The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-11-04
NOTED TIPPERARY FAMILY
Correspondent IlIuminates the Char
aeter Of Ellen shsnahan Maekey.

Editor Intermountain and Colorado Cath
- Dear SRA recent letter from County
IlpDerary. Ireland. conveEs- the news news, o.
the death of Mrs. Ellen Shanahan MacNs!
| o. Aughall, near Templemore. ,o
! MIS- Mackey was the reliet OF the Id u
| Ned Mackey of Aughall. who, was q
w WTbo5n 6ied Of the Rev John While Np parsh
priest OF Ballylanden. County LlmeIlchi
aiocese OF Cashel and Emily al the srhiiu
t o5a age OF y years. Mrs Macke5y VA 5ifh !,
| lest farmers Of Mid Tipperary, on ooth
| ne lather and mothers side.
her father was Conner Shanahan oAe
ffamlly. He was large stock and s9 nee
farmer and very wealthy. Conner ous
| nahan was married twice. His first VIE
Mas deuGhter of old Hugh c Ryan %
th2 9resent Hugh Ryan o. MusNe.ei,:
County TiDoerary. This family, durlnt
lne nineteenth Centur.. were brave are
aggressive and in the front rank OF every
patriotic movement in behalf of church
and country
Mrs. Mackey's step-mother was also a
Ryan; one of the Ryans of Banman, heaL
Burrisoleigh. County Tipperary. She was
an aunt ito the venerable Archbishop Ryan
OF Philadelphia, and known through MIC
iIIlpperary as big Peggy Ryan OF foIi
.NuIdy, whose mind and heart were muCl
greater than her other physical proper
tons. She went step-mother over I'VE
girls, and there were born TO her one girl
and one boy. She spared neither money
nor trouble to give ali these girls and boy
a tirst-class education seventy years ago
put hig Peggy saw TO it that her dauSh5
lers learned something besides music anu y.
singing. She prepared them well Tor thslr
sphere y life. she intended them to pc
wealthy farmers wives, and trained them
accordingly.
Now. / write the foregoing to show why
1T is no wonder Mrs. Mackey was the KIND
OF woman she was Mrs. Mackey's charl-
" and tender heart were those OF SAINT;
no poor person was ever allowedSto leave
iler door .empty-handed; she was the en-
pOdl:nent Of patience; she was kind ana
generous, pious, though not austere; her
lrlcndship was sincere and lasting; IN her
youth and middle age her musical hearty
laugh was the delight of those around her.
She II was who solved the domestic serv-
amt problem by treating her help as men,
oerS OF her family; her hired girls and
men never left her service except to emil
Srate or get married, and they always
looked on her with reverence and
affection. She was the ideal farmer
Wlte. splendid hOuSekeeDer the firklnS
Of butter made by her hands brought the
highest price on the market. She was
the CHRISTIAN mother to preside over the
Catholic Christian home; she was looked
10 as model by the farmers wives Of the
surrounding country, and these VINO fol-
lowed her example the closest came near
est to all that Is good. true and holy.
She is survived by two married daugh-
tiers, living with their husbands in Dub
I'm, Wnere they are in business; one son
living on the old farm where she died;
one daughter, Mrs. E. NJ. Condor. and two
grandsons, William and Edmond Condor,
living on broadway, Denver, and another
grandson, John Quinlisk, living with Mrs.
Condor in Denver, though his mother is
We'll TO do in Dublin.
She is survived by several other grand
children which / cannot name.
Her funeral took place on the 18th of
September from the home she adorned so
long to the new churchyard in Temple
more where she was laid beside the re-
mains OF her good husband the late Ned
Mackey and her SON Con Mackey who
died when he was % years old.
The people for miles around mostly
farmers. came TO pay the last tribute Of
respect to her memory by attending her
fq 1l ara SOME in ;stdeesars. carriages and
mile and a half long. which showed to
some extent at least the esteem in which
she was held.
Mr. Editor. there are thousands of your
readers IN the great western states who
Will read these few lines. il. YOU should see
fit to give them spacesin your valuable
paper with reverence and emotion; those
gooG I1pperary people From around Tenn
plemore, Ihurles and Eashel, and they
VIII no doubt pray for the soul OF. Mrs.
end in view and the only apology which
the writer can offer for intruding so much
on your valuable space, Very respectfully,
JOHN y. BRENNAN.
5711 Chamberlain Ave, St Louis, Mo.
"a close friend of Bishop Scanlan's
to Whom the above was submitted ex-
pressed the conviction that the bishop
bears some relationship to the RYAN
branch of this noted Tipperary family.
branch of this noted Tipperary family.