McClure - Harriet Duncan
Note: Not really an obituary and not sure what year this is (1892 perhaps) but Harriet did pass 18 Sept 1903r
Harriet Duncan McClure, sixth child of Alexander and Mary Duncan, of Decatur, Brown County, Ohio, sister of Dr. J. R. Duncan of Crawfordsville, was born April 18th, 1816. She was married to Alexander McClure, who lived at Sinking Springs, Adams County, Ohio, June 1, 1838, and moved to Pleasant Hill, now Wingate, in this county, in the fall of 1839, where she has since lived. Her husband died Nov. 7, 1876, since which time she has lived a widow.
She is the mother of five children, four of whom are yet living, Mary Catharine Cord and Nancy A. Ambrose, Crawfordsville; Sarah E. Claypool, Frankfort, and Mollie D. Phillips, Wingate. Alexander Q., her only son, died at the age of three years.
Aunt Harriet ate her New Year’s dinner with a nine month old great great grandson, Marvin Harold Stover, whose mother is a daughter of G. W. (Wash.) Cord, a son of Mrs. Mary C. Cord, oldest daughter of Aunt Harriet, all of whom were present to enjoy the day and sit with Aunt Harriet for a picture. There were also present at the bountiful dinner set by Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Stover, Aunt Harriet’s daughters, Mesdames Phillips and Claypool; her son-in-law, Frank T. Phillips; her granddaughters, Misses Isa Phillips, Bertha Cord and Inez Cord, Mrs. G. W. Cord, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Beedle and Mrs. George Buxton.
Aunt Harriet has been blind over four years. She has been in poor health for two years but this winter is much improved and boasts of eating three turkey dinners in the last eight days. She has been a member of the M. E. Church at Wingate for 64 years and is held in highest esteem as an earnest Christian mother, a good neighbor, and true friend. Her husband, familiarly known as Uncle Alex, was one of the concrete pillows in the M. E. Church. Theirs was a typical country home, where the circuit riders used to stop and where Christian charities and social functions were dispensed in the general manner of their time.