The News, Saturday, March 4, 1899
Frederick, Maryland

Will Lake, son of W.H. Lake, and formerly of Decatur, died Monday, October
17, at Muncio, Ind., aged 20 years. On August 11 last he graduated from
the school of pharmacy at Valparaiso, Ind. He took a position in a drug
store at Muncio but three days later was stricken with typhoid fever
and died after an illness of two months. The young man was well known
in Decatur. He was employed at one time in the Armstrong drug store and
later in Charles Tyler's drug store. He was a bright, industrious boy
and had many friends. He leaves a brother, L.H. Lake, in this city.