SOPHIA LEMASTER 1897-1951 DIES FEBRUARY 25 Funeral services were held at 2:00 p.m., Tuesday, February 27, at Odds, Ky., for Mrs. Sophia LeMaster, 54, who died Sunday, February 25 in a local hospital after a 3-year illness of heart trouble. She was born in Floyd County, Kentucky, on March 7, 1897, the daughter of Alex and Polly Wells. For the past 7 years she had been a resident of Lowmansville, where she was affiliated with the Methodist Church. Her husband H. C. LeMaster, whom she married on January 7, 1944 in Paintsville, survives her. She is also survived by a son, Eugene Wells, Van Lear, Ky., one sister, Maggie Clarke, Odds, Ky., and four brothers: Wash Wells, Lowmansville; Ben Wells, Odds; Sherman Wells, Urbana, Ohio; and Richard M. Wells, Auxier, Kentucky. Services were conducted by Rev. R. Lemaster. Burial was in the Odds Cemetery under the direction of the Preston Funeral Home. Paintsville Herald Thursday 3-1-1951
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