Obit of Thomas Carey 1897
From the Chatsworth Plaindealer
Chatsworth,Livingston,Illinois
THOMAS CAREY
AUGUST 27, 1897
On Friday last, August 20, at his late home in Charlotte township, occurred the death of Thomas Carey, an old and highly respected resident of this vicinity, at the age of 67 years. For many years he had been a great sufferer from throat and lung troubles, and for months had not been able to leave his home. While Mr. Carey had never received much education, he was a good thinker and a great reader and, being blessed with a retentive memory, he had acquired a vast amount of information, and was an intelligent and interesting conversationalist. His ideas of right and wrong were his guides for every action and, being a man of god mind, he was upright and honest in the highest degree, the Golden Rule being followed by him most faithfully.
Mr. Carey had resided, for twenty-five years on the farm in Charlotte township, where his death occurred. He was a single man, having never married. Part of the time during his residence in Charlotte he had lived entirely alone, but of late years he had rented the farm ubt retained part of the house for his own use. He spent his early boyhood in Ireland, coming to America when a lad and settling in Boston. In the early fifties he came to Illinois and located in Kendall county, where he endured all hardships and privations of the early settlers, living for five or six years alone in a small hut. In 1861 his brother and his family also came west and Thomas resided with them until he came to Charlotte.
The funeral services were held on Monday morning from SS. Peter and Paul's church, Rev. Father J.J. Quinn officiating, and the remains taken to Ashkum on the morning train, where hey were laid to their final rest.