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ISAAC DOUGHTY
[Welland Tribune, 15 February 1895]
We have this week the sad duty of recording the sudden and unexpected death of Mr. Issac Doughty of this town. Mr. Doughty was in his usual good health on Saturday last, when he took a load of ashes out to Chandler Bros. potash works, Pelham, intending to bring back a load of wood. It was noticed by Mr. S.P. Bowman, near whose place he was getting the wood, that something was wrong. A closer inspection showed that Mr. Doughty had undoubtedly suffered a stroke of paralysis, as one side was completely paralyzed. Deceased was then sensible, but entirely helpless. He was taken to Mr. Bowman’s house, ministered to and later conveyed to his own home, Welland, where he quietly passed to rest on Sunday morning, at the age of 63 years.
Deceased leaves a widow (Mary Ryckman), two daughters and one son. He was formerly a well-to-do farmer in Moulton, but after moving to Welland one misfortune after another befell him until his afflictions almost parallel those recorded of Job in Holy Writ. First, one daughter, a bright young girl, died of consumption, then the eldest daughter was attacked with pneumonia, lay for weeks her life despaired of, and although still living, is an invalid; next and most terrible of all, was the loss of another promising young girl, burned in an accident with firecrackers so that death ensued after weeks of suffering. As if this were not enough Mr. Doughty lost his job on the canal because his politics did not suit the Tory machine, and now is this final dispensation by which the head of the family is removed. The case is certainly one deserving the warm sympathy and ready neighborliness of the community.
Mr. Doughty’s funeral took place on Wednesday, services by Rev. C.J. Dobson of the Methodist church, of which deceased was a member, and interment at Fonthill cemetery.
Died: 10 February 1895
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