Wife of Abraham Dudley. Daughter of Revolutionary War Patriot Thomas Birch of Virginia.
DAR Real Daughter
Obituary contributed by John Stoutimore:
Plattsburg Leader, Plattsburg, Mo. 5-28-1909:
Mrs. Mary Birch Dudley.
This daughter of a Revolutionary officer, died at the home of her niece, Mrs. Turney, on Friday last, in Kansas City, Missouri, in the ninetieth year of her earthly life.
Her remains were brought to Plattsburg on Sunday morning and rested at the home of her nephew, Robert Frost. The Rev. Standiford delivered a very appropriate address from the text “If a man die shall he live again;” after which she was conveyed to the old cemetery and buried by the side of her husband and only son, John E. Shawhan, in the presence of a number of relatives and friends.
Mrs. Dudley was a most remarkable woman physically and mentally. Her father, Thomas Erskine Birch was an Episcopal minister living in Richmond Virginia, and when the Revolutionary war commenced he took off his gown and put on the uniform of an Ensign and entered the Virginia Navy under John Paul Jones and in one of his fiercest engagements was badly wounded in the groin which disabled him for future service. After the war he moved to Kentucky and established Washington College in Mason county, where, among other distinguished men, he converted the late Col. Alexander W. Doniphan and died in Cynthiana, Ky., in 1820—where Mrs. Dudley was born, she being then but a year old.
Mrs. Dudley’s mother was a member of the regular Baptist church. She joined the church under the teachings of Kentucky’s most celebrated divine, Rev. Thos. Dudley, whose nephew she afterward married.
She was an ardent christian woman and clung to her faith with the ardor of a crusader. She was well known to the older inhabitants as she spent much of her earlier life with her son John who was a merchant in Plattsburg before and after the war.
She was the last of her father’s family, as her sisters, Mrs. Dunham, Mrs. Turney, Bassett, and her brothers, Thomas E. Weston and James H. Birch had preceded her.
If devotion to her religion and an irreproachable life on earth count for the future, then she is among the blessed on the other shore.
DAR Real Daughter
Obituary contributed by John Stoutimore:
Plattsburg Leader, Plattsburg, Mo. 5-28-1909:
Mrs. Mary Birch Dudley.
This daughter of a Revolutionary officer, died at the home of her niece, Mrs. Turney, on Friday last, in Kansas City, Missouri, in the ninetieth year of her earthly life.
Her remains were brought to Plattsburg on Sunday morning and rested at the home of her nephew, Robert Frost. The Rev. Standiford delivered a very appropriate address from the text “If a man die shall he live again;” after which she was conveyed to the old cemetery and buried by the side of her husband and only son, John E. Shawhan, in the presence of a number of relatives and friends.
Mrs. Dudley was a most remarkable woman physically and mentally. Her father, Thomas Erskine Birch was an Episcopal minister living in Richmond Virginia, and when the Revolutionary war commenced he took off his gown and put on the uniform of an Ensign and entered the Virginia Navy under John Paul Jones and in one of his fiercest engagements was badly wounded in the groin which disabled him for future service. After the war he moved to Kentucky and established Washington College in Mason county, where, among other distinguished men, he converted the late Col. Alexander W. Doniphan and died in Cynthiana, Ky., in 1820—where Mrs. Dudley was born, she being then but a year old.
Mrs. Dudley’s mother was a member of the regular Baptist church. She joined the church under the teachings of Kentucky’s most celebrated divine, Rev. Thos. Dudley, whose nephew she afterward married.
She was an ardent christian woman and clung to her faith with the ardor of a crusader. She was well known to the older inhabitants as she spent much of her earlier life with her son John who was a merchant in Plattsburg before and after the war.
She was the last of her father’s family, as her sisters, Mrs. Dunham, Mrs. Turney, Bassett, and her brothers, Thomas E. Weston and James H. Birch had preceded her.
If devotion to her religion and an irreproachable life on earth count for the future, then she is among the blessed on the other shore.
Wife of Abraham Dudley. Daughter of Revolutionary War Patriot Thomas Birch of Virginia.
DAR Real Daughter
Obituary contributed by John Stoutimore:
Plattsburg Leader, Plattsburg, Mo. 5-28-1909:
Mrs. Mary Birch Dudley.
This daughter of a Revolutionary officer, died at the home of her niece, Mrs. Turney, on Friday last, in Kansas City, Missouri, in the ninetieth year of her earthly life.
Her remains were brought to Plattsburg on Sunday morning and rested at the home of her nephew, Robert Frost. The Rev. Standiford delivered a very appropriate address from the text “If a man die shall he live again;” after which she was conveyed to the old cemetery and buried by the side of her husband and only son, John E. Shawhan, in the presence of a number of relatives and friends.
Mrs. Dudley was a most remarkable woman physically and mentally. Her father, Thomas Erskine Birch was an Episcopal minister living in Richmond Virginia, and when the Revolutionary war commenced he took off his gown and put on the uniform of an Ensign and entered the Virginia Navy under John Paul Jones and in one of his fiercest engagements was badly wounded in the groin which disabled him for future service. After the war he moved to Kentucky and established Washington College in Mason county, where, among other distinguished men, he converted the late Col. Alexander W. Doniphan and died in Cynthiana, Ky., in 1820—where Mrs. Dudley was born, she being then but a year old.
Mrs. Dudley’s mother was a member of the regular Baptist church. She joined the church under the teachings of Kentucky’s most celebrated divine, Rev. Thos. Dudley, whose nephew she afterward married.
She was an ardent christian woman and clung to her faith with the ardor of a crusader. She was well known to the older inhabitants as she spent much of her earlier life with her son John who was a merchant in Plattsburg before and after the war.
She was the last of her father’s family, as her sisters, Mrs. Dunham, Mrs. Turney, Bassett, and her brothers, Thomas E. Weston and James H. Birch had preceded her.
If devotion to her religion and an irreproachable life on earth count for the future, then she is among the blessed on the other shore.
DAR Real Daughter
Obituary contributed by John Stoutimore:
Plattsburg Leader, Plattsburg, Mo. 5-28-1909:
Mrs. Mary Birch Dudley.
This daughter of a Revolutionary officer, died at the home of her niece, Mrs. Turney, on Friday last, in Kansas City, Missouri, in the ninetieth year of her earthly life.
Her remains were brought to Plattsburg on Sunday morning and rested at the home of her nephew, Robert Frost. The Rev. Standiford delivered a very appropriate address from the text “If a man die shall he live again;” after which she was conveyed to the old cemetery and buried by the side of her husband and only son, John E. Shawhan, in the presence of a number of relatives and friends.
Mrs. Dudley was a most remarkable woman physically and mentally. Her father, Thomas Erskine Birch was an Episcopal minister living in Richmond Virginia, and when the Revolutionary war commenced he took off his gown and put on the uniform of an Ensign and entered the Virginia Navy under John Paul Jones and in one of his fiercest engagements was badly wounded in the groin which disabled him for future service. After the war he moved to Kentucky and established Washington College in Mason county, where, among other distinguished men, he converted the late Col. Alexander W. Doniphan and died in Cynthiana, Ky., in 1820—where Mrs. Dudley was born, she being then but a year old.
Mrs. Dudley’s mother was a member of the regular Baptist church. She joined the church under the teachings of Kentucky’s most celebrated divine, Rev. Thos. Dudley, whose nephew she afterward married.
She was an ardent christian woman and clung to her faith with the ardor of a crusader. She was well known to the older inhabitants as she spent much of her earlier life with her son John who was a merchant in Plattsburg before and after the war.
She was the last of her father’s family, as her sisters, Mrs. Dunham, Mrs. Turney, Bassett, and her brothers, Thomas E. Weston and James H. Birch had preceded her.
If devotion to her religion and an irreproachable life on earth count for the future, then she is among the blessed on the other shore.
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