Weekly journal-miner., 1911-01-18
PIONEER WOMAN CALLED ID HER
 REWARD Mrs. Jane Herman Dies At Home Here After
 Brief Illness SuccumbS to Pneumonia At Advanced Age Of
 Over V Years
(From Saturdays Daily

(From Saturdays Daily
 Mrs. Jane Tiernan, one of the be- loved women of Arizona, and favor ably known throughout the West, passed away in this city, yesterday morning, at 6:4O o'clock, after a brief illness, pneumonia being the fatal malady. The death of this pioneer woman is a sad one, and the an nouncement of the end of her earthly career has caused a gloom and sor- TOW that was feelingly expressed yes terday when the tidings were known. She was widely known and very much endeared. In the long ago, she won the affections of the people, and as time wore away, that regard was aemented in the strongest ties of good will and friendship. Her char itable disposition, her eompanionable manners and her considerate regard of others, made her long life in this community one esteemed by all.
 In many respects Mrs. Tiernan was a remarkable woman, and the army officers of early days, with the civ ilians of border life, will attest to the noble character she displayed and the graceful manner in which she submitted to the harsh conditions of the time.
 A brief review of the ordeal she faced with the army, in its trying days in the West, will prove inter esting, and as well will the zeal and ardor she at all times displayed.
 In 1861 she joined her husband, the late Farrell Tiernan, in San Francisco, shortly after his enlist ment in the army, arriving from Ire land, and reaching that city by the Isthmian route. After less than a year, the two, with the command, were ordered to Fort Mohave, on the Colorado river She was among three of the only women in the garrison, and it was at that post that she won the favor and admiration of everyone, including the officers. Ali ter one year at that bleak and un- inviting garrison, she, with her hus- band, was transferred to Fort Me Dowell, near Phoenix, and again she was face to face with the privations of a frontier existence. Later she was located st Fort Lowell, near Tucson, and it was in that city that her son, the late Joseph Tiernan, was
 
 eneed another change in the rapid program, and went to Nevada, into the heart of the Piute country, and it was at that station that her hus- band, with others, was wounded in an Indian fight. It was here that her faithful and considerate dispo- sition won her the commendation of all soldiers as well as civilians. She nursed all alike, and through her kindly and dutiful hands she ale viated suffering wherever possible and hastened many on the road to recovery. From Nevada she followed her husband to the Rio Grande, and then the devoted pair were sent to Fort Yuma Let the reader pause and reflect on what these garrisons conveyed in personal comfort or at tractive conditions, and it will cause a shudder when life is reflected from that bygone day. At all times on the rugged edge of active military life, facing one privation after an other, devoid of the ordinary pleas ures of life, such was her fate Through it all she passed with a grace that was beautiful, and nc matter where her soldier husband was called she was at his side.
 In one particular instance, in the early part of 1869, while negotiation: were pending with the Russian gov ernment for the purchase of Alaska Farrell Herman and his wife wert ordered to take station at Valdez, il that Territory. She went along II the same spirit and with the same pride that had before been observed in military duty. At that post hel lot was a lonely one, and for two years she was the only one of hel sex in that large garrison. She wo1 the affection of men of all rank there, as she had before in the wild erness of the Southwest, and when with her husband, she came to For Whipple in the early '70s, the man! tributes of her past life to the caus' of the army gave her a distinction and charm that follows her to tn grave.
 Mrs. Tiernan abandoned furthe military life in this city, when he husband was retired, about twenty two years ago, after a long and com mendable record. While a residen of this city she became well an, favorably known, and especial, among the pioneers was she revere for her past life and esteemed flo her charitable disposition.
 She was born in Cootal, RoscOmmo county, Ireland, over seventy-seve year. ago. In was in that city tha she married Farrell Herman, in 1S5s Shortly after the union her husban came to the United States, and al rived in San Francisco short tim before the breaking out of the Civ War.
 The death of this worthy woma