Person:Andrew McCartney (3)

Obituary

OBITUARY September 9, 1883: Dies at this place last Thursday, Andrew McCartney, an old resident, aged 79 yrs and 11 months. The Deceased moved to this county in 1835 and has been a resident since that time until his death eccept about one year during the late war he served as a member of Comany E, 84th Indiana Volunteers until discharged on acount of deisease contracted in the service. He was the father of 24 children, 11 of whom are living. He was a kind and good citizen and was generally respected by all. His remaind was inteerred at Zoar Church Cemetery, Jay county, on Friday. The old gentleman now sleeps the sleep that knows no walking. Let his good actions live after him. Let his faults, if any he had be interred with his bones. His children here with whom he resided wish to thank the friends and neighbors for their assistance and attention during the last illness of the deceased.

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   Andrew McCartney
   
   Birth: Nov. 23, 1803
   Bath County
   Virginia, USA
   Death: Sep. 5, 1883
   Ridgeville
   Randolph County
   Indiana, USA
   
   Andrew a Son of Thomas and Sarah Bennet McCartney. Married 4 to 5 times, Michelle Roby, Mary Wiley, Jenetta Cook and Lydia Key.
   
   http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=51280546

2.   Tucker, E. History of Randolph County, Indiana: with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers, to which are appended maps of its several townships. (Chicago: A. L Kingman, 1882).

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   ANDREW MCCARTNEY, Born 1804, In Virginia, Came first to Jay County in 1837. He has been married several times, Once and the last time , to John Key's sister. He had had a large family, was a rough, harsh, cruel man, with whom no one could live in peace. He would boast of his scrapes and exploits, and in fact, would readily find and plunge into enough of them to answer to any five ordinary men.
   
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   ANDREW McCARTNEY was born in Virginia of Tennessee, of Irish descent. He is said ( how truly we do not know) to have been the father of twenty-seven children; was in the war of the rebellion, though old enough to have been exempt years before, belonging to the Eighty-Fourth Indiana Regiment, and serving from August 21,1862, to Febuary 27,1863.
   Mr. McCartney is said to be a jovial and eccentric old man, and to have a strange and eventful history, having resided in many places and been married several times. His last marriage was in Ward Township, to a lady who is the daughter of Andrew Key, an early pioneer of the Mississinewa region from the state of Tennessee, and a sister to John Key, a prominent resident of that township.
   Old Mr Key and his wife ar both dead, and Mr McCartney and his wife occupy the old Key homestead. Andrew Key and his wife were both burried at the Prospect Graveyard, but no tombstones have been place at their graves.
   Mr. McCartney, true to his life-long adventurous instinct, has left his last wife, who is said not to be grieved above measure at her loss, and found for himself a residence in some other locality.