COURIER JOURNAL OBITUARY – 06/30/1903 – SHELBYVILLE, KY
MRS. M.L. DUBOURG DEAD - WIFE OF A SHELBYVILLE FLORIST AND FORMER LOUISVILLE WOMAN
Mrs. Margaret Dorothy Howe Dubourg, wife of Mr. M.L. Dubourg, the well-known City Councilman and florist, died at 5:20 o'clock this morning [June 29, 1903] of sarcoma, after an illness of two and a half years duration. She was in the fifty-third year of her age, and was a member of the Catholic church. Her loss is sincerely mourned by the community, especially by the many who had been the recipients of her bounty and kindly benefactions. Mrs. Dubourg, who was before her marriage a Miss Howe, of Louisville, was well known there, where she had an extremely large family connection. She is survived, besides her husband, by three children, a son, A.W. Dubourg, and two daughters, Mrs. C.J. Sullivan and Miss Alice Dubourg. The funeral services will be conducted at 9:30 o'clock Wednesday morning at the Catholic church by the rector Father J.J. Fitzgerald, after which the interment will be in Grove Hill Cemetery.

KENTUCKY IRISH AMERICAN OBITUARY – 07/04/1903
Mrs. M.L. Dubourg, wife of one of Shelbyville’s popular Councilmen, died early Monday morning [June 29, 1903]. Mrs. Dubourg was fifty-three years old and was a devout Catholic and very charitable woman. Before her marriage she was Miss Margaret Dorothy Howe, of Louisville. She leaves a husband, two daughters and one son. They are Mrs. C.J. Sullivan, Miss Alice Dubourg and A.W. Dubourg. The funeral took place from the Catholic church at Shelbyville, Wednesday morning. The Rev. Father Fitzgerald officiated.

SHELBY NEWS OBITUARY – 07/02/1903
MRS. M.L. DUBOURG IS GATHERED TO HER ETERNAL HOME AFTER MANY MONTHS OF SUFFERING
After many, many months of weary and intense suffering, the beautiful spirit of Mrs. Margaret Dorothy Howe Dubourg, wife of Mr. M.L. Dubourg, the well known florist and Councilman from the Fourth ward, was gathered into her celestial home last Monday morning [June 29, 1903] at 5:20 o'clock, surrounded by loving hearts, who had labored indefatigably to administer to her comfort and stay the inexorable call of the Grim Reaper to summon to her eternal home an affectionate wife and devoted mother. Mrs. Dubourg's decline dates from the death of her youngest daughter, which occurred on January 27, 1901, since which she had rarely left the portals of her home, and for the major part of the subsequent time was confined to her bed. Her condition, which was recognized as hopeless almost from the outset, was not regarded as extremely critical until about a week before her death, when she began to fall rapidly, her vitality no longer being able to withstand the continued ravages of her ailment, which was diagnosed as and proved to be dread sarcoma. During her long illness, Mrs. Dubourg suffered excruciatingly, but never a murmur escaped her, and the truly beautiful resignation and Christian fortitude she displayed was most remarkable and attested the fact that she had placed her whole trust in God and was cheerfully obedient to His will. Even when the shadow of death encompassed her pain-racked form she spoke encouragingly to her loved ones and strongly insisted that she was ready and eager to enter the abode in the Great Beyond prepared by the Master she had served so long and faithfully, and lovingly entreated them not to grieve for her after her poor frail body had been gathered to its parent dust. Mrs. Dubourg led an ideal and beautiful life and her demise was a beautiful exemplification of the passing of a noble Christian woman, whose example is worthy of the highest emulation. Possessed of many beautiful and lovely traits of character, she endeared herself to all with whom she came in contact and it can be truly said of her that her mission in life was but to further the glory of God. A true and consistent Christian, she was a most devoted and faithful member of the Catholic church, strongly mindful of and obedient to its ordinances and precepts, and it is a source of extreme gratification to the bereaved ones, as well as her host of friends and acquaintances, that she passed away fortified with all the rites of the church she so loved and assiduously served. Mrs. Dubourg was in the fifty-third year of her age, having been born in Buffalo, NY, September 12, 1850. When she was quite young, her parents moved to Louisville, where she resided continuously until 1886, when with her family, she came to Shelby County, and after a few years' residence in the Burk's Branch neighborhood came to Shelbyville, where she had lived ever since. She was married to Mr. M.L. Dubourg thirty-seven years ago, besides whom she leaves three children – two daughters, Mrs. Cornelius J. Sullivan, Miss Alyce E. Dubourg, and one son, Mr. Achilles W. Dubourg; her mother, Mrs. Margaret Kempf, and three brothers, Messrs. Frank, John & Theodore Howe, of Louisville, who have the boundless sympathy of the entire community in their sore bereavement occasioned by the irreparable loss they have sustained. Many others will miss her kindly attentions and benefactions, as she was by reason of her lovely and charitable nature, indeed a friend of the poor and needy. The funeral services were conducted at the Catholic Church by Rev. Father J.J. Fitzgerald yesterday morning at 8:30 o'clock, the sacred edifice being filled from chancel to vestibule and taxed to its utmost to contain the great number who had come out to pay the last tribute of respect to this truly good woman. Father Fitzgerald, who had known her for many years, delivered a beautiful panegyric touching upon her many virtues, which impressed all present. Her remains were then followed by a large concourse to Grove Hill Cemetery, where they were interred in the family lot beside her daughter, who preceded her two and one-half years ago. A wealth and profusion of beautiful and costly floral designs, which testified mutely the high esteem in which she was held, were in evidence at the last sad rites and the new made mound was literally embowered by the abundance of flowers. May her soul rest in eternal peace.

SENTINEL NEWS OBITUARY – July, 1903
Mrs. Margaret Howe Dubourg, wife of Mr. M.L. Dubourg, died at the family residence on West Main Street at 5:15 o'clock last Monday morning [June 29, 1903], in the 53rd year of her age. Mrs. Dubourg was a native of New York, but when quite a child removed with her parents to Louisville, where she and her husband were married, and from where they removed to this county about twenty years ago. She had been in declining health for several years, and had been fatally so for several weeks preceding her death. Mrs. Dubourg was a good woman in all the term implies – a kind neighbor, devoted wife, mother and friend, and a devout member of the Catholic Church. Besides her husband, she is survived by three children – Mr. A.W. Dubourg, Mrs. Con Sullivan and Miss Alice Dubourg, all of Shelbyville. The funeral took place from the Church of the Immaculate Conception at 9:30 o'clock Wednesday morning. The services were conducted by the pastor, Rev. J.J. Fitzgerald, and the interment was in the family lot in Grove Hill Cemetery. Among those who attended the funeral were: Mrs. Margaret Kempf, Mrs. Henry Garr, Mrs. Frank Dubourg, Mrs. Gast, Mrs. Fraas, Misses Maggie & Gertrude Howe, Mr. & Mrs. Henry Dubourg, Messrs. John, Frank & Theodore Howe, Dave Dubourg, John & Achilles Lewis and John Howe Jr. of Louisville, Prof. H. Von Wahide, of Newport, Miss Nell O'Connor, of Chicago, IL, and Mrs. Miles J. Williams, of Eminence.