Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1895-03-07
THE LAST SUMMONS.
Mrs Mary ouleley Passes Pea >eful Away-oeatn
Of Moses w. Burr and Others

Mrs. Mary Quigley passed peaceful
" away last Friday morning at SIX
o'clock. She had been sick with
"grippe" for about ten days. Thurs
day her breathing became more diffl-
cult, and that night she sank into IN
sensibility and so without pain slept
away.
Mrs. Quigley was one of the Oldest
and best known persons IN this COM
munity. Her parents were the Hon.
Thomas Swearingen and Julia Lane.
That kind hearted gentleman and Of
fcer of Revolutionary fame, Col. JOS
eph Swearingen, was her grandfather.
She was born October 19, 1872, at
Belle View, near Shepherdstown, the
beautiful home on the Potomac river
of Col. Joseph Swearingen, and OF his
SON Thomas. and where she also lived
for many years and several Of her
children were born. Her sisters were
Hannah. the wife of the late Rev.
Henry Mathews of Baltimore, and
Virginia, wife of Hon. Thomas Butler
of this place. Her brothers were JOS
eph, who died early in life, and Judge
Thomas Swearingen, of Missouri, who
alone of all the children still survives
at an advanced age.
On her fifteenth birthday Mary
Swearingen was united in marriage to
DIR. John Quigley, who was a proml-
nent and beloved physician OF this
place during long lifetime, and who
died about eleven years ago in the
eighty-third year of his age. Twelve
children were the fruit of their union,
five of whom are living Dr. Thomas
Quigley, of Littlestown, Pa, Mr.. Rob
ert Quigley, of California, Mrs. L. W.
Latimer, of Charlestown, W. Va, Mr..
John H. Quigley and Mrs. E, Hess
Remnant, of this place. There are al
SO living twenty-three grandchildren
and three great-grandchildren.
In 1881 Mrs. Quigley with her hus-
band Joined the Presbyterian Church
in Shepherdetown, and for sixty-tour
years she was a consistent and faith
, full member of the church. So long
: as health and domestic duties permit
ted she was active in the work OF the
church, and to the last she took the
deepest interest in its welfare.
During the war between the States
Mrs. Quigley's, like many another
Southern home, became "house OF
mercy" where wounded soldiers were
tenderly nursed and cared for
Her gentle and kind disposition
made her a universal favourite, and
the large congregation that filled the
body and galleries Of the church on
the occasion of her funeral testified to
the love and esteem in which she was
held by the people of the town and
country, both white and colored l.
was her lot in life to pass through
r many Affections in the loss of husband
, and children, but they were borne
with such submission and patience that
i, their only effect was to ripen her
0 Christian character.
t She lived to good old age, but re-
r tanned every faculty of mind and body
to the end. Youthful as ever in her
S eager interest in all passing events,
. and in her warm affection for her fam
4 ilv and friends, she learned how to
; grow old gracefully.
j The funeral services were held IN
R the Presbyterian Church Sunday after
noon at three o'clock, and were con-
Quoted by the pastor, Rev. Charles
o Ghiselin. The pall-bearers were Mr.
Joseph McMurtan, Mr.. W. n. Lemen
q Mr.. D. F. Billmyer, Mr.. John Grant
Capt. Lee II. Moler, Mr.. James d.
Richard, Mr. B. F. Harrison, Mr.. b.
L. Snyder and Mr.. NJ. B. Baker. The
G funeral director, Mr.. R. S. NJ. Hof-
r mar, had charge of the arrangements
f The body was reverently laid to rest
beside her husbands in the family lot
E in Elmwood Cemetery. $50 He CIV
9 eth His beloved sleep
. The family have the heartfelt SYM
$ pathy of the community in their be,
. reavement and loss, which is shared
;. by all.
Mr.. Moses William Burr died last
Thursday at his home near Shenan'
doah Junction, after an illness of sew
Il eral weeks, aged about II years. He
: was born and raised and died in that