The Anthony Weekly Bulletin Harper County Friday April 30, 1897 Hiram McKAY was born in Jefferson county, Indiana, September 27, 1823, and died at his home in Anthony, Kans., at four o'clock on the morning of April 26, 1897, aged 73 years, 6 months and 29 days. The deceased was married to Elizabeth ETHERTON on the 22nd of January, 1846 and thirteen children came to bless their union, ten of them with the widow survive him. The deceased children are mary A. FRED, who died in Reno county, Kansas in 1882; Margaret V. SROSSMAN, who died in Montgomery county, Kansas, in 1881 and Joseph D. McKAY, who died in infancy, in Grundy county, Illinois. The surviving children are Martha HOPPER, Champaign, Illinois; Almira MOUNTAIN, Crystal Lake, Ill.; Francis M. McKAY, Chicago, Ill.; George W. McKAY, Anthony, Kansas; Benjamin F. McKAY, Independence, Kas.; Sophia E. McKAY, Anthony, Kansas; Archibald S. McKAY, Enid, Oklahoma; emma A. MILES, Garden City, Kans.; and Austin T. McKAY, Anthony, Kansas. The deceased was a man of marked character, and as husband, father and citizen was faithful to his every duty. his married life extending over a period of fifty-one years was spent in an honest endeavor to follow the teachings of the golden rule, and few men came nearer adhereing literally to its principles. He was a devoted husband, and his whole life was one of self sacrifice to his family; while the parent, he was also the companion of his children, and they received the benefit of his wise counsel and admonitions, and their home life was an ideal one. He had little thought of pomp or power and though he made his family his first care and duty, he was a good citizen and always raised his voice on the side of the oppressed and used his franchise for the right as he saw it. He was a consistent member of the Baptist church, and his church work like that of th ehome, left its impress upon his associates, for he served his God with his whole heart and soul. In the death of Hiram McKAY, the large family of sons and daughters are bereft of an indulgent and devoted father, the community has lost an upright and concientious citizen, but the blow falls heaviest on this wife, the loving and devoted companion of over half a century; she who has ministered to his every want, anticipated his wish and been alike the sharer of his joys and griefs, will know no further joy until the glad reunion of th souls in Heaven; hers is the sacred grief, and to her and and each member of the famiy the heartfelt sympathy of the many friends is extende! d.