Mary McCarn 1835-1924

MCCARN, HOPKINS

Posted By: Sharon Elijah (email)
Date: 6/26/2016 at 13:13:20

10 July 1924 - The Tipton Advertiser

A Pioneer Woman Dies at Anamosa

Mrs. Mary Augusta McCarn Came From East and First Located In Tipton

Last week marked the passing of another of the Pioneer settlers of Anamosa in the person of Mrs. Mary Augusta McCarn the wife of the late Judge McCarn, of Anamosa. Mrs. McCarn died at the ripe age of 89 years, having lived in Anamosa for 67 years, coming here with her husband in 1857, and residing here constantly until her death last Thursday. Following is her obituary.

Mary Augusta Hopkins was born in Newark, Wayne Co., New York, January 25, 1835, and died at Mercy hospital, June 26, 1924, having attained the ripe age of 89 years, 5 months and 1 day. She was the daughter of EdMund Sumner and Lucinda Page Hopkins. She was married to Davis McCarn, September 4, 1853, in the city of her birth, Newark, New York. In the autumn of 1885 she came west with her husband, locating first at Tipton, Iowa. Two years later in the year 1857, they came to Anamosa to live, which was ever after their home. Mr. McCarn died over two years ago, February 2, 1922. Mrs. McCarn in survived by four descendants, two sons, Bertis D. and George E. of Anamosa, and two grandsons Bertis and Davis McCarn, both of Chicago. She had of course outlived practically all her contemporaries and the world she knew had largely passed away, but she was loved and honored by those of the younger generation who were privileged to know her.

She was a member of the D.A.R. and of the order of the Eastern Star, the first named organization attending her funeral in a body. Mrs. McCarn and her husband were also for many years members of the Congregational church of this city, becoming affiliated with that organization soon after coming to Anamosa. They retained a real interest in the well being of the church always and the church had always a very tender regard for them.

Mrs. McCarn was a woman of high ideals, fine character, alert mind and refined tastes. Throughout her long life she was interested in worth-while things. She enjoyed friends, books and conversation, and years ago, in the years of her greater strength, was a valued member of the Fortnighly Club. She had the qualities which won her devoted friends, the majority of whom because of her prolonged life, she was forced to relinquish one by one to the hand of death. She was a loyal and devoted wife and mother and the real center of her interests was her home. -- Anamosa Journal