McGuire, Mrs. Jane (Died 1894)

MCGUIRE, WOOD

Posted By: Linda Ziemann, Volunteer (email)
Date: 9/11/2006 at 20:43:17

Hull Index newspaper
Hull, Iowa
April 20, 1894

DIED:

At her home three and one half miles west of Hull, on Monday morning April 16, Mrs. Jane McGuire, aged 40 years.

This event is certainly one of the saddest affairs which have come to our notice in some years. Apparently in the most robust health, she was stricken without a thought on her own part or that of her friends that her time was so close at hand. On Sunday evening and while a portion of the family were visiting neighbors, the summons came, and ere the shades of night had gathered over the home the messenger of death pointed her out as his sheaf of corn. A physician was summoned immediately but the hand of the cruel messenger had secured such a hold on his prize that no human efforts could induce him to relax his icy grip.

Mrs. McGuire leaves a husband and twelve children to mourn their loss. The sympathy of all goes out in a flood for the motherless children, for upon her did they lean for all the comfort and solace which came to them, not only in their infancy but as their lives ripened into maturer years. Oh! Who can fail to pay homage to the mother, however, humble her lot may have been in life, when we see the children of that mother thrown upon the world without a mother’s council and guidance. Involuntarily the ejaculation goes forth from the innermost depths of the heart, “God be with them.”

The remains of Mrs. McGuire were brought to Hull on Wednesday, and from the church they were taken and gently laid to rest. Father Phelan officiating.
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[Additional information located in the newspaper at the time of her husband's death in 1923.]

Alton Democrat, May 19, 1923, Hull News:

The remains of Mrs. Matt McGuire were removed Tuesday from the Catholic cemetery here to Larchwood where burial was made beside the body of Mr. McGuire who died a short time ago. Burial of Mrs. McGuire was made nearly 30 years ago.
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