BARRAGY, Catherine (DORSEY) (1878 - 1911)

BARRAGY, DORSEY

Posted By: Marilyn O'Connor (email)
Date: 4/10/2005 at 19:27:59

Catherine Dorsey Barragy

Sad is the duty to write and have recorded in the public press, the death of a young wife and mother.
Nothing strikes the human heart more fiercely and brings forth from its fountain the tenderest of sentiments than does the sudden calling away of a kind and sympathetic mother. Such feeling possessed us as we proceed to record the death of Catherine Dorsey Barragy, who was suddenly called to the life beyond the grave on Saturday morning, May 27, 1911.

Catherine Dorsey was born in Jefferson, Wisconsin on the fifth day of May A.D. 1878. Her parents moved from Wisconsin when she was but six months old and for a time lived in Mitchell County near Osage, Iowa. The family again moved and took up their residence near Rockwell in 1894.

On June 5, 1901, Catherine became the wife of Ambrose J. Barragy, and happy indeed were the marriage days of this young couple. To them were born three children. One died in infancy, and the other two little boys, Martin Eugene, who is only ten months old and John Joseph, now past three years old. For some years prior to her marriage, Mrs Barragy was a teacher in the public schools in Cerro Gordo county. In childhood she was gentle and kind; in young womanhood,charming and attractive; and married life, gentle, modest, humble, beautiful, kindly and ever loving to those who were near and dear to her. Little will these two boys, as they battle the storms on the Sea of Life, know the goodness and gentleness of their mother, whom the Dispenser of all that is best called to Himself when life was just opening up to her its most attractive realizations.

It was but a few months ago that her devoted father, the late Martin Dorsey suddenly died while on his way with her mother, to pay a holiday visit to Catherine who lived at St Paul.

The shock of her father's death was a hard blow to her sensitive nature. She and her husband after a few years in Cerro Gordo county, moved to Minnesota and last fall sold their farm near Sauk Centre, and moved to St. Paul, where they were residing at the time of her death. She had come to Cerro Gordo county to visit her mother, Mrs. Martin Dorsey, only a couple of weeks before she died. She came back full of hope of regaining her health and soon join her husband on a new farm which he was about to purchase, but her plans were checked, her race was run, and she was obliged to take her place in that Mysterious Realm, of which faith alone can give us some comprehension of its greatness.