Edd McCue

MCCUE, HODGEN, MCCRARY, DEHART

Posted By: Chuck and Joy Hanson (email)
Date: 12/13/2006 at 22:37:37

Doctor Edd McCue, the subject of this notice, was born in Morgan county, Ohio, in the year 1831, and died in Bentonsport, Iowa, on Friday, March 6th, 1902, in his seventy first year. His parents were Rev. P. K. McCue and wife, the father being a Methodist minister. The family consisted of father, mother, three daughters, and four sons, the Doctor being the eldest of the sons. He was educated in the schools of McConnelsville, Ohio, and in his teens clerked in a drug store in that little city. He taught school for some years, and at length studied medicine and attended a medical college in Ohio. During the civil war, he was connected with the hospital service of the United States government, but was never mustered into service. In early manhood he was united in marriage with Miss Mary Hodgen, whose young life soon faded under that fell disease consumption, leaving no children. In 1870 he settled at Vernon, and has lived either in that place or in Bentonsport ever since, engaged in the practice of medicine. In 1877 he married Miss Lovica McCrary, daughter if Uncle James McCrary of Vernon, who was a sister of Hon. George W., James C, and Miner McCrary. This union was blessed with a son, Edlo, now of Chicago, Illinois, who was present during his father’s sickness and death. In 1873, Doctor McCue again had the misfortune to loose by death his second wife, who had been a loving, faithful, Christian companion. Some years since the Doctor removed to Bentonsport, where he ever after resided. For five weeks prior to his last fatal illness he had been unwell, complaining of a pain in his back. While in this condition he was called upon to attend at the bedside of Mr. Thomas DeHart, and exposure greatly augmented the trouble. Finally on Saturday, March 1st, he was forced to succumb to a severe attach of lagrippe, and for some hours his pain was excruciating. Relief from the pain was at length obtained but it left him very much enfeebled, his heart showing signs of failure. A first the heart’s action seemed to respond well to the heart tonics and stimulants, and on last Wednesday morning he seemed much better and expressed himself better. But in the afternoon of that day, the heart again showed signs of failure. The death angel’s summon came Friday morning, March 7th, 1902, and amid the glories of the early morning he surrendered up his life. For thirty-two years Doctor McCue had been a resident of either Vernon or Bentonsport; for more than a quarter of a century he had practiced his profession here. He was chosen by his fellow citizens to many positions of trust and honor, and always did his best to faithfully discharge the duties of his office. He was president of the school board at the time of his demise. He was a social member in the Modern Woodmen of America of Bentonsport, and the loving, brotherly hands of the members of this order ministered to his comfort.

From the Mason Scrapbook owned by H.K. Redhead