Jane McCulla, 1838-1911

MCCULLA, JOHNSTON

Posted By: Emmet County IAGenWeb Coordinator (email)
Date: 2/21/2009 at 19:26:54

MRS. JANE McCULLA GOES TO HER REWARD

DIED AT THE HOME OF HER DAUGHTER, MRS. JOHN WILSON, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 9

LIVED 41 YEARS IN COUNTY

She Was One of the Pioneers of the County, Mother of Eleven Children

Mrs. Jane McCulla died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. John Wilson, Saturday afternoon, September 9th, [1911] at about six o'clock.

Of Scottish parentage, born at or near Smith's Falls, Quebec, Canada August 27th, 1838, christened Jane Johnston. She was married to Robert McCulla July 1854, and in 1856 with her husband settled in Howard county, Iowa, near the town of Cresco, where the family resided until the spring of 1870 when they removed to the eastern part of Dickinson county, Iowa, near the present village of Superior where her husband died in February 1885. Shortly after this with her family she removed to and resided on a farm a short distance west of Estherville for several years and then removed to this city where she has made her home until the present time.

Eleven children were born to lisp in her ears the endearing name of mother, four of whom are dead and seven remain to mourn her death, viz - Belle Gowdy of Henderson, Iowa; Margaret Allen, Sarah Crim, Hattie Doyle and Carrie Wilson, all of Estherville; Cinda Cook of Albert Lea, Minn., and Fred McCulla, of Gering, Nebraska. She is survived by thirteen grand and two great grandchildren.

She was raised and educated in the faith of the established church of England, but in early life united with the Methodist Episcopal church of which she continued a consistent member and faithful attendant until her death.

Like the full rounded sheaf garnered at harvest time she passed from earth to heaven surrounded and mourned by her children and sympathizing neighbors, with an abiding faith in the scriptural promises of the resurrection of the dead and a reunion with her family and friends. She was fully conscious of her approaching dissolution and expressed her satisfaction with life and promises for the future as she said to her weeping children, "you have nothing to regret, you have all been so good to me, everybody has been good to me and there is room for all of us above." At the end of a long, busy, useful life as the shadows of evening closed the day, peacefully and without a struggle, she fell asleep in the sheltering arms of one of her daughters. Her body was laid to rest in the family lot in the East Side cemetery beside the members of the family who have preceded her.

Source: Vindicator and Republican, Estherville, Emmet County, Iowa; September 13, 1911.