Died on the 6th of August, at his boarding-house No. 673, Third Avenue, New York, of cholerasic disease, PATRICK M. McGRAW, after a few hours sickness. Thus in the very prime of like and the vigor of young manhood, aged about 25 years, has our young friend been removed from earth. The manly and honorable bearing of the deceased had endeared him to a large circle of admiring and warm friends, who are deeply grieved at this affliction, and who sincerely sympathize with his bereaved Mother and relations in their loss. It is a great consolation to know that in the hour and article of death, our young friend had the truest and kindest attentions of many warm friends, and the solaces of Religion and the administration of all the rights of the church by a loving pastor.
A. M. K.
[In connection with this tribute to the deceased, we deem it proper to state that his uncle, Mr. Jas. McGraw, went on from Harper’s Ferry to New York, to see to the proper interment of the remains. At his request we publish the following certificate from the priest who attended Mr. P. M. McGraw in his last illness:]
NEW YORK, Aug. 8, 1867.
This is to certify that Patrick M. McGraw, died of cholera in New York, and that before dying he was provided with the Sacraments of the church.
He was buried in the Catholic Cemetery of Calvary.
Pastor of M. Boniface, N. Y. City.
