Thursday, 1 March 1928 Lawrence County Chieftain. Mrs. Fannie BANNER, wife of Mr. W. S. Banner of this city, died at her home Saturday evening of last week. The funeral was held at the home Monday afternoon followed by interment at the I.O.O.F. cemetery. Mrs. Banner suffered an attack of bronchal [sic] pneumonia three weeks ago. What seemed to be a period of slow recovery was followed by a relapse which ended in death. Mrs. Bander [sic] was born in Washington C H, Ohio, April 21, 1863. At the age of eighteen she paid a visit to the home of her brother, Dr. I. M. ROBERTS of Wyaconda, Mo., where she met Mr. Banner. The couple was [sic] married March 4, 1883. From this union five children were born, three of whom are living. The Banners moved to Mt. Vernon more than forty years ago. Mr. Banner at that time owned a grocery on the west side of the square. The family moved to Kansas City four years later and at the end of fifteen years returned to Mt. Vernon where they have lived for the last twenty years. Mrs. Banner is survived by her husband, Mr. W. S. Banner; her two sons, Mr. R. E. Banner of this city and Prof. Franklin Banner of Pennsylvania State College, one daughter, Mrs. E. W. CYPERT of Kansas City; a sister, Mrs. Jennie HARTMAN, of Washington C.H., Ohio; and a brother, Dr. I. M. ROBERTS of Wyaconda, Mo. OUR SOLDIER OF THE REVOLUTION. The Aurora Legion has started a movement to remove the body of William LUMBLEY, the only soldier of the American Revolution buried in Lawrence county, to Aurora, and for the erection of a suitable monument in his memory. Since 1876, the centennial year, when the Fourth of July celebration was held near his grave and the funds collected at the time used to erect a rude monument from the stones of his old mill, several attempts have been made to organize a campaign to collect sufficient funds to erect a monument, but none of them ever got beyond that stage. And it is quite probably the Aurora attempt will share the same fate. As the bodies of Mr. Lumbley’s wife, son and daughter-in-law are buried near his and compose all the graves in the little cemetery, it has never before occurred to anyone to separate them. Sentimentally it would be wrong to do [so], really it would make no difference. William Lumbley was born in North Carolina in 1760. Eighteen years later we find him in the Revolutionary army. After the war he became a miller, and as was generally the case in those days, learned to build his own rude mills. When this was still a part of Barry county he entered land and built a small mill east of Stinson on Turnback. The late John A. BROWN and James J. CHERRY told the writer they often went to the mill with a grist of corn. About 1820, nearly 40 years after the close of the war, he was granted a pension of $8 a month which was sent him quarterly from the agency at Little Rock, Ark. He died about 85 years ago. [Lumbley’s body was not moved. A monument was eventually built.] Thursday, 5 April 1928 Lawrence County Chieftain. William Harold CECIL, died at a Kansas City hospital, March 29, 1928, two months past his 75th year, of heart trouble. He was born at Wardell, his grandfather Cecil’s plantation, in Tazewell county, Virginia, January 17, 1853, and came with his parents to Missouri in 1866. Ten years later he and his brother John established the Lawrence Chieftain, with which he remained for 30 years. He also served as clerk of the Lawrence County Circuit Court from 1882 to 1890 and was postmaster from 1894 to 1898. In 1906 he moved to Oklahoma where he lived a few years. After his return to Missouri he served 13 years as an official in State Hospital No. 3 at Nevada. April 14, 1878, he was married to Miss Florence BELL, who, with three daughters, Mrs. Bess LEBOW, and Mrs. Linnie HARRYMAN of Kansas City and Mrs. Fern ROYALTY of Peoria, Ills., and one son, Bert of Chicago survive him. He also leaves one sister, Mrs. Elizabeth W. MCCANSE of Springfield, and two brothers, John of Mt. Vernon and Tully, whose present address is unknown. His children and Mr. Royalty and his sister attended the funeral, his wife being in California was unable to get here in time. The body, attended by his daughters, Mrs. LeBow and Mrs. Harryman, arrived at his old home. Saturday evening and was taken to the home of his brother John where it lay in state until 3 p.m., Sunday when it was moved to the Presbyterian church where funeral service [sic] were conduced by Rev. Geo. F. HARBOUR, W. H.’s former pastor, assisted by Rev. W. R. DALTON, of the M. E. Church and Rev. O. L. BYRNS of the Presbyterian church, before a large audience of old time friends. Interment was in the I.O.O.F. cemetery, which the deceased was largely instrumental in establishing.