Obituary of Martin Lacy, Lawrence Co, AR

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Submitted by: Regina Creekmore Weaver<weave@intellinet.com>
        Date: 5 Aug 2001
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I had these obits from a scrapbook of a lady (a distant cousin) that
lived in the Jesup, Lawrence County area of Arkansas already entered in my
computer. The problem with these is that there are very few actual dates
given for the dates of death, and there are no newspaper names written
beside them. What I do know I've listed, and what was penciled in on the
obit, I've included. If you find someone that is attached to you, please
let me know, and I will try and see if I can find any other information for
you, such as date of death if you don't have it, and possibly a newspaper
name, also.

Obits of Folks from the Lawrence County, AR area

These obituaries are from various newspapers, all concerning people who
once lived in the Lawrence County area, mostly around Smithville, Jesup,
Strawberry, and Lynn, with a few from the Walnut Ridge area.

Friday, May 17, 1907 page 5

LACY'S SUDDEN DEATH

AN UNFORTUNATE VICTIM OF LIQUOR AND MORPHINE.

THE CIRCUMSTANCES AS DEVELOPED AT IN THE INQUEST - A CLEVER AND CAPABLE MAN

(from Wednesday's Daily)

Martin Lacy died here Tuesday afternoon, under unusual circumstances. He
had been drinking heavily for some days, and was still under the effects of
liquor, when he went to Sam McMillan's barber shop, about 4 o'clock, and
McMillan administered a dose of morphine, by hypodermic injection. Lacy
then lay down on a cot in the shop, and when an effort was made to arouse
him, some two hours later, it was found he was dead. Dr. Dorr was hastily
called, and declared he had been dead for more than an hour.
An inquest was held over the body this morning by Justice Holmes. The
testimony of Sam McMillan, Wilson Crane, Dr. Dorr, Jas. A. Hardy and will
and Albert Frye was taken, and the above facts established. The jury
returned a verdict that Lacy had come to his death while under the
influence of liquor and from a dose of morphine administered by McMillan.
The body is being held for the arrival of W.H. B. Green, a son-in-law, from
West Plains, Mo., on the train tomorrow.
Lacy was a capable and clever man. He was born in Illinois, about fifty
five years ago. He attended the Christian Brothers College, in St. Louis,
and came direct from there, in 1875, to take a clerkship with the late N.E.
Duffey, then a merchant in Oil Trough bottom. In 1880 he went to the head
of the bottom and went into business for himself. he was married in 1879
to Miss Sallie Toler, who died in 1887, leaving him three children. He has
been employed at Newport, Batesville, and other places, and only his habit
of drink interfered with his efficiency. The last position he held was
with Hardy & Warren, in this city. He has a married daughter at West
Plains, another at Springfield, Mo., and a son at Knoble, this State.