From: "Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert" <iggy29@scican.net>

To: <IADECATU-L@rootsweb.com>

Subject: OBITUARY - MARIA (DAVIS) MCGAUGHEY.

Date: Friday, July 27, 2001 8:01 PM

Decatur County Journal

February 29, l903

Died, Feb. 2, l903, MARIA MCGAUGHEY. The deceased was born in Putnam

County, Indiana, March l6, l825. Her maiden name was DAVIS. She was

united in marriage to WILLIAM MCGAUGHEY in l840. To this union were

born fourteen children, eight of whom survive her.

Early in life, she joined the M.E. Church, in which she lived a faithful

member. She died at the home of her step-daughter, MRS. DAVID ODELL,

after an illness of three and one-half days, aged 77 years, l0 mo. and

l6 days. The husband has been dead thirty-one years. The funeral was

preached from 2nd Timothy, 4:8, by W.A. VanWinkle.

When the voyage of life is ended,

And the stormy winds shall cease

When we step from care and sorrow

To eternal joy and peace.

Hallelujah, hallelujah, what a meeting,

But the best of all will be

Our Redeemer, dear Redeemer

In his beauty we shall see.

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July 27, 200l

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