A worthy man has been called to his great reward in that ‘holy city’ where all is love and delight. Where those that had lived the good life  on earth are welcomed.  Where happiness, love and pure delight  abound in endless quanties. Where he will bask in the sunlight of his  Great Redeemer and all will be well.  His splendid work on earth will  follow him.

Josiah McCary was born Jan. 18, 1842 on the late Henry McCary  homestead, 4 miles southwest of this city, and was a son of the late  Hon. Henry McCary and Mrs Jane McCary, old time and highly  respected citizens of Barry County, who came to Barry county in 1830 (should read 1837), from east Tennessee.  The deceased grew  to manhood in this county and when the civil war came on in the sixties,  he with his brothers, B.F., T.B and Asberry, all enlisted on the side of the  Confederate states and joined Capt. Joe Peevey’s Company, that was  organized in the south end of Barry county and served throughout that war  and returned home and went to work on the farm and in 1867, he and Miss  Mary I. Barr were married, and four children were born to this marriage,  two dying in infancy, and Mrs. Thos. Hodge and Cam McCary survive the  father.  He died Sept. 7th, 1923, aged 81 yrs. 7 months and 19 days, of  infirmities of old age.  During the civil war, a woman in the Southland, gave  him a testament to read, which he studied during his leisure hours and obeyed  its teachings in Confederate Camp and united with the Christian church at  Three Camps, Ark., and was baptized by Elder J.H. Mulvy. In his younger  days he was very active in church work and remained steadfast to his religious beliefs that were implanted in his mind in those trying days of warfare.

Mrs. Jennie Mithell of California, is the only surviving sister and all brothers  are dead.

Josiah McCary enjoyed the high esteem of everybody that had the privilege  of being acquainted with him.  His integrity was never questioned and he was an unassuming man, and always stood for what he believed was right. After a scriptural reading and a prayer by Rev. Chas. Vanzadt at the late home,

Rev. C.F. Rose of Springfield, of the Christian church, preached an impressive sermon to his many relatives, old friends and many neighbors who had assembled to pay the last tribute of love and respect to this good man.

The remains were interned in the McCary cemetery, on the old homestead.