1911 Extracts from Barry County, MO, Newspapers
An interlibrary loan of microfilm from the State Historical Society of MO was the source of the below given data. Extracts from Barry County, MO, Newspapers

Extracted by: Donna Cooper, Coordinator
July 20, 1911, Thursday, Cassville Republican, Barry Co., MO


Mrs. Illus M. Lee Dead: Mrs. Inez Lee, wife of Illus M. Lee, a prominent attorney of Kansas City, died Tuesday morning, July 18, of lung trouble, aged 35 years. For many months' Mrs. Lee had been in very poor health and her death had for some time been expected by her relatives and many friends.

Mrs. Lee was the eldest daughter of R. P. Thompson of St. Louis, who lived in Cassville some years ago, where Mrs. Lee grew to womanhood. In December of 1900 she was married to Illus Lee, then an attorney of Pineville. Soon after their marriage they moved to Neosho and then to Kansas City where Mr. Lee is engaged in practice of Law. She leaves a father, two sisters, one brother, a husband and thee children, to mourn her death. She was a member of the M. E. church South in which her Christian influence was always for that which was Christ like. The funeral which was conducted at the Oak Hill Cemetery by Rev. E. A. Frost, this evening (Thursday) at 1 o'clock.

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Hazel Dell News: W. A. Boucher and family of Purdy, Fulton Smith and wife, Perry Johnson and family of Monett, Mrs. Hattie Dummit and children, Mrs. James Moore and daughter, Hazel of Purdy, Mattie Blankenship and children of Corsicana visited at P. A. Boucher's Saturday and Sunday.
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