Campbellsport News, May, 1914

ANOTHER OLD SETTLER CALLED
MRS. THOMAS CURRAN DIES AT HER HOME IN ASHFORD SATURDAY MORNING

   Mrs. Katherine McCullough Curran, wife of Thomas Curran, died at the family home in the town of Ashford last Saturday morning at 8:15 o'clock, after an illness of several years duration from heart trouble.
   Katherine McCullough was born in the town of Auburn on the old McCullough homestead in 1856, being 58 years old at the time of her death. In 1874 she was married to Thomas Curran and moved to Ashford where they have resided ever since.
   They had seven children of whom four are living. Besides a widower, Mrs. Curran is survived by four children, Emmett of this village Francis, Esther and Isabella at home, one grandchild, Mayme McGinnity; four sisters, May, Ella and Isabella McCullough and Mrs. Patrick Flynn, and one brother, Thomas McCullough of Cambellsport.
   The funeral was held Monday morning from St. Matthew's church in this village and was largely attended by many from afar, which shows the high respect in which she was held. The Altar Society, of which the deceased was a faithful member, attended in a body, about seventy-five of which met to offer up their prayers for the repose of the soul of their deceased sister. Rev. Father July sang the Requiem High Mass. The pallbearers were William Katan, John McInroe, T. L. Johnson, James Ward, John Kohler and John McCarty.