Margaret Ann LaGrange
LAGRANGE, BLEAKLY
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Date: 4/21/2018 at 21:51:28
The Marion Weekly Sentinel Thursday January 19, 1922
Death of Mrs. J.W. LaGrange
Mrs. J.W. LaGrange passed away Thursday at her home, 1352 Eighth avenue, following a long period of ill health. The funeral was held Saturday afternoon in the Methodist church, conducted by her pastor, the Rev. A.H. Hanscom, assisted by the Rev. S.R. Ferguson of Cedar Rapids and the Rev. H.G. Finney of the Presbyterian church. Burial was in Oak Shade cemetery.
Margaret Ann Bleakly was born in County Fermanagh, Province of Ulster, Ireland, May 20, 1853, and died January 12, 1922 at Marion, Iowa, 68 years, 7 months and 25 days of age. In the fall of 1863, with her parents and family she emigrated to America. The crossing of the Atlantic was on the sailing vessel and required six weeks. During the voyage William, a child of two years, died and was buried at sea.
The first home of the Bleakly's was in Rock Island county, Illinois, March 1, 1872, they moved to Linn county, Iowa, locating in Spring Grove township. Thus, for almost half a century, she was a resident of the county of Linn.
Maggie was the only girl in the home and she early assumed a large share of the housework, in all departments of which she became unusually proficient. There was a family of ten.
On October 16, 1890, she was married to Dr. J.W. LaGrange, a physician of Marion. Since that time her home has been in this city.
Mrs. LaGrange was a woman of intelligence, industry and integrity, a good representative of the sturdy Scotch-Irish stock from which she came, a people to whom America owes so much that is best in its social and religious life. The keynote of her character was loyalty, loyalty to family, to friends, to church and to her convictions. Every good cause found in her a generous supporter, and no case of real need was ever brought to her attention in vain. Her contributions to charitable and religious purposes were many and were gladly given. She possessed marked social qualities, was a fine conversationalist, and her rich Irish brogue, which she never lost, was a delight to her friends.
Mrs. LaGrange was converted in her childhood and was an active member of the Methodist Episcopal church, first at West Prairie, and later in Marion, constant in attendance on public worship and rendering her full share of service in the Ladies' Aid and Missionary societies of the church. For nearly two years she was confined to her home by ill health, much of the time in pain and suffering.
The surviving relatives are her husband, a daughter Carolyn, two sons, Wesley of California and William of the college faculty at Ames, and five brothers, Francis, James and David Bleakly of Marion, Robert Bleakly, of Storm Lake, and Christie Bleakly of Ida county. Two brothers, Thomas and John, died before her.
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