372 MAJOR JOHN F. LACEY 



The old town without Major Lacey will be very strange. 

 It will have lost a potent force; an individuality of the 

 rugged sort — worthy of the line and the life that gave 

 him to the community. 



We are all anxious to hear full particulars — but mean- 

 while the memory of the past of this brave man will only 

 grow the brighter as time shall whirl us all on to our own 

 appointed end. God comfort you all, and bear our love 

 to Nellie and the dear mother whose partner for nearly a 

 half century has gone to join those sleeping out in Forest 

 Cemetery. Affectionately and sincerely, 



Albert W. Swal,m. 



