Catherine Mulroney 1857-1893

MULRONEY, HAND

Posted By: Bonnie Hand (email)
Date: 8/10/2008 at 05:26:46

From The Democrat Dec. 13, 1893

Mrs. W.K. Mulroney Dead

Sunday morning the sad news spread quickly about that Mrs. W. K. Mulroney had died at an early hour and had left an orphan, a little babe but a few hours old. Some time ago she was taken with la grippe and this greatly aided in bringing about her untimely death. Her remains were interred in the Catholic cemetery south of this city Monday morning. A large procession--strong evidence of the general esteem in which she was held by her friends and neighbors--followed her remains to the tomb. She was 38 years of age.
The death of this estimable lady, at such an early stage of useful life leaving as she does to mourn her great loss a husband and six small children, the youngest of whom is but a mere infant, is an occurrence that reaches out touchingly for the sympathy of the coldest and most indifferent. A husband bereft of the companionship of a devoted, faithful, Christian wife, six little children deprived of a kind, tender and compassionate mother: with no consoling maternal words to solace their restless, childish hearts; no kind and unerring hand to guide them safely over the dangerous and unfamiliar walk of years; no deep solicitude to share with them their anxieties, their reverses and their sorrows--what spectacle could be sadder, succeeding as it did, suddenly and unexpectedly, sweet and peaceful scenes of fireside happiness and contentment; bright, hopeful, gladsome, endearing. Sudden unexpected, alarming the change in the domestic scent; long will linger about that household shadows to shut out from tender, innocent hearts many of the clearest and brightest rays of life's sweet sunshine.
The deceased was a daughter of John Hand of Great Oak. She came to this County with her parents when but sixteen years of age and had since lived here. Sixteen years ago she became the wife of Mr. Mulroney. She was a person of most womanly qualities and all, who knew her, were her friends. Besides her husband and children, her parents, three sisters, and six brothers lament her untimely death. The family and the surviving relatives have the unfeigned sympathy of all who have heard of the great loss that has befallen them.