Hutchinson, Reno County, Kansas “Hutchinson News” issue of Thursday, 17 November 1904, p. 4, col. 3

OLD SETTLER PASSES AWAY

John P. McCurdy Died at a Little After Midnight.

Death Comes After Several Years Suffering With Ailment Which Proved Fatal.

LIVED HERE MANY YEARS

Identified With the Building Up of Hutchinson.

Was an Old Soldier and a Mason--Funeral to Be on Friday Afternoon.

John P. McCurdy, one of the oldest residents of Hutchinson, died a little after midnight last night, of anaemia, from which ailment he has suffered for the past two or three years. He was unconscious at the timeof his death and had been in this condition practically all of the time, since Monday. He has been very ill for many months and his sickness has dated for two or three years back.

Mr. McCurdy has been in an anaemic condition for a long time and medical science has yet found no way to combat this ailment, which is a gradual weakening of the whole system and especially the blood-forming functions. Physicians who have attended him say that his death was surely coming months ago and nothing could be done to change the ultimate result, checking on the disease being the best that could be done. The fact that he has lived a temperate life has had much to do with prolonging life as long as it was, but the result was bound to come, sooner or later. He has suffered very little, if any, no pain at any time making its presence felt. He has had little appetite for a long time and this has helped to bring death sooner.

John P. McCurdy was born on February 24, 1837, in Center county, Pennsylvania. He was married to Miss Margaret Updegraff, of Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, on December 13, 1865, and his wife still survives him. Eight children were born to them, five of whom are still living. Four of the children were present at the time of his death, being U.B. McCurdy, of Kansas City, Mrs. R.A. Stewart, Mrs. S.A. Poe and Dr. H.U. McCurdy, of Hutchinson. Another daughter, Mrs. Galen E. Casity, of Kansas City, will arrive this evening and attend the funeral, which will be held from the home in North Main street at 3 o’clock Friday afternoon, November 18. Rev. D.M. Yetter, of the First Methodist church, will have charge of the services, Mr. McCurdy being a member of that church. The interment will be in Eastside cemetery.

Mr. McCurdy came to Reno county in the spring of 1874 and has lived here and been identified with the growth and building up of the city and county, always making this county and city his home. He has been a member of the city council at different times and has always worked for the interests of the city. He was a life member of the Greensburg, Pa., Masonic lodge and had never changed his membership to the local lodge here. He was known to all of the oldest settlers here, and the new comers have also known him. He has been a factor in the life of the city almost from the beginning and his influence has been felt in many things.

Mr. McCurdy served through the war as a member of Company K, Eleventh Pennsylvania volunteers, and has been a member of Joe Hooker Post, G.A.R., for many years.

Hutchinson, Reno County, Kansas “Hutchinson News” issue of Friday, 5 February 1915, p. 2, col. 4

MRS. MARGARET M’CURDY, PIONEER WOMAN, IS DEAD

She Has Been a Resident of Hutchinson and Reno County Since 1874.

Mrs. Margaret McCurdy, a pioneer woman of Hutchinson and wife of the late John P. McCurdy, a wealthy land owner of Reno county, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. S.A. Poe, in Columbus, Ohio, at 7 o’clock last night.

Mrs. McCurdy had been ill for about ten days, and her death was due to apoplexy, as she had an attack the first part of the week.

Mrs. McCurdy went to Columbus, Ohio, to visit her daughter a few days before Christmas.

Mrs. McCurdy was 71 years of age on the fourth day of last December. She was born in Pittsburg, Pa., December 4, 1843. Her maiden name was Margaret Updegraff. She was married to John P. McCurdy at Fairfield, Pa., in 1865. The family moved to Hutchinson in 1874. That fall they moved to a ranch 36 miles southwest of Hutchinson.

Five years later, in 1879, they moved to Hutchinson again and bought the house on North Main street which has been the McCurdy home ever since. John P. McCurdy died ten years ago.

Mrs. McCurdy was the mother of eight children, five of whom are living. They are: U.B. McCurdy, of Port Lavaca, Texas; Mrs. G.E. Cassidy, of Okmulgee, Okla.; Mrs. S.A. Poe, of Columbus, Ohio, Mrs. R.A. Stewart, of 801 North Main street, and Dr. H.U. McCurdy, who lives at home.

Three brothers and a sister also survive.

The funeral will be held from the home of Dr. R.A. Stewart, 801 North Main street, Monday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock. Services will be conducted by officers of the Christian Science church of which Mrs. McCurdy was a member.

Relatives will arrive with the body Sunday afternoon. All of the children are expected to be here for the funeral.

Hutchinson, Reno County, Kansas “Hutchinson Daily News” issue of Sunday, 11 September 1887, p. 4, col. 4

DIED.

McCURDY.--George, son of J.P. and Maggie McCurdy, at the age of 5 years and three months. The funeral will take place tomorrow from the family residence on north Main street.