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Title: The MacQueens of Queensdale; a biography of Col. James MacQueen and his descendants
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: MacElyea, Annabella Bunting MacCallum McLean, Angus Wilton, 1870-1935 Clan MacQueen Association
Subjects: McQueen family
Publisher: (Charlotte, N. C., Observer Printing House)
Contributing Library: State Library of North Carolina, Government & Heritage Library
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ed, yet he was by nature genial, sunny-hearted, and.approachable.He was intensely fond of a good joke, and his own style of relating onewas inimitable. In fact, he was calculated to win and hold the friend-ship of mankind, because of his magnetic personality, and his magnan-imous and charitable spirit, ever ready to laud the virtues or condonethe frailties of his fellow-man. His was an analytical mind—strong,Cjuick, and well poised; and he was justly ranked as one of the readiest,strongest, and most pleasing debaters of his period. Some of hisspeeches delivered while in Congress are considered masterpieces, andupon the hustings he had few equals. His burial place, in the little Episcopal cemetery of Society Hill, ismarked by a handsome monument. My admiration of this uncle was almost boundless, on account of thegrandeur of his character and that innate nobility of soul, without whichall the combined elements of honor, fame, wealth, and position cannot 172 The MacQueens of Queensdale
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I. Mary Otts MacQueen 2. Joseph Pickens MacQueen 3. Mrs. Joseph Pickens MacQueen Gen. John MacQueen and His Descendants 173 produce true greatness ; and I loved him because of his warm and tenderheart and the affection bestowed upon me while a little schoolgirl inhis home. He was also loyal and devoted to the tradition of his Scotchancestry, and was well versed in the history of that country. He ownedat one time a beautiful portrait of the famous Flora MacDonald, donein oil, when she was sixteen years old. It was a valuable and highlyprized piece of art, which he told me was a bona fide likeness of hisillustrious kinswoman. Many years have passed since I saw this por-trait, but the impression made upon my mind has never been obliterated.The beauty of the Scotch lassie fascinated me; and would that I coulddescribe it for the pleasure of my readers just as it impressed me. Shewas exceedingly fair, with rounded cheeks, whose coloring was that ofthe blush of the ripening peach. Blue eyes,

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