McBride, John W. 1860 - 1949

MCBRIDE, JEFFERS, OWEN, OWENS, FOXWORTHY, DINIUS

Posted By: Reid R. Johnson (email)
Date: 8/5/2021 at 20:31:24

Clayton County Register, Thur., 23 June 1949.

Funeral services for John W. McBride, 89, were held at the Witt funeral chapel at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon, June 17. The Rev. Paul Kitterer of the Peace Evangelical and Reformed church of Elkader officiated. The body was taken to Red Oak, Iowa, Saturday, where burial services were held Monday afternoon.

Mr. McBride died at his farm home in Cox Creek township Wednesday, June 15. He had been in failing health for the past year. Death was due to the infirmities of old age.

John W. McBride was born Jan. 28, 1860, in Logan county, Ill., the son of Warren and Myra McBride. He spent his childhood and young manhood in Logan county. He remembered many incidents of his early life in Illinois and often referred to the time when he went with his parents twenty-five miles in a lumber wagon to the dedication of Abraham Lincoln's monument.

In 1882 he came with his parents to Iowa, where they farmed until 1907 when they moved to Kansas.

On March 9, 1893, he was married at Red Oak to Estella A. Jeffers. In 1913 they returned to Clayton county. They moved to the farm eight miles southeast of Elkader in Cox Creek township in 1919. This has since been their home.

He is survived by his wife and two children, Mrs. Will J. Owen, Stanton, Iowa, and Glendon J. McBride at home; two brothers, Madison McBride of Klamath, Ore, and Wm. McBride, Wichita, Kan.; three sisters, Mrs. Effie Owens, Omaha, Nebr., Mrs. Bell Foxworthy, Colorado Springs, Colo., and Mrs. Grace Dinius, Hutchison, Kan.; also three grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by three brothers and two sisters.