Lucy Byrd Mock

MOCK, Lucy Byrd - Miss Byrd Mock is now a member of the University Orchestra, and meets that body once a week for practice, playing the 1st violin. Miss Mock is one of our most talented and accomplished young ladies and bids fair to become a composer of much repute, her latest production being, "You Kissed Me In A Dream." [Prairie Grove Herald 3/19/1903]

Personal and Local - Miss Byrd Mock has returned from an extended trip north. [Prairie Grove Herald 5/21/1903]

Miss Byrd Mock has been awarded a diploma by the American Press Association at Indianapolis for proficiency in journalism. In satisfying the requirements of the course, Miss Mock visited Ft. Gibson, Indian Territory and wrote an article on that town which proved to be a great literary and financial success. [Fayetteville Daily 6/8/1905]

Miss L. Byrd Mock who recently resigned her chair of Greek and Latin at Forest Park University is now doing special feature work for the St. Louis newspapers. Everything she has offered the papers has been accepted and all of her stories for the Times have appeared on the front page of that paper. It is a new paper scarcely a year old but in the matter of circulation it is rapidly becoming a menace to the other metropolitan dailies of the city. It is the only paper in the city owned by St. Louis men. Miss Mock has been appointed press representative of the Confederate Monument Association, which organization is earnestly striving to raise money to place a magnificent Confederate Monument in St. Louis. Acting with the authority vested in her as Major General of the Arkansas Division of the Confederate Choir of America, Miss Mock is now forming a Confederate Choir for the St. Louis Camp of Confederate Veterans. The choir will be composed only of professional singers and will doubtless be the best trained choir in the Trans-Mississippi Department. [Fayetteville Democrat 4/16/1908]

Mrs. J.E. Mock and Miss Byrd left yesterday for their future home in California. Mr. Mock, who is still busy with his wheat and other crops, joins the family later, and Mrs. Mock’s mother and sister, Mrs. Patton and Miss Alice Patton will go in the spring. The many friends of this estimable family deeply regret to lose them from Fayetteville, but wish them all success and happiness in their new home. Miss Mock will join a writer’s colony near San Francisco and continue her literary work which won her renown in California and Washington some years ago. - Fayetteville Democrat [Prairie Grove Herald 2/18/1915]

Obituary - Prairie Grove - Lucy Byrd Mock, 90, of Eureka Springs, died Thursday in a Fort Smith hospital. She was born February 23, 1876 in Prairie Grove, the daughter of James E. and Amanda Patton Mock, and was a writer and a member of the Episcopal Church and the Order of the Eastern Star. She is survived by a sister, Mrs. Ben Dickerson of Little Rock. Funeral service will be held Saturday at 10:30 a.m. at Luginbuel Chapel in Prairie Grove with burial in Prairie Grove cemetery. [Northwest Arkansas Times 11/18/1966]