walter J. Leavey in later years and had been a resident of Lake City but a short time and was comparatively unknown in this community, though all who made her acquaintance speak in the highest terms of her womanly virtues. A little daughter was the result of this union, and the little one, but thirteen months old, is left without the loving care of a mother.

The remains were laid to rest in Lake Creek cemetery last Sunday.

Card of Thanks

We desire to thank most heartily all the friends and neighbors, and especially the Women's Christian Aid Society for their kindness and help during the sickness and death of our sister and daughter.

R. D. Carroll, Mrs. W. L. Stelson.

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Inexpressibly Sad - The death of Mrs. Maggie M. Leavey is surrounded by circumstances which make her case inexpressibly sad. Lying for days suffering the agonies incident to a siege of pneumonia, she had not the loving, watchful care of a sympathetic husband. Walter J. Leavey, a brakeman on the C. and N. W., husband of the deceased, spent his time, while at Lake City during his wife's illness, in loafing in disreputable places, wholly neglectful of the duties incumbent upon a husband, and leaving her whom he had sworn to love, cherish and defend, to die alone, among strangers. He did not take sufficient interest in his loving companion to ask as to her condition, even before taking his run, and but for the absolute refusal of his conductor to permit him to do so would have made his regular run on the day of her death. Such conduct calls for the disapprobation and condemnation of every citizen, and from the expressions of all acquainted with the circumstances, he is receiving his just deserts so far as public opinion is concerned.

After being guilty of all the above he refused to go to the dying wife when told she was about to suffer disolution of body and soul, and did not witness the last sad rites.

Language fails to express the contempt felt for the heartless wretch, but we are informed that his colaborers have driven him from our midst. We have no use for such citizens.