Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1907-02-20
The PASSING OF a Pioneer.

John Fletcher McDougal died at the |
home of his grandchildren, Mr.. and Mrs. |
Thomas f.. McCluskey, in Gilman City, 7
on Monday evening, January 2Sth, 1907, |
in the nmetv-third year of his age.
Born i'm Marion county, yin ginia, on
May LIST, 1914 the ineal descendant of
the ancient Scottish Clan McDougal.
TINS venerable man inherited from his
rugged ancestors the iron will aud
strong constitution which prolonged ms
life SO far beyond the allotted three
score wears and ten" His graudfathcr,
Rev. William McDOugal,a distinguished
and powerful Presbyterian preach' T,
was sent as young man by the Presby-
terians of the Highlands of Scotland to
take charge of an isolated band of that
church located on the Monougahela
river in Virginia, away back in Colonial
DAYS, and literally died III the harness
preaching MP TO his last week-at the
age of lOl years while Mr.. McDougal's
father and mother died in Virginia III
I 1861, each nearly 90 years old
Mr. MCDOugal was twice married.
First in his early manhood to ElVlra
Borgess. by whom ne had ten children,
seven of whom survive him; namely
Martha, wife Of DR.. X. l.. Green,
Anadarko, Oklahoma; Margaret, widow
of Davis +. Megill. Tyro, Kansas; Della,
wife of Wesley Keplar Perry, Okla
homa Henry G , Kansas City, Mo
Fcstus II PrinC e. on, Mo. Luther f..
Eugene, Oregon, and Clara Elvira, wife
of DR. c. \. Tull, Clay Center, Kansas
His first wife dying III 1855, during the
Civil war he married Harriet Upton,
who died about three years ago, and by
whom he had two children; namely {:
Basil H., Van Wyck, Idaho, and Maude,
wife of CT. Sterling Tuthile, Combs,
| Arkansas.
AS a farmer and stock raiser, Mr..
McDougal provided literally for his
| family, lived we'll educated his children,
yet by his frugal habits accumulated a
comfortable fortune, nearly all of which
however he distributed equally among
all his ildren, some two years ago, since
which time he has attended TO little If
any, business, and calmly and quietly
awaited the closing scene, which he
often expressed the hope would come
soon.
In politics. Mr. McDougal was an old
! line Wing up to the disso ution of that
great national party, and has since
affiliated with the Republican party +;
but above all, he was a prohibitionist.
| Up to short time ago. nothing pleased
| him more than to tell of riding % miles
on horseback to hear Henry Clay discuss
the tariff question in the campaign of
80; of the disastrous panic Of three
years. He died i'll the firm belief that
Henry Clay was the greatest American
statesman living or dead.
After enjoying a successful career in
his native country. Mr.. McDougal came
10 Missouri, bought large farm on the
Bancroft prairie in l. ncOln township
In this CDaviess) county 4 years ago
and lived ON that prairie, which TO him
was the fairest and the best in all the
world, until the end. He was genial
and c1mpanionable; no one loved to hear
or tell a joke or story more than he
Blessed with unusual strength of both
. body and mind, clear of head and kind
of heart careful and close vet Just and
fair In all his business transactions, it
was his proud boast that he never
either cheated, or got cheated and
that his word was as good as his bond. >
and both were true. TifdS he spent the
93 years of his life, aid thus he died. No
wonder he has held 20 the end the respect
esteem and confidence of all who knew
him. All his Strong, mental faculties
We're spared to him in a most marked
degree and mp to about a year ago he
. could read and write without glasses
anu h'llt lhllN dbifdSl Will lllt tNtulS
of the day. Then body, mind and mem
DRY commenced to fail and for months
in fancy lived nearly all the time back
in Nrginia'-wlth the family, the
friends the trees. the streams and the
mountains of his boyhood and early
manhood, and i'm this condition ne finally
fell into gentle slumber, even as a
child falls asleep, only to awaken on the
further shore.
ON Wednesday. Both inst, the warm
hearted, generous. good people of the
Bancroft prairie the neighbors and
Friends among whom ne had gone i'm
and out for more than four decades
. with tender hands, LAID away In the
Pilot Gro.o churchyard east of Ban
croft lac frail wasted form Of the
genial old man who bad been friend of
ALL Ga.Iitan North Mis-ourian, FebS