Article: Cheyenne State Leader, Cheyenne, Wyoming, March 3, 1919 (Monday)

"DAUGHTER OF MAN FACING LIFE TERM FATALLY SCALDED

Alys Loy, 3 ½ year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Loy, died at St John's hospital at 10 o'clock Sunday morning from burns sustained the preceding night when she fell into a tub of hot water at the Hoyt Home Hotel where her mother is employed.

…father in the county jail awaiting the outcome of his appeal…

There was a heart-rending scene at the hospital Saturday night when the little girl's father, who had been permitted to leave the jail under escort of a deputy, joined his wife at the beside of their dying offspring. Despite her agony the child greeted him affectionately. Loy was returned to jail…

He will be permitted to attend the funeral servicews, which will be held this morning at 10 o'clock.

How the little girl fell into the tub is not known. Her mother was working on an upper floor at the time. A quantity of hot water had been run into a bath tub in which clothing was to be soaked. Probably the baby climbed on a chair beside the tub, lost her balance and plunged in. A peculiar circumstance is that no one heard her cry out . She was discovered in the hot water by a Mrs. Gary, who carried an armful of clothing into the bath room. She then was unconscious….physicians ascertained that she had been burned beyond hope of recovery.

In addition to her parents the little girl is survived by one sister."

{No finding of a report of an inquest held to substantiate accident.}

Article: Wyoming State Tribune, Cheyenne, Wyoming, 21 July 1920, page 3

"LITTLE GIRL TAKES SISTER'S BODY WEST

Another, and perhaps the final chapter insofar as Cheyenne is concerned, in the affairs of the family of Charles V. Loy, who is serving a life term in the state penitentiary for the shooting of William Ashford, a hotel porter, two years ago, was written yesterday when the body of Loy's baby girl, Alys Margaret Loy, aged __ (illegible) and nine months, was disinterred at Lakeview Cemetery (Cheyenne) and sent to Tacoma, Wash., to be buried with Mrs. Loy's father in the family plot in the Tacoma cemetery.

Alys Loy died on March 16, 1919, her death being caused by a fall into a washtub filled with scalding soapsuds. Her father was in the Laramie County jail at the time of the accident. The little girl was buried in Lakeview cemetery, the father attending the funeral under escort of an officer.

The tiny casket was accompanied to Tacoma by Patricia Loy, 9 year old sister of the dead girl. She will make her future home in Tacoma with her grandmother.

Mrs. Loy, wife of the man in the state prison, and mother of the little girl, will remain in Cheyenne for a time, but will leave for Tacoma as soon as she is able to do so.

The body was sent to Tacoma Tuesday night, being shipped from the Early-Bricker Brothers' mortuary.

It is a fact associated with pathos that Loy's elder daughter, en route perhaps on the most sorrowful journey of her life, this morning passed within half a mile of her father without the latter being able to greet or console her."

Mother:
Marguerite Gertrude Loy Finch nee McHindley
1877 (W VA) - 1958 (CA)

Father:
Charles V. Loy
1877 (Indiana)

Submitted by:
Clint Black
July 2011