The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1877-11-22
Mrs. Margaret Eccue.

/ Ju6 OBITUARY uOBlC6 OI Lu6 laJ0 MIS-.
Margaret G. McCue, who recently
died in Augusta county, Va? Tt
/ portrays Justly the worth and virtues
of an estimnble lady, who has many
relatives and friends in this State
and Kentucky, who will revere her.
memory and shed the sympathetic
tear Yours, &c.
/ Mrs. MARaARET CHRISTIAN McCUE.
The death of this Cstimable lady, to
which brief reference was made 10
/ our issue Of last week. adds another
to the rapidly increasing number Of
those who have of late years been
summoned to their rest, and whose
( departure has occesioned a deep and
widely felt sensEfbof bereavement in
/ nearly every class and condition of
/ society. Mrs McCue was a native
of Woodford county, Kentucky, being
horn near the city Of Lexington,
I 1870, IN which town she was educat-
ed, her parents having removed from
this county soon after the close Of
the American Revolution. She was
married to her relative. the late
/ James A. McCue, in summer Of 1908.
and since that time had continuously
resided on the family estate, near Mt.
Scion. Mrs, McCue was a woman
Of remarkable strength and force Of.
character. She united to an intel
lect Of almost masculine vigor and
( quickness, an energy that was in
domitable, and a frmness of purpose
that no obstacle could appaL Her
mind had been trained in q
school that developed it in robust
strength while it polished and adorn
ed it Works of fiction wer never
her favorites and with the exception
Of the writings of Scott, we question
whether she had ever read a novel.
In historical knowledge she, howev-
er, was well versed, especially in
ecclesiastical history, and her taste
led her strongly to the study of con-
1 troversial writing. She was a devot-
ed Presbyterian and a jealous labor
er in the congregation of Moss
Greek from 1911 up to within a few
years of her death. The bounds of
the church were at that time widely
extended, and indeed it was hardly
known as Messy Creek church prop
er She very frequently attended
service at the old Stone church, dis
tant nearly twelve miles. going and F.
returning with her husband the same
day. She was an expert and intre-
pid hOrsewoman, and made during
the earlier days repeated journeys to |
Kentucky and Ohio on horseback. /
accompanied by her children and
/ servant. When any friend or rela- /.
tive IN The limits of the county was
seriously Ill her great desire was to .
be with them, and the faithful riding
horse was equipped and at the door
as soon as the intelligence would I.
reach her. Her preference for this
mode Of travel even after the days of
carriages and turnpikes, was singu- |
larly retained, and when eighty years
old she would order her horse for a /
short ride to church or to a near
neighbor's and manage him.with the |
ease and fearlessness of n girl. To \
! the poor and afflicted within the /
range Of her assistance she was ever
a benefactor and a friend, and her |
spacious house was always the ref .
uge Of those who stood in need of /
friendly counsel, or of substantial .
aid. In matters of religion, and es-
pecially in reference to Sunday OBJ /
servance, her ideas were rigid and any .
one whom she regarded as neglecting
or failing in his duty in this respect. /
be he influential or humble, met her
prompt and unspGring rebuke. She .
had lived and worked while two gen
eratiOns grew mp around her, and .
felt that her relations to them gave .
her this privilege as Of night. While .
S eTn and infeNible in her demeanoT
towards the conscious wrong dOer.
she was prompt with sympathy and
charity to the lowly and ignorant,
and sought by instruction and kind
ness 10 win them to the right. The
long procession of sincere mourners
that followed her remains to the last
resting place in the family cemetery,
near the home which as a girlish
bride she had entered seventy years
before and where she had fought her
battle Of life so bravely and honora-
BY, attests the esteem in which she
was held by young and old, and
while they sorrowed for her as one
whose influence and example-whOse
kindly heart and generous nature had
gone from them for ever, they knew ]
she had entered on the blessed frui-
ton of her holy life work, and that
from age and infrmity the hand Of
the loving Master had released her
to take her to ''that rest which on
the morning of her death she yearn- l.
ed for, and to which she looked for
ward with such radiant hope.
Mrs. McCue was one of a family
which for nearly a century and a half
has figured conspieuousIy and hon
orably in the military and civil his
tory of our country. Her father,
james T1imble, who married Jane
Allen in this county, was a captain
of cavalry in the war for Iudepend |
ence, and as a mere boy participated
several years before in the bloody
battle of Point Pleasant. fought by
Gen. Lewis against the Indian chief
Cornstalk She was a niece Of Lieut..
Hugh Allen, who fell in this fight,
while John, another uncle, was an
officer in the provincial Battalion
that marched under Washington as
Major, and perished in Braddock's
defeat before Fort DUquesne. She /
was a sister Of the late Ex-Governor |
Allen Trimble of Ohio, of Col Wm.
A. Trimble, q gallant and distin-
guished officer Of the regular army,
who was desperately wounded in a
sortie at Fort Erie, in 1913, and died |