Martin Tidrick McClellan (1930)
BECK, CAMPBELL, CLARK, HARPER, HAZELWOOD, MCCLELLAN, SHELL, SUITER
Posted By: Kent Transier (email)
Date: 9/1/2012 at 11:40:40
Glasco Sun
Cloud County, Kansas
03 April 1930“DADDY” McCLELLAN, GLASCO PIONEER, WAS LAID TO REST SUNDAY
Funeral services for M. T. McClellan, one of Glasco’s fine old pioneer gentlemen, were held last Sunday afternoon at the Christian Church, conducted by Rev. R. R. Kaiser of Beloit, assisted by Rev. Albert Hall of the Methodist Church. Rev. Kaiser’s sermon was most inspiring and comforting. A quartette composed of Messrs O. F. Bearnes, J. L. Fletcher, Will and Lester Pilcher sang and Rev. Kaiser contributed a solo. Honorary pallbearers were six granddaughters of the deceased, Mrs. Melva Martin, Vera Beck, Linda Suiter, Frances McClellan, Bernice McClellan, and Alice Beck. Active pallbearers were six grandsons, Elmer Beck, Martin Suiter, Maxwell McClellan, Keith McClellan, Roscoe Campbell, and Noel Haselwood. Interment was in Glasco Cemetery.
__________________MARTIN T. McCLELLAN
Martin T. McClellan was born near Winterset, Iowa on March 27, 1854 and departed this life at his home in Glasco, Kansas on Friday evening, March 28, 1930, being at the time of his death 76 years and one day old.
On October 6, 1875 he was united in marriage to Miss Sarah H. Harper of near Winterset, Iowa.
To this union were born eleven children, six daughters and five sons, all of which survive him with the exception of two sons and two daughters who have preceded him to the Great Beyond.
The living children are Mrs. Mattie Campbell of Cherokee, Oklahoma; Mrs. Mabel Lindsay of Greensburg, Kansas; Mr. Walter McClellan of Minneapolis, Kansas and Mr. Elmer McClellan, Mrs. Alice Beck, Mrs. Ethel Hazelwood and Mrs. Edward McClellan all of Glasco, Kansas. The deceased children are Samuel B., and Thomas M. who died in infancy, and Mrs. Jannie I. Clark, of Kutch, Colorado, who died in Feb. 1925 and Mrs. Eliza A. Suiter, of Macksville, Kansas, who died in June 1919.
In the year 1877 he with his wife and baby came to Kansas and settled near Glasco, where he has lived ever since.
In the year 1878 he with his wife were baptized into the United Brethren church.
He leaves to mourn his death his aged and devoted wife, one brother, T. D. McClellan of Glasco, Kansas; four daughters and three sons, thirty-seven grandchildren and seventeen great-grandchildren, besides a host of other relatives and friends.
His life was marked by his good nature and ability to acquire the love and devotion of friendship. The beauty of his straight-forward, upright and righteous life will live eternally in the minds of his relatives and friends.
The following is a stanza composed by his sister, Mrs. Jennie Shell (now deceased):
“Go to thy rest and while
Thy absence we deplore
One thought our sorrow shall beguile
For, soon with a celestial smile,
We meet to part no more.”
___________________Transcriber's note: The deceased's middle name was taken from the surname of the attending physician at his birth in Madison County, Iowa. A brother was also so named for a different doctor.
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