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Dies in Michigan -- Born in Camden in 1849, Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Lambie.
Local relatives have recently received papers containing an account of the death of Mrs. Elsie
Lockerby, formerly Elsie Lambie, daughter of the late James and Lucinda Brace Lambie of Camden.
She was the fifth of the eight children in the family. Three sisters are surviving: Mrs.
Charlotte Kinney of Green Forest, Ark., Mrs. Jean Price and Mrs. Victoria Taylor of Camden.
The Litchfield Gazette of Litchfield, Mich., in its issue of September 16, says:
Elsie Lambie was born in Camden, N. Y., November 17, 1849. In the empire state she passed
through the incidents of childhood to maidenhood where her education was accomplished in the
common schools of the state. May 12, 1870, occurred her marriage to James Lockerby of the state
of New York, who preceeded her in death March 8, 1887. Five children were born to this union,
two of whom died in infancy; Earl, who resides at Vienna, Va.; Mrs. Myron VanPatten of
Litchfield; Margaret, who died in 1904.
From New York Mr. and Mrs. Lockerby came to Michigan and settled on a farm in Butler township,
where the daughters became teachers in the public schools.
Mrs. Lockerby was reared in the Christian faith and was a communicant of the Presbyterian church
until 1877, when she was baptized into the reorganized church of the Latter Day Saints by the
Rev. Duncan Campbell, then late of Scotland.
About five years ago her health began to fail. In May of this year, she went south to visit her
son and family, at Vienna, Va., and during the first week in September was stricken with
apoplexy, superinduced by high blood pressure. On Sunday, September 5, she pased away mourned
by a host of friends. The remains were brought from Vienna to Litchfield where the funeral
was conducted from the farm home of her daughter, Mrs. Lulu VanPatten, Wednesday, September 8,
1926, at 2 o'clock. Mrs. Lockerby was a woman held in much esteem and her memory will be dear
to all who knew her. She possessed intellectual ability, poetic talent and was versatile in
her investigations. Committal services were in Lake View cemetery, Quincy, Eld. S. W. L.
Scott of Coldwater conducting the funeral service.
Were a star quenched on high --
For ages would its light,
Still traveling downward from the sky
Shine on our mortal sight.
So when the righteous die,
For years beyond our ken,
The light they leave behind them lies
Upon the paths of men.
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