OBITUARY

Southland Times, Issue 19124, 17 December 1923, Page 6

OBITUARY

(Contributed). During the week the cold hand of'death has removed another of the old identities, in the person of the late Mrs McLennan, who passed away after a short illness at the residence of her son-in-law, Mr J. J. Moore, Conon street. She was born in Fifeshire, Scotland, in 1842, and came to New Zealand in the ship Palmyra, landing at Port Chalmers with her parents on February 14, 1858. Her father, the late Mr Dewar, took up farming at Half-Way Bush, Dunedin, and as there was great difficulty in getting fencing material, he erected stone walls to subdivide the land into paddocks, with stones gathered on the surface of the ground. Those walls are still standing—an old landmark. She was married on April 25, 1862, to tSe late Murdoch McLennan by the Rev. Dr. Stewart, of Knox Church, Dimedin. They took up farming at Southbridge in the Tokomairiro district and remained there till 1882. Then Mr McLennan removed to Teaukapo, where he was engaged in sheep farming till the year of his death 1895. Mr Straughan, Government Surveyor, who was surveying the Catlin’s district about that time, called the McLennan River and the district after Mr and Mrs McLennan and family. The late Mrs McLennan was of a kind and cheery disposition, and had a winning personality that won the respect of a wide circle of friends. She was buried in the Wyndham cemetery, a large number of friends and relations paying their last tribute of respect by following her remains to their last resting place. The Rev. H. Sharpe conducted the service at the house and the Revs. Pringle (Edendale) and Lopdell (Wyndham) officiated at the grave. She leaves a grown-up family to mourn their loss.