This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McKinsey Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EY.2ADE/336 Message Board Post: Lassen Advocate, Susanville, California – 4 February 1886 3;5 Obituary. The subject of this sketch, Miss Rachel F. McKinsey, was born in Kentucky April 14, 1826, and died in Susanville, Lassen County, Cal., Jan. 28, 1886. She removed when quite young with her parent from her native State of Missouri, where she lost her mother. From there she moved to Wisconsin. She married in the latter State, John Henry Fresch and with him came to Downieville, Cal., in the year 1852. Soon after their arrival in the next summer her husband died. In the year 1854 she was married to Mr. A.J. McKinsey, with whom she lived in happy marriage relations up to the time of death, which occurred in Susanville at the date above given at the residence of her son N.S. McKinsey. She removed from Downieville to this place with her husband in July 1883, and made her home with her son. She had two children born to her. One by her first husband, born Aug. 13, 1853, and was drowned in the Yuba River in 1862. The other by her second husband, residing at this time in Susanville. Mrs. McKinsey, at an early age, embraced religion and lived a Christian life up to the time of her death, and had abundant opportunity during her last sickness to thoroughly test the faith she loved so well. She was a woman of much physical force and resided the attacks of the distressing disease—heart disease—that preyed upon her for several months before her death. For several months past she has been in a condition of threatened death at any moment. It was painful to look upon her emaciated form and she never faltered in her faith. It was a constant triumph of the soul over the body. She seemed in all the visits of the writer, to be always in the possession of a vigorous faith, and an unshaken trust in all-wise Providence. She always manifested a lively interest in the Church, and would have been glad of the privilege of participating in its worship had she not been deprived of attendance upon public worship for some previous to her death. Death seemed reluctant to strike the fatal blow and end her sufferings. The weeks of waiting were weeks of preparation for the translation, so that when the messenger finally came she breathed her last saying, “It’s all over; it is well.” O.L.B Susanville, Feby. 3, 1886