"Speak my name and I will live forever" – African proverb
CATHERINE BROWN CAVANAGH
Catherine Brown Cavanagh was the daughter of John Brown and Cecilia Palmer. She was born in Pittston, PA in August 1865 and had two older siblings, James J. Brown and Edward J. Brown. James J. Brown became a millionaire mining gold and copper in Colorado and married Margaret Tobin, from Hannibal, Missouri, the Titanic survivor who became known as "the Unsinkable Molly Brown."
Catherine married Thomas Cavanagh at St. John's Church in Pittston in September 1892. They had three children: Helen, James and Lawrence. Helen married Morris Owens O'Neill, from Arizona, who served with Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders at San Juan Hill in Cuba during the Spanish American War.
Catherine died in Scranton, PA, after a long illness marked by rheumatism. She was first a patient at the Dr. Reed Burns private hospital in Scranton (later called Mercy Hospital), then she was moved to the Hannick Sanatorium on Jefferson Ave, where she died. She was buried in St. John's Cemetery in Pittston.
CATHERINE BROWN CAVANAGH
Catherine Brown Cavanagh was the daughter of John Brown and Cecilia Palmer. She was born in Pittston, PA in August 1865 and had two older siblings, James J. Brown and Edward J. Brown. James J. Brown became a millionaire mining gold and copper in Colorado and married Margaret Tobin, from Hannibal, Missouri, the Titanic survivor who became known as "the Unsinkable Molly Brown."
Catherine married Thomas Cavanagh at St. John's Church in Pittston in September 1892. They had three children: Helen, James and Lawrence. Helen married Morris Owens O'Neill, from Arizona, who served with Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders at San Juan Hill in Cuba during the Spanish American War.
Catherine died in Scranton, PA, after a long illness marked by rheumatism. She was first a patient at the Dr. Reed Burns private hospital in Scranton (later called Mercy Hospital), then she was moved to the Hannick Sanatorium on Jefferson Ave, where she died. She was buried in St. John's Cemetery in Pittston.
"Speak my name and I will live forever" – African proverb
CATHERINE BROWN CAVANAGH
Catherine Brown Cavanagh was the daughter of John Brown and Cecilia Palmer. She was born in Pittston, PA in August 1865 and had two older siblings, James J. Brown and Edward J. Brown. James J. Brown became a millionaire mining gold and copper in Colorado and married Margaret Tobin, from Hannibal, Missouri, the Titanic survivor who became known as "the Unsinkable Molly Brown."
Catherine married Thomas Cavanagh at St. John's Church in Pittston in September 1892. They had three children: Helen, James and Lawrence. Helen married Morris Owens O'Neill, from Arizona, who served with Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders at San Juan Hill in Cuba during the Spanish American War.
Catherine died in Scranton, PA, after a long illness marked by rheumatism. She was first a patient at the Dr. Reed Burns private hospital in Scranton (later called Mercy Hospital), then she was moved to the Hannick Sanatorium on Jefferson Ave, where she died. She was buried in St. John's Cemetery in Pittston.
CATHERINE BROWN CAVANAGH
Catherine Brown Cavanagh was the daughter of John Brown and Cecilia Palmer. She was born in Pittston, PA in August 1865 and had two older siblings, James J. Brown and Edward J. Brown. James J. Brown became a millionaire mining gold and copper in Colorado and married Margaret Tobin, from Hannibal, Missouri, the Titanic survivor who became known as "the Unsinkable Molly Brown."
Catherine married Thomas Cavanagh at St. John's Church in Pittston in September 1892. They had three children: Helen, James and Lawrence. Helen married Morris Owens O'Neill, from Arizona, who served with Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders at San Juan Hill in Cuba during the Spanish American War.
Catherine died in Scranton, PA, after a long illness marked by rheumatism. She was first a patient at the Dr. Reed Burns private hospital in Scranton (later called Mercy Hospital), then she was moved to the Hannick Sanatorium on Jefferson Ave, where she died. She was buried in St. John's Cemetery in Pittston.
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