Robeson-Bladen-Cumberland County NcArchives Obituaries.....McAllister, Emily McDougald February 18, 1915 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Sam West sam.west.1@gmail.com July 20, 2007, 12:28 pm Robesonian, March 1, 1915 MRS. EMILY McD. McALLISTER. Step-Mother of Mr. J. A. McAllister of Lumberton Passes Away in Texas – Nearly 100 Years Old. Fayetteville Special, Feb. 26, to Wilmington Star. At an age which lacked not many days of the century mark, Mrs. Emily McDougald McAllister, formerly of Cumberland county, died at the home of her nephew, Dougald McDougald, in Bryan, Texas, on the 18th of this month, according to news just received here. Mrs. McAllister was the last of her immediate family, but had numerous relatives and still more friends in the Cape Fear country, and the tidings of her death, even though at sue han advance age, will be heard with sorrow by many people. She was Mrs. Emily McDougald and was born in Bladen county on March 27, 1815, and therefore would have become a centenarian had she lived 37 days longer. She had been a widow over a half century. In the 40’s she married the third Alexander McAllister, grandson of Col. Alexander McAllister, the Scotch pioneer and Revolutionary soldier, he being the third of the four generations of Alexander McAllisters who for a century and a half served as ruling elders of the old Bluff church at Wade in this county. In 1857 her husband was killed by lightning. Though her own two children died young she raised three step-children: the late David S. McAllister, D. D., the late Mrs. H. A. McSwain of Wade, and Mr. John A. McAllister of Lumberton. Robesonian 3/1/1915 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/robeson/obits/m/mcallist35nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ncfiles/ File size: 2.1 Kb