The Russellville Democrat., 1882-03-16
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grave. A noteworthy and touching incl dent occurred on the way to the ceme- tery. The cortege passed the New Or leans stock exchange at noon just after 1 the members had assembled, and the call was progressing. On the instant the members suspended proceedings, left their room and came down to the side walk. They stood there reverently, with barred brows, till the remains of Margaret had passed by. This was 8 name which had power to still for a time even the Babel cries of trade.
 Who was she? A plain, humble woman, who had been good to the little children of the poor.
 Her history, ss told by the steamboat men, is an unusual and romantic one. | Years and years ago, it is said, she was Roman Catholic sister of charity. Dur ing her benevolent ministrations she att tended through his last illness a gentle man who became much interested in her and her work. There seems dis crepancy in the account here, but the story is the gentleman proposed that Margaret should marry him on his death bed, so that she could inherit his estate. At any rate the marriage took place, and she was left widow in the possession Of a small property.
 It was then the work of her life began The business of certain restaurant and bake-shop along the river front had fal- len into decay. Mrs. Haughery bought this and established a cheap eating house for steamboat laborers. She thought by means of furnishing them wholesome food at trifle to lure them away from drinking dens. As one acquainted with the plan sad: "She gave them roll and a cup of coffee for five cents, to keep them from spending a quarter for whisky, and they took the roll and coffee, and then spent twenty cents for whisky all the same"
 She worked very hard with her hands herself, for she was only an humble, un- educated woman. But under the labors of those hard hands her business pros pered nightly. She had shrewd head and in time might have become one Of the richest women in New Orleans, had she chosen to amass wealth. But she used her money for good, and as soon es she got it. Fast as it came in, even so freely it flowed out for the good little children. She founded and supported three orphan asylums. The money she left maintains them still, and will con tinue to do so long after the brave hands that earned the w3alth have turned to dust. One of her beloved orphans be- came her adopted son, and finally her partner in business. Her work will still go on, just where she laid it down, and money will still flow from it to the num- berless noble charities she established or aided. The same papers that notice her funeral contain the announcement that the business of the firm of Margaret Haughery X Co.," will not be suspended by her death, but will continue as here tofore.
 No estimate seems to have been made of the amount of her aid to orphan asy- lums and other charities, but it appears to have mounted up in the hundred thousands, all made by her own work Although a Roman Catholic, she made no theological determinations when she helped the unfortunate. The little ones of the Protestant Orphans home, as well as Catholic, followed her honored re- mains to the grave. One account says
 The ladies of every denomination assembled by thousands, thus proving that rarely, 1t ever, was such a general outpouring of respect and true sorrow evinced in any community, at the death of humble individual, as was shown on Saturday."
 No more beautiful, touching story of a plain workingwoman's life has ever been told than this, The New Orleans Times Democrat said:
 "MARGARET-On Thursday night about midnight woman died whose life had been spent quite outside of fashionable society A woman ot lowly birth, who, without any fictitious aids of fortune, of family or training, yet whose beautiful nature overhowed with every blessed impulse that makes woman worthy to be woman, wife and mother, shed bene- ficent influence on thousands of lives while she lived, and dies mourned ss no fine lady among us can hope to be. The highest in point of wealth and fashion in the city ministered at her sick-bed and watched by her silent form after death. A society lady went on Friday evening to call on friend. She was not at home -'gone to watch with the remains of Margaret And what a monument she built mp and left standing t) perpetuate her simple and modest name-three or plan asylumsl With reverently bowed and uncovered head we pass on."