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| Birth: | Dec 1797 in APPIN, ARGLESHIRE, SCOTLAND |
| Death: | 21 Apr 1890 in CALEDONIA, NEW YORK |
| Sex: | F |
| Father: | JOHN ROY MCINTYRE b. 1751 in DULL, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND |
| Mother: | HELEN (ELLEN) STEWART b. About 1765 in LOGIERAITE, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND |
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| Christening: 28 Dec 1797 LISMORE, ARGYLL, SCOTLAND 1 |
| Burial: MUMFORD RURAL CEMETERY, WHEATLAND, N.Y. 2 |
| Occupation: 1805 EMIGRATED TO U.S. 3 |
| Education: 1880 LIVING WITH FAMILY OF PETER P. CAMPBELL 4 |
| Religion: PRESBYTERIAN 5 |
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| ALEXANDER MCKENZIE (Husband) b. About 1800 in SCOTLAND
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| Marriage: | 16 MAY 1822 in CALEDONIA,LIVINGSTON CO., NEW YORK |
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 JOHN A MCKENZIE b. 18 Feb 1823 in CALEDONIA, LIVINGSTON COUNTY, NEW YORK
- MARGARET MCKENZIE b. 13 Jun 1824 in NEW YORK STATE
 ALLEN MCKENZIE b. 6 Feb 1826 in CALEDONIA, LIVINGSTON CO., NEW YORK
- ELLEN MCKENZIE b. 22 Feb 1828 in NEW YORK STATE
- PETER MCKENZIE b. 1 Oct 1829 in CALEDONIA, LIVINGSTON CO., NEW YORK
- ALEXANDER MCKENZIE b. Jan 1832 in CALEDONIA, LIVINGSTON CO., NEW YORK
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Individual:
SECOND DAUGHTER OF JOHN ROY MCINTYRE
IN 1811 CAME WITH BROTHERS PETER AND ALLAN TO GENESEE COUNTRY - - YOUNGEST HOUSEKEEPER TO SETTLE IN THE "SOUTH WOODS"
IN 1814 REST OF FAMILY CAME TO CALEDONIA, N.Y.
SHE AND ALEXANDER WERE MARRIED BY REV. ALEXANDER DENOON.
HER HOME WAS ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE ROAD LEADING FROM WILLIAM MCINTYRE'S AND NEAR CORNER OPPOSITE THE DENOON WEST FARM ON LAND OWNED BY WILLIAM MCINTYRE.
SINCE 1852 SHE MADE HER HOME WITH HER DAUGHTER AT THE CAMPBELL HOMESTEAD.
IN 1860 SHE WAS LIVING WITH DONALD AND ELLEN STEWART IN SUMMIT, WAUKESHA CO., WISCONSIN.
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and other Argyleshire Highlanders, emigrated to this country. Sailing from Greenock, in October of that year, after a long, tedious and tempestuous voyage of upwards os nine weeks, they arrived in New York. Among others on this ship, at this
time, from Duart, island of Mull, came Hector McLean, father of Colonel A. H. McLean, Mrs G. P. Grant, Miss Catherine McLean, a family long prominent in Caledonia, but now without a lineal descendent living in town.
Genesee country, then being opened up for settlement. Thus, "Grandma McKenzie" when only fourteen years of age, came to help to make a home for her father's family, and was the first woman, and certainly the youngest housekeeper, to settle in
the "South Woods."
York, on the south side of the Ellicott Road. Here a small clearing was made a log cabin and small barn built in 1814, the father and mother and others of the family remaining in Johnstown came on to the "South Woods" where the McIntyre
family has since resided. The original homestead is now owned and occupied by Daniel McIntyre, a grandson of John Roy McIntyre and Helen Stuart, his wife.
DeNoon road, and near the corner opposite the DeNoon west farm, on the land now owned by William McIntyre. The house and other buildings were taken down some years ago.
Ellen, married Donald Stewart, Delevan, Wisconsin. Peter, married Jane Weir, and lived at Vernon, Wisconsin. Allan, unmarried. Alexander, unmarried.
Wisconsin.
for many years a member of the First Presbyterian Church, and was constant and faithful in the performance of her church duties. She died of old age, at the Campbell, on Monday, April 21st, 1890, aged ninety-two years and five months.
in by Rev. J.A. Henderson and R. M. Russell, the on Caledonia, Rev. w.w. Laurence, then of Mumford, and the Rev. John M. Carmichael, then of Nunda, a former pastor at Caledonia, and an intimate friend of Grandma. Mr Carmichael spoek at length,
and very feelingly of the good old Grandmother whose place would never again be filled here upon earth, and of the beauty and glory and happy end of a long and peaceful life devoted to the comfort and good of others. Everybody felt that a
kind, gentle, good and useful soul had passed to its reward when Grandma's little body was laid away in its last resting place. The interment was made in the Mumford cemetary, her grandsons acting as bearers.
of clannishness which, while wishing no harm, or ill fortune to any one of another nationality, particularly favors all things Scotch, we at once became more than good friends. Grandma was one of the brightest, cheeriest, and most
campanionable old ladies that I ever knew. Her mind active, her memory retentive to the very last, it was more than pleasure to hear her tell of the early pioneer days, with their joys and their sorrows, their hardships and privations, and the
happy and courageous manner in which all things that came to their lives were accepted by them as "working together for good." Though possessed of an abundance of life and spirit, in sixteen years of intimate acquaintance, I never once saw her
out of temper. She was always pleasant, always good natured, always doing something, and her activity was usually exercised for the good and comfort of others. She was possessed of a quaing and happy humor which, in her queit way, bubbled
forth almost continually. We can see her now in her favorite seat in the chimney corner of the sitting room, observing and taking part in all that was going on. She was very neat and genteel in her dress and very particular about her personal
appearance. In her later years the garden and the fows were her particular charge. Every hiding place about the premises was known to her, and the hen or turkey was cute that could lay away, where Grandma could not find her nest, and that
oftentimes at the peril of broken bones. She was wonderfully active always, and until her ninetieth year almost nimble on her feet.
or for much of anything else that was good. We are inclined to believe that her evenness of temper, her sweetness of disposition, her absttemiousness and her good, sturdy Highland blood, must have been largely the credit for her many years of
life. Another trait of character that her friends alsways admired was her independence. Nothing troubled or annoyed her more than to be waited on, or to think that she was in any way a burden to anyone. In her last years it was the custom
when the family was going from home, that someone should stay with Grandma. Many times we heard her say: "You needn't stay at home to look after me. I can take care of myself." And nothing pleased her more than to humor her in this fancy.
During her last year of life, while her mind was still bright, her eyesight and hearing wonderfully good, and her memory almost unimparied, she became very feeble in body. She was tenderly and lovingly cared for by her daughter, Mrs Campbell,
and by every member of the family. Nothing was too good for Grandma, and iat dwas very fitting that this should be the case, for Grandma had watched the toddling steps and cared for the wants of each one of these her grandchildren from infancy
up, and nothing was nearer to her heart than there welfare. It was her earnest desire often expressed, that they might all grow up to be good and useful men and women. In the last years her great-grandchildren were also a source of anxiety
and care, and at the same time a delight to her and they all loved Grandma McKenzie.
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