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Show Died Sleeping in Her Chair. Resting peacefully in her chair, taking tak-ing her usual afternoon nap. Mrs. Johanna O'Connor passed, without pain or realization, into her eternal rest, and when her devoted son. with whom she has made her home for many years, came to wake her, he found that in her sweet sleep her soul had passed away. M. D. O'Connor, a miner living at 494 Jefferson street, was surprised on waking wak-ing at 5 o'clock Friday evening to prepare for the .7 o'clock shift, to find that his mother 'had not called him for work, as was hqr custom, and .dressing hastily, he passed into the dining room from his bed room, to find her apparently appar-ently asleep in a chair by the table. Mrs. O'Connor was born in Ireland, near the picturesque Killamey lakes, eighty-three years ago, and was married mar-ried while quite young. In lS.'l she came to the United States with her husband and children, of whom but two now survive the son with whom she lived and a daughter. Mrs. James Kavanaugh, who makes her home in Michigan. About twenty-five years ago. after the death of her husband, the mother and son moved to Colorado, where they ! remained for eleven years, coming to Butte in 1SSS. Although at times subject to many ! hardships. Mrs. O'Conn ir. by her robust j constitution and ouiet manner of liv- j ing. preserved her vigor and health in a remarkable manner. She never knew what illness meant, and was about the affairs of her household until an hour or so before her death, as it is believed that she had not been dead more than half an hour when her sonc came lo find her where she had apparently sat ! down for a few minutes before prepar- i ing the evening meal. |