Mary (Mackey) McDonald (1906)
MCDONALD, MACKEY, HAZEN
Posted By: Pat Hochstetler (email)
Date: 10/16/2014 at 08:13:01
Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, May 10, 1906
Page 5Local News
Mrs. McDonald died Sunday morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Frank Hazen, in Jefferson township. She was taken ill Saturday after dinner and passed away at 8:30 the following morning. The funeral services were held at the North River U.B. church, and the body was laid away in the McDonald cemetery. A more extended notice of her life will be given next week.
_________________________Winterset Madisonian
Thursday, May 17, 1906
Page 1Mary Mackey was born near Claysville, Guernsey county, Ohio, June 7, 1822, died May 6, 1906, at 8:30 a.m. age 83 years, 10 months and 29 days. Her early life was spent near the place of her birth.
She was married to Wm. McDonald in February, 1852, at her home near Claysville, the Rev. John Comin, D. D., officiating. It was her lot to care for and rear a large family of children, who today rise up and call her blessed. In the home her presence was a blessing; ever kind and gentle, faithful and beloved. She was possessed of a rare sweetness and beauty of disposition. It was always a joy to meet her, for her face was pleasant and her words cherry and kind and hopeful.
She was an exemplary Christian woman all her life. She professed her faith in Jesus and united with the Associate Reformed church in her girlhood. During her married life in Ohio she was in church connection at Northfield and after she came with her husband to Madison county in 1858 her church connection was placed with the United Presbyterian church of North Branch. She continued in that connection till in recent years her membership was transferred to the United Presbyterian church of Winterset. The supreme thought and purpose of her life was to make her life useful for her Lord—the greatest and noblest to which a human life can aspire. She was a great Bible reader and student. It would be difficult to determine how often she had read the scripture through from beginning to end. The word of God was in her mind, in her heart and translated into her life. What a power for good her quiet, gentle, sweet Christian life has been, in its example, its teachings, its devotions and its ministry. For over four score years her life ran on, led and sustained by an unfaltering faith. She filled her place and did her work humbly and faithfully, “looking unto Jesus,” until life’s burdens were put aside at the Masters call, “Well done good and faithful servant, thou has been faithful over a few things, I will make the ruler over many things, enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.”
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