Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-05-01 | Page 2 | Earnest Wish Gratified in Death

EARNEST WISH . GRATIFIEDJN DEATH Aged Man's Daughter Did Not Wish, to Survive Her Father, and "Wao Buried With Him. Spoclal to Tho Tribune a -r EW YORK, April 30.5-Crushcd by 1a the death of her aged father, who had been her closest companion for many years, Miss. Mary E. Lalor, aged 10, was found unconscious In her room, a victim of apoplexy, and was burled In the same grave with her paronL Especially noteworthy is tho clroum-stance, clroum-stance, since Miss Lalor was" heard to say to her 1 father repeatedly that: "When you die, I want to dlo, too." "I should not Hko to live if you wero gone, my child," was tho father's re-Joinder. re-Joinder. Miss Lalors devotion to her father and constant care of him seemed to havo kept her from all thought of marriage. mar-riage. When he became 111 shortly after af-ter his 74th birthday sho attended him devotedly and rejoiced when ho appeared ap-peared to Improve and IiIh recovery seemed likely. The strain of her nursing nurs-ing weakened the daughter, and her brother and sister rejoiced that the Improvement Im-provement In their father's, health would glvo her an opportunity to re cuperate. Then tho father was suddenly and fatally stricken. Miss Lalor hardly spoke after her father's death. Tho blow utterly crushed her, and an hour after he died she was found uncon- bcIous hi hor room. B'eforo nightfall she, too, had died and gono to Join the father to whom she was so devoted.