Mary Rebecca Buchanan (1944)

ANDERSON, BUCHANAN, MCDOWELL, MILLER, MILLS, SAYRE, SMITH, SUMNER

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler
Date: 8/29/2006 at 08:57:11

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, April 19, 1944

PIONEER RESIDENT OF COUNTY PASSES

Mrs. Mary R. Buchanan of St. Charles Came Here in 1862

Mrs. Mary R. Buchanan, who came to Madison county as a small child in 1862, making the final lap of the trip by stage-coach, died Sunday at her home in St. Charles at the age of 86 years.

Mrs. Buchanan was the former Mary Rebecca McDowell, daughter of Robert and Martha McDowell. She was born Dec. 27, 1857, in Washington county, Pennsylvania. When she was 3 years old the family moved to Guernsey county, Ohio, and two years later they came on to Madison county. They came by rail to Eddyville, and thence by stage coach to this county. The first year they lived in a log house north of the present site of Patterson, and then bought a farm in Jefferson township. Later they returned to the neighborhood north of Patterson, and were living there when the Rock Island railroad was built from Des Moines to Winterset.

She was married Dec. 23, 1880, to Charles J. Buchanan. They were the parents of eight children, all of whom survive their mother.

Mr. and Mrs. Buchanan started housekeeping on a farm in Jackson township. After two years there, they moved to a farm four miles northwest of St. Charles, where they lived 37 years. They moved into St. Charles in 1920. Mr. Buchanan died April 17, 1924.

In childhood she was a member of the United Presbyterian church of Patterson. After that congregation disbanded, she transferred to the same denomination at St. Charles.

She is survived by eight children, Mrs. Mabel Sayre of Winterset; John and Chester Buchanan and Mrs. Beulah Anderson of St. Charles; Mrs. Martha Smith and Mrs. Hazel Sumner of Des Moines; and Mrs. Clyde Mills and Charles Buchanan of Wick. She also leaves 13 grandchildren; four great grandchildren; and one sister, Mrs. Luetta Miller of Chicago.

Funeral services were held Tuesday from the United Presbyterian church at St. Charles in charge of the Rev. John W. Oosterhoff. Burial was made in the St. Charles cemetery.

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