|
| You are here: Cambria > Obituaries > MALEY, Sarah Agnes |
 |
 |
|
| Obituary Index MALEY, Sarah Agnes |
|
| SOURCE NOTATION: |
| Johnstown Weekly Tribune, 30 Aug 1907, Page 1, Contributed by Kerry L. Miller |
| DIED A VICTIM OF MAN’S DECEIPT A Broken Heart Caused the Death of Sarah Maley END CAME AT HOSPITAL By Base Falsehood Was Led to Wed Man Already Married, Who Swore Before Bishop That He Never Had Another Wife--Young Woman Was Highly Esteemed by Wide Circle. Miss Sarah Agnes Maley, daughter of Patrick and Alice Andrews Maley of No. 176 Peelor street, Thirteenth Ward, died between 10 and 11 o'clock Tuesday night at Memorial Hospital, where she was taken on Monday to undergo treatment for illness brought on, it is said by, her relatives and friends, through worry over her unfortunate marriage at Altoona last February to Frederick W. Brenneman, of Pottsville, a man already married, who had been posing in Johnstown as single. The young woman was in her twenty-seventh year. Miss Maley, who was highly esteemed by every one who knew her, last winter obtained the consent of her parents to marry Brenneman, who told the girl that he never had been married. Miss Maley heard that he had been and before she consented to become his wife she had him accompany her to Altoona, where Brenneman took an oath before the Bishop that he was unmarried. He also agreed to become affiliated with the Catholic Church. The ceremony was later performed by the Rev. Father Giblin, but it was not until some months later that the marriage was made public, and then at the urgent request of the Johnstown girl. For a while after their marriage the young pair resided at Cresson. In the meantime Brenneman's first wife at Pottsville learned of the marriage and had a warrant issued charging him with desertion and non-support. It was the intention of Brenneman and the Johnstown girl who thought herself his legal wife to leave Cresson for California to make their future home, and a few hours after stopping her en route to the West Brenneman was picked up by the Johnstown police on the warrant issued by his legal wife at Pottsville. Brenneman and Miss Maley were to have started for the Golden Gate State on the day the former was taken back to Schuylkill County in charge of an officer and his wife. How Brenneman got out of his trouble at Pottsville was never learned here. A month or two after being taken away from Johnstown he wrote back to Miss Maley and tried to persuade her to join him in Los Angeles. This letter was turned over to Chief of Police Mullen by Miss Maley, who would have nothing more to do with the man who had deceived her. Other letters have since arrived at the Maley home, but they were returned to the writer without being opened. Miss Maley had been confined to her room since she learned the truth as to her deception, and her relatives say she simply died of a broken heart. The deceased was born in the Tenth Ward, this city, on September 5, 1880, and attended St. John's parochial schools until a few years after the Great Flood of 1889. She was a life-long member of St. John's Church, having been confirmed by the late Bishop Richard Phelan when the edifice stood at the corner of Jackson and Locust streets. She is survived by her parents and these brothers and sisters: Margaret, wife of A. S. Bittleman, of the Thirteenth Ward; Mary, wife of John Jacoby, also of the Thirteenth Ward; Annie, wife of Terrance Boylan, of the Sixteenth Ward; William and Thomas Maley, of South Sharon, and Edward, of the Tenth Ward. The funeral will take place at 9 o'clock this morning from St. John's Catholic Church, where a mass of requiem will be said. Interment will be made in Lower Yoder Cemetery. |
|