Obit for MALLAY, Mary (MCGRAW) (b.1855 d.1937), Nicollet Co., MN

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MARY MCGRAW MALLAY

1855-03 May 1937

"OBITUARY, Stewart, McLoed County, MN newspaper, 

	Mrs. Thomas Mallay

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Mrs. Thomas Mallay for many years a resident of this community, passed 

away at the home of her daughter, Mrs. W. J. Bliss, in Minneapolis on 

Tuesday, May 3, following a brief illness. Mrs. Mallay had been about the 

house as usual until a few days before her passing when she grew weaker, 

but her condition was not thought serious. She passed away quietly in her 

sleep shortly after that at the age of nearly 83 years.



Funeral services were conducted from the St. Thomas church at 8:30 

o'clock Friday morning, May 6. She was buried at the Catholic cemetery at 

Stewart the same afternoon. Pallbearers in Minneapolis were John Bliss, 

Andrew Nelson, and four nephews, Clarence, John, Ambrose and Albert 

McGraw and at Stewart, Ray, Ambrose and Albert McGraw, David Meyers. W.J. 

Joyce, and Timothy Mahony.



Catherine (McGraw) Mallay was born in New York City in June, 1855, and 

when still a small child moved with her parents to Nicollet County, 

Minnesota, and settled on a farm in Lake Prairie township where she 

resided until her marriage to Thomas Mallay on October 19, 1875.



After a short period of time, the young couple moved to a farm in Grafton 

township, Sibley County, where they lived until 

their retirement in 1911. At that time they built a new home in 

Hutchinson and lived here until Mr. Mallay's death in 1927, Mrs. Mallay 

then renting her home and visiting among her children, making her home 

for the most part with her daughters, Mrs. E.W. Prichard of Kansas City, 

Missouri, and Mrs. W. J. Bliss of Minneapolis. 



Ten children were born to Mrs. Mallay, four of whom died in childhood. 

Six children, four daughters and two sons, survive: Mrs. W.J. Bliss of 

Minneapolis; Mrs. O.E. McIntyre of Revillo, South Dakota; Mrs. B.E. 

Rogers of Windom; J.P. Mallay of Aberdeen, South Dakota; Richard O. 

Mallay of St. Paul; and Mrs. E.W. Prichard of Kansas City, Missouri. She 

also leaves 10 grandchildren and seven great grandchildren.



Those from away besides the immediate family attending the funeral 

services were Mrs. Mallay's sister, Mrs. Margaret Guertin of Le Sueur, 

Mrs. John McGraw, Blance, Albert and Ambrose McGraw and David Meyers of 

Stewart, John McGraw of Minneappolis, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence McGraw and 

Sister Aquina of St. Paul, Mrs. Clarence Kelly of Amery, Wisconsin, Mr. 

and Mrs. George Hughes and Elizabeth Hughes of Le Sueur.



Among those who were in attendance at the burial services in Stewart were 

her only brother John McGraw of Stewart, Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Mahony, 

Mrs. Stuckey and son Arthur of Buffalo Lake, and John McMahon of Stewart.



Mrs. Mallay was one of the few survivors of the Civil War days, her 

father, Mr. McGraw, having served in the First Minnesota regiment. She 

often told her children stories of how, during her father's absence, the 

Indian outbreak occured and her mother had to take her family and drive 

an ox team to St. Peter to seek refuge in the stockade, remaining there a 

week and a half before the danger was over.



Mrs. Mallay took an active part in the live of her community, was a life 

member of the Rosary Society, and also belonged to the D.A.R.



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