Date of birth: 1861
Date of death: 1939

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Burial Information

Section 05 (Click Here for Section Map)
Cemetery: Odd Fellows Cemetery
Plot: 0202-10
Status: Occupied

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Notes

Obituary

Mrs. Alice C. McBee
Dies At Family Home

Mrs. Alice Cunliffe McBee, beloved resident of our city, and widow of the late John H. McBee, who for many years served Holmes county as Circuit Clerk until his death, died Wednesday afternoon at the family home. She had been in failing health for several months. Her children had been at her bedside the past week as her illness grew extremely critical. She was 78 years of age.

Mrs. McBee was a native of Holmes county born near Lexington. She was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Richard Cunliffe, who were early settlers and prominent in the early days of Holmes county. Her father served valiantly with the soldiers of the Lost Cause losing his life in the Battle of Gettysburg.

During her many years residence in Lexington where she was known and loved by everyone, her friendliness and kindness endeared her to all. She was a woman of brilliant intellect and her interests in all phases of the community were kept keenly alert. Her home was her shrine and her devotion to her family paramount. When bereft of her husband she carried on and directed the household with every detail, her children being instilled with the graciousness and kindness so prominent in the family lineage. She lived to see and enjoy the prominence gained for themselves through her motherly guidance and tutelage.

She took an active interest in her church and was one of the devout members of St. Mary’s Episcopal church.

Funeral services will be held at the family residence Friday morning at 10 o’clock conducted by Rev. Elnathan Tartt. Interment will be made in Odd Fellows Cemetery, C. S. Harrell in charge of funeral arrangements. She is survived by the following children: Dr. J. H. McBee, Will C. McBee, Dalton McBee, Dudley McBee, Greenwood; Mrs. Fred Z. Browne, Texarkana, Texas; Mrs. John Beale. Chicago; Mrs. John Carpenter, Durant, Okla.; Mrs. H. H. Johnson and Miss Dorothy McBee, Lexington.

She is also survived by the following grandchildren: Cunliffe McBee, Greenwood; Mrs. Richard C. Copeland, Atlanta; Miss Alice Brown, Texarkana, Texas; Dalton McBee, Jr., Misses Ethel and Eva Lillian McBee, Greenwood; Mrs. William Barbour, Yazoo City; Miss Alice McBee, student at M. S. C. W.; Dudley McBee, Jr., student at State College; John Beale, Jr., Chicago; Lt. John Carpenter, Jr., Tulsa, Oklahoma; Mrs. W. E. Thurmond, Miss Ada Johnson, student at University of Mississippi; Miss Bee Johnson, Lexington; also one great-grandson, R. C. McBee, Jr., Greenwood.

 Pallbearers will be: Cunliffe McBee, Dalton McBee, Jr., John M. Beale, Jr., W. E. Thurmond, Dudley McBee, Jr., William Barbour, Richard E. Copeland, John W'. Carpenter, III.

The Lexington Advertiser (Lexington, MS)
September 28, 1939, vol. 102, no. 22, pg. 5

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Family Members

Parents
PVT John Richard "Dick" Cunliffe, Jr.
1832–1864

Susan Wade "Susie" Walton Cunliffe
1841–1920

Spouse
John Harbour McBee
1856–1904

Siblings
Stephen Cunliffe
1858–1919

Children
Richard Cunliffe McBee
1881–1928

Dr. John Harbour McBee, Jr.
1883–1940

Susie McBee Browne
1884–1971

Dalton McBee
1886–1944

William Cunliffe McBee
1888–1953

Mary Dalton "Mittie" McBee Johnson
1890–1976

Anna McBee Beal
1892–1987

Alice Margaret McBee Carpenter
1895–1943

Dudley Gray McBee
1898–1971

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Inscription

Wife of John Harbour McBee

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Research Notes

Alice McBee's Middle name was verified on her daughter, Susie McBee Browne's, death certificate.

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