Obituary

Mrs. John Dunlavy went to her reward at her home in Hesston, Kansas, February 5, 1919, at the age of 67 years, 6 months, and 29 days. Elizabeth McCarty was born in Madison County, near Huntsville, Indiana, July 7, 1851. Here she grew to womanhood. She was married to John Dunlavy July 6, 1873, and went to Good Hope, Dickinson county, Kansas, to reside. She was the mother of seven children. LeRoy Lester died in 1879; Marion, the eldest son, lives at Independence; Howard at Newton; Walter at home; Tom at Wichita; Jim at Anderson, Indiana, and Ray at Anthony, Kansas. Mrs. Addie Swafford, her stepdaughter, on whom she always leaned as a daughter, lives at Manhattan, Kansas. The six sons and daughter with the husband, survive her; also three sisters, Mrs. Catherine Sparks, Ann Cox, Mary Durgan; and four brothers, Michael, Matthew, James, and Thomas McCarty, and 23 grandchildren. The following is a tribute given her by her son, Rev. Marion Dunlavy: "She was a loving mother in the truest, holiest sense, and none have been a more devoted wife and companion. Her first thoughts were for the welfare of her children. She counted no sacrifice too great to make for them. "From her home, coming to Good Hope, Kansas in 1873 until 1895, she lived among her old friends in that county. From the time she left the birthplace of her children on the old homestead she had a longing to return and her wish was that she might be laid to rest in the Good Hope cemetery. "She loved to make friends and had little to say about her neighbors' faults, but much of their virtues. Her home was ever open to the passing stranger, or to the neighbor temporarily out of a home, and always did her heart go out to those in sorrow and to the orphan. She tried always to make others comfortable, happy and at ease, but she constantly suffered. She had not been in good health for eight years, and the last five years had endured extreme suffering with the greatest patience. "She was not a member of any Evangelical church. She knew her God, she loved to honor Him, in words, in service, in deeds, and in public worship, whether at home with her family or in public with her neighbors." Mrs. Dunlavy's funeral service was held at the Methodist Church at Hesston, following which she was taken to the Sprinker chapel, where her Newton friends had the opportunity of seeing her, and her body, accompanied by her family, was taken to the old home church at Good Hope, Kansas where her old friends and neighbors had gathered on Sunday for this last service in her memory. She was laid to rest in the family lot in the cemetery near by.