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- Edna Jane McLean - July 30, 1872 - August 3, 1938. Daughter of Darwin and Anna Sweet Harris. Wife of Frederick Benjamin McLean. Section 5, Row 27.
Newspaper Obituary - Monday, August 5, 1938 Oswego Palladium Times - Oswego, New York - Mrs. McLean Dead At Fernwood Home - Husband and Son Find Woman in Chair On Return From Pulaski - Pulaski, August 5 ¬Returning to their home near the entrance to Selkirk Shores State Park, shortly after 11 o'clock Saturday evening after a business trip into Pulaski, Fred B. McLean, prominent farmer and artisan of the community, accompanied by his son, Jack Harris McLean, found Mrs. McLean dead seated in a chair before a card table where she had apparently been playing solitaire when stricken without warning with a heart attack. Dr. John L. H. Mason of Pulaski, who was summoned by telephone, found her beyond medical aid, although her body was still warm, indicating death had ensued only a few moments before the arrival home of Mr. McLean and his son. Mrs. McLean had not been in normal health for the past two or three months, during which she had developed a heart malady. She had rallied after several slight attacks and was thought to be on the way to eventual recovery as her condition had shown improvement in the past few weeks. She had prepared the evening meat and performed her evening household tasks as usual Saturday evening and chatted with her husband and son during the early evening before their departure for Pulaski. Mrs. McLean was one of the most beloved women within the town of Richland, in many homes of which she had rendered kindly assistance by illness of members of the household or for other causes, understanding, helpful, kindly and tactful, she had brought cheer into many a sick room and lightened the burden of sadness in many a home. In her own home her cheery kindness pervaded the hospitable welcome extended to all visitors there. Mrs. McLean was an active member of the Daysville Home Bureau_ She was formerly a member of the Daysville Grange. In her former home at Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, she was identified with the Presbyterian church. In this community, however, she had been an attendant of the Fernwood Methodist Episcopal church. Edna Jane Harris was born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, July 30, 1872, the daughter of Darwin and Anna Sweet Harris of that city. Her parents had been early settlers in Wisconsin, where they had removed from the east, her mother having been born near Moore's, New York, and her father being a native of Ohio. She attended the high school in her native city and grew to young womanhood there, where she was married December 7, 1891, to Frederick Benjamin McLean. At the time Mr. McLean was employed by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad at Portage, Wisconsin, and they established their home in that place. Later they lived at Horicon, Wisconsin, until their removal in 1899 to Fond du Lac. For about 25 years Mr. McLean continued with the operating department of the same railroad and at the time of his retirement from active railroad work in 1909 he was yard master for the company at Fond du Lac. Following his retirement from the railroad, Mr. McLean moved his family to Clara City, Minnesota, where he purchased and operated a farm for six years, during which he served for four years as chairman of the town government. At the end of that time he disposed of his farm there and moved to the town of Richland, New York. From his father, George Benjamin Hunter McLean, who had been brought up at Lewiston, New York, after having been born near Niagara Falls, Ontario, F. B. McLean had heard much of the advantages of New York state as a place of residence, and he was motivated in coming to this state in part by his father's high regard for New York state and its opportunities. The elder McLean, who left Lewiston at the age of 15 in 1852 and traveled over the Great Lakes by a wood-burning steamer to reach Wisconsin, had been a pioneer settler at South Byron, Wisconsin, where he became the proprietor of a large general store, the operator of a grain elevator, and the owner of other extensive business interests. In Richland, Mr. and Mrs. McLean purchased the Hart Douglas farm, occupying a commanding rise of ground opposite the entrance to the Daysville cemetery on the present scenic highway, about midway between Mexico village and Port Ontario, the farm of about 200 acres being transferred to them by ick and Davis, the letter being the late Judge Freelon J. Davis of Pulaski, who had acquired the farm on a speculation. The McLeans renamed the farm "The Clover Lead Farm." In recent years it has been largely devoted to dairying activities while F. B. McLean and his son, Jack H. McLean, who, unmarried, has made his home with his parents, have devoted a part of their attention to the execution of building and masonry contracts and the direction of a force of employees engaged in performing maintenance work for members of the cottage colony at nearby Ramona Beach on the shores of Lake Ontario. F. B. McLean has been active politically in the town, and had been the candidate of his party for the office of justice of the peace and other offices in the town of Richland on a number of occasions. Several years ago, Mr. and Mrs. McLean went to their former home in Wisconsin to visit relatives and friends and the scenes in which they spent so many years before removing to New York. They had recently been looking forward to a visit this fall from some of their Wisconsin relatives. Members of the Ramona Beach colony, by whom members of the McLean family have come to be greatly respected and beloved by reason of their contacts there, had also been making plans for observance this fall of an important wedding anniversary by Mr. and Mrs. McLean. Mrs. McLean is survived by the following, her husband, Frederick B. McLean; by a brother, Earl Harris of Dassel, Minnesota; and the following children: Mrs. Robert Smith of Portland, Oregon; Mrs. Edward Gutchess of Camillus; Mrs. Lewis Sherman of Daysville, and Jack Harris McLean, at home; also by the following grandchildren, Robert Leland, Harold Gene, Kenneth Hugh, Marion Alice Adelle, Darrel Keith and Carlon Arlene Sherman, the last two named being twins born this year, and Jack Edward Gutchess. The funeral will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the late home with the Rev. G. A. Butler of the Fernwood Methodist Episcopal church officiating. Interment will be made in the Daysville cemetery.
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1872 - 1938 (66 years)
d. 5 Apr 1993 (Age 92 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]