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which were adopted by a rising vote and the meeting 

 stood adjourned. Judge Willcockson then convened 

 court momentarily to receive a motion from the bar that 

 the resolutions be spread upon the court record and it 

 was so ordered and court stood adjourned for the day in 

 honor of the memory of one of the greatest lawyers 

 county or state has produced. The resolutions, read by 

 George W. Seevers, chairman of the committee who also 

 made some remarks fitting the occasion, follow: 



In memoriam, John Fletcher Lacey as presented to the District 

 Court of Mahaska County, Iowa, on this 13th day of October, 

 A. D. 1913. 



Major John F. Lacey, the son of John M. and Eleanor Patton 

 Lacey, was born at New Martinsville, Virginia, on the 30th day 

 of May, 1841, was 72 years, 3 months and 29 days old at the 

 time of his death. He died at his home at Oskaloosa, Iowa, on 

 the 29th day of September, 1913. He was apparently in perfect 

 health to the time of his death, which was almost instantaneous. 



Major Lacey came to Oskaloosa in 1855 when about fourteen 

 years of age and thereafter attended here the public and select 

 schools until he entered upon the study of law with the firm of 

 Rice, Meyers & Rice, of this city. 



At the outbreak of the Civil War he early enlisted as a private 

 in Company H, Third Iowa Infantry, was taken prisoner at the 

 battle of Blue Mills, was paroled, exchanged and reenlisted in 

 Company D, Thirty-third Iowa Infantry, was rapidly promoted, 

 and served on staff duty, reaching the rank of major, which he 

 held to the close of the war. 



On the 19th day of September, A. D. 1865, at Oskaloosa, Iowa, 

 he was united in marriage with Miss Martha Newell, who, with 

 two daughters, still survives him. 



At the close of the war he returned to Oskaloosa, and resumed 

 the study of law, and late in the summer of 1865 was admitted to 

 the bar of this state. He at once entered upon the practice of 

 his profession and early formed a co-partnership with Mr. Wil- 

 liam E. Sheppard, which continued until the removal of Mr. 



