Obit for McHARG, Joseph Archibald (b.1878 d.1953), Murray Co., MN
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(This article is from the Fulda Free Press, January 1, 1953)

"A.J. McHarg Summoned on Wednesday - Had Lived in County All But 6 Weeks 
of His 73 Years - The Fulda community was saddened on last Wednesday to 
hear of the death of Archie McHarg. Mr. McHarg was one of the earliest 
of Murray countys pioneer children, and as a farmer, public servant, 
and Fulda resident, has been known by a large number of Murray county 
people. He had been in failing health for some time, and was taken 
seriously ill on Tuesday. That evening he was taken to the Municipal 
Hospital at Worthington where he died at 1:30 oclock on Wednesday 
morning, December 24th.

Burial services were held at the home at 2:00 o'clock Friday, and at 
the Presbyterian church at 2:30, with the Rev. Jack Hart in charge. 
Mrs. Arthur Buschena at the organ, and a quartet composed of Mrs. Carol 
Hillesley, Mrs. Perry Frey, H.C. Hickman and George Highum, provided the 
music. The pall bearers were Jodie Anderson, Martin Fries, John Hyslop, 
B.W. Lloyd, J.T. Schueller and Henry Wisdorf.

Joseph Archibald McHarg, oldest of the children of John and Anna Hardy 
McHarg, was born in Minneapolis on March 4, 1878. When he was six weeks 
old he came with his parents to a homestead in Murray county four miles 
east of Fulda. He remained on the farm with his parents until his 
marriage to Catherine Behr on December 25, 1907, when they moved to an 
adjoining farm they had purchased. He and Mrs. McHarg lived there until 
his retirement in 1934.

Four children were born to Mr. and Mrs. McHarg, Mrs. Gordon Hendrickson 
(Mabel) of Aberdeen, S.D.; Robert, living on the home farm; Mrs. Evan
Trimbo (Esther) of Kasota, and Mrs. Ervin Haberman (Wilma) of rural Fulda. 
These with Mrs. McHarg, two sisters, Mrs. Robina Guthier of Minneapolis, 
and Mrs. Ray Viers of rural Fulda, and nine grandchildren, John Gordon 
Hendrickson, Marian and Roger McHarg, George and Pat Trimbo, and Patricia, 
Gary, Gene, and Donald Haberman survive him. His parents and one sister, 
Mrs. Curtis Barnard, preceded him in death, his father in 1920, his mother 
in 1927, and his sister in 1932.

Mr. McHarg was a kind, sympathetic husband and father, and a neighbor to 
whom many went for counsel with church, community and civic affairs. He 
was Clerk of Belfast township for nearly 20 years; he helped to organize
and was Secretary of the Farmers Co-Op. Commission Co. in Fulda, and for 
a number of years was a Trustee of the Fulda Presbyterian Church from 1928 
to 1948 he was Commissioner from the Fifth District of Murray county.

Our community regrets the death of Mr. McHarg but we have the memory of 
a man who helped make it a better one in which to live. The sympathy of 
all goes to Mrs. McHarg and the other members of the family."