Hi Fergus list, Just thought I would share this. It was sent to me many many many years ago. Even if you are not from this Fergus line, it is interesting journalism of the period. April 16, 1874 Mrs. Marion McGhee The funeral of Mrs. Marion McGhee was attended from her late residence on Wednesday, April 8th. A large concourse of neighbors, friends and relatives gathered to pay the last sad duties to the aged lady. The funeral service was very kindly and appropriately conducted by Rev. E. Turner. Mrs. McGhee was born in the city of Glasgow, Scotland April 21st, 1794. She was the third child of William and Marion Fergus, and according to the family records, a direct descendant of one of the kings of Scotland. In the year 1812 she married Alexander McGhee, and the following year emigrated to America. Their first residence was Jersey City, but various removes and fortunes finally brought the family to Willsboro, about the year 1824, since which the subject of this sketch has lived in a retired and beautiful spot at the foot of Ball Mountain, about one mile from Willsboro' Falls, where both the well know visitor and the pedestrian stranger seeking rural haunts or mountain fastness were sure to the open hand and warm heart characteristic of Scotch hospitality. By what turn of the fickle wheel of fortune their estate in Scotland was swept away the writer does not know, but certain it is, that quiet home under the mountain contained many a relic of former magnificence. Though the fortunes of the family have been well mended by the sons, yet there was a time when this estimable lady suffered many privatations that she might allow her children priveleges of education. Keenly alive to any neglect which reversal of fortune is sure to bring, Mrs. McGhee guarded her family pride with jealous eye, and when feeling the tooth ill-founded aristocracy, was once heard to boast of royal blood, and to assert with becoming dignity, that the Duke and Duchess of Hamilton attended her wedding. Mrs. McGhee was noted in life for her kindness to the poor and suffering, and many a wasted little body has been arrayed for the grave in garments furnished and adjusted by her own hands. She lived to the advanced age of eighty years, was a member of the Congregational Church and died in peaceful assurance of faith in Jesus Christ. BOUQUET RIVER