MACY, Stephen 1813 - 1888

MACY, CHARLES

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 12/26/2010 at 18:36:20

"The Fairfield Ledger"
Wednesday, May 16, 1888
Page 5, Column 8

NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS:

Stephen MACY, a resident of Penn township since 1856, died at his home, two miles southwest of Pleasant Plain, on the 4th inst. He had been ill about 18 months, a sufferer from consumption. His age was 76 years.

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"The Fairfield Ledger"
Friday, September 28, 1888
Page 3, Column 5

April 24, in Penn township of phthisis pulmonalis, Stephen MACY aged 75 years, 2 months, 16 days.

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"The Fairfield Tribune"
Friday, October 3, 1888
Page 4, Column 5

DIED.

… After a sickness of phthisis pulmonalis in Penn township, April 24, 1888, Stephen MACY, aged 75 years, 2 months, 16 days.

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"The Christian Worker"
(A Quaker Periodical)
7mo 26, 1888
Page 360

MACY.--Died at his residence, near Pleasant Plain, Iowa, 5 mo. 4, 1888. Stephen MACY, a member of Pleasant Plain Monthly Meeting of Friends; age 75 years, 2 months and 16 days. Deceased was born in Montgomery Co., Ohio. 2 mo. 18, 1813; was married to Mary CHARLES in Wayne Co., Ind., 5 mo 23, '39. In the Spring of 1856 they removed to Iowa and purchased a farm where he resided until his death. He took cold late in the Fall of '86, which finally resulted in consumption. His illness of over one year and a half, was marked by great patience and true appreciation of the tender care and watchfulness, bestowed by a devoted wife, children and friends. He gave positive evidence of his readiness to meet the Savior in peace and repeatedly asked his family not to mourn for him. On the morning of the above date he passed calmly to the rest for which he had often longed. In death his countenance wore an expression of peacefulness, as one in the sweetest slumber. Although a faithful husband and father has been called from earth where he is greatly missed in his accustomed place, his family and friends "weep not as those who have no hope."
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Note: Buried Walnut Creek Friends Cemetery. Wife was Mary E. CHARLES. Some discrepancy exists with his date of death: two of his three local obituaries give the date of death as April 24th, which would fit with "Iowa, Deaths and Burials, 1850-1990" (a database on Ancestry.com) that notes death was April 24th and burial April 25th. The third local obituary, his Quaker obituary, and a reading of his gravestone in the early 1960s all give a death date of May 4. An index of Quaker info gives his death date as April 5 (possibly misconstrued as May 4th, but not if the dating convention as applies to his birthdate is followed: "b.1813-2-18, d.1888-4-5"). Looking at a photo of his gravestone, it's very difficult to make out the date of death in the present day, as there is quite a bit of lichen on it. The year 1888 is fairly well discernable but the month and day are not.