Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-03-28
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Rock Hill Record, March %: The
Polk County Record of Bartcw, Fla,
in its issue Of March 10, carried the
following: Coming as a shock to hun
dreds OF friends in and around Bar
tow, is the announcement of the death
OF DIR. McIvor Law, which occurred ut
Arcadia Just before noon Thursday as
a result of contact with a wire car
rying 1900 volts of electricity. The
doctor was making a microscopic view.
of q child's arm, and the child's moth
er and Dr. Simmons of Arcade. were
present at the time. In making an ad-
justment in the machine, he failed to
see the wire, the room being perfectly
dark, and death came instantly with
the contact. He had been in perfect
health up to the instant of his death.
Funeral services will be held at the
residence of DR.. E. A. Law, Church
street, Saturday morning at 10:30, Rev.
N. E. Smith officiating Interment
will be- made at the Oak Hill cemetery.
DIR. McIvor Law, aged 55 at the time
OF his death, was the oldest son of
Gen. and Mrs. E. A. Law, and had been
well and widely known throughout the
South, He had spent much of his life
since 1895 in Barlow, although large
part of the past 10 years had been
spent in Arcadia, where he has been
a practicing physician, and a specialist
in electro-therapy. He was born at
York, S. c. in 1867, He graduated
from the South Carolina Military
Academy, and in 1896, with his father,
the Inuch-loved general, helped to
found tho South Florida Military
School at Barlow (later consolidated
with the university at Gainesville).
He later entered the Medical School
OF Richmond. and in 1903 graduated as
o. dentist from the University OF
Maryland, and as an NJ. D. from the
Baltimore, Medical College DR.. Law
has been an active member of the
: Florida Medical Society, and has been
actively affiliated with a number of
other organizations in which he has
gained wide popularity; Early in his
career he worked as civil engineer,
ard for five years, helped in the con-
sruction of the Brooklyn elevated
i system, McIvor Laws life, as indi-
Gated by this very brief and incom-
plete summary, has been a life of
activity and broad experience. His
1dsvotion first to his aged mother, and
after her death to the general, his con-
sstant care and solicitation for their
Scomfort, We're evidence of the beau
Ety Of spirit and of the deeply reli-
sgious sense that were his He is sur
Syiyed by one son. McIvor Law, who is
NOW attending Georgia Tech; one sis
ter, Mrs. Frank P. Winthrop of Eagle
Lake; and two brothers-Dr E. A.
Law Of Barlow and Maj w. l.. Law
OF Lakeland, the latter for long time
a citizen Of Rock Hill.
Rock Hill Herald, March "a: Joe ].
Williams. aged "a years, died this
morning at o'clock, at his home in
q the Neely's Creek community He had
been i'll for long time and the news
of his passing was not entirely unex-
pected. Mr.. Williams is survived by
his wife, formerly Miss Lula Walker
and five children: Miss Mary Williams,
q teacher in the. city schools; Miss
q ICammie Williams, and Matthew, The
odore. and Ray Williams; also four
brothers, N. B., c. H., w. H. and C. L.
Williams, and two sisters, Mrs. NJ. J.
Anderson and Mrs. w. s. Boyd. The