Augusta Louisa Lacey
1833-April 3, 1892
Niles Daily Sun, Tuesday, April 5, 1892, page 4, col. 3, microfilm Niles District Library
Death of Mrs. Granville Lacey
Mrs. Augusta, wife of Granville Lacey, died in Los Angeles, California, on Sunday morning, April 3, 1892, of heart disease, in her 60th year.
For twenty years Mrs. Lacey had been an invalid, her health and strength gradually giving away during all this time.
In the early part of the winter Mrs. Lacey, accompanied by her two faithful and loving daughters, Misses May and Edith, went to Los Angeles, in the hope that the mild climate of Southern California might give some relief, and where she might also have the benefit of the medical services of her long-time physician, Dr. M.N. Avery, now of Los Angeles, and of her brother, Dr. Wm. B. May, an eminent physician of San Francisco. Unfortunately, however, human skill was unavailing. For some weeks her husband has been in receipt of letters and telegrams of a very discouraging tenor, and yesterday evening at 7:30 o'clock a telegram was received announcing that her death occurred on Sunday morning.
Augusta L. May was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Her parents came to Michigan in her early childhood and settled in St. Joseph county. On the 12th of June, 1855, at White Pigeon, she was united in marriage to Granville Lacey, and since that time, with the exception of about five years' residence in Buffalo and Cleveland, they have resided in this city.
Mrs. Lacey was a firm believer in the religion of Christ, and was a communicant in the Trinity Episcopal church. She had many friends who will sincerely mourn her death, and these friends are of those who knew her most intimately and had the best opportunity to know of her good traits of character.