McCune, Mary [Colwell]: 7/11/1881

Death of Mrs. Mary C. McCune

 

Mrs. Mary C. McCune, who died at the residence of her son-in-law, Mr. John I. Cox, near this borough, on Saturday morning last, had been an invalid for several years, but was only confined to her bed a short time before her death.

 

She was the wife of the late Alexander McCune, of Middle Spring, and was born June 15, 1803, at Colwell's Mill (now owned by Henry Houser) near this borough. She was the daughter of John Colwell who built the mill just mentioned, together with the stone dwelling nearby. Her mother died when she was about one year old and she was then taken to the home of her grandfather, Samuel Cox, in Southampton Township, Franklin County, where she resided until her marriage with Alexander McCune, deceased, in May 1822. She resided for many years at the mill below Middle Spring, now owned by Samuel Myers, and in early life connected herself with the Presbyterian Church at Middle Spring and continued her membership until a few years ago, when she withdrew and connected herself with the church at Shippensburg. She was devotedly attached to her church, and was regularly in attendance until the past three or four years, when her infirmities compelled her to remain indoors. Mrs. McCune leaves the following children: Samuel C. McCune, Ralls Co., MO; J.A.C. McCune; Kezia M. Cox, wife of John I. Cox; and E. J. McCune, Shippensburg. One son, her youngest child, died in infancy. She also leaves three sisters: Mrs. David Hayes, Mrs. Jane Phillips, and Miss Elizabeth Colwell, who reside in Shippensburg. Her only brother, Captain James Colwell, a member of the Cumberland County bar, was killed at the battle of Antietam. We understand that it is her request that Samuel, John A. C. and E. J. McCune, and her son-in-law, John I. Cox, act as pallbearers, which duty was discharged by those persons. The funeral services were conducted by Revs. W. C. McCarrell and Joseph Mahon, and the remains were interred in Spring Hill Cemetery. Her age was seventy-eight years.

 

Mrs. McCune received her education in the Moravian Seminary, at Lititz, Pa., and was, in all respects, an exemplary Christian woman. She was of a quiet, gentle disposition, undemonstrative and retiring in the presence of strangers, but of a warm, sympathetic nature and much loved by a large circle of family and friends1