ANN
McQUEEN MCKENZIE-
"Mrs. John McKenzie was stricken with paralysis Saturday
morning, and was unconscious until she died, Tuesday morning at five
o'clock. Her sudden demise causes a gloom over the whole community.
She leaves a large family and a host of warm friends to mourn her
death."
- Obituary
"At
Burke, on Tuesday, August 28th, Mrs. Ann McQueen, wife of John
McKenzie, age 61 years, died.
The
deceased was born in Castleton, Braemar, Scotland, and came to
Athelstan, P. Q. in 1856, and moved to Burke in 1860. Mrs. McKenzie
was a woman of rare Christian character. Educated in a Godly family,
she early became imbued with those sublime doctrines of grace which
affected and permeated her whole life. She was a woman of benevolence
and helpfulness to others - a faithful and devoted wife,
the tenderest of mothers, the kindest, most sympathetic and genial of
neighbors.
In
her death the Church has lost consisted, willing member, the husband,
with
whom she traveled life's journey for near two score years, a loving
wife, and companion, and the children, a mother indeed, and the
community one to whom they were accustomed to look for advice and
help.
Though
suddenly called she was found ready. "Not lost, but gone
before".
- Obituary from the Malone Palladium.
