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Obit For Anna (Horner) McCary
Headline Another Mother Passes Away
Text After a lingering illness of many weeks and poor health for many years, Mrs. Anna McCary, wife of Asbury McCary, died at her home in Fairview, Tuesday morning January 9, 1912.

Mrs. Anna (Horner) McCary was born in Tennessee in 1840. When a child of about twelve years she came with her parents to Barry County and settled on what is now known as the old Horner homestead at the Horner spring 3 1/2 miles southeast of Cassville. Here she grew to womanhood and acquired the best education possible in the common schools of this section of the county in that day.

She taught school near her home in the early sixties. There are some of the citizens who live in and about Cassville now who went to Miss Horner as one of their first teachers in the old log school house of the pioneer days.

She was married to Asbury McCary in the year of 1867. To them was born a large family of children, nine of whom are living, all grown. The daughters are Mrs. Fannie Holman and Mrs. Mollie Half of Oklahoma, Mrs. Emma Murphy of Rocky Comfort, Mrs. Cora Ford of Fairview and Mrs. Jennie Mitchell wife of E. S. Mitchell of Cassville. The sons are Henry Will and George of Oklahoma and Robert of Texas. Mrs. McCary was a sister of Amos Horner.

Mrs. McCary's life has been spent in this county since 1862, expect the short time that the family has been living at Rocky Comfort and Fairview. For many years they lived near Exeter. She was an excellent citizen a loving wife and mother who lived to see her family of children grown to maturity and doing for themselves. The last years of her life were full of suffering but she endured it all with Christian fortitude. Her body was laid to rest Wednesday at the Horner Cemetery southeast of Cassville.
Newspaper or Funeral Home Cassville Republican
Date January 11, 1912, Thursday
Death Cert -
Resource State Historical Society of MO
Submitted by Donna Cooper