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Subject: OBITUARY - ROBERT ALLEN MCCARTNEY; November 4, l897

Date: Sunday, May 27, 2001 12:28 PM

Decatur County Journal

November 4, l897

ROBERT ALLEN MCCARTNEY was born in Jefferson County, Iowa, February 4,

l835. Jefferson County was then a western wilderness, with bears,

catamounts and rattlesnake in abundance. Here he was raised, with

neighbors few and far between, until he was two years old, when he

emigrated with his parents to Trumbull County, Ohio, where he spent nine

years in play and gaining the rudiments of a common school education.

When eleven years old he removed, with his parents, to Mercer County,

Pa., where his real life work commenced, in a woolen factory at a place

called Neshannoch Falls. Here he remained four years, running the

carding department of the factory, and sometimes taking a hand at the

spinning jack. He removed from there to Sandy Lake, in the north part

of the county, where he took charge of the carding department of the

Sandy Lake Woolen Mills. In a year he went back to the south part of

the county, then erected with parts of other counties into what is now

knows as Lawrence County. Here he carded and did spinning for a year,

when he took charge of his uncle's factory in Eastbrook, Lawrence

County, which he managed until he came to Decatur County, Iowa, in l853.

Here he engaged in farming but did not make a success in that line of

business.

He married MISS CATHERINE MILLS in February, l859. To this union were

born four sons--three of whom are living, and by the good example and

educational facilities of their father they are all following useful

occupations.

By the advice of the writer, he avoided the army and returned to the

woolen factory, during the war. That has been his occupation in various

states of the union ever since.

Socially, he was without reproach; morally, his convictions were not

strong, having conformed to the outward ordinances of the Diciple(sic)

Christian Church he was satisfied; with it is feared no real union with

the Christ.

JOHN MCCARTNEY.

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