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... (148) viii Massie Lobban McCue, M. D., b 15, Sept. 1849, Harrison county, Va. ; m 11, Nov. 1879, Emma Freeman Purcell; Dr. McCue a student and distinguished graduate of the University of Virginia. "The favorite and successful practitioner in the neighborhoods of Afton and Greenbrier, Va. An intelligent, successful and independent farmer, assisted by his clever son and only child, Purcell McCue. Dr. McCue is the most generally experienced and practical authority in our midst. A model type man of large proportions with the finest black eyes, lashes and eyebrows ; a very handsome man of the Massie type. Member and Elder in the Lebanon Presbyterian church. * * * - Mrs. Wm. S. Rodes."
Dr. McCue is a prominent member of the Virginia Horticulture Society and their annual meetings are never completed without a special talk from the physician of Greenwood, Va.
The following is taken from a letter to Col. M. H. McCue :
"Home, Jany. 2, '75. (Sat. night)
Cousin Moses : -
* * * Poor Mattie, it is hard for her to become reconciled to the loss of one of the most self sacrificing and faithful mothers any set of children ever had. It was a sad sight to see the seven children surrounding her bier, heart broken and disconsolate. Massie, the youngest child of Martha J. McCue (my wife's mother), graduated two seasons ago at the University in Medicine, and his mother had for some time, been preparing his clothes to go to Richmond to practice his profession, she feeling reconciled to that because he would be only a day removed from her, rather than see him go West or North. I do not think I have ever known a more exemplary young man in character, perfectly free from the many vices that so many of the young men of the present day are addicted to. He lived with me two or three years, and I am thus able to speak of him. He is the finest looking one of the name I have ever seen. There are now about twenty-three grand children and one great-granchild - Mariana Smith's daughter, Bettie, married Dr. Killian and has a daughter some months old. Sandy Stuart thinks Dr. Killian one of the cleverest young men he knows. * *
Afft. your relatives J. M. McCue. ...
