Catherine (Brazill) Cunningham (1901)

BEEM, BRAZILL, CUNNINGHAM

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart
Date: 1/24/2007 at 18:03:35

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, April 4, 1901

Death Of MRS. JOHN CUNNINGHAM

Mrs. John Cunningham died at her home in Crawford township, Madison county, Iowa, on March 20th, 1901, and was buried on the 23rd in St. Patrick's cemetery.

She was the sister of the Right Reverend father Brazill of Des Moines, now deceased. She was born in Quinn, County Clare, Ireland in 1834.

Mrs. Cunningham was the wife of Mr. John Cunningham, one of the wealthiest men in Madison county and among the oldest settlers in that section of the state. Her husband at home, and one daughter in Denver, Colorado, survive her.

Her life and character were pure, gentle, kind and noble. She passed into the Valley of the Shadow of Death with the love of her friends and the respect of all who knew her. The luster of her lofty character has been obscured by no spot or blemish, and no spring has ever been torn from her chaplet of honor. Let us cherish her memory, emulate her virtues, and keep the sods of her tomb fresh with the tears of friendhip. And, may the whisperings of the gentle but tameless wind and all that speaks of love, chant her eternal requiem, and the undying laurel of glory grow green over her grave.
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The Winterset News
Winterset, Iowa
Friday, March 22, 1901
Page 1

Mrs. John Cunningham died at her home in Crawford township on Wednesday. She had been sick only a short time and her death came as quite a shock to her relatives and friends.
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Winterset Reporter
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, March 21, 1901
Page 6

Mrs. John Cunningham Dead

Word reaches us of the death of Mrs. John Cunningham of Crawford township, at the old homestead, yesterday, Wednesday, March 20th. The REPORTER is unable to give details or the time set for the funeral services. Deceased was the wife of John Cunningham one of the wealthiest and best known men in Madison Co.
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The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, April 4, 1901
Page 8

Northeast Crawford

On last Saturday were buried two of Crawford’s oldest and most respected citizens, Mrs. James Kirby and Mrs. John Cunningham. The interments were both in the St. Patrick cemetery.
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Winterset News
Winterset, Iowa
Friday, April 5, 1901
Page 8

Obituary

Died, Wednesday, March 20, 1901 at 7 o’clock a.m., Mrs. John Cunningham, of Madison county, after a lingering illness of several months; aged 67 years.

This announcement filled the hearts of the numerous friends of Mrs. Cunningham with sorrow. While her immediate friends knew of her dying condition, the news of her death was a great shock to her many warm friends throughout the state. For many years this noble, Christian lady was the ministering angel of one of the happiest homes in our county. To all who entered under her roof was bestowed the same hearty welcome, warm greeting and lavish hospitalities, and, surrounded by every luxury, which wealth could procure, she was never happier than when dispensing these hospitalities to her friends. To the Catholic clergy of Iowa Mrs. Cunningham was universally known and respected, and in her death they have suffered the loss of their warmest advocates. Aside from the fact that she was the sister of one of the most prominent Catholic divines in Iowa, Very Reverend Father Brazill, there was a personality about Mrs. Cunningham in her strong, Christian tendencies which commanded the warmest commendations of the clergy of her beloved religion, in the exercise of which there were no difficulties insurmountable to prevent her attending the divine services of her church. To the members of St. Patrick’s church which she attended for so many years, her vacant place in the family pew will long be observed with feelings of sorrow, for whatever the condition of the weather or roads as long as her health permitted, she was always in her seat at the divine services held in that church. But it is in the home of which for so many years Mrs. Cunningham was the queen, that her loss is irreparable. To the sorrowing husband and family, the words of “tongue or pen” are inadequate to comfort them for the void in their lives. May they receive their consolation from that Power on high whom this fond wife and mother served so faithfully.
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Transcriber's note: Probably entombed in family vault in St. Patrick's Cemetery.

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