Samuel McCune, SV/PROG

Second Marriage : https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSK6-Z3QC-5?i=462&...

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Death Notice : https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSQ8-F3WK-2?i=228&...

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Queenstown Free Press – 1890- April - June https://www.eggsa.org/newspapers/index.php/queenstown-free-press/92... Written by Sunelia Heath Tuesday 6 May 1890 DIED - On the 4th May, 1890, on the farm Bradford, District Queenstown, Samuel McCUNE, born in Wigtonshire, Scotland, aged 65 years and 1 month. SUDDEN DEATH. The sad news reached Queenstown on Sunday last, that Mr Samuel McCUNE had been found dead in his bed that morning. From what we can gather Mr McCUNE seemed in his usual health on Saturday. He was in Queenstown on Friday and attended the public meeting that evening. On Saturday evening he retired as usual, saying good night to his children. He was an early riser, and as he did not come out as usual on Sunday morning, his daughter went to his room and found him lying perfectly quiet, and still warm. She called her brother, who arrived to find that life had ceased for some time. We believe the cause of death was heart disease. Mr McCUNE was one of the original grantees in this division, and intelligent and enterprising farmer, one of the best of his class. He married Miss ZEILER, who predeceased him some years, and has a large family. He on several occasions contributed to this journal on farm and general subjects, and his contributions were always well received. We tender our sympathy to the sorrowing family and friends in their bereavement. The funeral took place yesterday (Monday) and was largely attended, not only by the neighbouring farmers, but by a number of townspeople also. Friday 9 May 1890 The late Mr. Samuel McCUNE. ...Mr McCUNE was a native of (Shaubaar?), Wightenshire, [should be Stranraer, Wigtownshire] Scotland, and had reached the age of 65, being born 4th April, 1825. His father was a chemist. An elder brother of his – the only other male member of the family, became an M.D. and went out as a Medical Missionary to India where he died. The sole remaining representative of the family is a sister still living in Scotland. Mr McCUNE received a training as a chemist in connection with his father's business. He came out to the Colony at the age 21 and settled at Grahamstown, in the position of bookkeeper to a firm there. He afterwards took to farming, making his first start at Bathurst, from whence he subsequently removed to the border of the Fish River. From his moorings in the neighbourhood he was unsettled by the Kafir war of 1852 in which he took an active part. On the giving out of the Government lands in the Queenstown district he received the farm of Bradford as one of the original grantees. He married the eldest daughter of the late John ZEILER, Esq., and as his second wife, third daughter of the late Christopher McCOMB, Esq., who it will be remembered died suddenly in Queenstown about four years ago. There are surviving children of both marriages. Mr McCUNE was well-known as one of the most enterprising and successful farmers in the Queenstown district. He was respected and esteemed by all his neighbours as a man of the most trustworthy character. He was distinguished for his kind and considerate treatment of his native servants, who followed him to his last resting place with a sense of grief no doubt as genuine as that of their white fellow mourners, realizing that they had lost in the person of this venerable patriarch a true and generous friend. – Requiescat in pace.

GEDCOM Note

This information from Gordon McCune's Family Bible and then confirmation of this from www.scotlandspeople.org.uk. Samuel Mortlock aged 15 was recorded on the 1841 census in Wigtown His baptism was on 16th April 1824. There is a difference of 1 year in the bible record and the Baptism records. His parents are recorded as Samuel McCune and Jean Taylor. There are als records of the births of Mary McCune daughter of Samuel and Jean and Marion McCune daughter of Samuel. There is no record of Samuel in the 1851 Census but his father is still recorded in Wigtown in 1851. This ties into the Gordon McCune's statement that his family came out in the 1840's.