Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 303, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1913 — Obituary of Rev. Samuel V. McKee. [ARTICLE]

Obituary of Rev. Samuel V. McKee.

Rev. Samuel Vigo McKee, who has been making his home in Peoria, HL, for several years, died Dec. 9 at the Proctor hospital at that place. Mr. McKee had passed the ripe old age of 80 years. His childhood and youth were spent near Vincennes, Ind, He attended Hanover and Jefferson colleges, graduating from the latter in 1857. He was united in marriage to Miss Busan Van Netta June 28, 1858, his wife having preceded him to the “land o’ .the leal” some nineteen years ago. Mr. McKee was a graduate of the Western Theological seminary and spent his active ministry in Indiana, Illinois and Michigan. His last pastorate was at Remington, Ind. Since his retirement he had made his home for the most part at Crawfordsville and South Bend, but for the past three years he had been living with his daughter, Mrs. W. M. Elliott, of Peoria, 111. Besides this daughter there are left to mourn the passing of this stalwart man of God, a son, Wm. N. McKee, of Long Beech, Cal., and two daughters, Mrs. Geo. Benedict, of Detroit, Mich., and Mrs. C. C. Fuller, the wife of a missionary tn the heart of Africa. Of his immediate family there survive him three brothers and three sisters. Funeral services were held Tuesday morning at 10 o’clock, from the Grace 'Presbyterian church. Interment at Remington cemetery.