Lawrence McMahon died

“Dr. Welch of Norfolk” was the attending physician, and he was present at McMahon’s death.

1. Lawrence McMahon traveled from Hartford to Saratoga for his health on August 15, 1893, but he stopped in Lakeville for a break.
2. Over the next four days, McMahon grew progressively worse.
3. William Maher sailed from New York on the Fulda on August 18, 1893, in order to meet John McMahon in Rome and to then escort him back to the US.
4. Last night, August 20, 1893, the Courant reported that it was said that McMahon “had been in feeble health for six months or a year.”
5. Also last night, Andrew Harty could not say what had caused McMahon’s death.

1. McMahon took a serious turn for the worse this afternoon, at which point the people with him became alarmed.
2. Rose McMahon arrived in Lakeville at 6:00 PM, after being summoned from Hartford in the afternoon.
3. McMahon received Last Rites before he died.
4. William A. Harty left Hartford for Lakeville on the 10:25 PM train. He will take charge of McMahon’s body and arrange to have it transported to Hartford.

Walter J. Shanley will travel to Hartford from Lakeville on the night express train.

1. “He was conscious up to the last moment and his death was as peaceful as a child’s.”
2. “The news of Bishop McMahon’s death will be received in Hartford this morning with genuine surprise, as his illness was known to but very few and no one supposed that he was dangerously sick."

1. Rose McMahon was Lawrence McMahon’s sister.
2. Walter J. Shanley was a priest in Hartford.
3. T. F. Bannon and M. J. O’Connor were priests in Lakeville.
4. William Maher was a priest.
5. John McMahon was Lawrence McMahon’s brother and a priest in Charlestown, MA. He was in Rome for unknown reasons, and he was very sick there.

Unattributed.  “Bishop M’Mahon dead,” Hartford Courant, August 22, 1893, page 1.