Hurley, Catherine B. (Nevins) 1848 - 1910

HURLEY, NEVINS

Posted By: Reid R. Johnson (email)
Date: 3/23/2020 at 17:02:54

Elkader Register & Argus, Thur., 31 Mar. 1910.

March 22nd, at her home in Highland township, occurred the death of Mrs. Catherine B. Hurley, after a serious illness of about three months, during which she has been a patient sufferer.

Catherine Nevins was born in Haverstraw, N.Y., November 18th, 1848, and came to Clayton county Iowa, with her parents, John and Ellen Nevins, two brothers, John and James, and two sisters, Ellen and Mary Ann, all of whom have preceded her to their heavenly home with the exception of John J. Nevins, of Weiser, Idaho.

Her early days were spent at McGregor, Iowa, and later she settled on a farm in Highland township where the remainder of her childhood days were spent. She was united in the holy bonds of matrimony to Bernard Hurley November 25th, 1873. Eleven children were born to their union, one having preceded her to the great beyond.

She leaves to mourn her loss a loving husband, one brother, and ten children: John Joseph, Jermiah Patrick, Dr. W. J. Hurley, Michael Raymond, Timothy Carl, Mary Estella, Catherine Teressa, Ellen Frances, Arinstatia and Agnes and eight grandchildren, all of whom reside in Clayton county except John J. Nevins and Dr. W. J. Hurley, of Chicago.

She was a woman that will not only be missed by her relatives, but everyone in the community where she lives. Her kind and generous nature, sympathetic and charitable acts, and religious principals have not only won for her a host of friends but memories which can only be erased by the Angel of Death. She was a woman who thought of herself secondary, who tried to fulfill the mission which she was placed on earth for. The prime objects of her life was the works and will of her Maker; the welfare of husband, neighbors and friends. The formation of a foundation on which the fundamental principals of a true Christian life, would be instilled in minds and hearts of her children, the chief requisite of manly and womanly characteristics was her daily prayer, the hopes that her dear ones would never deviate from the lessons she impressed so firmly on their minds.

She was perfectly conscious until the last and the end came peacefully at 7:05 on Tuesday morning. She was surrounded by her husband, nine children and the attending physician, Dr. Cahill, who informed her that the end was near. After requesting her children to follow their mother's example, she asked her Maker to receive her soul. One deep breath and the end had come. She passed without a moan to the great beyond.

The relatives from distant communities who came to pay their last tribute of love and respect were Bernard Hurley, of Woodbine, Ia., John H. Hurley, of Waterloo, and Dr. W. J. Hurley, of Chicago, who arrived five hours too late to see his mother alive.

The funeral procession left the home at 8:00 a.m., conducted by Mr. Verner Blake, of Volga, Rev. Father Heathering officiating. The pall bearers were P. J. Cain, M. Cunningham, J. Neylan, J. J. McDermott, M. Minnehan and J. K. Molumby. After receiving the last sad rites at St. Joseph's church, she was interred at St. Joseph's cemetery by the side of parents, sisters and daughter, who long ago preceded her to their heavenly home. May her soul rest in peace.

(There followed a many stanza poem.)