Census: 1880 Walworth, Walworth Co., Wisconsin: age 27

"The Milton Junction Telephone", Milton Junction, Wisconsin, Thursday, Feb. 11, 1937, p 1.
Mrs. Eva McLearn, Walworth, died Sunday at the home of Dr. L. M. Babcock, Milton, where she was brought last Thursday. On January 29th, she had stumbled while carrying a kettle of boiling water and spilled it into her lap, scalding a large area of flesh.
Funeral services were held in the Walworth S. D. B. church Tuesday at 2 p.m., Rev. Carroll L. Hill, Milton, officiating.
Evaline Harriet, one of three children of Harlow M. and Harriet E. Crumb Coon, was born on May 9, 1853, in Walworth. Her sister, Phoebe, and brother, H. Irving, died in August, 1933, as the result of an auto accident.
On January 25, 1888, she married Rev. Alexander McLearn, S. D. B. missionary pastor living at Berlin, Wis., and serving the Berlin and Marquette fields. Later he was sent to Rockville, Rhode Island, where they resided until their return to Walworth where he died in 1907.
She had been a member of the Walworth S. D. B. church most of her life, and a member of the Sabbath school almost eighty years. She had been a member of the W. C. T. U. since 1887.

Census: 1880 Mason, Ingham Co., Michigan:age 49, advent preacher

"The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 63, No 13, p 216, Apr. 1, 1907.
Alexander McLearn was born on Prince Edward Island, March 9, 1832, and died in Walworth, Wis., March 17, 1907, aged seventy-five years.
He was the fifth son of William and Jennie McLearn. When but a few days old he was formally and prayerfully dedicated to the Lord by his father, who was a Presbyterian minister. At the age of seventeen he accepted the Baptist form of faith. His early college training was at Prince of Wales College, from which, in later years, he received the title of Doctor of Divinity. At the age of twenty-five he came to Massachusetts, where he completed a course of study at Newton Theological Seminary, in 1861. His first pastorate and place of ordination was at the Baptist church at Halifax, Mass. He also served four years at Middleboro, and preached five years at Granville in that state. He came to the state of Michigan, preached two years at Manchester, and five years at Dansville. With broken health, he then moved to Mason. While there the Seventh-day Adventists gave him the writing of Elder Thomas Brown, who served twenty-three years as pastor of the Little Genesee, N. Y.,!
Seventh-day Baptist church. Brother McLearn began keeping the Sabbath of the Lord, desiring to be under the authority of the Bible Commandment in his religious practice. He found no employment at preaching for about two years. His next public service was the great work of education. Called to the Presidency of Battle Creek College, he served in that capacity in the years 1881 and 1882. His ideas of a college education seemed not to just fit with the authorities there, at that time, and early in 1883, he was introduced to the people of the Walworth, Wis., Seventh-day Baptist church by Elder E. M. Dunn, then of the Milton church. Here he served three years, under rather difficult circumstances, and here his first wife died in 1886. She was Harriet Coffin, of Prince Edward Island.
After about two years of Home Mission work among the scattered churches in Wisconsin, Mr. McLearn accepted a call from Rockville, R. I., in 1888. On January 25, of the same year, he was married to Evaline H. Coon, of Walworth, Wis. She has been a most efficient helper in the nineteen years of service in the Rockville church, from which they returned to this place about one year ago.
From the Recorder of last April I quote the following expression: "Physically, intellectually and theologically, Dr. McLearn is a strong, well developed American Scotchman. In social life, he is genial and companionable, in theology he is orthodox and always ready to give a reason for the faith he holds."
Let me quote also a little from the Ministerial Association of Westerly, R. I., expressing their regret at his leaving them, one year ago: "His genial nature and broad sympathy have endured him to us all. His opinions were those of a candid man who was with us in our love for Christ. He was great enough to measure men by character. We hereby express our good wishes for him and his faithful wife."
We need many more men of such strong Bible faith. Our brother did great sacrifice for the satisfying consciousness of being consistently obedient to God; but men who sacrifice much for the divine command are not generally counting it as a great burden. Could our people more generally hold the Bible in such sacred estimate as the Word of God, there would be much greater effect for God than we do see at this time. I hereby offer my own testimony of praise and gratitude to God for Brother McLearn's helpful sermons and kind personal encouragement during the three years of his service in Walworth.
The funeral service was in the Walworth Seventh-day Baptist church, conducted by Pastor M. G. Stillman. Rev. Alexander Warren of the Walworth Congregational church, and Rev. Walter Greene, took part in the preliminary service. Rev. G. W. Lewis, Rev. L. A. Platts, and Mrs. O. U. Whitford spoke on the program, bringing many practical thoughts, most fitting to the occasion. M. G. Stillman