LAYCOCK OBITUARIES, Henry County, Missouri
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LAYCOCK, Luella 1876 - 1947

Wednesday morning, October 8, 1947, at 5:00 o'clock, Miss Luella Laycock, 80 
passed away in the home where she was born and had lived all of her life. She and 
a younger sister, Miss Grace Laycock, 76, had lived together in the old house 
South of Shawnee Mound, just off the present highway 13, since the death of 
their parents and other close relatives. With the paving of the highway and the 
straightening of the road, their home, which was formerly on a sharp turn of the 
road, was more or less cut off from the world and the two sisters lived in an era 
of the past Dressed in the clothes of a bygone period, they could be seen often by 
travelers walking with heads high and an easy graceful swing to the store in 
Shawnee Mound to make their purchases. Miss Luella had been sick only a few 
days and her death came as a shock to the younger sister, who not having a car or 
a telephone started to walk to Clinton to notify Vansants Funeral Home of the 
death of her sister. Mrs. John Balke, who was passing by, brought her to Clinton 
and stayed with her until time to go back to her lonely home. Miss Laycock is 
survived by the one sister and three nieces, one living in Phillipsburg, Kansas, 
one in Arkansas and Mrs. Garland Albin, formerly Miss Frances Laycock, who lived 
for a time with her aunts, who sent her to college and after her graduation while 
she was teaching school for 12 years in the county a later after her marriage, 
she was ever a source of pleasure to the maiden ladies. She also leaves a nephew 
in Kansas City. Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon at 2 o’ clock at the 
graveside in Englewood Cemetery, conducted by Rev. R. I. Long, Jr., pastor of the 
Clinton Presbyterian Church. Mrs. R. I. Long, Jr. sang two songs, Shall we Gather 
at the River and Home Over There.

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