Emery R. Stacy
Funeral services were held at the Methodist church in Shepherd Monday afternoon for Emery R. Stacy, 74, who for 18 years was superintendent of the Isabella county infirmary. He died in a hospital in Alma, where he was taken last week and submitted to an emergency operation in which one leg was amputated.
The last few years of an active life were spent by Mr. Stacy on a farm, 3 miles west of Shepherd in Lincoln twp. Born in Mahoning Co., Pa., he was one of 13 children of whom only his sister, Mrs. Alice Werner of Mausees Ohio, survives. The earlier years of his life more spent in and near Bowling Green, Ohio where his parents settled on a farm. He was married to Ida N. Carrick Dec. 1895 and in 1903 they came to Isabella Co. and settled on a Chippewa twp. farm. 6 years later, they assumed the duties of keeper and matron at the Isabella infirmary. After 18 years there they moved to the farm in Lincoln.
With Mr. Stacy’s widow, there survive 2 children, Walter Stacy of Lansing and Mrs. Fred Shattuck of Chippewa twp.; also a son Earl Bert Stacy by a former marriage and 4 children.
Mt. Pleasant Courthouse Record
Book 3 Page 164
D. Jan. 12, 1934 in Alma
B. Ohio to Wm. Stacy and mother unknown
MI Isabella County Genweb; Lena French Scrapbook; http://www.rootsweb.com/~miisabel/FrenchS.htm
(Note: Mahoning Co. is in Ohio; Mausees should be Maumee.)