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- Wife of John McKim.
The above information is a compilation of information from the "Iowa Deaths & Burials, 1850-1990", the 1900 census and from her daughter Emma's Death Certificate.
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MRS. J. M'KIM DEAD
"Died in St. Joseph April 21. Body brought here for Burial."
Mrs. McKim died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. E. E. McCormack, St. Joseph, Mo., April 21, 1907, aged seventy years, eight months, and twenty-three days.
She was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, July 28, 1836, married John McKim, February 3, 1853, and they moved to Crawford county, Iowa, 1865. To them were born ten children, five of whom are living and attended her funeral, namely, Joseph of Moline, Ili., Martin of Lamoni, Mrs. Emma L. Dobson, and Mrs. E. E. McCormack of St. Joseph, Mo., and Mrs. William Bell of Hoxie, Kansas.
The family came to Lamoni in 1880 therefore have resided here twenty-seven years, of which they kept a hotel about twenty years.
Feb. 3 Mr. and Mrs. McKim celebrated their fifty-fourth wedding anniversary with their children at St. Joseph. From there Mr. McKim came home ill with a cold. He did not recover but died on the fifteenth.
Mrs. McKim had been ill for some time and his sudden death was a great shock to her. This, and the journey to Lamoni arriving a few hours before his death and the return to St. Joseph, proved too much for her, though she was comfortable and apparently improving. A few moments before she died she began to sink and passed suddenly away.
Her life was one of the best and noblest, her character being steadfast, earnest, and devoted as wife, mother, friend, and member of society in its truest meaning as one of the faithful workers in the home and in many other good deeds. She was a member of the [R.] L. D. S. Church having joined it May 14, 1871, in Crawford county.
Funeral services were held at the house at three p. m. Wednesday, April 24, sermon by Elder H. A. Stebbins.
SOURCE: The Lamoni Chronicle, published in Lamoni, Iowa on Thursday, April 25th, 1907, p. 1
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