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(Carol Melo shows date of death as 9 January 1916 but death record confirms 10 January 1916.)

Mrs. Katherine Dooley died this morning at 10:15 o'clock at her home at 405 Rock street. She had been sick for the past three months. She was sixty-nine years old and had been a resident of Janesville for the past eleven years.
She leaves nine children, Mrs. John Meredith of Evansville; Mrs. Lyman Wood of Albany; Mrs. Edw. Keefe and Mrs. Frank Howard of this city, Edward and John of Albany, and Thomas, Frank and Paul Dooley of this city. She leaves a brother and six sisters. Notice of funeral will be given later.

Obituary in the Monticello Messenger, Wednesday, January 12, 1916, p1, c5:
Mrs. Patrick Dooly, for many years a well known and highly esteemed resident of this vicinity, but who of late years has made her home in Janesville, died at the family home in that city on Monday of this week. News of her death reached The Messenger this afternoon too late to ascertain further particulars, hence the briefness of this item. Her remains were brought to Albany for interment and the funeral was held this forenoon from the Catholic church of that village. A number of relatives from this vicinity were in attendance at the funeral.

Obituary in the Janesville Daily Gazette, 11 Jan 1916:
The funeral of the late Mrs. Katherine Dooley will be held at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning at St. Patrick's Catholic church. The remains will be interred in the Albany cemetery beside those of her husband.

Obituary in the Janesville Daily Gazette, 12 Jan 1916:
Funeral services over the remains of the late Mrs. Katherine Dooley were held this morning from St. Patrick's church at nine o'clock. Dean Reilly, Father Mahoney and Father Traus conducted the services. The body was taken to Albany on the morning train, where it will be laid to rest in the family lot. The pallbearers were six sons: Edward, Thomas, John, Frank, Paul Dooley and Frank Howard.

Death record shows cause of death chronic interstital nephritis.

Funeral at St. Patrick's Church, Janesville.

Will of Catherine Dooley, dated 20 Dec, 1915:
I, Catherine Dooley of the City of Janesville, Rock County Wisconsin, being of sound mind and memory and mindful of the uncertainties of human life, do hereby make, publish and declare this my last will and testament in manner following: hereby revoking all former wills, devises and bequests by me made:
First: After the payments of my just debts and funeral expenses, I give and devise all of my estate, both real and personal, to my children Ellen Wood, Adeline Meredith, Edward Dooley, Thomas Dooley, Agnes Howard, Catherine Keefe, John Dooley, Frank Dooley, Paul Dooley, and my grandchildren James Richards, Irene Richards, Mary Richards, Hazel Richards and Charles Richards, children of my daughter Mary Richards now deceased, and to each of them an undivided one tenth thereof, excepting said grand children who shall only take an undivided one tenth between them, it being my intention to give them the same share their mother would have taken, if living.
Second; I hereby nominate and appoint John Egan, of Janesville, Wisconsin, the Executor of this my last will and testament, and I direct that he be not required to give any bond or security for the faithful discharge of said trust, and I hereby authorize and empower him to sell all ofmy said real estate at the best price possible, and to execute and deliver all deeds necesssary to convey the same, and to divide and pay over the proceeds of the sale among my children and grand children as herein provided, after the payment of debts and administration.
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 20th day of December 1915.
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Catherine X Dooley (Seal)
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The above instrument was on this 20th day of December 1915, signed, sealed,published and declard by Catherine Dooley to be her last will and testament, in the presence of us, who at her request, and in her presence and in the presence each of the other have signed our names herto as attesting witnesses.
E. P. Hughes Residence, Janesville, Wis.
F. C. Burpee Residence, Janesville, Wis.

Petition dated 15 Jan 1916 shows the estimated value of real estate of $4000, no personal estate and debts of $400. It lists the same heirs as the will and shows the Richards children residing in River Falls, Wisconsin.
Inventory dated 28 Feb 1916 lists: Twenty feet off the North edn of Lot four (4) in Block two (2) of Rockport, and all of the unnumbered Lot lying immediately North of Lots four (4) and five (5) in said Block, all in the City of Janesville, Wisconsin -- value $2000.
The South half of the South West quarter of Lot number twenty (20) of Mitchells Addition to Janesville, according to the recorded plat of the same -- value of $1800.
Total value $3800.
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Obituary in the Janesville Daily Gazette, Wednesday, March 7, 1900:
After several weeks of patient suffering Mrs. Thomas Dooly of the town of Spring Valley, closer her eyes in death Tuesday at 11 p.m., aged fifty-one years. Deceased was a sufferer from a complication of diseases, but the direct cause of her dath was dropsy. Besides a husband she leaves six children to mourn the loss of a kind and devoted wife and mother. Also a sister, Mrs. Alice Murray of Edgerton, and two brothers, James and Nicholas Young, both of the town of Center. The funeral will be held at 10 a.m. Friday from St. Augustine's church, Footville. Interment in Mount Olivet cemetery.
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Note of Carol Hevey Melo; Mary Elizabeth Croke was born on March 19, 1853 in New York. She was the third child of nine children that Jeffrey Croke and Bridget Jenkins Croke had. Her parents migrated to Wisconsin at an unknown time. But due to the fact that her sister, Josephine, was born in New York in 1854 and brother, Edward, was born in Wisconsin in 1857, one would assume they came between 1854 and 1857. The Corke's settled in the Albany, Footville, Brodhead area. They were with other Crokes. The spelling of the families in the Croak settlement as it came to be know were such; Croke, Croak, Croake. Any of these spellings would pass as family memebers. After Mary married John Dooley, the rest of the 8 children migrated to Beloit, Kansas. We have knowledge of Mary visiting her family in Kansas by Mary Ellen Dooley Stack's telling her granddaughter CArol Hevey Melo of her trip as a baby to Kansas. As the story goes, Mary Ellen was still a nursing child and Mother Mary Elizabeth travelled alone with baby Mary Ellen to see her parents. This trip would have to have been somewhere after 1881 and before 1883 when the next baby was born. The Croke's did keep in touch with the Dooley's back in Wisconsin but there is not much that a person can research about them here in Wisconsin. Funeral card gives the dates of Jeffrey and Mary's death dates. It is presumed they were buried in Beloit, Kansas.
Mary Elizabeth Dooley mothered 12 children. She was an excellent mother. She died in Chicago, in April, 1925. She was buried in Janesville, WI at the Mt. Olivet Catholic Cemetery.

Date shown comes from Carol Melo; Betty Martin shows just "1852" as date of birth, which she assumes from the Federal Census of Albany Twp, Green Co., July 21, 1860 which records Mary, dau of Jeffrey and Bridget Croak, age 8, born in New York.

Funeral notice (source unknown but from notes of Carol Melo):
Mrs. Mary E. Dooley widow of John Dooley, died Thursday afternoon at the home of her daughter, Mrs. F. W. Menne, Chicago, after a lingering illness. She is survived by nine children, John Dooley, Mrs. James Stack, and Mrs. Harry Townsend, Mrs. Catherine Bidwell, Mrs. J. J. Griffin, Mrs. F. W. Menne, Mrs. Peter Garry, Mrs. John Murphy, and Arthur Dooley. The body will arrive in Janesville at 6:45 Friday and will be taken to the home of her son John Dooley, 619 Benton AVe. The funeral will be held at 9:30 Monday morning at St. Mary's Church. The Rev. Father Croke, Chicago, formerly of Denver, Colo., a relative of Mrs. Dooley, will officiate. Burial will be at Mt. Olivet cemetery, Janesville, WI.
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