O'Connor - Honora
Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Journal September 27, 1901
On Sunday morning, between 4 and 5 o'clock, Mrs. Honorah O'Connor passed painlessly into the higher life while sleeping. She had been in feeble health for some years from the infirmities of old ago, being in her eighty-second year at the time of her death. She was born in Ireland where she grew to womanhood, and there was married, to the late Edwin O'Connor. Her elder children were born there, and, when they were quite young, the family removed to America. For more than forty years they have made their home in this city, and for all that time have lived in one quarter of the town- the southwest-so that she and her family have become esteemed as friends and neighbors, as only those whom long acquaintance and association try. She leaves berefit a family of three sons, Edward, Thomas and John, and three daughters, Elizabeth, Ellen and Kate. Up to last Friday Mrs O'Connor was able to sit in her chair, but on that morning she became suddenly ill. and never left her bed again. On Saturday while in full possession of her senses, which she never lost, she received the sacrament and the rites of Extreme Unction from Father Dempsey, after which she expressed her willingness to die. Religion to her was not a cold abstraction but an ever present support and comfort. Faithfulness was, perhaps, her strongest characteristic, to family duties, to friendship, but, above all, to her church, to which she was a devotee- No weather was took bleak or stormy for her to attend upon its service until Nature herself put an interdict upon it, when she became too feeble to walk. She was not merely a formalist in religion, but a consistent Christian whose faith upheld her through many sore trials and sorrows that would have made a less devoted and sincere person doubtful and bitter. For her life was not cast altogether in pleasant places, and many were the troubles and trials that fell to her lot. through which the consolations of religion and the devotion of her children sustained her. At the early age of eight she was thoroughly grounded in the catechism and was confirmed, and never a day in her subsequent life has elapsed in which at least one hour was not passed in prayer, to which a worn rosary and the thinned leaves of her prayer book bear mute witness. She was one who, though unassuming and retiring, could serve as an example for less faithful Christians, for her religious duties came first, the others followed in due course. Next to her church her home was the center of her activities, and there she served and labored untiringly till the feebleness of old age overtook her. Now she has come to the end and may her soul find peace and rest among those who hungered and thirsted after righteousness. == typed by Kim H