Lagrange County IN Archives Obituaries.....McCally, Samuel April 28, 1913 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/in/infiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Burt Fuller burtf@msn.com December 20, 2005, 3:13 pm The LaGrange Standard, May 1, 1913 OBITUARY: (The LaGrange Standard, Thur. May 1, 1913) SAMUEL M'CALLY, PIONEER, IS DEAD - He came to LaGrange County in 1854, Fifty-nine Years Ago - Funeral Held Yesterday - His Death Came In His Eighty-sixth Year. Samuel McCALLY, who came to LaGrange county in 1854, died Monday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. William W. Minich, East of town, in his eighty-sixth year. Funeral services were held yesterday morning at ten o'clock from the Methodist Episcopal church at Plato, with Leroy W. Kemper, the pastor, in charge. Burial was made at the Plato church yard. Mr. McCally was born August 3, 1827, in Ohio, in a house on the line dividing Clark and Madison counties. His parents were Nicholas and Nancy Judy (Tschudy) McCally, the former a Virginian and the latter a Kentuckian. Nicholas McCally served in the War of 1812, first in the cavalry, in the Green Clay brigade under General Hull, and was one of the army surrender to the British. He afterward re-enlisted under General Harrison and was wounded in an engagement with the Indians. His death occurred October 30, 1850 in Logan county, Ohio. Samuel McCally attended the country schools and at eighteen years of age began work on a farm in Clark county, Ohio. This employment he followed for three years and for three more years he was engaged in driving cattle to New York. He became the owner of the old homestead in Ohio the year following the death of his father, but in 1854 came to the county and invested in 180 acres of land. He was first married in 1849 to Mary A. Nicholson. She died in 1856, leaving him four children, John McCally, now at Sturgis, Almond McCally, of Clay Twp., Andrew McCally of Kalamazoo and Elias G. McCally, who in 1865 was accidentally killed. His second marriage was to Elizabeth J. Richards, who was the mother of five children, former county treasurer Charles A. McCally, Mrs. Sara Roger of Springfield Twp., Mrs. William W. Minich, Manley McCally of Goshen and Mrs. Truman Fair of this township. Since the death of his second wife Mr. McCally had made his home with his children. Mr. McCally was both a man of character and capacity. He was successful as a farmer and active and prominent in political and other public affairs. He belonged to that race of men to whom LaGrange county is indebted for its transformation from a wilderness. Strong, rugged and resourceful, he made his life count for things worth living. And at last he fell asleep, in the fuliness of time, passing on to that country from, which none returns. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/in/lagrange/obits/m/mccally8gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/infiles/ File size: 3.1 Kb