Birth: in Saint Louis county, Missouri.
Census: 1840 Merrimack(sic, Meramec) township, Saint Louis county, Missouri. (Meramec river's 229 mile, is longest free flowing river in Missouri)
Census: 1850, age 10 district 47, Lawrence county, Missouri with parents & two siblings, father a student.
Census: 1870, age 30 Green township, Lawrence county, Missouri with husband, his mother, her sister & three children.
Census: 1880, age 40 Greene township, Lawrence county, Missouri with husband, her sister & three children, he a farmer.
Census: 1900, age 60 Mount Vernon, Lawrence county, Missouri, a lodger and widow with sister, on west Dullins street, stating she had six children, one living.
Census: 1920, age 80 Red Oak, Lawrence county, Missouri daughter's homestead with her husband's nephew & niece.
Her ten year younger sister, Martha "Mattie" Duff, is found living with her on 1870, 1880 and 1900 Federal census.
Death: at Bower's Mill, Red Oak township, Lawrence county, Missouri, likely while living with widowed daughter's family. Missouri Death Certificate
Father: Rev William Henry Duff b: 1816 Kentucky.
Mother: Ruth C Braly b: 13 FEB 1816 Missouri.
Marriage: Enoch Thomas McCune b: 1837 Pike county, Missouri.
Married: 24 JUL 1860 Lawrence county, Missouri.
Known Children of six.
William Harvey McCune b: 23 JUL 1861 Lawrence county, Missouri.
Thomas E (Enoch?) McCune b: DEC 1862 Lawrence county, Missouri.
John T (Thomas?) McCune b: 4 FEB 1868 Lawrence county, Missouri.
Mary McCune b: 1870 Lawrence county, Missouri.
Susan "Sue" Jane McCune b: 1874 Lawrence county, Missouri.
"An anonymous gift was made to the [1892 created branch of; Faithful Circle of King's Daughters] Association [1903] in the amount of $10,000, which was to specifically be used for the construction of a hospital. Later it was learned that Lizzie A McCune left those funds as a memorial to her son Dr T E McCune, who was an associate of Dr Brooks. Mrs McCune, acting as a major impetus for the Carthage Hospital Association contracted for a hospital facility to be constructed near the corner of Centennial and Forest."
Source: "McCune-Brooks Regional Hospital History" (12/19/11)
The first public hospital built was a fourteen bed facility, on the homesite of Sarah R Wood, sold 17, March 1930 for $1,250, opening 1907 at Centennial and Forest. Its believed funds donated to Dr T E McCune's memory by his mother following his 1893 death were used along with funds from Dr Brook's trust, established for "erection, equipping and maintaining" a much needed hospital prior to his 1899 death.
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The name McCune-Brooks was an act by the city fathers in the late twenties when a fifty bed additional building was designed by Kansas City architects Hoener, Baun, and Frosse opened in the fall of 1929 with the major donation from John C Guinn's estate of $75,000 matched with community contributions, ~ constructed by the Busboom Bros (Frank & George) Construction company of Carthage, immediately west of first hospital building which opened twenty-two years earlier, 1907 and was converted to nurses quarters.
Information above provided through research by Bill Boggess
Birth: in Saint Louis county, Missouri.
Census: 1840 Merrimack(sic, Meramec) township, Saint Louis county, Missouri. (Meramec river's 229 mile, is longest free flowing river in Missouri)
Census: 1850, age 10 district 47, Lawrence county, Missouri with parents & two siblings, father a student.
Census: 1870, age 30 Green township, Lawrence county, Missouri with husband, his mother, her sister & three children.
Census: 1880, age 40 Greene township, Lawrence county, Missouri with husband, her sister & three children, he a farmer.
Census: 1900, age 60 Mount Vernon, Lawrence county, Missouri, a lodger and widow with sister, on west Dullins street, stating she had six children, one living.
Census: 1920, age 80 Red Oak, Lawrence county, Missouri daughter's homestead with her husband's nephew & niece.
Her ten year younger sister, Martha "Mattie" Duff, is found living with her on 1870, 1880 and 1900 Federal census.
Death: at Bower's Mill, Red Oak township, Lawrence county, Missouri, likely while living with widowed daughter's family. Missouri Death Certificate
Father: Rev William Henry Duff b: 1816 Kentucky.
Mother: Ruth C Braly b: 13 FEB 1816 Missouri.
Marriage: Enoch Thomas McCune b: 1837 Pike county, Missouri.
Married: 24 JUL 1860 Lawrence county, Missouri.
Known Children of six.
William Harvey McCune b: 23 JUL 1861 Lawrence county, Missouri.
Thomas E (Enoch?) McCune b: DEC 1862 Lawrence county, Missouri.
John T (Thomas?) McCune b: 4 FEB 1868 Lawrence county, Missouri.
Mary McCune b: 1870 Lawrence county, Missouri.
Susan "Sue" Jane McCune b: 1874 Lawrence county, Missouri.
"An anonymous gift was made to the [1892 created branch of; Faithful Circle of King's Daughters] Association [1903] in the amount of $10,000, which was to specifically be used for the construction of a hospital. Later it was learned that Lizzie A McCune left those funds as a memorial to her son Dr T E McCune, who was an associate of Dr Brooks. Mrs McCune, acting as a major impetus for the Carthage Hospital Association contracted for a hospital facility to be constructed near the corner of Centennial and Forest."
Source: "McCune-Brooks Regional Hospital History" (12/19/11)
The first public hospital built was a fourteen bed facility, on the homesite of Sarah R Wood, sold 17, March 1930 for $1,250, opening 1907 at Centennial and Forest. Its believed funds donated to Dr T E McCune's memory by his mother following his 1893 death were used along with funds from Dr Brook's trust, established for "erection, equipping and maintaining" a much needed hospital prior to his 1899 death.
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The name McCune-Brooks was an act by the city fathers in the late twenties when a fifty bed additional building was designed by Kansas City architects Hoener, Baun, and Frosse opened in the fall of 1929 with the major donation from John C Guinn's estate of $75,000 matched with community contributions, ~ constructed by the Busboom Bros (Frank & George) Construction company of Carthage, immediately west of first hospital building which opened twenty-two years earlier, 1907 and was converted to nurses quarters.
Information above provided through research by Bill Boggess
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