| Obit For | Jane (Gay) McClure |
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| Headline | Another Pioneer Passes into Rest. Mrs. Jane McClure Dies Following Lingering Illness. Member of One of the County's Prominent Families. |
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Mrs. Jane McClure died at 7 o'clock Monday evening, November 24, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. W.W. Chandler, in this city, following an illness of many weeks, at the age of 79 years 9 months and 12 days. Funeral services are being held today, Wednesday, 12:30 o'clock at the M. E. Church, South, conducted by Rev. Lawrence Orr of Springfield the pastor. The body will be buried on the family lot in the Washburn Prairie cemetery eight miles southwest of Cassville this afternoon. A large number of relatives from a distance and numerous friends from Cassville, Washburn and communities will attend the funeral. Jane Gay McClure was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Gay, of the locality of Newtonia about the time of the organization of Newton county in the year 1839. Mrs. McClure was born February 12, 1840. Sometime later the family moved to Barry County and located in the vicinity of Washburn. She was married to William McClure in July 18__. Mr. McClure was engaged in the milling business at the Roaring river spring and was in the mercantile business at Washburn, then Keetsville and at Cassville and from 1866 to the early eighties the family lived at different times at each of these places. Later one of the fine Washburn Prairie farms on the old wire road near Washburn became the family home and remained so until Mr. McClure's death many years later. Mrs. McClure was the mother of six children: Mrs. Rebecca Chandler, wife of Dr. S.W. Chandler of this city; Alice George, deceased, wife of the late J. W. George, William D. of Claremore, Okla., Charles of Lawton, Okla., Guy W. of Springfield and R. White McClure, deceased of Springfield. In addition to the rearing of her own children she received into her home and took the place of a mother to the children of her step-daughter, Mrs. Salmon, following her death, and was a mother during the past fifteen years to the children of her daughter, Alice, since her death in 1904. She professed faith in her Lord at an early age and united with the M. E. Church South of which she remained a consistent and faithful member until death. She was a friend to everybody, loved and honored by all who had the pleasure of her acquaintance and great will be her reward by her loving heavenly father for her long years of service in His name and for the welfare an happiness of others. |
| Newspaper or Funeral Home | Cassville Republican |
| Date | Thursday, Nov. 27, 1919 |
| Death Cert Link | - |
| Resource | State Historical Society of MO |
| Submitted by | Donna Cooper |
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