Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1915 — MISS LUCY HEALY DEAD. [ARTICLE]

MISS LUCY HEALY DEAD.

Daughter of Mr. and Mi>. John Healy Died of Consumption Monday. Miss Lucy Margaret Healy, the 22-year-old daughter of Mr. and .Mrs. John Healy, died at the family home on Front street at about 9 o'clock Monday morning, after a long illness from consumption, aged 21 years. 10 months and 19 days. The funeral will be held at St. Augustine Catholic church at 9 o'clock this morning and burial made in Mt. Calvary cemetery, south of town, Calkins & Worland being the undertakers in charge. The remains were viewed by friends yesterday afternoon at the family home front 2 to 5 o'clock. It seems so much more sad to see a bright young life just budded into womanhood taken away than it does one who is aged and feeble, yet the grim destroyer is no respector of persons, and this sweet young life was taken just as it was entering the stage of usefullness. Lucy was born and grew to womanhood in Rensselaer, and was very popular with the young folks. She attended the city schools and was popular with her teachers and schoolmates. She left the city schools at the end of her sophomore year and then attended St. Elizabeth's Academy at St. Louis for one year. Of a sweet, lovable disposition"she made friends with all whom she met. She was always rather frail, and about a year ago was attacked with tuberculosis. She was taken to St. Elizabeth’s hospital at Lafayette, where she was treated for several weeks, but her intimate friends had little or no hope of her recovery. She had failed gradually since, and lor the past few weeks her decline had been quite rapid. She leaves a father, mother, three brothers, Lon, Paul and John, Jr., and one sister, Marie, and a host of friends to mourn her early death.

MRS. ERNEST COCKRELL Mrs. Ernest Cockrell, who has been an inmate of the asylum at l.ongcliff for several months past, died at that institution Sunday night. Zern Wright went to Logansport Monday and brought the body here that evening. Mrs. Cockrell was a daughter of the late Henry Mackey, and was bom in Delphi August 19, 1872. Her parents moved to Rensselaer a number of years ago and she was married here in October. 1905, to Ernest Cockrell. To this union two children were born, one dying in infancy. Zelma, now 8 years of age, with the husband survive her. A few months ago she developed serious mental troubles and was declared insane and taken to the asylum for treatment. The immediaie cause of death was bronchial pneumonia. The body was taken to the home of her mother in the east part of town and the funeral, conducted by Rev. .T. P. Green, was held therefrom at 2:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Burial in Weston cemetery: Besides the husband and little daughter she leaves an aged mother and two brothers. William and Grover Mackey.

THOMAS PRICE Zern Wright, accompanied by Ray Parks as driver, drove to Logansport in W. J. Wright's automobile hearse Saturday night, leaving here at about 9:30 o’clock, and brought back Sunday morning the body of Thomas Price of Barkley tp.. who had been an inmate of the asylum at Longcliff for several years and who died at that institution Saturday afternoon. The funeral was held Monday forenoon and burial made in the Smith cemetery in Barkley tp. Mr. Price was a native of Bellefountaine, 0., where he was born Nov. 7, 1842. He came to Jasper county with his parents when quite young, and served in the civil war in the 135th Indiana regiment. He made his home for many years with his brother, Samuel Price, in Barkley tp., he having never married. His mental trouble dates back some fourteen years, and except for intervals he has since been an inmate of Long- } cliff. The funeral was held at the home of W. E. Price in Barkley tp., at 10 o’clock Monday, conducted by Rev. C. W. Postill..