GLENDAY, Anne (1809-1890)
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- a.k.a. Anne Glenday Durfee
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1890, Mrs. Anne Glenday Durfee - Died, at the residence of her son-in-law, John Jay Johns, in Category:St. Charles, Missouri, on the morning of the Sabbath, April 20, 1890, Mrs. Anne Glenday Durfee, in the 81st year of her age. Thus has passed away one of the few that remain of the early settlers of St. Charles. She was born in New Rattray, Blairgowrie, Perthshire, Scotland, in 1809. She came with her father's family to this place in 1815. After remaining here several years (6), her father returned to Scotland with his elder daughter Helen. the mother having died. But Anne remained here with her uncle, Thomas Lindsay, who was the father and founder of the Presbyterian Church in St. Charles. Rev. Charles Robinson, of blessed memory, (who was a brother-in-law of Mr. Lindsay's wife), was, next to Rev. Timothy Flint, the first at preacher from the East who lived, labored, preached and taught school, until his death in 1828. Mr. Lindsay’s house was then the headquarters of the preachers who came from the East to labor as missionaries in this new and destitute field. About that time came the Rev. Thomas Russell Durfee,* from Fall River, Mass., a graduate of Amherst College and Andover Seminary. In 1828 he married Anne Glenday. After spending a few years in missionary labors in this State, with such faithful and apostolic men as John F. Cowan, Cochran and MaAfee, he died in August 1833 at Mr. Lindsay's home near Elm Point, leaving his widow with two little daughters, Jane Amanda and Margaret Lindsay. Mrs. Durfee, with her children, remained with her uncle, Mr. Lindsay, until his death In 1843. Mrs. Durfee was a woman of great energy and firmness of character, and the great desire of her heart was that her daughters might have the best education that young women could get at that day. This she accomplished under great pecuniary difficulty and self-denial on her part. Her elder daughter, Jane, was educated at Lindenwood and at Monticello Seminary, the then pioneer female schools of the Southwest, and the younger, Margaret, at Bradford (Mass.) Seminary, spending much time with her father's kindred. In 1847 her daughter Jane was married to John Jay Johns and ever after Mrs. Durfee made her home with them. Her second daughter, Margaret Lindsay Durfee, was married in 1862 to Mr. Edward Payson Borden of Fall River, Mass. (a cousin In some degree), for many years past a prominent merchant of Philadelphia. Mrs. Durfee was an enthusiast on Christian education, and as soon as her grandchildren were old enough, she used all her means, even stinting herself, to secure to them a high Christian education. She succeeded in a great measure in accomplishing that object, and her grandchildren now rise up and call her blessed. Mrs. Durfee was a woman of great kindness of heart and her sympathies and aid went out cheerfully to the suffering and needy. She consecrated her heart and life a In early youth to the Savior and was one of the few venerable ladies who still abide with us who made the first little band of Presbyterians who formed the First Presbyterian Church of St. Charles, Trained to the straitest sort of Scotch Presbyterianism, educated by the sainted Robinson, and trained under the Influence and instruction of Thomas Lindsay, who was the very embodiment of Scotch Presbyterianism, she continued through life to hold with the greatest tenacity to the faith and doctrines of her Scotch fathers. She maintained a quiet, steadfast, Christian character, greatly interested in all the religious, missionary and educational enterprises of the Church. Now, after an illness of three months, surrounded by those who loved her and tenderly ministered to her, she gently passed away from earth to her heavenly rest. The funeral occurred at two o'clock and the remains were Interred In the city cemetery (Oak Grove). In her last days she described the scenes of her childhood in beautiful Perthshire, which she had not seen again in after years, and her description was declared correct by her sister-in-law, Mrs. Mary Glenday, who had left Scotland when grown, after her marriage to James Glenday. Mrs. Durfee said that the hills west of St. Charles, as seen from her bedroom window recalled to her the Scotch country.
- * He was a descendant of Governor William Bradford and of John Alden and Priscilla Molines.
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From the Black Book, notes of Anne Durfee Gauss and Minna Gauss Reeves.
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- GAUSS, Eugene III to Charlotte Elizabeth JOHNS - 1889-07-23
- FAWCETT, Henrietta to Charlotte Elizabeth Johns - 1889-07-29
- BUTCHART, Ada to Anne Durfee Gauss - 1913-10-14
- BUTCHART, Ada to Anne Durfee Gauss - 1913-12-29
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- A Genealogy of Jane Amanda Durfee
- Lindsay Glenday Durfee Summary
- Notes on an Old Quilt
- Time of OurLives - The Contents
- DURFEE, Thomas of St. Charles County, Missouri
