The Anaconda Standard, 24 December 1902
(Montana)

COINCIDENCE IN DEATHS
WOMAN TWICE A WIDOW IN FOUR YEARS TO A DAY
FIRST HUSBAND WAS KILLED
Mrs. William Meager of Meaderville Buried Husband on Dec. 23, 1898, and Yesterday Laid Second Spouse Away.
To bury two husbands within four years to a day is the singularly coincidental experience of Mrs. William Meager of Meaderville. On Dec. 23, 1898, Frederick H. Huxhan, who was the first husband, was laid to rest and yesterday William Meagher, the second husband, was buried. The first husband died a violent death, and the second husband passed away after a short illness.
Frederick Huxhan was employed as a miner at the Gray Rock mine and was killed as a result of a fall of rock. He was survived by a widow and one child. Some time later Mrs. Huxhan became the wife of William Meagher, an Englishman by birth and a blacksmith by trade. He was a widower with children. The family lived in Meaderville and everything went smoothly until a short time ago, when Meager became ill. It was not thought that his condition was serious, but alarming symptoms suddenly developed, with the result that Meager passed away on Sunday morning. Meagher was born in Sithney, Cornwall, England, in December, 1864. He is survived by his wife, two children and a step child in Butte and four children in England.
The funeral of Meager took place yesterday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Methodist Episcopal church in Meaderville. Services were conducted by the Rev. C. D. Crouch and a double male quartet sang the funeral hymns. The interment was at Mt. Moriah cemetery. The pallbearers were Thomas Hear, Thomas Jenkins, Thomas Dunstan, Frank Reynolds, Joseph Mitchell and William Wills.

Contributed by Bob Bolitho