Catherine Carberry
May 28, 1823-Feb. 1, 1909
Niles Daily Sun, Monday, February 1, 1909, page 3, col. 2, microfilm Niles District Library
MRS. CARBERRY DEAD
Aged Woman Was Immate Of Cass County House
Mrs. Catherine Carberry, an aged and very eccentric resident of Howard township, who since last July had been an immate[sic] of the Cass county poor house at Cassopolis died at 4 o'clock Sunday morning.
The remains will be brought to Niles tomorrow by Undertaker Paul Skalla who goes to Cassopolis for the body. The funeral services will probably be held at the undertaking rooms with the interment at Silver Brook where the Carberry family lot is marked by one of the very best monuments . .
Mrs. Carberry was 86 years old.
Her commitment to the county house last summer followed the destruction of the house and barns on her farm east of Niles under peculiar circumstances that seemed to point unquestionably to the old lady as the incendiary.
She had become morose and very hard to manage on account of her pevishness[sic] and neglect of her person and the question of removing her to the county house was under consideration, but to this arrangement she strenuously objected.
The night before she was to be taken away the buildings were burned to the ground. It was unmistably[sic] of incendiary origin and almost as unmistakably this aged woman's work.
The property belonged to Mrs. Carberry but she had given a deed of it to her youngest sister, Mrs. Charles Soule with whom she made her home.
The deceased leaves no children. Her husband died several years ago.