Occupation: Retired Farmer

MO d/c 31860

Aged Resident Passes Away
M. W. McCue Was a Veteran of the Civil War and a Resident of Shelby Since 1869.
Matthew W. McCue died at the home of his son, Walter, in north Clarence, Friday, Sept. 5. He had been in failing health for some time and his death has been expected for several days.
Mr. McCue was born in Daviess county, Missouri, Dec. 8th, 1847 and was 82 years and nine months of age at the time of his death. This long span of life was filled with many adventures and his experience during the Civil War, of which he was a veteran, and in the years following, when he was a freighter on the western plains, would fill a large volume.
At the age of seventeen McCue and three other brothers made their way to Chariton county from their north Missouri home and enlisted in the southern army. His three brothers were killed in the several battles in which the Missouri troops were engaged but he escaped to return to his native county.
Southern men returning to their homes in north Missouri were often forced to join in with the guerilla detachments which were constantly raiding the northern counties. On several occasions McCue rode thru the part of Missouri north of the river with guerilla leaders and was personally acquainted with Anderson, Quantrell and their partisan followers.
When the war closed McCue hired to the government as a freighter and had charge of many of the wagon trains which hauled the supplies to frontier posts in Nebraska and Colorado.
Feb. 25th, 1869, he was united in marriage to Amanda Culbertson and that same year he came to Shelby county, locating on a farm east of Bethel where he made his home for years. Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. McCue namely, Mrs. Minnie Jones of Shelbina, Walter McCue of Clarence and Wallace McCue, who died in Clarence some years ago.
Besides the children named, five grandchildren and one great-grandchild, one aged brother, Richard McCue, of Gallatin, Mo.; and a host of other relatives and friends survive him. His wife died some time ago.
Funeral services were held at the Baptist church at 2:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon conducted by Rev. W. B. Allsbury of Chillicothe, former pastor of the Baptist church, of which denomination the deceased had been a member since the age of 28. Burial was in the Maplewood cemetery.
Independent-Courier, Clarence, Missouri, September 18, 1930
(Contributed by Shelby County Historical Society & Museum)

Information on file with Shelby County Historical Society & Museum
(All above posted by Pam Witherow)