The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-14
P. (. MASSIE IS DEAD
POPULAR CITIZEN sUCCUMBs TO
 BRIGHTvs DISEASE.
xEe Had Served as Recorder of Mont gomery, Was Wen Known Law yer, and Had Wide Circle
 Of Friends.

Patrick c. Massie. a prominent citi- zen of Montgomery. wen-known lawyer. and head of the Montgomery Abstract Company. died at s:l5 o'clock yesterday morning at his home, 6Ss South Court Street. after a brief att tack of an acute form of Brighfs dis ease.
 Nr. Massie was seized with illness Wednesday morning, and after going to his home that day. he was not able tc be out again. His condition was not regarded as serious until about o'clock Saturday morning. when he took a decided change for the worse. Physicians were hurriedly summoned to his bedside and everything was done to relieve the sick man, who had by the time the doctors reached him. be- come unconscious. From that time up to his death yesterday morning he lay in a comatose condition, and evidently suffering great pain.
 During the interval between his sud- den relapse and his death, he never aroused from the stupor and when the end came, he passed quietly away with his family about him.
 News of the death of Mir. Massie will bring sorrow and surprise to many Montgomerians. for only few of his friends knew that he was i'll.
 Strong and robust. as he was. he was occasionally troubled with short spells of indisposition. to which he did not pay serious attention. but which, in all probability, were only forerunners of the acute attack of the malady which took his life so quickly and unexpect- edly.
 MT. Massie had lived in Montgomery the greater part of his life. having come to this city as a boy after being adopted by the late Mrs. Irene Semple, prominent matron of Montgomery, and widow of Dr. Edward sempie, who was near friend to the Massie family of Virginia.
 For ss number of years Mir. Massie was a prominent practitioner at the Montgomery bar, but about two years ago interested himself in the Montgom- cry Abstract Company, which he owned at the time of his death.
 He was born August 27, 1862, in Nelson County. Virginia, and was edu- cated at the Bellevue High School at Charlottesville, and later at the univer- sity of Virginia, which he left in June. 1888. after attaining his degrees. He entered the practice of law in this city in December after his graduation, and was soon recognized by the older mem- berg of the profession as an able and efficient lawyer.
 Tn 1891 he was elected City Recorder and served the city admirably in that capacity for two years.
 Mir Massie was member or the Efks and of the Rnighths of Pythias, and was highly esteemed by his frater- nal brothers in both of these orders on account of his fine character and cour- teous manners.
 He was married about ten years ago to Miss Bessie Kirkman, who, with their three young children. survive him.
 He was a member of St. Johns Epis- -onai Church and took considerable in- ierest in the work of his church.
 when the precarious condition or Mir Massie was realized, telegrams were sent to his relatives and his sister, Mrs. Iufius P. Brown of Nashville. Tenn. arrived here yesterday morning, but toos late to see him alive. Robert W. Malsie. his brother, living in Lynch burg, Va, reached Montgomery last night to attend the funeral.
 Beside the sister and brother. who : have come to Montgomery, MT. Massle had two brothers, withers Massie of Massie's Mill, Va, and Thornton Massie of Pulaski, Va
 The funeral will take place at S:3o o'clock this afternoon from St. Johns Episcopal Church. Rev. Edward E. Cobbs, rector of the church, will con duet the funeral services.
 Interment will be made in Oakwood Cemetery.