OBITUARY: Margaret (McFarland) McGrath, 1835-1920, Mitchell Co. Iowa



                      Margaret McFarland-McGrath

Margaret McFarland was born in County Terrone, Ireland, June 30, 1835,
and passed to her earthly reward at the home of her daughter, Mrs. E. R.
Martin, 619 E. 56th street north, Portland Ore., early Monday morning,
Feb. 16, 1920.

Orphaned of both parents at a very early age, she resided with an uncle
until coming to America in her young womanhood, living first in Illinois
and later in Iowa, where she married to James McGrath in 1864, residing
for many years at Osage, Iowa.

She was very definitely converted at 10 years of age and remained a
devout Christian to the time of her death. Her church membership for
the past eight years was the First Friends church, Portland Ore.

She had been failing rapidly in health for a number of months, but was
able to be about the home until Saturday, the 14th, when she gradually
sank into the sleep from which she awakened in the great beyond.

She is survived by four children, twenty-three grandchildren, and four
great-grandchildren.

Her remains, accompanied by her son, will be taken to the old Iowa home
to be laid beside the remains of her husband, who has awaited her coming
for more than forty years.

Brief services were conducted in the Methodist church by Rev. L.C. Lemon
and the body was laid to rest by the side of her husband in the Osage
cemetery on Monday of this week.
          
          Portland Oregon News February 1920 



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Added notes by Kathy Pike:
  Margaret McFarland and James McGrath were married in Mitchell
  County, Iowa.

  The marriage record for Margaret McFarland and James McGrath can
  be found on the Mitchell Co. Iowa IaGenWeb Site.

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Transcribed by Kathy Pike
September 3, 2003

Copyright 2003, Kathy McAlister Pike