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Chase County Kansas Obituaries
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McNee, Agnes Gow McNiven
Death of Mrs, Agnes McNee
Mrs. Agnes McNee died at her home in Cottonwood Falls, Thursday morning, December 30th, after an illness of only a few weeks. The funeral was held Friday afternoon at the McNee home and internment was made in the Prairie Grove cemetery.
Mrs. McNee was the wife of the late James McNee who was one of the wealthiest and best known men in Chase county at the time of his death about fifteen years ago. She was a women whose christian character has made her beloved by all whom she knew and her gifts and aid to her church and benevolences have meant much to this community.
Mrs. McNee has been a resident of this county for more than twenty-five years. Three sons and a daughter survive her. They are John, George, James and Miss Janette McNee, all residing in Cottonwood Falls.
Agnes Gow McNiven was born July 22nd, 1859, near Doune, Perthshire, Scotland. She came to Wisconsin in May, 1877. She was married to James McNee, June 4th, 1876, at Bradford Centre, Wisconsin. She removed to Cottonwood Falls, January, 1884, where she has resided ever since.
The News-Courant ,January 6, 1910
ANSWERED DEATH'S CALL.
Mrs. McNee Passes Away After a Short Illness. Funeral Held at the Home Today.
This whole community was shocked Thursday morning by the news that Mrs. Agnes McNee was dead. It had been known for a few days that her condition was serious but her friends were not prepared for news so serious as this. Mrs. McNee was a modest woman of large usefulness. Besides large business cares and the responsibility of her own children she had been a mother to the children of Mr. and Mrs. Will McNee ever since Mr. McNee's death about four years ago. She has always been active in church affairs and her benevolences have been large.
The funeral was held at the home this afternoon. Her pastor, Rev. McKinley paid deserved tribute to the mother who is gone.
Ps: 35:14 "I bowed down heavily as one that mourneth for his mother." David wrote this Psalm in time of Great trouble. In speaking about his troubles he made one picture after another to give expression to his grief. One of the most significant of these pictures is that of the text--"I bowed down heavily as one that mourneth for his mother." Mohammed once was asked: "What relation has the strongest claim on our affection and respect?" and instantly and emphatically replied, "The mother, the mother, the mother." Our mother is with us in childhood, takes our part in youth, and has the greatest hold upon us in after life. She wins the deepest love and her loss is most keenly felt. Every bereavement has its own peculiarity, makes its own wound, and conveys its own lessons. It is not necessary, or expedient, to compare the loss of a mother with that of any other relative-(excerpt)
Chase County Leader-News, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, December 31, 1909
We gather today around the bier of a very lovely and very tenderly beloved mother.
Agnes Gow McNiven was born July 22nd, 1859, near Doune, Perthshire, Scotland. She came to Wisconsin in May 1877. She was married to James McNee, June 4th, 1879, at Bradford Centre. Wisconsin. She removed to Cottonwood Falls, January 1884, where she has resided ever since.
She has been the mother of six children, four of whom survive. Her husband passed away about fourteen years ago. In addition to raising her own family, Mrs. McNee has been the mother, practically, of several families of children, who have been most fortunate in being under her guidance. She has had many cares and sorrows, and has had to perform many duties usually attended to by the husband and father. She has shown unusual tact and executive ability in the management of affairs. She was of a quiet disposition, marvelously patient, well poised and self-controlled.
Mrs. McNee and her husband were charter members of the Presbyterian church in this city. She was an earnest and devoted Christian and loved the House of the Lord. She passed away from us as President of the Women's Missionary Society.
Mrs. McNee was a very excellent and valuable women in this home, in our church, and in this entire community. These have suffered an irreparable loss. Her recent illness was a surprise to most of us. It proved to be of a most serious character. Everything that love, science, and skill could do was done, but without avail. While our loss is great and irreparable, death to her has been gain. For her to be absent from the body is to be reunited with her husband and to be present with the Lord forever. She has been transferred from the home on earth to the more beautiful and more permanent
home above.
It is all right to bow down heavily and morn for mother; but that is because of our loss. It is also all right to rejoice an be glad because her period of suffering was brief, because she has escaped the infirmities of great age, and because her eternal destiny is bright and glorious. Let us make her Saviour ours and be ready to join her in Heaven when our several times shall come. "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from henceforth."
Chase County Leader-News, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, Dec 31, 1909
by Lorna Marvin
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