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Kind(er):
Sarah Ann McBride
Birth Abt 1826
County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Death 19 Nov 1903 (aged 76–77)
Fulton, Whiteside County, Illinois, USA
Burial Saint Peter's Cemetery
Quincy, Adams County, Illinois, USA
Plot Block 82, Lot 3 - Memorial ID 184591803
The remains of Mrs. Sarah Anne McCaughey, who died Thursday at Fulton, Whiteside county, Illinois, were laid away this afternoon in St. Peter's cemetery.
The body arrived on the Eli train, early this morning, accompanied by her children, all of whom are grown up. Requiem high mass was said for the deceased this forenoon at St. Peter's Catholic church, and the body was taken there this afternoon, prior to the burial.
Mrs. McCaughey was the widow of the late Patrick McCaughey, who was prominent in his day as a builder of railway roadbeds. Her husband died nineteen years ago at Evansville Indiana, while superintending the grading for the Louisville and Nashville railroad. He was buried in the city where his death occurred. The remains will be disinterred, however, and reburied beside those of his wife.
The widow and family removed to Quincy, shortly after Mr. McCaughey's death, and purchased part of what was then Singleton park. They came to this city in 1887, intending to make it their permanent home, and bought the Singleton property with that end in view.
But the business of the sons, who continued in construction work the same as their father had done, kept them away from town so much, that the abode in this city was given up, although the property still belongs to the family.
Since that time, Mrs. McCaughey has resided mostly in Chicago, where all of her children are now located. Her sons have the contract for building a new roadbed for the Burlington in the vicinity of Fulton, for the purpose of straightening out and shortening the track. While they are performing the work of reconstruction, she took up temporary residence in that city, so as to be near them.
Her death resulted from old age, after an illness of ten weeks. The dead woman was a native of County Tyrone, Ireland, where she was born nearly eighty years ago. She came to America in 1847.
In the mourning party which brought the body to this city were: Messrs. John J., Frank P., and Patrick E. McCaughey, the three surviving sons; Mrs. D. S. McCowan and Mrs. S. W. Kennedy, both of whom are daughters; and Miss Sarah Morgan and Nellie Kennedy, two granddaughters. They return to Chicago tonight. During their stay in the city, they are guests at the Tremont House.
The three McCaughey brothers had the contract for repairing the Indian Grave levee, when it broke in the fall of 1888. The embankment withheld recurring floods up to this year. They assisted in the building of the famous drainage canal of Chicago, their share in the work amounting to $600,000. However, their specialty is railroad construction, and they build an average of twenty-five miles each year.
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