Notes for Thomas KELLY

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Notes for Thomas KELLY

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LIVED IN S.E. PLACENTIA, NEWFOUNDLAND, CANADA
OBITUARY OF THOMAS KELLY, AS WRITTEN BY HIS SISTER, CATHERINE/KATHERINE
KELLY:
"PLACENTIA, AUG.13. THE SUDDEN DEATH OF THOMAS KELLY ON WED., THE 9TH
OF AUG., HAS REMOVED FROM THE SOUTH EAST, A MAN WHO LIVED A TRULY
CHRISTIAN LIFE, ONE WHO WAS NOTED FOR HIS INTEGRITY. IN THE MIDDLE OF
LIFE, MR. KEELY LOST HIS WIFE, AND THUS WAS OBLIGED TO TAKE FULL
RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE UPBRINGING OF A LARGE FAMILY, 7 SONS AND 2
DAUGHTERS, ONE A MERE INFANT. TO THIS HEAVY TASK, HE APPLIED HIMSELF
WITH THAT PATIENCE AND THOROUGHNESS WHICH WAS CHARACTERISTIC OF HIM; AND
HIS CHIEF DESIRE WAS EVER HIS CHILDREN'S WELFARE. THE DECEASED WAS NOT
OF LATE YEARS, A STRONG MAN AND SUFFERED MORE LESS FROM A CONSTITUTIONAL
MALADY, NEVERTHELESS, SUCH WAS HIS COURAGE AND ENERGY THAT HE CARRIED ON
TO THE LAST MINUTE OF HIS LIFE. ON WED. MORNING, JUST AFTER SUNRISE,
MR. KELLY, ACCOMPANIED BY HIS YOUNG SON SET OUT TO ROW TO PLACENTIA.
THE BOY HAD ROWED BUT A SHORT DISTANCE WHEN HIS FATHER LEANING HEAVILY
AGAINST THE SIDE OF THE BOAT, SAID IN A WEAK VOICE "ROW TO LAND", BUT
ALAS, IN A FEW SHORT MOMENTS BEFORE REACHING THE SHORE, THE FRIGHTENED
LAD REALIZED THAT HIS FATHER WAS DEAD. KIND NEIGHBORES GATHERED AROUND
AND DID ALL THAT WAS POSSIBLE FOR THE BEREAVED FAMILY, WHOSE LOSS IS
GREAT, AND THE CIRCUMSTANCES ARE RENDERED MORE PATHETIC BECAUSE THIS
GOOD MAN HAS PASSED WITHOUT A WORD OF FAREWELL TO THE FAMILY WHO ARE NOW
DOUBLY ORPHANED. THE LATE MR. KELLY WAS HELD IN HIGH ESTEEN ALL OVER
THE DISTRICT IN WHICH HE LIVED DURING HIS LONG LIFE. THE FUNERAL WAS
LARGELY ATTENED ALTHOUGH THE BURIAL GROUND IS MORE THAT 5 MILES FROM THE
SOUTH EAST. THE SERVICE WAS CONDUCTED BY THE PARISH PRIEST, REV. FATHER
O'FLAHERTY."

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