Key served as a high-profile Methodist-Episcopal minister for 10 years before purchasing The Lumpkin Independent newspaper. Two years after, however, he died of malaria, possibly contracted during one of the many overseas assignments of his father, Bishop Joseph Key, who is buried in Sherman Texas with Lucy Kidd Key, founder of North Texas Female College, whom he married two years after the death of Susie Snider Key (1832-1891), his wife of forty years.
(1855-1883) (Azalea, lot 1, row A24)
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