Show grandma grandin it hurley mirley dead A woman whom robert emmett kissea a century ago isara san examiner E grandma hurley is dead she w was as one hundred and eight jeara years old and was buried from the old shanty 21 sherwood place where she had been living with her grandchildren and great grandchildren three Thre beare ago she buried the lasta last and ild youngest of her children a daughter sixty three yeara years 0 old ld the poor old lady waa then lefi left destitute and the Era examiner miner raised a fund fand for her relief the death of this daughter affected grandma ilu hurley i aley deeply and aho she never wholly recovered rec recovered overe from it my boys died and I 1 hoped that id bo be next she used to say when she wa was mourning over her daugh ter there was wao no ap special I 1 cial d disease that caused mrs mr e curleys Hur flur leys death she simply wore out she began to fail about christmas last and slowly grew feebler and feebler until il only the least spark of life was left and this went out on wednesday her mind was bright until tho the lat latt she had a remarkable memory and was never tired of telling of the old even eventa to that she slie had witnessed she was born august 11 1783 and aud her name before she married one of the hurley boys waa was mary sullivan they were n neighbors 1 1 b 0 ra near bantry banary bay in ire ireland 1 I and young hurley marched with a pike beside bis his own brothers when general biloche came over from france in 1798 and led them in the fight for liberty she was a pretty girl of fifteen then and she was never tired of telling how w she watched the brave irish boys boy 0 s march awa away y in their uniforms faced w with i th white the sullivan boys fell before the brit ish ool soldiers diers but young hurley I 1 got away though desperately wounded 3 f 1 1 I 1 they the v nursed him to life back in the h hills ills for there was no safety for the men who marched with pioche and when the young irishman irish was well and strong again he married hia his dead lead comrades pretty prett y caster sister and came to ame america rica she was one of the sullivan beares bear whose names am appear in every struggle made by ire ireland land for freedom there were two t things h n g 17 I 1 on which mrs hurley particularly p a r li c u 1 r ly prided herself one was that she belonged to this famous family and tho the other was that she had been kissed by robert emmett who stopped for an hour once at the sullivan farm she saw Lor corded lorded dEdward ward fitzgerald sog son of the duke of leinster e r for it wa was in in his company that her brothers ers and her young lover marched while the husband lived mrs hurley had little trouble but hia his death left her old and poor she came to california nearly twenty years ago with her sons and dagh daughters to but there was nothing but poverty for her in 1887 her second s son 0 n died he ile was eighty and had supported his mother and widowed inter then the burden fell to this sister sirs afro dennis she cared for the theold old lady but she too died mrs dennis daughter mary parker a wi widow low with five children cared for her grandmother during the last years ot of her life five grandchildren of mrs hurley are alive and eighteen of her great grandchildren some of these live in in new york the masonic society to which the husband of mra mrs parker be longed longed at the time of his death ma made e his widow a monthly allowance of 30 a month this with the earnings of a son had to support th the family old mrs airs hurley mra afro parker and the five children but the there e were abw always it y a some iome kind people who took care that the centenarian had a roof over her head and food to eat their house is a quaint little box at the end of sherwood place thia this has been their home for many yc years are when mrs curleys Hur leys which son on died the clay street bank which owns the property lowered the rent to 5 a month this was paid by some lada lady they did not know who the kind friend was but every month ith the money for the rent was given by by her to the cl clergy ergy of st patricks church then the and the ladies of the fruit and flow flower er mission took care that the old lady suffered no privation the lady lay ou oil a couch that filled led 0 one n e aide sile of the litle bare room some neighbors wera there keeping the deathwatch death watch with the granddaughter du herself a woman oman w of mid midd eliter leage the face of the dead woman was wasted and sharp she used to tell with pride how tall and strong she had been but before she died she was hardly larger than a it child 11 my grandmother was always a healthy woman said MM mrs batker yesterday and she be waa was careful of herself th she e W was as moderate in in every hing thing and that is why I 1 think she obe lived so 0 o long she would not touch liquor of any auy sort her one solace was her pipe i she learned to smoke when tile there waa was nothing ceclia peculiar about a woman using toba tobacco cco and nj ehe she was quite fon fond d of saying sayin that she waa was too old t to qu quit it S she h had to stop about six weeks ago he however W for she waa was too weak to hold the th pipe pipe after that she missed this so sole pleasure basure very much and almost the very last thing she sh eat eaid 1 d waa was ill be ie strong elou enough tomorrow moroa please god to try t the 0 pipe again |