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CECILIA BATTLE
[The Welland Tribune and Telegraph, 10 March 1921]
In the death of Cecilia Battle, widow of the late John battle, at her residence 118 Wentworth street south, Hamilton, Tuesday (March 1st). Thorold has lost another old, highly-esteemed resident. Mrs. Battle, who had reached the advanced age of 84 years. Was up to within ten days of her death, in her usual enjoyment of health, when heart trouble set in, and despite all that medical skill and kind nursing could do, the end came.
She was in her last moments surrounded by the members of her family, and passed away after a long and useful life, fortified by the rites of her church, of which she had been a lifelong and devoted member, being for over thirty years a daily attendant at the mass, and a daily communicant.
Mrs. Battle, with her late husband, settled in Thorold some seventy years ago, and since her removal from town, twenty years ago, she has been a yearly visitor for a month or so each year, visiting her sons. During her long residence here, she was noted for her generosity and charity, and the poor of Thorold of former days were always sure of help from her hands. To the present day incidents are related to her kind and charitable acts. In her own family she was cherished and reverenced, receiving that deference and love which her years, her qualities, and her efforts for their welfare, so richly deserved.
She was the daughter of Patrick and Margaret (Macdonald) Cullen of St. Catharines, and was the last surviving member of that family.
She is survived by the following family: Matthew, St. Catharines; David, Joseph, James, Thorold; Martin and Cecilia, Hamilton; Richard J., Buffalo; P. Sarsfield, New York; Thomas F., Niagara Falls (Ont). One son, John, for many years collector of customs at Thorold and Merritton, and one daughter, Mrs. Thomas Merritt, died some time ago.
The remains arrived from Hamilton (Thursday) morning, March 3, and the funeral was held Friday morning at 9.30 from the residence of her son, James, to the R.C. church.
The solemn high requiem mass was said by her grandson, the Rev. Father Battle, of St. Mary’s Church, Toronto, the Rev. Monsignor Sullivan, pastor of Thorold, being the deacon, and Rev. Father O’Neill, pastor of Port Dalhousie being the sub-deacon, and Rev. Father O’Neal, curate of Thorold, being the Master of Ceremonies. The church was filled with sympathizing friends, some two hundred pupils of the Thorold Separate School being present-as a mark of respect to the deceased-as she and her husband, the late John Battle, were generous contributors of funds towards the erection of the school building and her son, David Battle has been for forty (40) years a member of the School Board and for many years its chairman.
Six (6) of her sons acted as her pallbearers and as the mass began the sun came out brightly and shone through the three (3) handsome stained glass windows- over the main altar-the windows that she presented to the church some years ago..
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