Obits: BYRD, Emma  Jane Lacy,   died  08/28/ 1950
Oct. 2002
Wolfe County, KY 

Submitted by: http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00001.html#0000062 
Wolfe County Genealogy and  Carole Bays
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Wolfe County News		

MRS. EMMA J. BYRD DIES AUGUST 28th

Mrs. Emma Jane Byrd, who was 80, on last March 30th, 1950, passed away 
at her home in Campton on August 28, 1950 very suddenly.

She was the daughter of the late W.W. and Sarah Lacy and the wife of 
R.L. Byrd, also deceased.

For many years she was a member of the Congregational Church.

She is survived by three daughters, Miss Nellie Byrd of Campton, with 
whom she lived, Mrs. Kathryn Lohman, Pawhuska, Okla, and Mrs. Mattie 
Williams,  Paintsville, Ky.

Also three sisters remain to mourn her loss; Mrs. Mattie Sewell, 
Campton, Mrs. Allie Reynolds, Campton, and Mrs. Price Garrison, Irvine, Ky.

Eight grandchildren and six great grandchildren.

Funeral services were conducted at the Campton Methodist Church on 
August 30th at 2 p.m. with Rev. Joseph Lewis officiating and Hearne Funeral 
Home in charge of funeral arrangements and burial which followed 
immediately in the Evans Cemetery.

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Mrs. Emma J Byrd's maiden name was Steele, and was my great aunt.  She 
was the daughter of William Wylie Steele b. 1847 d. 1908, and Sarah "Sally"
Lacy.   Mrs. Mattie Sewell, the wife of Porter Sewell, also a dau. of 
W. W.I remember them both clearly.  Aunt (great) Mattie lived until 1968.   
She wrote the Steele ancestry for the original "Early and Modern History of
Wolfe County".

Montford Reed
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