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tically every office, store and shop was dosed. Thousands of 



people were at the home. Almost every one in town was at the 

 place of funeral and the throng was swelled by the visiting hosts 

 that came by train, by auto, or other conveyance. The crowd at 

 the residence at the hour of service has been variously estimated. 

 Gathered together at one time on the Lacey lawn were enough 

 people to fill the largest auditorium in the city several times 

 over. In addition the streets in all directions from the home 

 were lined and crowded with people a block distant. People 

 stood about, the business streets, and when the procession moved 

 to the cemetery the streets leading thereto were all occupied by a 

 moving mass of humanity. Besides the number that tilled all the 

 rooms of the home, the crowd on the lawn extended far beyond 

 the reach of the voice. Weather conditions favored the occasion. 

 The day was perfect. The services following the viewing of the 

 casket were simple and brief. Rev. Allen Judd, of St. Paul's 

 Episcopal church, Des Moines, read the Episcopal service and 

 made a few brief remarks touching the life and the service of 

 the departed. Major Lacey had been a member and vestryman 

 of the St. James Episcopal church of Oskaloosa for years and the 

 irreproachable life of the man was an index of his faith and his 

 belief. A few brief words of prayer and consolation, the sing- 

 ing of the quartette from the Episcopal choir, Misses Helen Kal- 

 bach and Josephine Rover, Messrs. Warren Kalbach and Evan (.!. 

 Morgan, with Miss Pearle Porter, organist. Loved and familiar 

 hymns; the reading of original lines dedicated to the memory of 

 the man, by the author. Major S. II. M. Ryers, of Des Moines, 

 and the formalities were transferred to Forest Cemetery. At the 

 grave the G. A. R. was in charge; Mrs. Virginia Knight Logan 

 and Miss Reulah Drinkle sang. 



Moving from the residence the funeral procession headed south 

 on Market, street into A avenue, and thence east and north to the 

 cemetery entrance. Company F of the Iowa. National Guard, a 

 special guard of honor, was in advance, followed by the old sol- 

 diers, the local G. A. R. and visiting soldiers, about one hundred 

 in number; old soldiers in carriages; funeral attendants in car- 

 riages; the pall bearers, all members of the Thirty-third Iowa 

 regiment survivors, George W. Schee, of Chariton, Joint A. Shan- 



