Mrs. Clara Dunn McPheeters.

On Tuesday night, Jan. 12th, 1886, Mrs. Clara Dunn McPheeters, wife of Dr. Jos. G. McPheeters, departed this life, leaving her bereaved husband, her children, her children's children, and many friends and relatives to mourn their loss.

Mrs. McPheeters was born in Oldham County, Ky., May 29th, 1814, and at the time of her death, was seventy one years, seven months and fourteen days old. She was married to Dr. McPheeters June 23d 1836. The family consisted of four children, two sons and two daughters, who are all married. These and the seven grandchildren were constantly about the bedside of the loved mother till she sweetly breathed her last. The fiftieth anniversary of the marriage of Dr. and Mrs. McPheeters, the celebration for which the children were beginning to prepare, would have taken place next June, but Death for the first time invaded the household and removed her whom they thus affectionately desired to honor.

As death is rapidly removing those who for the last half century and more have been connected with the early history of our town, it may not be out of place to refer to the family connection of the deceased. The parents of Mrs. McPheeters were Samuel and Elizabeth Grundy Dunn, who lived about sixty years ago in Oldham County, Ky., and in 1825 came to Bloomington, and became the possessors of a large farm, on the eastern border of the town, long known as the "Dunn farm," a portion of which was selected on account of the beauty of the site, as the seat of the University of Indiana.

The parents of Mrs. McPheeters were consistent and exemplary members of the Presbyterian church. They were noted for their industry, their intelligence, their thrift and their piety, and were highly esteemed by the whole community. When Mr. Dunn and family arrived in this place it was almost a wilderness. The heavy timber had only partially been cleared away from the town, and it was no easy matter to prepare a farm for cultivation, even in the vicinity of the town. The energy of the whole family was required for this work. Mr. Dunn's family consisted of five sons and three daughters. Geo. Grundy Dunn, well known some years ago as a distinguished statesman and orator, Samuel Fowler Dunn, Felix Clelland Dunn, these are among the deceased; William Dickey Dunn, now in Montana, and Benjamin Rice Dunn still survive. The daughters, all now deceased, were the twin sisters, Mrs. Lucinda Carter and Mrs. Clara McPheeters, and Mrs. Eleanor Charles, wife of the late Col. Wm. Charles, who died from wounds received in the valley of Shenandoah.

Many years ago, Mrs. McPheeters connected herself with the Presbyterian church, becoming formally a member of that church in which she was baptized. For the last few years of her life she was prevented through illness to a great extent, from attending public worship. It would appear from a conversation she had with the Rev. Mr. Binkley, on the occasion of her sister's Mrs. Carter's death, that she anticipated that her own demise was not far distant. She thus expressed herself: "Lovely and pleasant in our lives, in our death, we will not be divided. I will not be far behind."