This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McCreery, Dushane Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/UaB.2ACE/3339 Message Board Post: Indiana, PA “The Indiana Democrat” issue of Wednesday, 10 February 1897, p. 3, col. 2 McCreery At his home in East Mahoning township, on the farm on which he had lived for 45 years, while he was at his daily work, death came to Mr. Robert McCreery, Feb. 8, 1897. At the noon hour as he ate his meal he was seemingly unusually well, at 3 o’clock he was found on his face in the barn, the spirit fled. To him the Master came not unexpectedly to summon him home for he had told his pastor and familiar friends that thus he would go and was ready always about the Father’s business, waiting and willing. Almost 81 years ago he was born in sight of the place on which he died, many of these years most active in every christian work. A member of the session of the Mahoning U.P. church, a leader, a teacher of the bible class even on the Sabbath preceding his death, always present at conference for the coming of Christ’s kingdom, made him a power for good in his neighborhood and brought out many beautiful eulogies from the pastors, who gathered at the Mahoning church Friday to do him honor. Reverends Given and Ewing of the U.P. church, Foresman of the Presbyterian and Crozier of the Covenanter, each testifying to his worth and how he would be missed. His wife nee Nancy Dousheene of Westmoreland lacking but a few months of being 81 with a beautiful serenity of faith, looks back over the fifty years full of earnest thought and fragrant deeds as they trained their ten children for Christ, and forward to the blessed reunion with him and the three daughters who passed over in ! the beauty of womanhood. Of the seven sons, Rev. William and James in Colorado; Frank in California; Naye and Newton at St. Louis; Robert at Punxsutawney and John of Kermoor, Clearfield county. The last three named with the aged mother followed to the grave Friday the one whose departure could only be considered a translation and a triumph. Not only the family but a whole community have precious memories of a life in which Christ and his kingdom took the first place, memories which will become more precious and cheering with every passing year until the reunion above. ___________________________________