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Show ! Tn IHemoriam-nirs Jridgef Brown i ("Written for Intermountain Catholic.) . Mi. Bridget Brown, oiie of the pioneer pio-neer Catholics of Utah, died at ber residence, 25o3 Orchard avenue, Ogden, Utah, Sept. 13, 1904. Mrs. Brown was born at the Cashlings, parish of Killcar. County Donegal, Ireland. Ire-land. Nov. . 15, 1841. being at the time of death almost 63 years of age. tehe was the sixth child of John and Sarah Maguire. In her twelfth year her family fam-ily came to the United States. Their home for a time was at Underbill, Vt.: and some years later went to the Mate of Iowa. There she grew to womanhood woman-hood and there she was first married; her husband being Edward McMonegle, who previous to their marriage had been an officer in the commissary department de-partment under Albert Sidney Johnson in the army of Utah, 1S57-S. , The civil war breaking out in Itst'l, Edward McMonegle, who was then a lieutenant of militia, lost his life Nov. 7, 186L leaving his young wife a widow with an infant daughter only 1 month old. Ten years later, in the autumn of j JS71. accompanying her father's household, house-hold, she came to Utah, where in the year JS73 she was married to Edward P. Brown, a merchant of Ogden. nc marriage being solemnized in Salt Lsko City by Father Walsh, then pastor-of St. Mary's church. Mrs. E. O'lieilly was one of the witnesses. During the year following her iast marriage Mrs. Brown resided in Ogden. Og-den. next at Watertown, X. T. Still later, for some years in Butte, Mont., and for the last fifteen years of her life in Ogden. By her first marriage Mis. Brown was mother of one child a gill. Mary, who died in early womanhood woman-hood aid w,ho lies buried' at Ogden. By ber second marriage she was. motber of two sons, one of whom died in infancy: the other. Edward C. Brown, is now druggist in Ogden. Mr. Edward P. Brown, her last husband, hus-band, died in Ogden in 1890. , In her life Mrs. Brown was called upon V) bear many sorrows and tribulations, trib-ulations, more than fall to persons in general in this world; but she bore heroically the crosses thus laid upon her shoulders, and it may be said that she as a Christian woman, was educated edu-cated through', the sorrows she was compelled to face in life. Notwithstanding Notwithstand-ing she was compelled to bear more than air average share of the cares and disappointments of the world, yet the Catholic education she had received in-youth in-youth bore fruit in the Christian fortitude forti-tude she displayed throughout her years of trial and sorrow. She 6 trow to perform at all times the duties demanded de-manded from a Christian wife and mother. There are many in this life whose position in society was more shining and conspicuous before the' world: but it is to be doubted if '.ha Searcher of all hearts in the last hour of life, could bestow more of ti e blessings bless-ings promised to the children of men than was shown to ber. Throughout her life she lived the re ligion of her fathers and in her last days the consolations of this religion afforded her blessings greater than all tl'e wealth and peace of this world could administer to her. She died, of tuberculosis, which had bc?ri making inroads upon her life for two years, and when at length it was certain that the end was approaching, she prepared for the event that awaits us all. Until Un-til the last moment her nr'nd was clear, enabling her to quietly bid an affectionate af-fectionate farewell to friends and relatives; rela-tives; and sl-e died with God's name upon her lips. She was one of a numerous family. Her father, mother, sister and five brothers 'were called from the world before her, and only one brother. (Don Maguire of Ogden) remains today of the pioneer family of Catholics who thirty-three years ago helped to rear the cross beneath the shadows of the Wasatch mountains in Utah. ' May she rest in neaee, and may her. descendents a thousand years hence uphold, the cross of Christ in Utah as she did in her humble way, in her. own' times. ' D. M. . Ogden, Sept. IS, 1904. ' |