Nelson County KyArchives Obituaries.....Muir, Cara Maher Shadburne December 20, 1917
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Richard Sevier dicksevier@comcast.net and Charles Hartley webguy@BullittCountyHistory.org October 11, 2007, 4:12 pm

Bardstown Kentucky Standard
Mrs. N. W. Muir was before her Marriage Miss Cora May Shadburn of San 
Francisco, a daughter of and old personal friend of Hon. Jasper W. Muir. When 
but a young girl she visited her father's friend and at his home she met her 
future husband. Mrs. Muir was fifty years of age. She was one of the most 
widely known and popular women of the entire south. She was an enthusiastic 
member of the Daughters of Confederacy, and attended all the State and 
National meetings of that body. She was State President of the Jefferson Davis 
Monument Association and had but a few weeks previous to her death returned 
from Chattanooga, Tenn., where she attended the National Convention U. D. C. 
She was also County Chairman of the Kentucky Branch National League for 
Defense. Mrs. Muir was a great social favorite, and was one of the most 
generally beloved women of this city. She was a Catholic by birth and 
education.

The home of Mr. and Mrs. Muir was one of the most beautiful in the state and 
was one of the show places of Bardstown.

Mrs. Muir is survived by her father and three brothers. Also by four half 
brothers and sisters, children of her father’s second wife, who was Miss 
Florence McKay of this city.


Additional Comments:
Killed in train wreck at Shepherdsville, KY 12/10/1917 See 
http://bullittcountyhistory.org/bchistory/trainwreck1917.html

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