Our quiet little village was shocked again Monday night when it became known that Mrs. Ed Hurley had been found dead on the streets.
Paul Crandall started up town about seven o'clock and at the corner of the house he found her lying on her back with her head toward the west. He went into the house and told the folks who called a doctor, but of course nothing could be done as she was already dead. The coroner was called and after examining the body and getting all the evidence he could, he decided an inquest was not necessary. He and Dr. Hemphill, who had been called, decided it was a case of heart failure or apoplexy. [Dr. Hemphill was the husband of Ed Hurley's sister Cora]
The position of the body and the fact that there was no evidence of a struggle of any kind prove that she dropped dead, evidently suffering no pain and receiving no warning.
Mary Evelyn Kidder Hurley was born near Milton Junction, Wisconsin, April 16, 1868, and died of heart failure in this village Monday night, October 14, 1912, aged about forty four and one half years.
In 1895 she was married to Frank Hall, who died in 1905. To this union were born four children, three girls and one boy, all of whom survive her.
In June 1910 she was married to Ed Hurley, and about a year later she, with her husband and his children and her children came to this village and here her home had been. Here, too, she was well and favorably known especially among the S.D.B. people with whom she identified herself by becoming a member soon after coming here. She was a woman of more than ordinary executive ability--one who made a success of whatever she undertook, and who made friends of all with whom she had to do because of her good nature and helpfulness.
When a girl she became a member of the Congregational church at Milton, and of this organization she was an active faithful member till she transferred her membership to the S.D.B. church at this place.
Short services were held at the house Tuesday afternoon conducted by her pastor, Rev. Geo. B. Shaw.
The body was taken to Johnstown, Wisconsin, where it will be buried by the side of her relatives and her first husband. Mr. Hurley and her daughters accompanied the body, Gregory being already in Wisconsin.
