9/13/1899 Indiana County Gazette page 5
In the death of Mrs. Rebecca McMullen at her home in Center township, on Monday evening, Indiana county lost perhaps its oldest resident. Mrs. McMullen passed her 97th birthday a few days ago, and her death was due to general debility. The deceased was born in Center township and lived all her long life in that vicinity.
She was a woman of very strong convictions and was a life-long Presbyterian. Mrs. McMullen enjoyed excellent health for a person of her age, until six years ago, when she fell and broke her thigh bone. Since then she had been badly crippled. About the same time her sight and hearing began to fail her, and at her death she was almost totally deaf and blind. Notwithstanding her afflictions she retained all her mental faculties until a short time ago. The death of her son, Harvey, about four months ago, was a great blow and no doubt hastened her death.
She was married to the late Alexander McMullen in 1835, and to them were born seven children, two sons and three daughters. The two sons, Harvey and Rankin, are dead, Rankin having been killed in the Civil war. She is survived by three daughters; Mrs. Sarah M. Soremson, of Utah; Mrs. Eva Orange, of North Dakota, and Ellen, at home. She was a sister of the late Judge Campbell, of Center township; well known in Indiana county. Interment will be made in Oakland cemetery.
In the death of Mrs. Rebecca McMullen at her home in Center township, on Monday evening, Indiana county lost perhaps its oldest resident. Mrs. McMullen passed her 97th birthday a few days ago, and her death was due to general debility. The deceased was born in Center township and lived all her long life in that vicinity.
She was a woman of very strong convictions and was a life-long Presbyterian. Mrs. McMullen enjoyed excellent health for a person of her age, until six years ago, when she fell and broke her thigh bone. Since then she had been badly crippled. About the same time her sight and hearing began to fail her, and at her death she was almost totally deaf and blind. Notwithstanding her afflictions she retained all her mental faculties until a short time ago. The death of her son, Harvey, about four months ago, was a great blow and no doubt hastened her death.
She was married to the late Alexander McMullen in 1835, and to them were born seven children, two sons and three daughters. The two sons, Harvey and Rankin, are dead, Rankin having been killed in the Civil war. She is survived by three daughters; Mrs. Sarah M. Soremson, of Utah; Mrs. Eva Orange, of North Dakota, and Ellen, at home. She was a sister of the late Judge Campbell, of Center township; well known in Indiana county. Interment will be made in Oakland cemetery.
9/13/1899 Indiana County Gazette page 5
In the death of Mrs. Rebecca McMullen at her home in Center township, on Monday evening, Indiana county lost perhaps its oldest resident. Mrs. McMullen passed her 97th birthday a few days ago, and her death was due to general debility. The deceased was born in Center township and lived all her long life in that vicinity.
She was a woman of very strong convictions and was a life-long Presbyterian. Mrs. McMullen enjoyed excellent health for a person of her age, until six years ago, when she fell and broke her thigh bone. Since then she had been badly crippled. About the same time her sight and hearing began to fail her, and at her death she was almost totally deaf and blind. Notwithstanding her afflictions she retained all her mental faculties until a short time ago. The death of her son, Harvey, about four months ago, was a great blow and no doubt hastened her death.
She was married to the late Alexander McMullen in 1835, and to them were born seven children, two sons and three daughters. The two sons, Harvey and Rankin, are dead, Rankin having been killed in the Civil war. She is survived by three daughters; Mrs. Sarah M. Soremson, of Utah; Mrs. Eva Orange, of North Dakota, and Ellen, at home. She was a sister of the late Judge Campbell, of Center township; well known in Indiana county. Interment will be made in Oakland cemetery.
In the death of Mrs. Rebecca McMullen at her home in Center township, on Monday evening, Indiana county lost perhaps its oldest resident. Mrs. McMullen passed her 97th birthday a few days ago, and her death was due to general debility. The deceased was born in Center township and lived all her long life in that vicinity.
She was a woman of very strong convictions and was a life-long Presbyterian. Mrs. McMullen enjoyed excellent health for a person of her age, until six years ago, when she fell and broke her thigh bone. Since then she had been badly crippled. About the same time her sight and hearing began to fail her, and at her death she was almost totally deaf and blind. Notwithstanding her afflictions she retained all her mental faculties until a short time ago. The death of her son, Harvey, about four months ago, was a great blow and no doubt hastened her death.
She was married to the late Alexander McMullen in 1835, and to them were born seven children, two sons and three daughters. The two sons, Harvey and Rankin, are dead, Rankin having been killed in the Civil war. She is survived by three daughters; Mrs. Sarah M. Soremson, of Utah; Mrs. Eva Orange, of North Dakota, and Ellen, at home. She was a sister of the late Judge Campbell, of Center township; well known in Indiana county. Interment will be made in Oakland cemetery.
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