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Quigley Family
New Extension Table
1858
08 19 To the citizens of
Watertown and all others who may have an opportunity to comply with the same, a
general invitation is extended by the undersigned, to call at his Furniture
Ware Rooms, west side of the river, where he will be happy to exhibit his new
Extension Table – patented last April.
Come one, come all, and see something new under the sun. Yours Respectfully, Michael Quigley. WD
09 16 Advertisement, Furniture Ware Rooms. Ready-made Coffins. Hearse to attend funerals in town and
country. WD
10 21 Watertown was very
creditably represented at the State Fair which was recently held at
Madison. Mr. Michael Quigley’s newly
invented and patented Badger State Table excited a good deal of interest and
curiosity, and as a piece of ingenious and simple mechanism, was admired by all
for its convenience and usefulness. WD
1876
05 31 Hughie, son of Mr. and Mrs. Michael
Quigley, aged 12 years, was drowned in the river
just below the dam last Sunday afternoon about
With two
other boys, Hughie was swimming around on a plank and fell off into the deep
and treacherous hole in the river and drowned before assistance could be
rendered him.
The
place where young Quigley met his death has proved the watery grave of some
sixteen persons. It is midway in the river, about 200 feet below the dam. All
around it the water is so shallow that boys can wade with ease, but the descent
into water twenty or thirty feet deep is so sudden and unexpected, that unless
the adventurer is on his guard and is a good swimmer, he drowns.
It
seemed long since that sufficient warning bad been given persons to keep away
from this treacherous and deadly spot, but it appears that the fate of many
victims has taught no lesson, and each season this hole must reap its harvester
death. Let us hope, however, that we have chronicled the last sad case of
drowning in these treacherous waters, and that the melancholy fate of young
Hughie will be a warning to other boys for many a long year.
In
this terrible bereavement Mr. and Mrs. Quigley have the sympathy of our entire
community. This blow falls upon them
with additional severity, as Hughie is the third child taken from them by
accident. Their oldest son fell a victim to the fiery fiend in the great
Chicago fire. A few years later a bright and promising little fellow fell from
a window and was instantly killed, and now their boy Hughie meets a watery
grave. Surely these are bereavements enough to crush any parents, and the few
words of comfort we offer them can do but little good towards sustaining them
under such trials.
A
painful feature of this very sad affair is, that notwithstanding every effort
has been made, the body of young Quigley has not been found up to the hour of
going to press. The supposition is that the body has floated down stream. Watertown
Republican, 05 31 1876
