The Tuam Herald, Saturday, April 17, 1909 Tuam, Co Galway FUNERAL OF MISS TULLY. Last week we announced with deep regret the death at Cambridge of Miss Anne Christina Tully, youngest surviving daughter of the late Jeremiah Tully, Esq. of Thornhill, and the Grove, Tuam, and Eyre Square, Galway, and granddaughter of Martin Joseph Kirwan, Esq. of Curraghan, who, fortified by the rites of the Catholic Church, breathed her last on last Monday week. Miss Tully was born at Thornhill, afterwards called Kilcloghaus (?), near this town, in 1852, and was in her 57th year. The deceased lady was held in the highest esteem by all classes and creeds in Cambridge, particularly among the Catholic community there, where her charity, her desire to do good, and her unvarying kindness were most manifested and best known. At the funeral and at the graveside on Wednesday the attendance showed the universal respect entertained for her in the town and by the members of the University. The remains were taken to the Catholic church on Tuesday night and lay there before the High Altar all night with lighted candles around the coffin until Wednesday morning, when Solemn High Mass de requiem was celebrated by Canon Scott. The funeral took place immediately after to the Mill Road cemetery, attended by a numerous cortege. The prayers at the graveside were said by the Rev Andrew K____ Among those who attended or who sent wreaths were; -- Mrs. J. P. Taylor (sister), Frank Leyburn Parker, George Tully Christie, B. L.; Mercyn (?) Irvine (nephews); Mrs. Walker, Mrs. Whitbread, chief mourners; Mrs. E_______ Smith (?), Mrs. Johnson, Miss MacKenxie, Miss King, Mrs Baker Smith, Mrs. Herbert Pigg, Mrs. Grinston, Mrs. Kennedy, Mr. and Mrs. Hill, Mr. Rogers, Colonel Sherlock, Mrs. Flanagan, Mrs. Hurrell, Mr. and Mrs. Woods, Miss Harris (Downing College), Mr. and Mrs. Phipps (Clare College), Mrs. Chapman, Miss Speechley, Mrs. Dickerson, Mrs. Hill, Mrs. Searle. The Misses Simmons, Mrs. Fromond, Mrs. Hillard, etc. Among those who sent letters or flowers are H.E.the Baroness de Hugel, Mr. J. Image (Trinity), Miss Mackenzie (Newnharu ?? College), Mrs. Whitbread, Mrs. Crampton, Mrs. Kennedy, Miss Schiller-Z_____, Miss ffrench. The coffin, which was covered with wreaths, bore the inscription : - "Anne Christina Tully, Died April 5, 1909, Aged 57, R. I. P. Jim McNamara British Isles Family History Society - USA, Newsletter Editor http://www.rootsweb.com/~bifhsusa