"Aged 91" "Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God" Same stone as Julia A Macy

William Monroe Macy
b March 18, 1820 Jefferson County, Tennessee
d June 4, 1911 Denair, California

In 1849 William Monroe Macy married Julia Ann Mills of Mooresville, Indiana,
after a long courtship. He took her back to Wayne County, Indiana where a
daughter, Hannah Mariah Macy was born.

By 1855, the Macys were on the move again. A son, Aaron Mills Macy, was born in
Mooresville and William Monroe Macy completed his move to Morgan County in 1856.
William Monroe and Julia had another son, Alva Perry Macy, and another daughter,
Cynthia Ruth Macy.

Meanwhile, William Monroe Macy had become a "mover and shaker" of Mooresville,
Indiana, and was engaged in farming, building, and timber marketing. Some
milestones in his career include building the Macy farmstead, being one of the
thirteen donors of the Quaker Academy, building the White Lick Meeting House
(still in service after 145 years), and serving as the first president of the
Mooresville Monrovia Gravel Road Company.

William Monroe Macy died of general debility in 1911 in Denair, California, at
age 91.

The Macys were true America Pioneers who migrated literally from coast to coast
and bought land at each juncture. They were hardy stock, with adventures
stretching from the Mayflower in 1620 to migrations from the east coast, the
Midwest in the 1800's, and finally meeting their destiny in the raw western
state of Oregon.

A diary provides a window on the life of William Monroe Macy's family through
the eyes of Alva Perry Macy for the year 1872. Alva was 14 years old as he wrote
in the journal and the reader will find he played like a boy and worked like a
man.

The activity around the Macy Farmstead reveals a family which had accumulated a
greater degree of assets than nearly anyone else in Brown Township, Morgan
County, Indiana.

However, their impressive accumulation of assets gave them little or no relief
from daily hard work and continued pursuit of cash flow.
The original "Journal" was donated to Earlham College in 1999 by Marilee March
Johnson, a great granddaughter of Alva Perry Macy. The diary was hand written
with a 'dip pen' in a bound journal.

Thanks to Findagrave member KEW for the above