Edmund T. Carew 1866 - 1921

CAREW, BEHAN, STEVENS, JONES

Posted By: Michael Kearney (email)
Date: 2/15/2009 at 19:33:36

The Clinton Herald Saturday July 16, 1921 p. 6 Arrangements for the funeral of E.T. Carew have not been completed, awaiting the arrival of his sister, Mrs. Robert Jones of San Francisco, who will be unable to reach Clinton before Monday or Tuesday. The body will be removed from the undertaking rooms late Sunday afternoon to the home of P. Behan, First avenue and Fourth street.

The Clinton Herald Monday July 18, 1921 p. 6 Funeral services, a Solemn Requiem High Mass for the late Edmund T. Carew will be held at St. Mary's church at 9:30 o'clock tomorrow morning, the funeral procession leaving for the church from the P. Behan home, 103 North Fourth street, where the body is now resting. Interment will be in the Fulton Catholic cemetery. Born in Fulton, Ill., March 14, 1866, the only son of the late Edmund and Catherine Carew, the deceased was reared and educated in Fulton and had spent all of his life in this vicinity, coming to Clinton with his parents about 40 years ago. For the past 35 years or more he had been one of the most faithful and efficient employees of the Northwestern railway, passing the closing days of his life as electrical engineer on the company's Clinton drawbridge. So faithful was he to his duties that, although he had been iss for the past two years, he continued at his post as late as last Monday, after which his condition became so serious that it was necessary to remove him to Mercy hospital, where he passed away at 12:20 o'clock Thursday afternoon, the end coming peacefully. His long period of service to the railway company was broken last winter by a trip to the Pacific coast on which he endeavered, unsucessfylly, to regain his health. Mr. Carew, although his habits were entirely unostentatious, is mourned today by an unusually large number of friends, having numbered his friends by the number of his acquaintances. And his friends are found in many stratas of social life. Quietly and unassumingly he hadbeen in yhe habit of streatching out the hand of charity to those in need, in many cases even without the knowledge of his most intimate acquaintances, while his love for music and other finer things of life, together with his own musical abilities, brought him into touch with other classes of society in Clinton. It has been said of Mr. Carew that he never forget an old friend and many was the note of cheer he carried into Clinton sick rooms or sent in the way of little remembrances. He was a direct descendant of a prominent English family on his father's side, the fatherbeing a descendant of Lady Sheldon Carew, writer of the famous Oberammergau plays, and the family the founder of the town of Carew, England, named in its honor. The parents of Mr. Carew came to Fulton from Brattleboro, Vt., where the mother of Mr. Carew was born and where his parents were married. The father, a contractor, came to Fulton to build the Dement house, at one time a hotel but later the Northern Illinois college. Later the family moved to Clinton, about 14 years after the birth of Mr. Carew. Entering the employ of the Northwestern railway company more than 35 years ago. Mr. Carew had remained with the company since, rising on his meritsand through his devotion to dutyuntil he was regarded as one of the most efficient operaators. In that capacity he also had charge of the compiling of river and bridge statistics, maintaining an exact and accurate record that was a source of valuable information as the years passed. To The Herald, Mr. Carew's records and his wide acquaintanceshipto Clinton were particularly valuable and The Herald has always valued highly his friendship and the hundreds of acts of kindness on his part in furnishing accurate and trustworthy information. Left to mourn his death, of his relatives, are two sisters, Mrs. J.H. (Nellie) Stevens of Albany, Org. and Mrs. Robert (Gertrude) Jones of San Francisco, the latter of whom will attend the funeral services; a brother-in-law, P. Behan of Clinton, husband of the late Mrs. Mary Behan, a sister of the deceased, who passed away fourteen years ago; and the following nieces and nephews; Miss Nan Behan and Miss Nellie Behan of Clinton; Mrs. J.J. Gnam of Carroll, formerly Miss Mame Behan of Clinton; John Behan of Kewanee, Ill., MIss Gertrude Stevens of Portland, Ore., and John Stevens an ensign in the U.S. navy and now located at San Diego, Calif.