Margaret "Aunt Maggie" Fitzpatrick
Burial Details
Obituaries
Eagle County Blade page p 3 - August 15, 1901
Death of Maggie Fltzpatrick
Mrs . Margaret Fitzpatrick , long and familar known as Aunt Maggie , died on last Monday morniug ; Mrs Fitzpapatrick had been in failing health for a year and death was due to natural result of old age accompanied by a dropsical effection. D _Hiing 1 - the closing months ol her Ike tho tfeceused said _Bh o _sulFerictl no pain but wnsjust getting \ roaker ° and w cliker arfd often Tomarked that her timo wu _ _s about up . Mrs . Fitzpatrick waB a unftjue tharacter . Siie wa B a native of frclantl nnd . h ad long boon a widow . She loaves t \ vo daughters , each with families , in Illinois . Her children had often pleaded with her to epond lier _dectiRingi years with them , but sho stoutly refused to do so .. Utitil her health failed sho resolutely support
ed herself and independently inuintainc her humble homo in Red Cliff ,- Iravir mesinwhilo laid by _sufileieut moans wit which sho maintained herself eVbn aft ( her health failed and was possessed ( some property at tho t uno of her de atl Sho was cjovoutly » t ( iichGcl to Eed _© R _iniid preferred her huinblo * Jlomo an itecluded _iifo . s hero to a _liointf with he _daug&totd who aro in 1 coitifortablo cii j _CnmslnncSs ; One great deGiro Was t _jdiu in Rod Gliff and bo buried hero an licr wish was realized- in every detai Hor relatives were communicated wil and lelographed that somo of tlioi : r would _coireo on to 1 tuko _cluu-go ot th : remaiiiB . Meanwhile M 1 . Proper Laton : _iti whom Aunt _jSCaggid Kiul great eimfi denco , took chargo ot hor affaireartd 1 01 yesterday ,-no _rolu-tivcj Of tho _dccoafioi ha # ing arrivri * . _! , tho funeral was hcl ( wit I ] tho intermdnt iii Orcc n \ _Vbbd ceme _tsiy .
