Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-12-20
OVER A. CENTURY.
THE VENBRABLBNRs. CAREY DIS At THR
HOSPITAL
At 4 0Glrck Yesterday Ahsrnon-A Sksrh
Of Ger Lis-Tha hnsL
fo-MoroT.

The venerable Mrs. Margaret Carey died
at the Wheeling Hospital yesterday ait:r-
noon at q quarter psst four O'Clock.
The to5y will lie in state in the pariorot
the Hospital during Today, and the funeral
will take place Friday morning, the re-
mains being removed to the Cathedral at
halt-psst eight o'clock, where mass WILDE
said by Rev. Father MeEuigOtt, after
which the interment will take place st Mt.
Cavalry, where her tombstone has been
standing for years. The pail bearers VIII
be Messrs. John Shsskey, N. Lotus, John
Quigg and Martin Thornton.
Mrs. Carey has been OF the Hospital Tor
several months past, where she was re-
moved by Martin Thornton, from the
rooms previously occupied BY her, 10 the
Second ward, and she has received the best
care and attention while in the institt-
ton, Sister Immaculate being especially
untirirg in looking after the wants OF the
venerable woman. For fourteen years,
Martin Thornton has been providing for
the wants of Mrs. Carey, and his good
deeds IN Fer behalf have been innumer-
able. In 1874 he, in company with one
or two Others, began 10 supply Der
with the necessaries of life, and this has
bsen continued without Interruption.
She then Ieided On the South Side,
but some ten years ago sne
was removed TO rooms IN the
Second ward, where Martin, sided by
the Benevolent societies of the city
and several ladies, continued to pro-
vide for her. About six months ago
il was thought best to remove her to the
Hospital, and thither she wa accordingly
taken, and there she was followed with
the same watchful care by thosa who bad
provided for her for SO many years Yes
tsrday Mr.. Thornton and others who had
cared for her in life, made the arrange
ments for the funeral, ard she will be In
tered by the side of her SOD, who d'ed
about 1880.
Mrs. Carey's sgs is unknown, but she is
believed to be over n hundred years.
Not very easily deciphsred inscriptions In
her ancient black letter Bible make her
birth plaza County Limerick, Ireland
where shs ia supposed to have seen the
light in 1777. Her maiden name was
Holland. Whe1 she came to America
is unknown, but in 1855 che was living IN
Parkersburg, under the care of Father
Slack, her husband haviog died some time
previous 10 that date, leaving his widow
and one child, q son. 1t was there that
Mr.. Thornton frs. knew her. Twenty
gears later Mrs. Carey came to Wheeling,
and when Mr.. ThnInton came here, IN
1879, he found her living in Centre Wheel
ing.
From the records in Mrs. Carey's Bible,
she was married May 26. 1918, and her
boy was born May 81, 1920, he thus being
sixty years of age at the time of his death
in 1880. For years Mrs. Carey was a
regular attendant upon the ssrvico3 at toe
Cathedral, and her bent and tottering hg'
ure was q familiar one upon the street,.
For several years past, however, she was
too feeble 10 make these weekly journeys,
and has been strictly confined 10 the apart
meUtI she occupied, in alley B aud later at
the Hospital.
From an article printed in the REGISTER
a couple OF years ago, the following Is
tsk an:
Some two months ago the writer met
Mira. Carey while on a chance visit to the
Convent at Eoff and Fourteenth streets, and
the impression Of extreme old age, COM
bined With wonderful acuteness OF bearing
and sight, still remains. To be cure these
faculties were in nothing like their normal
condition, but still, when one remembers
the tremendous total of one hundred and
ten years they were phenomenal. II
appearance she then seemed the
personi6catiou Of Old Age. The
stopping shoulders, the lean hands
and arms, the drawn features and
querulous voice, thin and pipiDg, al
!esmsd to emphasize the effects CT tim'
upon the human form divine, and it seem
cd hard TO realize that che was once bright
and blooming girl, full Of activity and re
ioi,iDg iu the most robust health. Aut
now lorg ago was thie?-hefore the lrist
Rebellion of 1898; before the bloody day
of 1898 in France; before the death o
Washington! She was 35 when the war O.
1912 broke o1t. she Was Al when Napoleon
diFd at st. Helenalh