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Source for: Emma McClurkin, 1853 -
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Name source: S204 Rootsweb Freepages. ancientage database
Birth source: S204 Rootsweb Freepages. ancientage database
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Source for: Estella McClurkin, 05 FEB 1876 -
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Name source: S87Page: Page 17
Family Histories: Baird, Holcomb, Goddard, Adams, Lewis, McClurken, ..., (State of Illinois: Illinois Society, D.A.R. 1950). page 17
Birth source: S87Page: Page 17
Family Histories: Baird, Holcomb, Goddard, Adams, Lewis, McClurken, ..., (State of Illinois: Illinois Society, D.A.R. 1950). page 17
Residence source: S19Text: Henry McClurkin
Residence source: S16Text: Henry McClurkin
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Source for: Ethel McClurkin, OCT 1885 -
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Birth source: S87Page: Page 17
Family Histories: Baird, Holcomb, Goddard, Adams, Lewis, McClurken, ..., (State of Illinois: Illinois Society, D.A.R. 1950). page 17
Residence source: S19Text: Robert McClurkin
Residence source: S24Text: Robert McClurkin
Residence source: S27Text: Robert McClurkin
Residence source: S21Page: John McNeal
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Source for: Eunice Louise McClurkin, 29 MAR 1914 - 19 JAN 2015
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Name source: S198Page: pages 109 & 110
Text: McCLURKLN, Walter Clyde 1882-1973
Father: William Morrison McClurkin, bom 14 Nov 1857, died 4 Nov 1898.
Mother: Mary Jane Adams, born 20 Jan 1855, died 15 Jan 1945.
Baptized Oakdale IL 22 Apr 1882.
Communicant 24 Oct 1895.
Public schools Oakdale IL.
Prep department Geneva College.
Geneva College 1902-06.
RP Seminary Allegheny 1906-09.
Licensed May 1908 Pittsburgh Presbytery.
Married 12 Apr 1910 Morna Gail McWilliams, bom 23 Dec 1883 New Matamoras OH, died 20 Mar 1973 Beaver Falls PA.
Children:
Robert James George 8 Dec 1911 Lisbon NY. Died 6 May 1956 London England.
Eunice Louise 29 Mar 1914 Goulterville IL. Husband: John Robert Posset of Niagara Falls Ontario. Residence Beaver Falls PA.
Ordained 19 Apr 1910 Rochester Presbytery.
Pastor Lisbon NY 19 Apr 1910 - 8 Apr 1913.
Pastor Church Hill (Coulterville IL) 19 May 1913 - 8 Mar 1915.
Pastor Olathe KS 14 Apr 1915 - 12 Jun 1917.
Young peoples topics for Covenanter Witness 1917-1935.
Principal Freedom PA H.S. 1918-19.
General field secretary Witness Committee 1919-20.
Stated supply Lake Reno (Glenwood MN) 1921-22.
Resided Pittsburgh PA 1923-32.
Various times pulpit supply
Regina Saskatchewan, Berwick Nova Scotia, and North Union Mission Station (Mars PA) 1924-30.
Superintendent Chinese Mission of Central Pittsburgh congregation 1930-32.
PastorColdenham NY 25 Mar 1932 - 31 Dec 1957.
Pastor Emeritus Coldenham 1957.
Retired Wallkill NY 1957-69, then Beaver Falls PA 1969-73 with daughter.
Synod's Boards: Foreign Missions many years up to 1965. Christian Education 1951-66.
Died 21 Jun 1973 Beaver Falls PA.
Memorial 1974 Minutes 113-4 by John McMillan. Witness 29 Aug 1973.
Sketches 195-6. Ministers 123.
Birth source: S198Page: pages 109 & 110
Text: McCLURKLN, Walter Clyde 1882-1973
Father: William Morrison McClurkin, bom 14 Nov 1857, died 4 Nov 1898.
Mother: Mary Jane Adams, born 20 Jan 1855, died 15 Jan 1945.
Baptized Oakdale IL 22 Apr 1882.
Communicant 24 Oct 1895.
Public schools Oakdale IL.
Prep department Geneva College.
Geneva College 1902-06.
RP Seminary Allegheny 1906-09.
Licensed May 1908 Pittsburgh Presbytery.
Married 12 Apr 1910 Morna Gail McWilliams, bom 23 Dec 1883 New Matamoras OH, died 20 Mar 1973 Beaver Falls PA.
Children:
Robert James George 8 Dec 1911 Lisbon NY. Died 6 May 1956 London England.
Eunice Louise 29 Mar 1914 Goulterville IL. Husband: John Robert Posset of Niagara Falls Ontario. Residence Beaver Falls PA.
Ordained 19 Apr 1910 Rochester Presbytery.
Pastor Lisbon NY 19 Apr 1910 - 8 Apr 1913.
Pastor Church Hill (Coulterville IL) 19 May 1913 - 8 Mar 1915.
Pastor Olathe KS 14 Apr 1915 - 12 Jun 1917.
Young peoples topics for Covenanter Witness 1917-1935.
Principal Freedom PA H.S. 1918-19.
General field secretary Witness Committee 1919-20.
Stated supply Lake Reno (Glenwood MN) 1921-22.
Resided Pittsburgh PA 1923-32.
Various times pulpit supply
Regina Saskatchewan, Berwick Nova Scotia, and North Union Mission Station (Mars PA) 1924-30.
Superintendent Chinese Mission of Central Pittsburgh congregation 1930-32.
PastorColdenham NY 25 Mar 1932 - 31 Dec 1957.
Pastor Emeritus Coldenham 1957.
Retired Wallkill NY 1957-69, then Beaver Falls PA 1969-73 with daughter.
Synod's Boards: Foreign Missions many years up to 1965. Christian Education 1951-66.
Died 21 Jun 1973 Beaver Falls PA.
Memorial 1974 Minutes 113-4 by John McMillan. Witness 29 Aug 1973.
Sketches 195-6. Ministers 123.
Birth source: S69Page: Volume 60, page 196
Text: COULTERVILLE, ILL.
Rev. and Mrs. W . C. McClurkin are rejoicing in the advent of a bright baby daughter, who came on Sabbath, March 29th. Mother and daughter are getting along nicely. Address all mail for the baby "Eunice Louise NcClurkin."
Burial source: S170Page: Eunice Louise McClurkin Posset
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Text: Eunice Louise McClurkin Posset
March 29, 1914 - January 19, 2015
Pittsburgh, PA
Services: Wednesday January 21, 2015 4:00 PM
Service Location: Campbell's Chippewa Funeral Home
Place of Internment: Beaver Falls Cemetery
Eunice Louise McClurkin Posset, age 100 formerly of White Township, died on Monday, January 19, 2015 at the Reformed Presbyterian Home in Pittsburgh, Pa. Mrs. Posset was born March 29, 1914, in Coulterville, Illinois, the daughter of the late Reverend Walter Clyde McClurkin and Morna Gail McWilliams McClurkin. Mrs. Posset received her Bachelor of Arts in French from the University of Pittsburgh in 1933 and her Masters of Arts in French from the University of Pittsburgh in 1936. Mrs. Posset also studied Spanish at Middlebury College and at the University of Massachusetts Oversees Institute in Arcachon, France.
During World War II, Mrs. Posset served in Syria as a Missionary teacher at the American School for Girls in Latakac, Syria, where she was the Principal and English Teacher from 1947 to 1957. She returned to the United States and taught French at Kawallkill Central High School from 1957 to 1969 and later taught French at Geneva College.
Mrs. Posset met her husband, John R. Posset in Erie, Pennsylvania and they were married on November 23, 1974, at the Geneva Reformed Presbyterian Church in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Posset was president of the Pittsburgh Presbyterian Women's Missionary Society and a member of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages and the American Association of Teachers and French. Mrs. Posset was a member of the First Reformed Presbyterian Church in Patterson Twp., PA; formerly known as Geneva Reformed Presbyterian Church.
Besides her parents, Mrs. Posset was preceded in death by her husband, John Robert Posset on December 18, 2012.
Friends will be received at Campbell's Chippewa Funeral Home, 2618 Darlington Road Beaver Falls, PA on Wednesday January 21, 2015 from 3:00 PM to until the time of service at 4:00 PM at the funeral home, with Pastor Bruce Backensto of the First Reformed Presbyterian Church presiding. Private interment will follow at the Beaver Falls Cemetery, Chippewa Twp.
Burial source: S89Page: Eunice Louise McClurkin Posset
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Graduation source: S289Page: Volume 3, page 100
Text: Eunice L. McClurkin, fifteen-year-old daughter of Rev. Walter C. McClurkin, and a member of Central Pittsburg congregation, graduated in June from Allegheny High School with highest honor, and has been awarded the A. H. S. four-year scholarship at the University of Pittsburgh. Eunice expects to enter the College Department of the University in September.
Occupation source: S289Page: Volume 39, pages 148 & 212
Text: Page 148
Three Volunteer for Foreign Mission Service
At the Meeting of the Covenanter Conventicle at Grinnell, Iowa three young people offered themselves for Foreign Mission service. They are
Kenneth Sanderson, Miss Marion Adams, and Miss Eunice McClurkin. An interesting thing about these young people is that they are all from the homes of ministers. Let us thank God that these have offered themselves to our work, and let us support them by our prayers and material means.
page 212
New Missionaries
The church was heartened by the news of the appointment of three young people to our field in Syria. These are Marion Adams, Superior, Nebraska ; Kenneth Sanderson, Utica, Ohio ; Eunice McClurkin, Coldenham, N. Y. These young people are eminently well qualified mentally and spiritually for the work to which they have been called. The degree of sacrifice made in renouncing much larger salaries is an indication of the degree of consecration to the Lord's call. This is a fine response to the appeals made at Grinnell. This is truly the Lord's answer to the prayer of the church to the Lord of the harvest.
Residence source: S24Text: Walter McClurken
Event source: S170Page: Eunice Louise McClurkin Posset
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Text: Eunice Louise McClurkin Posset
March 29, 1914 - January 19, 2015
Pittsburgh, PA
Services: Wednesday January 21, 2015 4:00 PM
Service Location: Campbell's Chippewa Funeral Home
Place of Internment: Beaver Falls Cemetery
Eunice Louise McClurkin Posset, age 100 formerly of White Township, died on Monday, January 19, 2015 at the Reformed Presbyterian Home in Pittsburgh, Pa. Mrs. Posset was born March 29, 1914, in Coulterville, Illinois, the daughter of the late Reverend Walter Clyde McClurkin and Morna Gail McWilliams McClurkin. Mrs. Posset received her Bachelor of Arts in French from the University of Pittsburgh in 1933 and her Masters of Arts in French from the University of Pittsburgh in 1936. Mrs. Posset also studied Spanish at Middlebury College and at the University of Massachusetts Oversees Institute in Arcachon, France.
During World War II, Mrs. Posset served in Syria as a Missionary teacher at the American School for Girls in Latakac, Syria, where she was the Principal and English Teacher from 1947 to 1957. She returned to the United States and taught French at Kawallkill Central High School from 1957 to 1969 and later taught French at Geneva College.
Mrs. Posset met her husband, John R. Posset in Erie, Pennsylvania and they were married on November 23, 1974, at the Geneva Reformed Presbyterian Church in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Posset was president of the Pittsburgh Presbyterian Women's Missionary Society and a member of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages and the American Association of Teachers and French. Mrs. Posset was a member of the First Reformed Presbyterian Church in Patterson Twp., PA; formerly known as Geneva Reformed Presbyterian Church.
Besides her parents, Mrs. Posset was preceded in death by her husband, John Robert Posset on December 18, 2012.
Friends will be received at Campbell's Chippewa Funeral Home, 2618 Darlington Road Beaver Falls, PA on Wednesday January 21, 2015 from 3:00 PM to until the time of service at 4:00 PM at the funeral home, with Pastor Bruce Backensto of the First Reformed Presbyterian Church presiding. Private interment will follow at the Beaver Falls Cemetery, Chippewa Twp.
Death source: S170Page: Eunice Louise McClurkin Posset
http://www.campbellfuneralhomes.com/bio.php?page=306
Text: Eunice Louise McClurkin Posset
March 29, 1914 - January 19, 2015
Pittsburgh, PA
Services: Wednesday January 21, 2015 4:00 PM
Service Location: Campbell's Chippewa Funeral Home
Place of Internment: Beaver Falls Cemetery
Eunice Louise McClurkin Posset, age 100 formerly of White Township, died on Monday, January 19, 2015 at the Reformed Presbyterian Home in Pittsburgh, Pa. Mrs. Posset was born March 29, 1914, in Coulterville, Illinois, the daughter of the late Reverend Walter Clyde McClurkin and Morna Gail McWilliams McClurkin. Mrs. Posset received her Bachelor of Arts in French from the University of Pittsburgh in 1933 and her Masters of Arts in French from the University of Pittsburgh in 1936. Mrs. Posset also studied Spanish at Middlebury College and at the University of Massachusetts Oversees Institute in Arcachon, France.
During World War II, Mrs. Posset served in Syria as a Missionary teacher at the American School for Girls in Latakac, Syria, where she was the Principal and English Teacher from 1947 to 1957. She returned to the United States and taught French at Kawallkill Central High School from 1957 to 1969 and later taught French at Geneva College.
Mrs. Posset met her husband, John R. Posset in Erie, Pennsylvania and they were married on November 23, 1974, at the Geneva Reformed Presbyterian Church in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Posset was president of the Pittsburgh Presbyterian Women's Missionary Society and a member of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages and the American Association of Teachers and French. Mrs. Posset was a member of the First Reformed Presbyterian Church in Patterson Twp., PA; formerly known as Geneva Reformed Presbyterian Church.
Besides her parents, Mrs. Posset was preceded in death by her husband, John Robert Posset on December 18, 2012.
Friends will be received at Campbell's Chippewa Funeral Home, 2618 Darlington Road Beaver Falls, PA on Wednesday January 21, 2015 from 3:00 PM to until the time of service at 4:00 PM at the funeral home, with Pastor Bruce Backensto of the First Reformed Presbyterian Church presiding. Private interment will follow at the Beaver Falls Cemetery, Chippewa Twp.
Graduation source: S289Page: Volume 10, page 317
Text: Miss Eunice McC]urkin and Robert McClurkin, children of Rev. W. C. McClurkin of Coldenham congregation, came on to Winona with their father. Miss McClurkin had just graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with high honors in the department of languages.
Page: Volume 17, page 80
Text: Miss Eunice McClurkin received her degree of M. A. from the University of Pittsburgh and has returned to her home in Coldenham, N. Y.
Occupation source: S289Page: Volume 31, page 124
Text: In this same Grumman plant Eunice McClurkin is now a regular Engineering Aide.
Page: Volume 59, pages 4 & 5
Text: Page 4
After reconsidering her resignation at the Board's request, while appreciating the complimentary appraisals of her service in Syria, Eunice McClurkin still considered herself expendable to the advantage of all concerned. She is booked for passage on the Excambion, sailing from Latakia July 16, due in New York some time in August. By order of the Syrian government she surrendered her residence permit and was told to be out of Syria by June 5. As she was preparing to leave on that date she received permission to stay until June 30, the end of the school year.
Page 5
Miss Eunice McClurkin, after ten years of splendid service in Syria has tendered her resignation to the Board, feeling that now she is being called home, just as surely as she was called out. All of the American Missionary Staff, recognizing her special abilities and qualifications, have urged her reconsideration. It was with great hesitancy and reluctance that the Board has acquiesced in her request to be released, and has asked that she stay in Syria long enough to help a native principal of the school to get started, or at least until September 1. Her coming home at this time would seem to be another severe blow to our Mission Program.
Occupation source: S160Page: pages 113 - 114
Text: Walter C.McCLURKIN, D.D.
Through Hebrews 10:35 and 36, God continues to give to His servants this wise counsel:
" . . Do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward. For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised." (NASB) In the ministry of our brother Walter McClurkin these qualities of confidence and endurance were molded together to an unusual degree.
Walter Clyde McClurkin was born in Oakdale, Illinois, on February 14, 1882, and was over ninety-one years old when death came on June 20, 1973. He and his wife, the former Morna McWilliams, shared almost sixty-three years of married life together. They shared a great interest in gardening, and surrounded their homes with beautiful flowers and shrubs. Mrs. McClurkin preceded her husband in death by exactly three months. He was also preceded in death by his son, Robert. He is survived by his daughter, Eunice, who is a member of the Geneva College faculty.
In 1955 Dr. McClurkin was elected by the Synod to be its moderator, and he was granted the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity by Geneva College in 1956.
Dr. McClurkin was ordained to the Gospel Ministry on April 19, 1910, and served as pastor of the Reformed Presbyterian Churches in Lisbon, N e w York, Coulterville, Illinois, Olathe, Kansas, and Coldenham, New York, and as Stated Supply at Glenwood, Minnesota. For three years he was superintendent of the Chinese Mission of the Central Pittsburgh congregation.
Walter McClurkin's quality of steadfast endurance was tested during the first twenty-two years of his public ministry by the frequency with which he moved. During those years he labored within the bounds of five different presbyteries, and in different kinds of ministry. His patience was tested and revealed through his physical handicaps of speaking and hearing.
In the depression year of 1932 an opportunity to return to the pastorate came in the form of a call from the congregation at Coldenham, New York. Before the call was made out, serious thought had been given to the possible closing of the church. Coldenham had seventeen resident members, and only one child on the baptized roll. However, a house-to-house survey of the surrounding community revealed that the people living there wanted the church to remain open. Under God's guidance, the decision was made to continue, and Dr. McClurkin received the call. From the very beginning of a pastorate which was to last for a quarter of a century, Dr. McClurkin revealed his spiritual vision and strong confidence in his Lord. Under his leadership the church in Coldenham
became the center for a vigorous program of outreach. Dr. and Mrs. McClurkin made their home a center of social life for the young people of the community, and showed a deep interest in their activities. A very large and active Covenanter Young People's Union was organized. The young people were challenged to come to the public worship and pay close attention to the preaching of the Word, and prizes were awarded for the best sets of sermon notes. The church camp at White Lake - an hour's drive away - came to play an important part in the life of the congregation. A large mission Sabbath School was also developed, and the church began to grow. Throughout these years of ministry at Coldenham, Dr. McClurkin was deeply appreciated as a pastor who loved and cared for his flock. Upon his retirement from the active ministry in December of 1957, he was honored with the title of Pastor-Emeritus of that congregation.
May the unusual pattern of Walter McClurkin's ministry, and the fruitfulness of it, challenge us not to cast away either our confidence or our patience in our service to the Lord of the church.
"Blessed is a man who perseveres under trial; for once he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised to those who love Him." (James 1:12)
Residence source: S27Text: Walter C McClurkin