Mrs. Catharine Quilinan

QUILINAN, KEEF, CONWAY

Posted By: Larry McGee (email)
Date: 2/5/2023 at 10:17:17

Howard County Times, Page 4, 1877-08-23

Howard Correspondence.

SUDDEN DEATH.

Last spring, Mr. Charles Quilinan and family, whose wife was a sister of the Messrs. Keef Brothers, and Mrs. Conway, of this place, moved from Wisconsin to make a home with us. Mrs. Quilinan has been in a decline for a long time, but was able to assist in her household duties, and was at Mr. Conway's and aided them during the sickness of little Johnny, whose death I noticed in my last.

Last Wednesday she was to all appearance, as well as usual, retired as usual, in the night was taken with bleeding at the lungs, and in twenty minutes, was dead. She leaves seven daughters to mourn the loss of their kind mother, also a large circle of affectionate relatives, with whom we all feel to sympathize in this their hour of sudden, deep bereavement.

But how cheering is the glorious assurance, that the grave will not always hold the friends we love, now separated from us, that the time is surely coming when husband and wife will be reunited, brother will meet sister again, mother will embrace child, never, rover more to be separated.

"Pencefully lay herdown to rest.
Place the turf gently over her breast.
Sweet be thy slumbers beneath the sod.
While thy dear soul is resting with God.
Peacefully sleep, peacefully sleep.
Sleep, till that morning, peacefully sleep."

Aug. 19, 1817 D. E. POTTER.