Mary Ann (Doyle) Courtney

COURTNEY, DOYLE, WALKER, LEYDEN, CLARDY, NEVINS

Posted By: Robert W. Hutchins (email)
Date: 12/28/2015 at 13:57:52

Mrs. Mary Courtney, widow of the late Michael (sic, Edward) Courtney and one of Dubuque’s earliest settlers, died Saturday morning at 7:30 o’clock at the family residence, 286 Mt. Pleasant Ave., aged 82 years.
The deceased, whose maiden name was Mary Ann Doyle, was born September 27, 1827, at Boston, Mass., where she received her early education, her teacher being Sister Mary Agnes, one of the sisters who founded St. Clara college at Sinsinawa. At the age of twelve years, she moved to St. Louis, and later to Davenport, Ia., where she married Edward Courtney in September, 1843, Rev. Father Pahmourgues (?) officiating at the ceremony. In 1845 she came to Dubuque with her husband and had lived in this vicinity ever since. In 1861 she moved with her husband to a farm at Julien where she lived until 1887, when she returned to Dubuque, where her declining years were spent. Her husband died in 1880.
Mrs. Courtney was the mother of twelve children, ten of whom, six sons and four daughters, survive her. The surviving children, all of whom were at their mother’s bedside when the final summons came, are: George, of Dubuque, Dan of Vernon township; Edward, of Merservey, Ia., John H. of St. Louis; Wm. T., of Waterloo, Robert E. of Duluth, Minn.; Mrs Eliza German [Elizabeth Courtney], of Davenport, Mrs. T. Nevins [Frances M. Courtney], Mrs. Joe Clardy [Lucy A. Courtney] and Miss Jane Courtney, all of this city.
Mrs. Courtney was a lifelong member of the Catholic church and passed away fortified with its rites.
The funeral will be held Monday morning at 8:30 o’clock at St. Anthony’s church, and the burial will be made at the Monastery. (Dubuque Times-Journal, Jan. 16, 1909)