Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1885-08-06
OBITU AIRY.
From tn New Hampton (Iowa) Courier.


At his home, New Hampton, Iowa, July 20,
1886, George McCaughey, aged GA years and
II days. Deceased was born in Canton, Stark
county, Ohio, July 3rd, 1921, and resided in
Stark. Colunlbiana and Logan counties until
about the year 1858. when he emigrated to
Wisconsin, where he remained until 1863,
when he removed to Chickasaw county, Iowa,
where he resided until his death.
He was twice married, first, Sept 26th,
1874, to Miss Martha E. jackson, of New Lis
bon, Columbiana county, Ohio, whose death
took place at her home near there, Jan. 18th,
1847. Dec. 1884, he was again married to Miss
Margaret A. White, of Loudonville, Ashland
county, Ohio, who still survives him. He
was the father of two children by his first
wife and ten by the second. At the time of
his death, nine of his children were living,
five sons and four daughters,) and all but
one were present at his bedside during his ill
ness and at his death; the absent one, Mrs. f.
M. Brubaker, being at her home in Florida,
Ohio.
The public and private life of the deceased
has only left an impression for good; all COM
ing in contact with him instinctively feeling
as if they were placed upon their best be-
havior, and the highest need of praises that
can be his is that he did his duty. Consecrat-
ing himself at the age of 10 to his Masters
work, he has, during all his subsequent life,
Christian Church. The influence that he shed
around him bears marked fruitage in the
large family of industrious, earnest children
that he leaves behind him to mourn his loss
and carry on the work that was his. He was
man of earnest convictions, and followed
their promptings unswervingly and while
tolerant as to the opinions of Others, was un-
bending in his own and spurned to compro-
mise with what he considered wrong.
NpJoiDey fn tho pounty xrhpr, IL he
entered upon the work of making home up
on the virgin soil, and dependent upon his own
exertions to rear his large family, he was
forced to protracted and hard work to meet
the increasing demand, and he accepted his
| lc! as marked out by an overruling Provi-
d: zee and gloried in and gloryfed the work
'at was his. He believed in the dignity OF
..bor and labored in dignity. In public as
-. private life, Mr.. McCaughey was firm to
lis convictions, and upon all the moral issues
of the day was ever found foremost in the
interests of humanity and dealt earnest and
hard blows against all vice and corruption,
and was unsparing in his opposition to the
wrong.
At the time of his death he was member
of the Board of Supervisors, having been
called from his farm to look after the inter-
ests of the county. Frequently filling places
of honor and trust, no taint ever attached to
his name, and at the time Of his death he was
honored and trusted by all. He will be
missed in public, his neighbors will miss him
but most of all will he be missed in his home.
But in this our hour of sorrow, there is the
blessed assurance that he was fully prepared
to go, and that with him it is well, for with al
most his latest breath he assured the loved
ones around him that "All was WE'LL" His
was pure and godly life, daily walking in
the fear and love of God near by the Savior's
side
He leaves besides his family, two sisters,
one older and one younger than himself; one
is resident of his home in Iowa and the
other, Mrs. Daniel Karsner, living near
Ayersville, Defiance county, Ohio. One
daughter, Mrs. F. M. Brubaker, lives in
Florida Ohio, though far from the home cir.
Gle, mourns the loss of a worthy idolized
parent.