McLelland, Anna 1803-1885

MCLELLAND

Posted By: S. Ferrall - IAGenWeb volunteer
Date: 11/23/2003 at 02:50:35

DIED. At her home in Grand Meadow twp., Clayton co. March 27th, 1885, Mrs. Anna McLELLAND, aged 82 years.

Mrs. Anna McLELLAND, deceased, was born in New York, 1803. She was married to R.J. McLELLAND at her father's residence in Victor, Ontario co. November 3rd, 1822.

They moved to Royalton, Niagera county, a place 6 miles east of Loackport, the country being all new and heavily timbered, where they lived 33 years, and had 6 children, 3 of whom are now dead.

They moved to Grand Meadow twp, June 6th, 1856 and have lived on the NE 1/4 of section 16, up to the present time.

She has been, all her married life, a sincere, professed Christian, doing all she could to make her family happy, and doing good to her neighbors. She was all her life a most industrious worker, until her strength was all gone and she was laid down, not able to speak a word, lay all night entirely still, and was found in bed in the morning dead.

The funeral was held from the M.E. church last Sunday afternoon, and the remains were interred in the Postville cemetery.

source: Postville Review (Allamakee co.)
April 4, 1885

Note: If there was a gravestone marking the McLelland lot in the Postville cemetery, it is no longer extant. Her husband R.J. & son W.H.S. 'Seward' McLelland are also buried in the lot, possibly with other family members. Click these links to their obits:

McLELLAND, R. J. died 1889
http://iagenweb.org/boards/allamakee/obituaries/index.cgi?review=416837

McLELLAND, W.H.S. 'Seward' died 1877
http://iagenweb.org/boards/allamakee/obituaries/index.cgi?review=347278