Tracy - Florizell
Source: Waveland Independent newspaper, Waveland, Montgomery County, Indiana, Oct 18, 1929
The following tribute from the Attica Ledger-Tribune will be
read with interest by many of our older readers. The news
conveying the intelligence that Florizell Tracy, superintendent
of the Ledger-Tribune printing plant had passed away in the
Lutheran hospital at St. Louis, came as a shock and has spread
sadness throughout the entire community. So far as earthly
records will show, he has passed beyond the precipice which
divides the known from the unknown world, but such record is only
for the information of future generations. In the hearts and
minds of the people living in this community, he still lives,
because his work is enduring; his kindly counsel and advice, his
genuine sympathy and help which have always been extended to
those in sorrow and his optomistic views of life, will live as
long as his friends live. Those who knew Zell Tracy, and enjoyed
his friendship, need no obituary to acquaint them with his fine
qualities. For many years assistant editor of this paper, Mr.
Tracy was not only a skilled and faithful workman, but an
influence for good on all those with whom he came in contact. He
was, in truth, an institutuion. A man of clean life, high ideals
and sensitive conscience, he was ever loyal to duty, believing as
he firmly did that the call of duty was the call of God. One
could not think of him as slighting a task as ever doing anything
but his best. He was one of the cheeriest of souls, the possessor
of a fine and true sense of humor, hopeful and optomistic and the
best of company. He would be the last to wish any obtruding of
his religious life on the public, but no notice of him would even
approach adequacy which did not include some reference to his
inner life. That he was a man of unquestioning faith all who
really knew him will testify. Mr. Tracy was a Christian, not
merely by profession, but in his daily life. He was always
helping other people. For years he had charge of this paper's
Good Fellowship fund as treas. and worked hard and diligently for
its success and that the worthy were well cared for and likewise
his work as a member of the Board of Childrens' Guardians of
Fountain Co. in which he took a great interest....Florizell
Tracy, son of Joseph and Maria Tracy was born at Eaton, Ohio Dec
2, 1859. His mother died when he was two years old and shortly
after the father moved to Crawfordsville, Indiana where Zell grew
to manhood. He then moved to Waveland where in 1881 and with
Charles Crowder published the Waveland Call. Mr. Tracy was
married in Waveland in 1882 to Miss Elizabeth Foley and in 1883
moved to Wabash Indiana where he worked at the printing business
until 1885 when they moved to Paris, Ill where Mr. Tracy became
foreman of the Paris Beacon, a position he held until 1916 when
they moved to Attica, Mr. Tracy having acquired the JC Hegler
Print Shop. In the fall of 1917 Mr. Tracy sold the shop to the
writer and took over the formanship of Ledger and Tribune. his
educ. was received in schools of Montgomery Co. He was a devout
member of the Methodist Church and was zealous in its welfare.
Fraternally he was a member of the IOOF [Independent Order of Odd Fellows] and the Modern Woodman.
He departed this life Wed. eve Oct 9 at the Lutheran Hospital in
St. Louis, Mo. He is survived by his wife and 4 children, namely
Mrs. James B. Curry St. Louis; Mrs. Frank Baker, Attica; Mrs.
V.E. Mullins Shelbyville, Ill; and paul h of Urbana Ill and
several grandchildren, one half sister, Mrs. EE Foley Cleveland,
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