ANOTHER PIONEER GONE

Mrs. Ellen O’Connor Foley passed away at her home south of Blair Thursday morning, August 19th, at six thirty o’clock.

She had been suffering from pneumonia for about twelve days. She had been ailing since the first of April when she had an attack of the influenza from which she had never fully recovered.

Mrs. Foley was born in County Cork, Ireland in 1849. She came to America and settled in Omaha December 12, 1866. From there she moved to Washington county March 1, 1870 on the farm which was her home until her death.

She was the mother of eleven children, three of whom had preceded her in death, two having died in infancy and Mrs. Arthur Raber, better known as Lillie, having passed away three years ago.

She leaves to mourn her death four daughters, Mrs. Margaret McMahon of Lincoln, Mrs. Dan Daley of Omaha, Mrs. George Nolan of Scribner and Mrs. Roy Landis of Fort Calhoun, also four sons: Jerry, Mike and Robert of this vicinity and John Foley of Omaha, besides twenty four grandchildren.

The funeral was held at 10 o’clock Saturday morning at the Catholic church at Blair and was attended by a large gathering of sorrowing relatives and friends.

In the death of Mrs. Foley the children have lost a kind and devoted mother, the community a woman who could find an excuse for everyone’s little faults and one who had a kind word for all. The sympathy of all is extended to the family in their bereavement.

~~~Obituaries courtesy of the Nebraska Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair, Nebraska Public Library~~~

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