Clarence Clarkson MacPherson (McPherson)

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Obituary- MacPherson, Clarence C. 1

McPherson Dead
After Lingering Illness He Passed Away Thursday Nov. 28

Lived Here Over 40 Years
Came to Rossville When Only Six White Families in Town Site

After a protracted illness that extended over several months the life of C.C. McPherson ended Thanksgiving morning.

Death was not unexpected. With unusual fortitude the man who was known and honored by Rossville and the entire community watched the approach of the Grim Reaper and met him smilingly.

And it was characteristic of the man. In all the long years of his life here (he came to Rossville when a boy) Mr. McPherson met trouble and adverse conditions with a suffering face. He lived the clean life of a Christian and entered the valley of the shadow of death with a brave heart that had accepted the divine teachings of the Christian religion.

Reared practically an orphan, Mr. McPherson fought the battle of his early life almost alone.

He was a son of Thomas and Mary McPherson and was born at Paola, in Orange County, Ind., March 23, 1857.

When he was only four years old his mother died leaving himself, a brother, sister and father. Five years later (in 1863) Mr. McPherson with his sister Addie, now Mrs. Ellen A. Shafer, of Toledo, [error in article that leaves something out] that were close friends of their parents.

They lived two years at Big Springs and then came to Rossville.

The Bush family, with whom Mr. McPherson and his sister came to Rossville, were the fourth white family to settle here. It was shortly after he came to this city that Mr. McPherson's father died.

Mr. McPherson was one of the six members of the first Sunday school that was organized in Rossville. The other members were, Addie McPherson (now Mrs. E.A. Shafer), Alice Gabby [Gabbey] (now Mrs. McCabe), Anna Gabby [Gabbey] (now Mrs. Gutshall), Anna Beal (now Mrs. Cox) and Henry Beal.

Mr. McPherson's first employment in Rossville was by Cyrus Higginbotham. Later he farmed with John Reid and at the age of 17 started the livery business that he has owned continuously to the time of his death.

Mr. McPherson often related to his family how he obtained his start in the livery business. By careful economy and trading he acquired a spring wagon and a team. Mr. McPherson used to describe his first team with much enjoyment. He said that one was blind and another spavined and that a careful estimate of his first equipment would not have been written in large figures.

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