FM Haughey Obituary

From a newspaper obituary published at the time of Francis Marion Haughey's death

In Memoriam – Serg. Francis M. Haughey

The funeral of Sergeant Francis M. Haughey was held from the Congregational church in Craig Thursday afternoon, the body having arrived from Marysvale, Utah, where Mr. Haughey died on the morning of February 14^th. Rev Hullinger had charge of the services.

Mr. Haughey had been working at his mining properties some eight miles in the mountains from Marysvale, Utah, and during the unusually cold weather both his feet had been frozen, occasioning great pain. Otherwise he had been in excellent health for one of his age. He walked to Marysvale for treatment, but owing to the condition of his feet it took him eight hours to make the trip. Shortly after arriving at the hotel he was taken suddenly and violently ill on Saturday. Feb 12^th, passed away on the 14^th, the doctors announcing that his death had occurred from inflammation of the bowels.

With his passing Routt county loses another of its earliest pioneers and the nation one of its brave defenders of the 60’s.

Francis Marion Haughey was born January 28, 1835, in Ashland county, Ohio. On September 10, 1857, he was married to Isabella A. Leathers at Reedsburg, Ohio. To them were born ten children of whom there are living; Robert L. Haughey of Eureka, Cal., Mrs. Hannah J. Anderson of Marietta, Kans., Mrs. Melissa Young of Leadville, Jacob and William Haughey of Portland, Ore., and Oliver, Edwin and Maude Haughey and Mrs. Ossa Cooper of Craig, Colo. Only one is deceased, Grant M. Haughey, the most popular clerk the county has ever had, and who died while an incumbent of the office in 1908.

At the outbreak of the Civil War, F. M. Haughey joined the 45^th Indiana Reg. [Ed. note: it was the 44th Indiana], but was taken sick with typhoid and sent home. On his recovery he entered the 1^st Reg. Mississippi Marine Brigade, with which he made an excellent record, serving until the close of the war. On January 20, 1863, he was advanced to sergeant in this regiment.

After the close of the war the family moved from Ohio to Indiana and later to Stewart, Iowa, from which place they came to Routt county in 1886. Previous to this last move, in 1879, Mr. Haughey accompanied by Robert Haughey, went to Leadville during the mining excitement at that camp, and in 1884 he came to this part of the state in company with a Mr. Moulter. They came in March before the opening of spring, and were compelled to travel with snowshoes, bringing the baggage on a hand sled. Mr. Haughey located the homestead near Craig where his wife still lives, using his soldier’s right in taking up the land. The relinquishment to this land was purchased from Mr. Callicotte, who was in Craig a few days ago as an official of the state humane society. For several years he remained a citizen of this place holding a number of minor offices. At one time he served a term as postmaster at Craig in the early days of the office.

For the past seventeen or eighteen years he has been interested in ten or twelve mining claims which he located near Marysvale, Utah, and which he had just placed in position to commence shipping ore when death called him. His son, Robert, was at once apprised of his father’s death by telegram and took charge of the body as soon as possible, bringing it to Craig where it was interred in Fairview cemetery, on the land the pioneer had homesteaded 26 years before.

Peace be to the ashes of the man who guarded his country’s flag in its greatest contest for existence, and then carried the banner of progress and civilization into the remote wilderness of the west. Of such brawn and muscle and brain was the west built, and ever will its effects be felt in a freedom unknown to other lands.