Robert Reed McClure and Alice Elliott

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Husband Robert Reed McClure ¹

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           Born: 4 Oct 1870 1
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           Died: 27 Apr 1900 - ? India 2
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         Father: Richard McClure (      -      ) 3 4
         Mother: Martha Ann Reed (1844-1898) 4

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Wife Alice Elliott ²

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Children

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1 M Louis Reed McClure ²

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General Notes: Husband - Robert Reed McClure

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To his parents, God gave a little son, Robert Reed McClure, who although destined to live but a few short years, demonstrated what devotion, concentration, consecration and God's approval can accomplish. From infancy he seems to have shown more than ordinary intellectual promise. From the Junior Missionary Magazine we get two pictures. First is that of a quaint old country church where a large congregation gathered one bright, beautiful, Sabbath morning, more than twenty years ago, to celebrate the dying love of our Savior. Among those who confessed Christ among men, for the first time, is a noble looking fellow of eight years, whom a visiting minister commends to the love and sympathy of the older members, as the youngest person he has ever received into the church, but who has given strong evidence of an intelligent faith. All nature in its summer beauty that morning seemed a beautiful surrounding for so fair a picture. The second picture is that of a small country school house some years after. The central figure is this same little boy who comes forward and in a clear voice and modest manner, recites the full text of the lesson for the day from memory without a single mistake. (His usual custom we are told.) In 1882, when Reed was twelve years old, his parents moved with the family to New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, where the children might have the advantages of a college education. Reed completed a full classical course here, surprising his class-fellows and teachers at the rapidity and thorougliness with which he could master lessons. He was full six feet tall, a powerful frame, muscles like hickory and a deep musical voice. The story of his life is so interesting that we can only stop to say that in 1893 he began a three-years' course in Allegheny Theological Seminary. In 1896 he secured an appointment to India as a missionary. With his wife, he sailed for their work in India, October, 1897. Three years after, on April 27, 1900, he died of fever, after a ten days' illness.

1 J. P. Lytle, The Reed Family (Marion Center, PA: Independent Office, 1909), Pg 70.

2 J. P. Lytle, The Reed Family (Marion Center, PA: Independent Office, 1909), Pg 71.

3 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 545.

4 J. P. Lytle, The Reed Family (Marion Center, PA: Independent Office, 1909), Pg 69.