Frances McKean
| Date of Interment or Death | 02/02/1937 |
|---|---|
| Location | Old Fairview |
| Section | C |
| Block-Lot-Grave | 6-5-2 |
Obituary
Mrs. F. McKean Dies At Home On Sunday Evening
Funeral Services for Pioneer Woman and Civil War Veteran’s Widow To Be Held Tuesday
Mrs. Frances Ambler-McKean died at her home on Sixth Street north Sunday evening, where she lived with a daughter, Mrs. W. S. Lauder and family. Funeral services will be held from the Congregational church here on Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 with Rev. J. S. Caskey officiating. Mrs. McKean was the last surviving widow of a civil war veteran in Wahpeton and was a charter member of the local Women’s Relief Corp.
Mrs. McKean was born at Chester, Connecticut, April 13, 1844, and joined her parents at Lake City, Minn., when she was about twenty years of age. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Ambler, her parents, made their home at Lake City for many years. Charles A. McKean, her future husband, volunteered for service in the Civil War, and was a sergeant with the First Minnesota Volunteers. He married Frances Ambler upon his return from the war in 1866. The ceremony was performed at Wabasha, Minn.
In March 1881, the couple with a family of six children came to Richland county to make their home taking a farmstead south of where the town of Hankinson is now located. They came to Wahpeton in the fall of 1881 and Wahpeton has been Mrs. McKean’s home ever since. Mr. McKean passed away in 1915. Children surviving are: Mrs. Nettie Lauder, Wahpeton; Mrs. Mary Shaw, Caldwell, Idaho; Mrs. Anna Hazen, Larimore; Arthur McKean, Isabel, S. Dak.; Charles McKean, Portland, Oregon; and Mrs. Myrta Dennis, Evanston, Ill. There are nineteen grandchildren and 16 great grandchildren. She has one sister, Mrs. Anna Jones of Caldwell, Idaho. Two children, Clara, who died in Infancy and Frank, who died in 1911 in Wahpeton preceded their other in death.
Mrs. McKean was a member of the Congregational church and was a charter member of the local Order of Eastern Star chapter.
Pallbearers will be Wm. Farnsworth, James Powrie, Major Thomsen, Dick Hawes, John Cain and Allen Taylor.
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Location
Old Fairview is located on the southern half of the cemetery grounds.