Kester, Mary E.

Posted By: Jo Kester
Date: 27 January 2003

Obituary 8 Nov 1893 Winchester, Randolph Co., IN newspaper

Death of Mary E. Kester

Mary E. Kester was born January 22,1824. and died of malarial fever after an illness of two weeks, at the home of her son in Wichita, Kansas, October 22,1893. She leaves two children, E.L. McClure and Mrs. Jennie Ferris, both of Wichita. Her maiden name was Davidson. Her early childhood and until her marriage to Dr. S. M. McClure in 1819, was spent with her parents on a farm in Darke Co, Ohio near where Wiley's Station now is located. After her marriage to Dr. McClure they moved to the southern part of Indiana where they were living at the begnning of the War. After her husband's enlistment, and while he was yet in the service, she, with her two children, moved back to Ohio residing at New Paris until her husband's return from the Army, when they moved to Winchester, Indiana, where they lived at the time of the doctor's death in 1873. In 1878 she was married to Daniel Kester, of Palestine, Ohio. After a stay of a few years in Palestine, they came to Winchester where Mr. Kester died in 1889. After his death she went West with her son. She united with the church when eighteen years old, and at the time of her death she was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Wichita, she having transferred her membership from the ME Church of Winchester. Her body was brought to Winchester for interment. After funeral services, which were held at the home of her friend, Mrs. Edward Edgar and conducted by L. J. Naftzer of Richmond, an old friend of the family, assisted by Rev J. B. Fowler of Winchester. She was laid to rest in the family plot in Fountain Park Cemetery. Thus ends the life of one who had almost finished her three score and ten and who was fully ready and waiting to hear the summons of her Master, "Enter thou into the joys of thy Lord".

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