Charles Slagel & Mary Elizabeth (Yost) McCleeary (1906)

DAVIS, HOUGH, MARSHMAN, MCCLEEARY, VALLENTINE, YOST

Posted By: Treva Patterson
Date: 3/7/2007 at 18:50:46

The Winterset News
Winterset, Iowa
Friday, November 2, 1906

C. S. McCleeary and wife, aged pioneers of the county and well known residents of Jefferson township, passed away at the old home the second week in October, Mrs. McCleeary dying on Tuesday, October 16th and Mr. McCleeary on Friday, October 19th. It was in 1847 that Brother McCleeary married his first wife, Miss Margaret Valletine and planned for life's voyage. To this union were born four children, two of whom are A. B. and C. A. McCleeary, and two preceded them to their reward. In the year 1856 or '57 death came to break the tie that bound husband and wife, and she passed to her reward. Saddened and crushed and broken in health, Mr. McCleeary sought his fortune in the far West, going to California by way of the Isthmus of Panama, returning two years later by way of Cape Horn.

Well rewarded in time and sacrifice, renewed in health and replenished in purse he sought again to resume his journey on life's voyage. He was favored with the love of his second wife and on April 7th was married to Miss Mary E. Yost. To this union there were born ten children nine of whom still live. They are John O., Mrs. Sarah T. Davis, Mrs. Margaret E. Hough, William E., Edgar M., Seth W., James F., Mrs. Mary J. Marshman and Clarence C. McCleeary. Never were family ties more closely and happily united than were the two sets of children in this home and each strove to do their best to render every service possible to make both father and mother happy to the end.

Brother and Sister McCleeary were both born in Coshocton county, Ohio. He was born on May 26th, 1825 and died October 19th, 1906, aged 81 years. She was born in 1840 and died October 16th, 1906, aged 66 years. In the year 1859 they emigrated to Iowa, settling on the present homestead, where together they happily spent more than forty-seven rearing their family. The county then was thinly settled, there being only two or three houses between them and Des Moines, but these heroic souls planted well the foundation of their future home and lived to see their hopes realized, their children about them.

Brother and Sister McCleeary both converted at the age of twenty-three. Casting their lot with the few Methodists in the county they joined the Methodist Episcopal church known as the old Jefferson appointment but later transferred to Pleasant Grove church. They were each faithful in the business relations of life and were also faithful and devoted in their church life. Their faith in God was perfect and their last day a triumph. It was their wish to run the race together and to fight a good fight, to win the crown and to fall asleep, one with the other, and God was pleased to let but three days separate them from each other.

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The Winterset News
Winterset, Iowa
Friday, October 26, 1906
Page 2, Column 2

BOTH DEAD

Aged Pioneer and Wife Both Die. C. S. McCleeary and Wife Die.

C. S. McCleeary and wife, aged pioneers of the county, both well known residents of Jefferson township, died at the old home last week. Mrs. McCleeary dying Tuesday and Mr. McCleeary on Friday.

The funeral occurred Saturday, the bodies being interred in the same grave in Jefferson Cemetery.

Both died of pneumonia, Mrs. McCleeary being sick only four days. On the day of her death Mr. McCleeary was taken sick, and Friday in less than three days. There were eleven children, eight sons and three daughters, all grown up.

Mr. and Mrs. McCleeary came from Ohio to Madison county in 1859 and settled on the homestead where they died.

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