Aberdeen Weekly News Thursday,September 14, 1899
Hattie A. E. Elliott Lacey
As the result of a paralytic stroke, which came upon her at 4 o’clock Friday afternoon, Mrs. S. C. Lacey died at her home in Aberdeen Friday at 9:45 p.m. She suffered a previous light stroke several months ago and a second partial one in June, from which she had recovered when the attack which proved fatal came upon her yesterday. She had been feeling particularly well for several days and yesterday came down town and was planning purchases for the comfort of her family during the coming winter when she was stricken. After the stroke came she was taken to her home, where she did not regain consciousness and her death was painless.
Hattie A. E. Elliott was born at Pittsfield, Mich., sixty-two years ago. With her parents she removed to Ann Arbor, Mich., where she was married to Seth C. Lacey, then a medical student at the university in that city, on New Year eve, 1860. After her husband graduated the following year, they removed to Laceyville, Pa., where Dr. Lacey practiced medicine about ten years. They lived afterward in Michigan and Wisconsin until 1883, when they removed to Columbia in this state, and after a few years came to Aberdeen, where they have since made their home.
Three children were born to her, one of which died in infancy. The daughter, Mrs. Myrtle S. Scott, died in Aberdeen a few years ago, the only living child now being Clarence E. Lacey of Aberdeen. A brother and two sisters survive Mrs. Lacey. The brother is S. H. Elliott of Brainard township in this county. One sister is Miss Bessie M. Elliott of Ann Arbor, Michigan., the other being Mrs. Chas. E. Lattimer of Chicago.
In girlhood Mrs. Lacey joined the Congregational church and lived a consistent Christian life. On coming to Aberdeen she united with St. Mark’s Episcopal church and had been active in the good work of the church in the parish. She was possessed of the highest attributers of Christian womanhood, and her home was one that all who knew her delighted to visit. She endeared herself to all with whom she came much in contact, and there are many yet living in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, as well as in this state, who conferred upon her the endearing title of mother, and there will be many who will mourn her as sincerely and as deeply as the members of her own family.
The funeral of Mrs. Dr. S. C. Lacey at St. Mark’s church Sunday afternoon was very largely attended. At 2 o’clock the ladies of the Eastern Star, of which order the deceased was a member, and the members of the Knights of Pythias lodge gathered at the Lacey residence and escorted the remains to the church, where the funeral service was conducted by Rev. Dr. Sparling.
After the service at the church a long procession followed the body to Riverside cemetery. At the conclusion of the service at the grave the Eastern Star ladies marched around the grave and each deposited a bouquet of flowers in the five colors emblematic of the order upon the coffin of their deceased sister, the ceremony being impressive and touching. The floral offerings were very fine, and had an especial appropriateness from the fact that the deceased was much devoted to the cultivation of flowering plants of all kinds.
~Transcribed by volunteer researcher, Kathy Smith