Katherine (Maxwell) Sammin 1839-1915

SAMMIN, MAXWELL, BRODIGAN

Posted By: Joe Conroy (email)
Date: 7/7/2010 at 17:42:42

The Palo Alto Tribune
Emmetsburg, Iowa
22 Sep 1915
Page 1

Mrs. James Sammin

Mrs. James Sammin died at her home in this city at 8:35 Thursday morning, September 16. She had been ailing for several months and seriously ill for nearly a week although the family did not realize that death was so near. She approached the end with calmness and christian composure and death came to her like a peaceful sleep. She had some form of liver trouble and also leakage of the heart. Funeral services were conducted at Assumption church at ten o'clock Saturday morning when a requiem high mass was celebrated by Very Rev. P. F. Farrelly. The remains were laid to rest in St. John's cemetery. The pall bearers were Messers. M. F. Coonan, Tom O'Connor, John Bennett, John Dooley, Pete O'Brien and James Downs. She was a member of the Daughters of Erin and the members of that organization marched from her home to the church in a body.

Miss Kathrine Maxwell was born in the parish of Kilgreever, County Mayo, Ireland in 1839. When a young lady of twenty years she came to America and lived for a short time at Rochester, N. Y., and then moved to Clinton, Mass., she was united in marriage to James Sammin on Nov. 18, 1872. They moved to Scranton, Penn., where they resided for fifteen months, moving then to Filmore, Minn. Thirty-six years ago they moved to Emmetsburg and located in the Fourth ward where they have resided constantly since. Eight children were born to them, five boys and three girls. They were John, who died here in 1903, Gene, who died in Los Angeles in 1907, Frank, who died when only five years old. Will, now residing at Onowa, Joe, who lives at Rockwell City, Mrs. Mayme Brodigan of Battle Creek, Ia., and Misses Nellie and Nettie Sammin who live here. The latter is a teacher in the Whittemore public schools. The living children were all in attendance at the funeral. Mrs. Sammin was well known to a large percent of our readers. She was a good woman, a faithful, deserving wife, a noble loving mother. She was particularly devoted to her home duties and no trials or hardships were too difficult for her and she never shirked a duty to her husband or children. She was one of the best of neighbors always having a kind thought and charitable word of every one. She esteemed her friends very highly and was a soul of gratitude. Her death has brought the keenest sorrow to the husband, whom she sustained and soothed through many trials during the 43 years of their wedded life and who had known her from their early childhood. Their fathers were friends and as children they grew up together. The children, too are undergoing a grief that could be caused only by the irreparable loss of a mother and one that was a true mother in every sense of the word. They will never cease to miss her but will cherish a memory that will ever be a consolation to them. She has one sister, Miss Mary Maxwell of Chicago, who will also miss her. To the bereaved relatives the Tribune extends sincere sympathy in their sorrow.