She wrote her own obituary a few months before her death, and therefore, facts for which her obituary is cited as the source can be considered self-reported. The obituary was printed in Rensselaer Republican, May 14, 1913 and reads as follows: "JULIA HOWLAND HEALEY Born Feb. 9, 1840 - Died May 14, 1913. Julia H. Healey, mother of George H. Healey, editor of The Republican died this afternoon at 1:10 o'clock after a lingering illness. -- The following obituary was written some months ago by Mrs. Healey and pinned to it was the short paper about Abraham Lincoln whom she greatly loved from the time he was first a presidential candidate. This short article about him was written shortly before his last birthday and Mrs. Healey had expected to deliver it at the annual Lincoln memorial given by the Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic. Her health was such that she could not attend that memorial and it was evidently her wish that this brief tribute be printed. It furnishes some idea of the high ideals that composed her life and also gives important testimony of the developing interest of women in the affairs of state and nation at the outbreak of the civil war. Mrs Healey was devoted to church, literary, temperance and patriotic societies, being for many years a member of the Ladies Literary Club, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, the Woman's Relief Corps, and for the past fourteen years of the Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic. Her wide reading from scholarly authors and historians gave her a fund of knowledge and a fluency of expression that proved entertaining in any company. A visit mad a few years ago to the national capital, where she saw Arlington cemetery, the home and tomb of George Washington at Mt Vernon and other points of interest proved of never-failing delight to her. Although she suffered much during her long sickness, her mind remained active and she read the daily papers and current magazines and enjoyed discussions about federal and state policies. A few months ago she wrote a biographical sketch of her life and this is printed just as she had prepared it in a clear, legible hand. It shows how active was her mind and how perfect her memory. It is here printed in full.
-- Julia Howland Healey was born in Miami county, Indiana, February 9, 1840, in a log house not far from Perrysburg, which was the postoffice of her father's family. Indians were plentiful at that time and often came to her father's house, they having a reservation east of Peru, and where some of the tribe still live, refusing to sign away their lands. When the rest of the tribe signed away their lands and went further west, they camped for the first night just out of the town of Perrysburg. Mrs. Healey's father took his family to the camp in the afternoon before thier last night, he being well acquainted with many of the Indians. Mrs. Healey was the first child born to her family after their coming to Indiana, two older children, a brother and sister, being born in the east, one in New York and the other in New Jersey. Mrs. Healey's father, Joseph Allen Howland, was born in Orange, New York. He was of Holland-French extraction, his father being a full blooded Hollander and his mother a full-blooded French woman by name, Jane Purcellee. Mrs. Healey's mother's maiden name was Mary Taylor. She was born on a farm near Paterson, New Jersey. After he father's and mother's marriage they lived at Newark, New Jersey until they came to Indiana. Mrs. Healey's father did not long remain on the farm, but preferred to go back to teaching school, that being his business in the east. He moved to Logansport about 1843, where he lived most of his after life. Mrs. Healey's mother died when she was about five years old, and a few years later she went to live with her mother's sister in Michigan who had just moved to that state from New York, it being her mother's dying request that she be raised by this aunt, Mrs. Phebe Taylor Benedict. Soon after Mrs. Healey was 18 years old she visited her father's family at Logansport, near whcih city she met Joshua Healey, to whom she was married February 23, 1864. Mr Healey was at this time captain of Co. G 9th Indiana Volunteer Infantry, having enlisted at Rensselaer soon after the close of a school he had taught at, Smith School house, northeast of Rensselaer. To this union five children were born. William and Florence were born after the close of the war. Both died in infancy and are buried on the same lot with their parents. Dora Healey Lyon, of Delphi; George Howland Healey, of Rensselaer, and Maud Healey Mills, of Hamilton, Montana, survive their mother. In the year 1862 Mrs. Healey joined the Christian church at Mill Creek, Cass county, near which she was teaching school. She lived a firm believer in this church, never changing her church relation and was glad indeed when a church of her choice was organized in Rensselaer, of which she and her two older living children were charter members and later her younger daughter joined the church. Her husband died January 2, 1880. -- Of Lincoln she wrote...[omitted] -- At the close of the civil war Mrs. Healey and her husband, Col. Joshua Healey, located in Rensselaer, and with the exception of about three years, had lived here continuously since that time. In 1877, for the benefit of Colonel Healey's health, removal was made to Carlisle Springs, Ark., where the family remained for several months. In 1878 they returned to Indiana and located at Goodland, where he died January 2, 1880. Mrs. Healey at once removed to Rensselaer, where her husband was buried. Three months after his death a baby daughter, now Mrs. Edward F. Mills, of Hamilton, Mont., was born. The struggle on behalf of her children during the few years after her husband's death taxed her frail body, which had never been strong, and during the succeeding years she was never in good health. Her health began to fail more rapidly almost three years ago and she took a more decided turn for the worse a year ago. For a long time she insisted on living in her own home on College avenue, but this was reluctantly given up October 12th, last, when she took up her home with her son, George H. Healey, with whom she has since lived and at whose home she died. Besides the three children mentioned in the obituary there are eight grandchildren, also one sister, Mrs. Mary Fawcett, of Delphi, who was at her bedside when the final summons came, and whom she recognized with a smile and a tender kiss, the last act of consciousness."
"Funeral of Mrs. Julia A. Healey will be Friday. - The funeral of Mrs. Julia A. Healey will be held Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock at the home of her son, George H. Healey, on Cullen Street. It will be conducted by Rev. W.G. Winn of the Christian Church. Burial will be in Weston Cemetery"
For more information see: https://genealogyhistorymystery.blogspot.com/2018/10/joshua-healey-and-julia-ann-howland.html
-- Julia Howland Healey was born in Miami county, Indiana, February 9, 1840, in a log house not far from Perrysburg, which was the postoffice of her father's family. Indians were plentiful at that time and often came to her father's house, they having a reservation east of Peru, and where some of the tribe still live, refusing to sign away their lands. When the rest of the tribe signed away their lands and went further west, they camped for the first night just out of the town of Perrysburg. Mrs. Healey's father took his family to the camp in the afternoon before thier last night, he being well acquainted with many of the Indians. Mrs. Healey was the first child born to her family after their coming to Indiana, two older children, a brother and sister, being born in the east, one in New York and the other in New Jersey. Mrs. Healey's father, Joseph Allen Howland, was born in Orange, New York. He was of Holland-French extraction, his father being a full blooded Hollander and his mother a full-blooded French woman by name, Jane Purcellee. Mrs. Healey's mother's maiden name was Mary Taylor. She was born on a farm near Paterson, New Jersey. After he father's and mother's marriage they lived at Newark, New Jersey until they came to Indiana. Mrs. Healey's father did not long remain on the farm, but preferred to go back to teaching school, that being his business in the east. He moved to Logansport about 1843, where he lived most of his after life. Mrs. Healey's mother died when she was about five years old, and a few years later she went to live with her mother's sister in Michigan who had just moved to that state from New York, it being her mother's dying request that she be raised by this aunt, Mrs. Phebe Taylor Benedict. Soon after Mrs. Healey was 18 years old she visited her father's family at Logansport, near whcih city she met Joshua Healey, to whom she was married February 23, 1864. Mr Healey was at this time captain of Co. G 9th Indiana Volunteer Infantry, having enlisted at Rensselaer soon after the close of a school he had taught at, Smith School house, northeast of Rensselaer. To this union five children were born. William and Florence were born after the close of the war. Both died in infancy and are buried on the same lot with their parents. Dora Healey Lyon, of Delphi; George Howland Healey, of Rensselaer, and Maud Healey Mills, of Hamilton, Montana, survive their mother. In the year 1862 Mrs. Healey joined the Christian church at Mill Creek, Cass county, near which she was teaching school. She lived a firm believer in this church, never changing her church relation and was glad indeed when a church of her choice was organized in Rensselaer, of which she and her two older living children were charter members and later her younger daughter joined the church. Her husband died January 2, 1880. -- Of Lincoln she wrote...[omitted] -- At the close of the civil war Mrs. Healey and her husband, Col. Joshua Healey, located in Rensselaer, and with the exception of about three years, had lived here continuously since that time. In 1877, for the benefit of Colonel Healey's health, removal was made to Carlisle Springs, Ark., where the family remained for several months. In 1878 they returned to Indiana and located at Goodland, where he died January 2, 1880. Mrs. Healey at once removed to Rensselaer, where her husband was buried. Three months after his death a baby daughter, now Mrs. Edward F. Mills, of Hamilton, Mont., was born. The struggle on behalf of her children during the few years after her husband's death taxed her frail body, which had never been strong, and during the succeeding years she was never in good health. Her health began to fail more rapidly almost three years ago and she took a more decided turn for the worse a year ago. For a long time she insisted on living in her own home on College avenue, but this was reluctantly given up October 12th, last, when she took up her home with her son, George H. Healey, with whom she has since lived and at whose home she died. Besides the three children mentioned in the obituary there are eight grandchildren, also one sister, Mrs. Mary Fawcett, of Delphi, who was at her bedside when the final summons came, and whom she recognized with a smile and a tender kiss, the last act of consciousness."
"Funeral of Mrs. Julia A. Healey will be Friday. - The funeral of Mrs. Julia A. Healey will be held Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock at the home of her son, George H. Healey, on Cullen Street. It will be conducted by Rev. W.G. Winn of the Christian Church. Burial will be in Weston Cemetery"
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She wrote her own obituary a few months before her death, and therefore, facts for which her obituary is cited as the source can be considered self-reported. The obituary was printed in Rensselaer Republican, May 14, 1913 and reads as follows: "JULIA HOWLAND HEALEY Born Feb. 9, 1840 - Died May 14, 1913. Julia H. Healey, mother of George H. Healey, editor of The Republican died this afternoon at 1:10 o'clock after a lingering illness. -- The following obituary was written some months ago by Mrs. Healey and pinned to it was the short paper about Abraham Lincoln whom she greatly loved from the time he was first a presidential candidate. This short article about him was written shortly before his last birthday and Mrs. Healey had expected to deliver it at the annual Lincoln memorial given by the Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic. Her health was such that she could not attend that memorial and it was evidently her wish that this brief tribute be printed. It furnishes some idea of the high ideals that composed her life and also gives important testimony of the developing interest of women in the affairs of state and nation at the outbreak of the civil war. Mrs Healey was devoted to church, literary, temperance and patriotic societies, being for many years a member of the Ladies Literary Club, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, the Woman's Relief Corps, and for the past fourteen years of the Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic. Her wide reading from scholarly authors and historians gave her a fund of knowledge and a fluency of expression that proved entertaining in any company. A visit mad a few years ago to the national capital, where she saw Arlington cemetery, the home and tomb of George Washington at Mt Vernon and other points of interest proved of never-failing delight to her. Although she suffered much during her long sickness, her mind remained active and she read the daily papers and current magazines and enjoyed discussions about federal and state policies. A few months ago she wrote a biographical sketch of her life and this is printed just as she had prepared it in a clear, legible hand. It shows how active was her mind and how perfect her memory. It is here printed in full.
-- Julia Howland Healey was born in Miami county, Indiana, February 9, 1840, in a log house not far from Perrysburg, which was the postoffice of her father's family. Indians were plentiful at that time and often came to her father's house, they having a reservation east of Peru, and where some of the tribe still live, refusing to sign away their lands. When the rest of the tribe signed away their lands and went further west, they camped for the first night just out of the town of Perrysburg. Mrs. Healey's father took his family to the camp in the afternoon before thier last night, he being well acquainted with many of the Indians. Mrs. Healey was the first child born to her family after their coming to Indiana, two older children, a brother and sister, being born in the east, one in New York and the other in New Jersey. Mrs. Healey's father, Joseph Allen Howland, was born in Orange, New York. He was of Holland-French extraction, his father being a full blooded Hollander and his mother a full-blooded French woman by name, Jane Purcellee. Mrs. Healey's mother's maiden name was Mary Taylor. She was born on a farm near Paterson, New Jersey. After he father's and mother's marriage they lived at Newark, New Jersey until they came to Indiana. Mrs. Healey's father did not long remain on the farm, but preferred to go back to teaching school, that being his business in the east. He moved to Logansport about 1843, where he lived most of his after life. Mrs. Healey's mother died when she was about five years old, and a few years later she went to live with her mother's sister in Michigan who had just moved to that state from New York, it being her mother's dying request that she be raised by this aunt, Mrs. Phebe Taylor Benedict. Soon after Mrs. Healey was 18 years old she visited her father's family at Logansport, near whcih city she met Joshua Healey, to whom she was married February 23, 1864. Mr Healey was at this time captain of Co. G 9th Indiana Volunteer Infantry, having enlisted at Rensselaer soon after the close of a school he had taught at, Smith School house, northeast of Rensselaer. To this union five children were born. William and Florence were born after the close of the war. Both died in infancy and are buried on the same lot with their parents. Dora Healey Lyon, of Delphi; George Howland Healey, of Rensselaer, and Maud Healey Mills, of Hamilton, Montana, survive their mother. In the year 1862 Mrs. Healey joined the Christian church at Mill Creek, Cass county, near which she was teaching school. She lived a firm believer in this church, never changing her church relation and was glad indeed when a church of her choice was organized in Rensselaer, of which she and her two older living children were charter members and later her younger daughter joined the church. Her husband died January 2, 1880. -- Of Lincoln she wrote...[omitted] -- At the close of the civil war Mrs. Healey and her husband, Col. Joshua Healey, located in Rensselaer, and with the exception of about three years, had lived here continuously since that time. In 1877, for the benefit of Colonel Healey's health, removal was made to Carlisle Springs, Ark., where the family remained for several months. In 1878 they returned to Indiana and located at Goodland, where he died January 2, 1880. Mrs. Healey at once removed to Rensselaer, where her husband was buried. Three months after his death a baby daughter, now Mrs. Edward F. Mills, of Hamilton, Mont., was born. The struggle on behalf of her children during the few years after her husband's death taxed her frail body, which had never been strong, and during the succeeding years she was never in good health. Her health began to fail more rapidly almost three years ago and she took a more decided turn for the worse a year ago. For a long time she insisted on living in her own home on College avenue, but this was reluctantly given up October 12th, last, when she took up her home with her son, George H. Healey, with whom she has since lived and at whose home she died. Besides the three children mentioned in the obituary there are eight grandchildren, also one sister, Mrs. Mary Fawcett, of Delphi, who was at her bedside when the final summons came, and whom she recognized with a smile and a tender kiss, the last act of consciousness."
"Funeral of Mrs. Julia A. Healey will be Friday. - The funeral of Mrs. Julia A. Healey will be held Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock at the home of her son, George H. Healey, on Cullen Street. It will be conducted by Rev. W.G. Winn of the Christian Church. Burial will be in Weston Cemetery"
For more information see: https://genealogyhistorymystery.blogspot.com/2018/10/joshua-healey-and-julia-ann-howland.html
-- Julia Howland Healey was born in Miami county, Indiana, February 9, 1840, in a log house not far from Perrysburg, which was the postoffice of her father's family. Indians were plentiful at that time and often came to her father's house, they having a reservation east of Peru, and where some of the tribe still live, refusing to sign away their lands. When the rest of the tribe signed away their lands and went further west, they camped for the first night just out of the town of Perrysburg. Mrs. Healey's father took his family to the camp in the afternoon before thier last night, he being well acquainted with many of the Indians. Mrs. Healey was the first child born to her family after their coming to Indiana, two older children, a brother and sister, being born in the east, one in New York and the other in New Jersey. Mrs. Healey's father, Joseph Allen Howland, was born in Orange, New York. He was of Holland-French extraction, his father being a full blooded Hollander and his mother a full-blooded French woman by name, Jane Purcellee. Mrs. Healey's mother's maiden name was Mary Taylor. She was born on a farm near Paterson, New Jersey. After he father's and mother's marriage they lived at Newark, New Jersey until they came to Indiana. Mrs. Healey's father did not long remain on the farm, but preferred to go back to teaching school, that being his business in the east. He moved to Logansport about 1843, where he lived most of his after life. Mrs. Healey's mother died when she was about five years old, and a few years later she went to live with her mother's sister in Michigan who had just moved to that state from New York, it being her mother's dying request that she be raised by this aunt, Mrs. Phebe Taylor Benedict. Soon after Mrs. Healey was 18 years old she visited her father's family at Logansport, near whcih city she met Joshua Healey, to whom she was married February 23, 1864. Mr Healey was at this time captain of Co. G 9th Indiana Volunteer Infantry, having enlisted at Rensselaer soon after the close of a school he had taught at, Smith School house, northeast of Rensselaer. To this union five children were born. William and Florence were born after the close of the war. Both died in infancy and are buried on the same lot with their parents. Dora Healey Lyon, of Delphi; George Howland Healey, of Rensselaer, and Maud Healey Mills, of Hamilton, Montana, survive their mother. In the year 1862 Mrs. Healey joined the Christian church at Mill Creek, Cass county, near which she was teaching school. She lived a firm believer in this church, never changing her church relation and was glad indeed when a church of her choice was organized in Rensselaer, of which she and her two older living children were charter members and later her younger daughter joined the church. Her husband died January 2, 1880. -- Of Lincoln she wrote...[omitted] -- At the close of the civil war Mrs. Healey and her husband, Col. Joshua Healey, located in Rensselaer, and with the exception of about three years, had lived here continuously since that time. In 1877, for the benefit of Colonel Healey's health, removal was made to Carlisle Springs, Ark., where the family remained for several months. In 1878 they returned to Indiana and located at Goodland, where he died January 2, 1880. Mrs. Healey at once removed to Rensselaer, where her husband was buried. Three months after his death a baby daughter, now Mrs. Edward F. Mills, of Hamilton, Mont., was born. The struggle on behalf of her children during the few years after her husband's death taxed her frail body, which had never been strong, and during the succeeding years she was never in good health. Her health began to fail more rapidly almost three years ago and she took a more decided turn for the worse a year ago. For a long time she insisted on living in her own home on College avenue, but this was reluctantly given up October 12th, last, when she took up her home with her son, George H. Healey, with whom she has since lived and at whose home she died. Besides the three children mentioned in the obituary there are eight grandchildren, also one sister, Mrs. Mary Fawcett, of Delphi, who was at her bedside when the final summons came, and whom she recognized with a smile and a tender kiss, the last act of consciousness."
"Funeral of Mrs. Julia A. Healey will be Friday. - The funeral of Mrs. Julia A. Healey will be held Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock at the home of her son, George H. Healey, on Cullen Street. It will be conducted by Rev. W.G. Winn of the Christian Church. Burial will be in Weston Cemetery"
For more information see: https://genealogyhistorymystery.blogspot.com/2018/10/joshua-healey-and-julia-ann-howland.html
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