Elizabeth MCCUEN

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• Census: 1880, Living with father in Chazy, Clinton Co., New York
• Census: 1900, Living with father and step-mother in Chazy, Clinton Co., New York

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Elizabeth McCuen Nichols
BIRTH 23 Jul 1876
Chazy, Clinton County, New York, USA
DEATH 1 Dec 1955 (aged 79)
Jamestown, Chautauqua County, New York, USA
BURIAL
Riverview Cemetery
Chazy, Clinton County, New York, USA
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The North Countryman Thursday December 1955
Mrs. Nichols Rites
Conducted in Chazy
Funeral services for Mrs. Elizabeth McCuen Nichols were held in Jamestown Dec. 5. A second
service was held last Thursday in ithe chapel of Riverview cemetery at Chazy, where interment was
made.
Mrs. Nichols, widow of Frederick H. Nichols, died Dec 1 in Jamestown at the age of 80. The former Elizabeth McCuen was a native qf Chazy and was born July 23, 1876, the daughter of, Mr.and Mrs. John McCuen.
She was educated at the Chazy School and Drew Seminary, Carmel,N. Y. She was married to
Frederick H. Nichols at Chazy in 1908. She was a resident of Jamestown for 50 years and a seasonal visitor in Chazy, where she was interested in the affairs of the Presbyterian Church and the library.
Mrs. McCuen is survived by one son, Frederick W. Nichols; two grandchildren of Dayton, Ohio;
one brother, Ralph McCuen of Chazy and one sister, Mrs. Roy B. Pike of Canton

Elizabeth married Dr. Frederick H. NICHOLS in 1908. Frederick (son of Clifford W. NICHOLS and Lillis M. ALLEN) was born on 5 Jan 1876 in New York; died on 15 Apr 1936 in Chazy, Clinton Co., New York; was buried in Riverview Cemetery, Chazy, Clinton Co., New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Son of John Patterson McCuen and Elizabeth Walton
• Census: 1880, Living in Chazy, Clinton Co., New York
• Census: 1900, Living in Chazy, Clinton Co., New York
• Census: 1910, Living in Chazy, Clinton Co., New York

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PLATTSBURGH SENTINEL
TUES. MAY 6, 1919
DIED
McCUEN?At Chazy, N. Y., May 3,1919,- John H. McCuen, in his seventy fourth year.

PLATTSBURGH DAILY PRESS FRI MAY 30,1919
IN MEMORIAM
On May 3, 1919 in Chazy, NY John H. McCuen at the age of 73 years passed away after three months illness. He was born in Troy N.Y.on October 15th 1845.the oldest son of Elizabeth Walton and John Patterson McCuen and when about eleven years of age he came here with his parents to Chazy the home of his father. In 1863, when his father enlisted in the 118th Volunteer Regiment of New York it became necessary for him to give up his ambitions of further schooling and to assist in the support of his mother and younger brothers and sisters. For a year or more he carried the U.S. Mails by horseback between Chazy and Rouses Point. At the close of the Civil War his fathers death , which was the result of over a year's confinement to the Confederate prisons in Saulsbury, Andersville, permanently played upon his young shoulders the cares and responsibilities of the head of the family and for the next few years he was a clerk in the general store of Mr George Severance under whose honest and kindly guildance he acquired a sound business education as a practical merchant.This career, with great zeal and based upon principals of generosity and fair dealing he succussfully followed in his own store from about the year 1870 until 1912 when he retired ans was succeeded by his eldest son John Ralph McCuen.
Mr McCuen was twice married. His first wife was Caroline E. Brown the only daughter of Captain George Brown. She died in 1879 having bore him two daughters. Caroline who died early in childhood and Elizabeth who survives her father and now resides in Jamestown New York, the wife of a surgeon Dr. F.H. Nichols, in 1881 Mr McCuen married Mary Jane Nichols, who survives him, the daughter of Edmund B. Nichols, by whom he had five sons and one daughter. Of these children he is survived by John Ralph who suceeded his father in business. Leslie E. a lawyer in New York City, Brooks W. a physician and surgeon of Syracuse,New York who as a first Lieutentant in the Medical Corps of the U.S. Army recently returned from France and Hartie, the wife of Roy B. Pike cashier of First National Bank of Canton, New York. Me McCuen is also survived by his brother, Walter Otis McCuen of Jean, Nevada.
During his long life in Chazy he always tried to do his part for the welfare of the town and was often identified with a place as the town clerk ,for the office of the public school grammer at election board and he had also acted as Treasuer of the Chazy Central School, he was ever devoted to the Presbyterian Church where he worshipped having been one of its trustees for many years and the Treasuer of the Church for a period of twenty two years.
His home life was ideal. His first thoughts were for his children and close cooperation with his wife no sacrifice was too great to him when they were concerned. Not only did he early counsel and trust them to be honorable men and women never afraid of work but he joined with his wife to instill in them a desire to equip. themselves for the future with a through education and to that end he assisted them through schools and colleges as generously his modest means could afford. This task before completion meant much self denial and heard work but it was one of love for he knew he was giving them something that a money legacy could never buy.

John married Caroline E. BROWN. Caroline was born in 1842 in New York; died in 1879 in Chazy, Clinton Co., New York; was buried in Riverview Cemetery, Chazy, Clinton Co., New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Daughter of Capt. George Brown