DAILY MESSENGER Mayfield, KY July 18, 1904 ____________________ CAPT. KEY IS NO MORE. __________ Another Prominent Citizen of Graves County Gone to His Reward. __________ DIED SATURDAY AFTERNOON. Mr. John Baker Key, one of Graves County's honored citizens, died at his home in this city late Saturday afternoon of the lingering effects of typhoid fever. He was born in Smith County, Tenn., Dec. 8th 1826, and came with his parents to Graves County when only two years old. He was raised and has lived in this county ever since, being over 76 years. He has been married twice, the first time to Miss Pharabah I. Adams. By this union eight children were born, five of whom are yet living, as follows: Mrs. Nettie Gillum, Mr. Wallace Key, Mrs. J. W. Cummins, of Olney, Ill., Charles P. and Hubbard Key. Miss Alta Key, the popular young lady who died at their home two years ago, was the only child by his last marriage. His last wife, who survives him, was Mrs. Rachel Rogers. Mr. Key, though not a member of any church, was a man of high moral convictions and a great advocate of the temperance cause. Funeral services were conducted by the Rev. C. A. Waterfield, of the Methodist Church, and his remains laid to rest by the Masons. He was an enthusiastic member of the Masonic lodge, and was a strong advocate of the many good things done by fraternal orders. He was a strong healthy man until a week or so after he was 75 years old, when he took typhoid fever, and never fully recovered from its effects. He has been feeble for the past year or two. His body was taken to Trinity Church, four miles north of the city and laid to rest in the cemetery, which he laid out and planned himself and in which he took great interest. Mr. Key was a lifelong Republican and loved his party, but he was always courteous to his friends who saw different in political matters. No man stood higher among his fellow men than did Mr. John Baker Key. It can truthfully be said that another of the honored pioneers of Graves County has passed into the great beyond.