McCain - John - 1901 - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

John McCain, who has been ill some time, died Monday morning at his home in Darlington, aged 73 years. He leaves a wife. The funeral took place Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock, interment being in the Odd Fellows’ Cemetery there. Mr. McCain was one of the oldest residents of the county and quite well known here. -s

Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Journal Friday, 6 September 1901

John McCain was born in Butler County, Ohio, Jan. 14, 1833, was married to Miss Analiza McManima July 24, 1856. He moved to Indiana in 1859 and settled about four miles east of Darlington in Franklin Township, where he lived on a rented farm for several years until he bought the farm, two and a half miles north of Darlington, where they lived until a few years ago when he moved to the present home in Darlington, where he died Aug. 26, 1901.  John McCain was a man that had his faults. He was a creature of creation and thus he was created. On the other hand, we have only to say that he was a mn of many good traits of character. If you were his friend there was nothing on earth that he possessed that was too good for you.  He has been a member of the I. O. O. F. lodge for forty years, and during all that time he was never delinquent for dues or sick benefits. It has been told that he gave more of his time than any two members of the lodge in sitting up with the sick and looking after members in distress. The deceased was a man of powerful physique and physical endurance. When corn gathering time came he made it a rule to not quit work until he had cribbed his 100 bushels of corn per day. In his younger days he was known far and near as one of the greatest rail makers of the age. The funeral was conducted by Rev. A. L. West at the family residence. Interment was at the I. O. O. F. Cemetery. -s