Freestone County, Texas
Obituaries



Pleasant Simeon "Silas" "Pleas" Lake, Sr.
(23 Feb 1876-28 May 1961)

[Pleasant Simeon Lake was born and married (13 Aug 1898) in Freestone County.  
P.S. is descended from Simeon Lake who is one of the founders of Lakes Chapel 
Cemetery and Ward Prairie community.]


The Greenville Herald Banner (of Greenville, TX) - 5/30/1961 issue

  DEATHS
P. S. Lake Sr. "Pleas"

  Funeral services for P. S. (Pleas) Lake Sr., 83, a resident of Greenville for
more than 50 years, were held at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Coker-Mathews-Peters
funeral home chapel.
  The Rev. Norman Taylor, pastor of Grace Presbyterian church and a former pastor,
the Rev. Jessie A. Igig, of Electra, conducted the services. Burial was in 
Memoryland Memorial Park.
  Mr. Lake died in a hospital here Sunday. He was one of the leading automobile
dealers and grocery merchants in this city in the early twentieth century.
  Mr. Lake whose home was at 3906 Houston, had been in a serious condition for
the past eight months. He was critically ill for a week before he died.