Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-21
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Mrs. Mary Logan Had Accu-
muIated 1881.
FOUND AFTER HER DEATH
Woman Who Lived Alone in South
east Washington Succumbs
to Pneumonia.

Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Logan
who was for many years employed in the
Treasury Department as a charwoman
were conducted at ST. Vincent de Paul
Church this morning. requiem high mass
being said for the repose of her soul. 4
number of women who had worked with
Mrs. Logan during the past twenty years
and several clerks from the department,
were among those who gathered in the
church to pay last tribute to her mem.
ory.
The finding of S13S1 in cash and a
pension check for s36 in the humble
home of the woman, 100 N street south
east, surprised her most intimate friends
Her friends thought she had accumulated
idea she had it in her house, and it was
not until the police were asked to take
charge Of her effects that the money was
found.
Mrs. Logan had wrapped her money in
packages of 500 and had put them in
the folds of skirt, which she had Sc
creted beneath her dining room table.
1t was while the table was being moved
that the skirt and contents fell on the
floor. Chief Clerk Hesse OF the police
department took charge of the cash and
will hold it until relatives of Mrs. Logan
in Ireland take the necessary legal steps
to get her small fortune.
Husband a Union Soldier.
James Logan, husband of the woman,
was i'm the livery business in this city
for number of years, and he also held
a position as watchman in the Navy De-
partment. He served in the army and
drew pension during his latter years
At the time of his death the pension
commissioner granted the widow pen
sion of 81. a month.
In the Treasury Department Mrs.
Logan was particularly well known, and
she had been there so long that she was
looked upon as a fixture. Her home at
13O y street was small structure, and
she made no pretense at show Her
neighborS had seen her come and CO.
friendship with many of them. When
she was taken Ill, however, they will
ingly went to her assistance, as did some
of the women with whom she had as
sociated in the Treasury Departm
DIR. A. f. Johnson, her attending physi-
clan, found she was suffering from an at
tack of pneumonia. ST. Patricks day she
breathed her last, and then the question
Of her burial was discussed. Her friends
saw no signs about the house to indicate
not told Of the whereabouts of her
money.
Funeral Arrangements Made.
Money or no money, however, hel
friends were going to see that she was
given a proper Christian burial. Mrs
Logan had frequently said she wanted tc
be buried at Mount Olivet cemetery. and
the necessary arrangements to have her
buried there were started Undertaken
Thomas r. Nalley, 1881 11th street south.
east, was directed to take the BODY to
his establishment and prepare it for
BURIAL. it being regarded as preferable tc
have the funeral from the undertakine
establishment.
1t was after her body had been re
moved that the police took charge of the
dwelling where the widow had lived
alone, and found the money Inquiries
made by friends of Mrs. Logan at tho
Treasury Department ELECTED the infor-
nation that she had no relatives in this
country. She had come here from Ire
land when she was q young woman and
no children survive her Her age wss
given as sixty-five years.
Her few friends gathered at St Vim
cent de Paul Church this morning and
remained through the singing of the hisn
mass. some of them accompa nylng the
body TO its last resting place and others
vending their way homeward or To the;.
places of employment. About noon the
body reached the cemetery and was
placed in the receiving vault
An effort will be made to rommuni-
cate with relatives in Ireland 10 inform
them OF the death of Mrs. Logan and Sf
the monese she left