U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- McQueen, Catherine (d. 1913) ------------------------------------------------------------------- History of Braxton County and Central West Virginia by John Davison Sutton Sutton, West Virginia, January, 1919 Page 405, Catherine McQueen Born of distinguished ancestry, this lady was a charming exponent of gentle breeding; beautiful in person, sweet and unassuming in manners, benevolent and charitable in her attitude to others, firm, judicious and with the finest sense of honor in all questions of right and wrong, her gentle, dignified personality was a power for good among all classes. Her gentle spirit passed out on the 1st day of January, 1913, after having a short time before passed her one hundredth mile-stone. We append hereto a statement made and written down by Mrs. McQueen at her centennial birthday celebration on Nov. 15, 1912: "I was married Jan. 16, 1834, to Archibald McQueen in Picton, Nova Scotia, at the home of my parents, Dr. George and Christina McKenzie. After living in Nova Scotia fourteen years, we came to this country in 1848. My parents died in Nova Scotia, my father in his 94th year, and my mother in her 60th year. "God blessed us with ten children. Seven were born in Nova Scotia, namely: Christina, Arch, Henry, George, William, Catherine and Lillian. Charles and David were born in western Virginia. Julias was born in Nicholas county, this state. Five, Arch, Henry, George William and Julius have gone on before and await my coming. My husband died Dec. 12, 1892, on Buck's Garden, in his 83rd year. I am the oldest one of our family, and the only one now living. I have lived with my daughter, Lillian Rader, on Buck's Garden, since my husband's death, where I am kindly cared for. I close with good will to everybody. — C. McQueen." ------------------------------------------------------------------- From Register of Deaths, Nicholas County, WV FULL-NAME: Catharine McQueen DEATH-DATE: January 1, 1913 at 100 years of age DEATH-PLACE: Gilboa, W.Va. MARITAL-STATUS: Widow CAUSE-OF-DEATH: Lagrippe INFORMANT: Dr. Carden, Physician ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Nicholas County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/nicholas/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------