Mother and Daughter Die

Percie DeLisle Mecum was the son of Francis Marion Mecum & Mary Alice Peck. He lived as Lisle & he married Mattie Elizabeth Brown, the daughter of Preston S Brown & Lillian E Parker.  Lisle & Mattie had 3 children - Harold, Preston & Elizabeth.

Before Lisle died in 1968, he lost his wife & daughter in a car accident in 1945

 

courtesy of Adriana - Find A Grave

Fayette County Leader, 14 Mar 1946

Mattie Brown Mecum Dies In California

Miss Jean Hunt received a letter last week from Preston Mecum of Chico, California, in which he told of the death of his mother, Mrs Lisle Mecum and daughter Elizabeth, Christmas night. After having Christmas together in Chico, Mrs Mecum, Daughter Elizabeth and son Preston were on there way to Elizabeth's home in Sacramento, when another car came across the highway and struck them head on. Death was instantaneous to Mrs Mecum, and Elizabeth and only a miracle of fate saved Preston from Death. Mrs Mecum, the former Mattie Brown, was the older daughter of Preston S and Lillian Parker Brown and spent her younger days in Fayette and vicinity. She would have been 64 last February 21. Among those surviving are her husband, Lisle Mecum, son Preston Mecum of Chico, Calif and a sister, Mrs Mable Sifford of Oakland, Calif. Her mother, Mrs Lillian Brown Rogers died last October at Chico.

Unknown Paper, Dec 1968
CHICO - Funeral Services will be held at 1:30 pm tomorrow in the Bruise Funeral Chapel here for Percy de Lisie [sic] Mecum, 84, a former chief of the local volunteer fire department. He died Monday in a Stockton hospital. A native of Chico, he was chief of the volunteer fire department from 1911 until 1914. He joined the department in 1902 and was a fireman until 1920. He worked in several hardware stores here between 1899 and 1958. Mecum was the son of early Butte County settlers Francis and Alice Mecum. He moved to Stockton about eight years ago. He is survived by his widow Thelma, and son, Harold of Merced and Preston of Ione, Amador County.