Freestone County, Texas
Obituaries



Silas Jasper "Sy" Lake
(Apr. 16, 1848-	Feb. 26, 1934)

[Silas Jasper Lake lived and married (15 Jan 1872) in Freestone County.  "Sy" is 
descended from Simeon Lake who is one of the founders of Lakes Chapel Cemetery 
and Ward Prairie community.]


Unknown newspaper - Unknown 1934 date 

  "S. J. Lake, 86, Dies At Mineral Wells"
  
  MINERAL WELLS, Texas, Feb. 26. - S. J. Lake, 86, last Mineral Wells member of
Stonewall Jackson Camp of Confederate Veterans died here Monday. He was the third
member of the camp to pass away in the last fourteen months. Only one living 
member of the post remains, Frank M. Bailey, of Oran, 93.  
  The veteran Lake was a native of South Carolina but came to Texas in mere
boyhood, settling near Fairfield in Freestone County where for years he ranched
and operated a gin. In his army service he was a member of Company 1 Walker's 
Division. He was 18 years old when the war closed.
  He is survived by two daughters, Miss Mary Lake of Mineral Wells, returned
foreign missionary of the Baptist church; Miss Mattie Lake, teacher in the 
Mineral Wells schools; two sons, T. W. LAke, in the local mall service, and P. S.
Lake of Greenville, and two sisters, Mrs. J. W. Davis, Dallas, and Mrs. Billie
Watson, Fairfield. Funeral services will be held Tuesday from the First Baptist 
Church here."