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BORN IN SHERIDAN TWP. HURON CO., MI. JULY 12, 1894.
DIED IN SANILAC COUNTY ON JUNE 17, 1943.
SERVICES TUESDAY JUNE 22, 1943, AT 2:OO P.M.
AT ZINGER FUNERAL HOME, UBLY, MI.
OFFICIATED BY REV. R.L. MORTEN. INTERMENT: VALLEY CEMETERY.
WM. MC KAY VICTIM OF QUARREL
FUNERAL SERVICES FOR WILLIAM MC KAY WERE HELD TUESDAY AFTERNOON FROM THE ZINGER FUNERAL HOME OFFICIATED BY REV. R.L. MORTON OF THE PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH, AND ATTENDED BY A LARGE CROWD OF OLD TIME FRIENDS OF THE FAMILY.
MR. MC KAY WAS BORN JULY 12, 1894, IN SHERIDAN TWP., WHERE HE GREW TO MANHOOD AND MARRIED MISS RUTH LEWIS, AND LIVED IN SHERIDAN A NUMBER OF
YEARS, BUT THE PAST FEW YEARS HAS LIVED AT WATERS, OTSEGO, CO., MI.
MR. MC KAY WAS A CARPENTER AND ABOUT A MONTH AGO HE WAS EMPLOYED BY THE BAD AXE LUMBER CO., AND PLANNED TO MOVE HIS FAMILY HERE.
ON THURSDAY AFTERNOON MR. MC KAY MET AN OLD FRIEND, ALBERT HILL OF GREENLEAF, IN BAD AXE AND TOGETHER THEY STARTED TO VISIT OLD FRIENDS
AROUND GREENLEAF AND STOPPED IN AT THE HOME OF MRS. BLISS, WHERE THERE
WERE SEVERAL OTHER PERSONS, INCLUDING, GEORGE HOLMES AND NATE SKINNER BOTH
OF GREENLEAF. BEER WAS PLENTIFUL FOR A TIME; THEN HOLMES AND MC KAY LEFT
TO BRING SOME MORE; AT THE GREENLEAF STORE WHERE THE PURCHASE WAS MADE A
QUARREL STARTED OVER THE PAYMENT OF SAME, AFTER REACHING THE BLISS HOME
THE QUARREL CONTINUED AND HOLMES HIT MC KAY AND KNOCKED HIM THROUGH THE
SCREEN DOOR ONTO THE PORCH, THEN SKINNER TOOK A HAND AND STARTED KICKING
AT MC KAY, WHO WAS UNCONSCIOUS OR PERHAPS DEAD. THEY THEN PUT HIM IN A
WAGON AND STARTED A NINE MILE TRIP TO A DR. IN CASS CITY. AT CASS CITY
THEY WERE APPREHENDED BY THE STATE POLICE, WHO TOOK THE BODY INTO THE
HOSPITAL, AND HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD ON ADMITTANCE.
HOLMES OPERATES A FARM NEAR NEW GREENLEAF AND SKINNER IS EMPLOYED BY HIM. BOTH ARE IN SANDUSKY JAIL CHARGED WITH 2ND MURDER, A HEARING IS SET
FOR MONDAY.
MC KAY IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE AND 12 CHILDREN, TWO BOYS ARE IN SERVICE. TWO BROTHERS, RALPH OF MUSKEGON, AND CHARLES OF DETROIT, TWO
SISTERS, MRS. MARSHALL OF DETROIT AND MRS. MAGWOOD OF FLINT, WHO WERE
PRESENT AT THE FUNERAL.
THE PALLBEARERS WERE, JAS. MORRISON, JAMES WALKER, ELLSWORTH DUNLAP, ALMA O'BRIEN, EDWARD TRATHEN AND LOREN TRATHEN.
BURIAL WAS IN VALLEY CEMETERY. SOURCE, THE UBLY COURIER - 6 23 1943. MORE INFORMATION FROM EDITH (LEWIS) JACKSON AS TOLD TO JAMES L. MC KAY.
THE FACTS ABOUT DAD'S DEATH WASN'T QUITE LIKE THE ARTICLE FROM THE PAPER.
HE WAS ACTUALLY RIGHT THERE IN NEW GREENLEAF WHEN HE WAS KILLED. I COULD
SHOW YOU THE HOUSE IF IT IS STILL THERE. THERE WAS NO SCREENED IN PORCH,
ONLY 4 OR 5 STEPS UP TO THE DOOR. HE HAD HEARD THAT THE HOUSE MIGHT BE FOR
RENT AND WENT TO INQUIRE.
ONE OF THE MEN WHO WAS THERE AT THE TIME HIT HIM IN THE CHEST AS HE STOOD AT THE TOP OF THE STEPS AND HE WAS KNOCKED OFF AND HIT HIS HEAD, OR
BACK OF HIS NECK, ON A ROCK AND WAS KILLED INSTANTLY.
JIM SAYS MAYBE IT REALLY DON'T MATTER, BUT HE THOUGHT IT SHOULD BE TOLD AS HE HEARD IT AT THE FUNERAL.
ADDED FEB. 15, 1994.
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