Feb 14 1885
Died on Her Wedding Day
Willam Duffy and Miss Mary McCrystal, sister of Dr. McCrystal, were married at St. Mary's Catholic Church, Minersville, at six o'clock Sunday evening. The wedding was the fashionable event of the season. The couple held a reception until midnight. The bride complained of feeling badly all day, and at two o'clock Monday morning the young husband startled the household by announcing her serious illness. A doctor, on arriving, said that the case was hopeless, and the priest who but a few hours before had pronounced the benediction at the completion of the wedding ceremony was called to administer absolution. She died at five o'clock Monday morning, of paralysis of the heart.
How sad this is! She was married only 11 hours before she died.
