Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1877-10-26
Death of Prominent Residents.
MARGARET CHRISTIAN M'CUE.

the day that brought such crowd 10 Cne
pretty country Presbyterian church at
Messy Creek. The building was crowded
and the yard was filled with people who
had come to the funeral of the Oldest mem
Der of the congregation, Mrs. Margaret
Christian McCue, the mother OF Maj Jno
Marshall McCue, who bad died Friday
evening at the residence of her son. She
had Joined the church in, 1911 when Rev
Alb. Davidson was pastor and when that
congregation worshipped in the old Meth
odist church at Mt. Solou. She had spent
a whole life, as Rev. J. W. Rcsebro. the
pastor, in his funeral sermon truly said, in
doing good, but her life had been in other
: respects, also, remarkable one being a
link binding the present generation to that
which achieved the independence of the
nation.
She was the daughter of James and Jane
Trimble and was borS on Clear Creek in
Woodford CO., KY, NoY. 9th, 1870. The
treaty of peace with Great Britain had
been signed scarcely seven years, Wash
ington had not filled year and half Of
his first Presidential term, and on that
very year the last of the thirteen States,
Rhode Island was admitted to the Union.
Virginia had only been an independent
State fifteen years. Her father had emil
grated from Augusta county having resi-
ded not far from, if not in, the old stone
house about two miles from Churchvllle
The Indians attacked the family at that
stone house, killing James Trimble's father
and taking his sister prisoner, James who
was blowing in the field escaped but was
captured by the Indians who in turn We're
attacked near Tygarts Valley (now in Pen
dleton, W. Va..) by Col. Geo. Moffett, who
rescued the whites and afterwards married
Miss Trimble. James fought at the
battle Of Point Pleasant and afterwards
served in the Revolutionary war, and
emigrated to Kentucky On the reports
brought by Daniel Boone, Gen. Knox COM
handing the party of emigrants. He mar
ried Jane Allen, by whom he had six SONS
and two daughters, one of the daughters
being the subject Of this sketch. In 1901
he bought land in Highland CO., Ohio, but
moved to Ohio with her children. From
there she sent five sons into the war of
1872, from that home of one of those
sons, Allen Trimble was elected Gov
ernor of Ohio, and another, VIM. Trim
BILE became United States Senator from
that State and Cary and Cyrus, two
other sons, became officers in the q.
S. Army. Mary, one Of the daughters be-
came the wife of John M. Nelson, of Ohio,
and his daughter is now a missionary to
India.
From the Ohio home Margaret Trimble
often returned by bride path, stage road
and the railroad, as each took the place OF
the other, to visit her relatives in Vir-
ginia, and here, in 1908, she was married to
James A. McCue, the eldest son of Rev.
.Jno. McCue, pastor Of Thinking Spring
congregation. The marriage took place at
the home of Maj. VIM. Bell, the present
home of W. J. D. Bell, on Lewis Creek,
the ceremony being performed by Rev.
VIM. Wilson, then pastor of Augusta
Church. 1t was double wedding, for by
the same ceremony her cousin, Margaret
Bell, became the wife of Mr.. Kayser, the
father of our respected citizens, VIM. B.
Kayser and Davis A. Kayser. Mr.. Nc
Cue was for more than As years magis-
trate of the county, and for more than 20
the Commissioner of the Revenue. He
died some "a years ago. There were five
children born to him. One daughter be
came first the wife of Mr.. GateWood, and
then of DR.. G. r. Harris. She and her
husband are both dead, leaving two chill
dren, DR.. Jno. W. Harris and Miss Mar
garet Harris. Mrs. McCue's only son,
Maj. John Marshall McCae, survives and
lives at the old homestead. He was for
25 years magistrate of the county, and
for some six sessions between '46 and ga
a delegate in the legislature.
Mrs. McCue was woman Of extraor-
binary mental ability, and kept herself in
formed on all the current topics of the
day. Even on the day of her death, at her
request, her son, Maj. McCue, read her, as
was his custom, the ne wspapers of the day.
She was devoted Christian. and her home
was the headquarters for ministers of all
denominations She was a Presbyterian
of the strongest type and in half cen
fury she had rarely missed meeting
of Lexington Presbytery, and it was
said at one time that she had been in at
tendance oftener than any one Of its mem
bers. On political issues she was well post
ed, and could forcibly' maintain her
opinions. But she will be longest remen-
bered for her gentle and loving ministra-
lions to the afflicted and the needy. Mount
ed on her spirited horse she loved to go
at the first intelligence, though miles dis
tant, to comfort the sick, to sooth the dy-
ING OF succor the needy. White and black
rich and poor, alike rise up and bless her
memory.
It was but three weeks ago that Mrs.
McCue rode some two miles to see old
neighbors, and spent a portion of day.
A few days before her death, i'll attempt
ing to go to the fire to replace fallen
brand. when left alone for few moments,
she met with fall that, perhaps. was the
Immediate. cause of her death. But the
measure of her life was full, and minis
tered to by her loving and devoted son and
his equally loving and devoted wife, she
peacefully exchanged worlds, having ''No
other desire,'' as she said not long before
her death, ethan to pass over the river and
be at rest.''
COL. VIM. A. BELL.
Gal. VIM. A. Bell died at his residence
neax staunton Tuesday Of paralysis, aged
73 years. He was formerly magistrate of
the county for many years, and was gen
tleman OF the.old school, of warm heart and
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