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STAGG
Death Claims A Good Man
At 12:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon the honorable career of Mr. James H. Stagg was brought to an end. Around his bedside at the time of his demise was his sorrowing family. No man in Mercer county was better known or more highly esteemed than "Uncle Jimmy," as he was familiarly called. He was in his 81st year, and for the past 40 or 50 years had been engaged in the undertaking business in this city and there is hardly a family in which he had not been called to officiate in this capacity. He was an Odd Fellow, Mason and a most devout member of the Christian church. Before the war he served as jailer of Mercer county. It will be with many bitter pangs of regret that the people who have known this good man will read of his death, for all knew him only to love him. The funeral services will be held at the home on Friday morning at 10 o'clock by Dr. M. G. Buckner. The burial will take place under the auspices of the Odd Fellows. All members of the order are requested to meet at the lodge room at 9 o'clock Friday morning.
(Harrodsburg Herald, Harrodsburg, Mercer Co, KY, Thu Jul 9, 1903)

STAGG
Mr. James H. Stagg
The passing away of Mr. James Henry Stagg, whose death occurred last Wednesday, after a five week illness, just as the Herald went to press, too late for anything but a brief notice, closes an honorable and upright career and ends a life that has stood out as a white light in the community. As an example of the high esteem in which he was held every business house was closed Friday morning during the funeral services, a mark of respect that has never before been accorded to a private citizen and very rarely to those who have led public lives. The services were held at his late residence on Greenville street Friday morning and although the day was oppressively hot an unusually large crowd testified to the sorrow and respect which the community felt in his passing away. Numerous handsome floral designs were sent as tributes of love, among the most elaborate being designs from three of the secret orders. Mr. Stagg had been a member of the Christian church for forty-two years, and while the services were conducted by his pastor, Dr. M. G. Buckner, every other minister in town was present and assisted in the rites. For over fifty years he had been a member in honorable standing of the Masonic Lodge here, and was also an Odd Fellow, but in this latter lodge he repeatedly refused to accept an office, even an honorary one for he said he had entered the order when he was advanced in years and would leave the offices to the younger members. For over fifty years he had been in the undertaking business here, and in that time had buried more than seven thousand people, Mr. Stagg came of a family who for generations has claimed Mercer county as their home. His grandfather lies in Old Providence church-yard; his father always lived in the county and at his death was buried in the Mud Meeting House burying ground, and since his birth, on October 11, 1822, he has kept to the home of his ancestors, and when he, too, went to "that borne from which no traveler returns," his body was laid to rest in our own beautiful Spring Hill. On the 26th of October, 1846, he was married to Miss Matilda Thomas, of Graves county, who after a long and happy union still survives him. Fourteen children were born to them, eleven of whom are living and were at his bedside during his last illness. These children with one exception, are all residents of Mercer county, and all of them are respected and exemplary citizens. Twenty-eight grandchildren and one great-grandchild are now living. The members of his own family who are left to mourn the closing of a life that has been to them all that a tender and beautiful fatherhood should be, are Mrs. G. M. Bonta, Burgin ; Mrs. Sarah Morgan, Mr. James P. Stagg, Mrs. Meisburg, Mr. John Stagg, Mrs. K.B. Hutchings, Mrs. Emma Woods, Mrs. A. E. Williams, Miss Nannie Stagg, Miss Carrie Stagg and Mrs. W. L. Austin, of Madison, Ill.
(Harrodsburg Herald, Harrodsburg, Mercer Co, KY, Thu Jul 16, 1903)