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Notes for GLADYS FAY LAKE:
Gladys Fay Lake, only daughter of Amor E. and Anna Lake, died while attending school at Dayton, Virginia on Friday November 24, 1911 from the effects of typhoid fever. Funeral services were held in her home at Parsons, West Virginia on Sunday afternoon at 2:30. She is buried in the Parsons Cemetery. The following is quoted from the local paper of that day:
"Not in a great while have the citizens of Parsons been so terribly shocked as when the sad news was flashed over the wires to this city that Miss Gladys Lake had died on Friday morning at Dayton, Virginia, where she had been attending the Shenandoah Valley Collegiate Institute and School of Music.
'Miss Lake had been suffering from fever for several weeks. Her mother had gone to her bedside early in her sickness and remained with her. Her father had visited her a week or so before she died, and she seemed to be getting along nicely and it had been decided to bring her home. Her father left here on Friday morning to meet her and she and her mother were to start from Dayton the same morning, but at an early hour of the morning she was to start home, she suddenly grew worse and soon succumbed to heart failure. Thus the homecoming was changed from one of happy convalescence to one of sad and silent death, and the worn out and broken hearted mother must meet the expectant father with her lifeless body instead of the bright and happy daughter he started out to meet with such high hopes and happy dreams.
'The sad parents arrived in this city Saturday night with the body which was taken to the home she had left in the summer with such bright prospects and cheerful anticipations. The deceased was the only daughter of Amor and Anna Baker Lake and was 16 years, 5 months and 24 days old. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church of this city and was organist when she left for school. Her sweet Christian life made friends of all who knew her, both young and old, and as a Sunday school and church worker, she was cherished by the church and esteemed by all.
'The funeral services were held at the home on Walnut Street on Sunday afternoon by Rev. Bleakley, pastor of her church, assisted by Revs. Glenn and Bedford of the same church and Rev. Austin of the Baptist church, after which interment was made in the city Cemetery.
'The floral offerings were the most profuse seen in the city in many a day and were a fitting emblem of the sweet and fragrant Christian flower that had been plucked by the Master just as its' silken petals were beginning to open into bright and beautiful womanhood.
'Among the relatives attending the funeral from out of town were her grandfather, S. S. Lake and Clyde Lake, an uncle, and the wife of Bryden; Bruce Lake and daughters, Pearl and Reba of Grafton; Everett Moran and George Stipe of Simpson; Lutie Rayburn of St. Marys; Lincoln Baker and wife of St. George; Mrs. Hinebaugh and Mrs. Faw; Thomas and Miss Lucy Lake, who had been here for some time keeping house for her brother while Mrs. Lake was at the sick girl's bedside.
'It is needless to say the bereaved parents have the deep sympathy of the entire community in their sorrow."
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Family records of Troy Lake.
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