On one hand they can make me happy...they can make me smile and wish that I had known these individuals when they were living. While on the other, they make me ache for those who had been left behind.
If you are related to this family please let me know.
All the Best,
Jessica
Death
of Mrs. John Costelloe
With the passing away of Mrs. John
Costelloe, nee Mary King, a link is severed with the past. She was born in County Galway, Ireland, Nov.
12 1855 and died Sept. 14, 1926. She left
her native land with her parents in 1856.
Her early girl-hood days were spent in Maryland and West Virginia. She was united in marriage to John Costelloe
on May 18, 1874, at Westernport, Maryland where they lived until they came to
Nebraska in February 1876. They came
direct to Alexandria and bought the “homestead right” of Mr. Phrimp – 3 ½ miles
south-west of town. These were pioneer
days and John and Mrs. Costelloe had to endure the many trials of the early
pioneers. Nevertheless, under such
trying conditions, they reared a large family.
In all eleven children were born to them, five of whom preceded her in
death; Bartholomew, the oldest, died March 10, 1876, about one month following
their arrival in Nebraska; Anna died
April 16, 1914 in Lewistown, Montana; Martin, Professor of Civil Engineering at
Ames College, Iowa, died there on Jan. 12, 1918; Isabella died in the nurses
training school of St. Joseph’s hospital, St. Joseph, Mo. October 23, 1918;
Joseph died on the home place May 30, 1921.
Those who remain to mourn her loss
with her husband are: Mrs. George Helget, Hebron; Mrs. R.D. Roode, Fairbury;
Very Rev. J.T. Costelloe, Hillsboro, Oregon; Mrs. Frank Rau, Kolin, Mont.;
Nora, who lived with her father; Mrs. Dill [Will] Cortney, Alexandria; one
brother , Martin King LaGrande, Oregon; and one sister Mrs. Rose Maple,
Normand, Oklahoma.
The name of Mrs. Costelloe is
enshrined in the hearts of all who knew her.
She was a living example of every Christian virtue, and if any one
virtue predominated in her life more than another it was her great charity for
all, which knew neither class nor creed.
The mainspring of her virtuous life was her unwavering faith which
sustained her in the many trials which she had to endure during life. The sterling qualities which she possessed
she passed onto her family. Not only did
she labor ceaselessly so that her children might have a thorough secular
education but she was careful to see that they got a sound religious one; and
so we find that she has left behind her a family which reflects credit to the
community and church to whey they belong.
She had also the happy privilege of
having her son a Priest, and we may say that under God he owes his Priesthood
to the faith and devotion of his mother.
The funeral was held from St. Mary’s
Church, Alexandria, on Friday, Sept. 17, at 10 o’clock. Solemn Requiem High Mass was celebrated by
her son, Very Rev. J.T. Costelloe; Father Carey, Fairbury, Deacon; Father
Gilroy, Friend, Sub-Deacon; Father Harte, Master of Ceremonies; Father Ress of
Hebron was also in attendance. Burial
was made in the Catholic cemetery. May
her soul rest in Peace.
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