SIMON E. KEY, son of John and Lana Stroud Key, was born September 18, 1859 and died December 29, 1940, at the age of 81 years, 3 months and 11 days. He was the youngest of a family of six children, all of them having passed to the great beyond. Most of his life has been spent in this community among friends and neighbors, where he will be greatly missed. In his early life he was married to Nancy Adeline Wells and to this union were born four children, Elmer and Edd Key, and Mrs. Lula Lines, all of near Valeene, also a child who died in infancy. All his life he had faith in the Great Master, and in August 1940, he placed his membership in the Methodist Church. Mr. Key had been afflicted for several months but bore his pain with great patience. Besides his children, he has nine grandchildren and five great grandchildren.