Mathew McCrea

MCCREA, GRAHAM

Posted By: Constance, IAGenWeb Volunteer (email)
Date: 10/20/2016 at 09:43:45

West Union Gazette
West Union, Fayette Co., Iowa
Friday, 11 Feb 1876
Page Two, column three

OELWEIN DEPARTMENT.
Oelwein, Iowa
Feb 11, 1876

Brush Creek Correspondence.

Matthew McCrea, whose death you notice last week, was buried on Friday afternoon. Rev. Mr. McMillan, of Oelwein, delivered the sermon. -- His mother, brother, and sister arrived from LaCross, Wisconsin., a short time before his burial. Last evening Mrs. McCrea suffered another loss in the death of her infant boy a few months old, of lung fever.

Matthew McCrea was born, I think (the reporter) in Canada, of Scotch parents, and was forty-four years old at the time of his death. In early manhood he went tot California, but not finding that country what he anticipated, he soon returned to Canada. From there he came to Iowa about 1866, and settles in Putnam township, where he bought the place known as the John Squires farm. About nine years since he married Miss Mary A. Graham, of Holyoke, Mass. They had five children, all boys, as a result of this union. He improved his farm, and by hard work and economy saved money, until about a year since, when he traded his farm to W.H. Hoover for a store and stock of goods in Brush Creek, and, although the business was new to him, he had a large trade, as his fair dealing and moderate prices kept him all his old friends and made him many new ones. By his death the community loses an upright citizen, his mother and affection son, his wife a loving husband, his children a kind father, and his church a consistent member.