DECATUR DAILY REPUBLICAN 3/21/1881
THE SILENT REAPER
DEATH OF MRS. HENRY PRATHER THIS FORENOON AT THE ST NICHOLS HOTEL.
ONE OF DECATURS MOST ESTIMABLE CHRISTIAN WOMEN, MRS. AMANDA PRATHER, DIED THIS FORENOON AT 11 OCLOCK, IN HER APARTMENTS AT THE ST. NICHOLAS HOTEL, AFTER A PAINFUL ILLNESS OF ABOUT FIVE DAYS DURATION. MRS. PRATHER HAD BEEN IN BAD HEALTH FOR THE PAST 10 YEARS, BEING TROUBLED WITH A COMBINATION OF DISEASES WHICH BAFFLED THE SKILL OF THE BEST PHYSICIANS. HER RECENT ATTACK WAS NOT CONSIDERED ALARMING UNTIL SATURDAY, WHEN HER RELATIVES IN THE CITY AND INTIMATE FRIENDS GATHERED ABOUT HER MINISTEREY ATTENTIVELY TO HER EVERY SPOKEN UNSAID WISH AND REAMINED WITH HER UP TO THE TIME OF HER DEATH. A FEW MINUTES BEFORE SHE BREATHED HER LAST HER PASTOR, REV. W. H. MOORE WAS AT THE BEDSIDE OF THE DYING AND COMMANDED THE DEPARTING SPIRIT TO HIM WHO GAVE IT TO THE USUAL FORM OF THE CHURCH.
THE REMAINS OF THE DECEASED WILL BE REMOVED FROM THE ST. NICHOLAS THIS EVENING AND TAKEN TO THE RESIDENCE OF MR. J. J. PEDDECORD ON FRANKLIN STREET WHERE THEY WILL REMAIN UNTIL THE ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE FUNERAL ARE COMPLETED. MRS. PEDDECORD WHO WENT TO BALTIMORE, MD SOME DAYS AGO WITH HER HUSBAND ON A VISIT TO THEIR DAUGHTER HAS BEEN NOTIFIED BY TELEGRAPH OF THE SUDDEN DEATH OF HER SISTER, BUT SHE CANNOT ARRIVE UNTIL WEDNESDAY MORNING AT THE EARLIEST.
MRS. AMANDA OGLESBY PRATHER WAS BORN IN OLDHAM COUNTY, KENTUCKY, IN 1819 AND WAS THEREFORE ABOUT 62 YEARS OF AGE AT THE TIME OF HER DEATH. SHE CAME TO DECATUR IN 1836 AND IN 1838 SHE BECAME THE WIFE OF HON HENRY PRATHER, WHO MET A TRAGIC DEATH BY BEING THROWN FROM A BUGGY DURING THE EXCITEMENT ATTENDING A FALSE ALARM OF FIRE IN THE FIRST WARD IN AUGUST 1869. SHE WAS THE ELDEST SISTER OF OUR FELLOW TOWNSMAN, EX GOVERNOR OGLESBY, MRS. J. J. PEDDECORD AND MRS. WILSON, WHO RESIDES IN KENTUCKY.
PRATHER
THE FUNERAL SERVICES OF THE LATE MRS. AMANDA M. PRATHER, WHICH TOOK PLACE FROM THE RESIDENCE OF MR. J. J. PEDDECORD, AT 2 OCLOCK THURSDAY AFTERNOON WAS VERY LARGELY ATTENDED. REV. W. MOORE, RECTOR OF ST JOHNS CHURCH, READ THE EPISCOPAL BURIAL SERVICES IN AN IMPRESSIVE MANNER AND THE REMAINS FOLLOWED BY A LARGE NUMBER OF SORROWING FRIENDS WERE CONVEYED TO GREENWOOD CEMETERY, IN WHICH PEACEFUL SPOT THEY SHALL "SLEEP THE SLEEP THAT KNOWS NO WAKING".
THE PALL BEARERS WERE HON S. F. GREEN, HON J. R. GORIN, W. J. CLOSE, ISSAC SHELLABARGER, JOHN IMBODEN,CAPT. J. S. POST, W. T. STAMPER AND CHARLES LAUX.
THE SILENT REAPER
DEATH OF MRS. HENRY PRATHER THIS FORENOON AT THE ST NICHOLS HOTEL.
ONE OF DECATURS MOST ESTIMABLE CHRISTIAN WOMEN, MRS. AMANDA PRATHER, DIED THIS FORENOON AT 11 OCLOCK, IN HER APARTMENTS AT THE ST. NICHOLAS HOTEL, AFTER A PAINFUL ILLNESS OF ABOUT FIVE DAYS DURATION. MRS. PRATHER HAD BEEN IN BAD HEALTH FOR THE PAST 10 YEARS, BEING TROUBLED WITH A COMBINATION OF DISEASES WHICH BAFFLED THE SKILL OF THE BEST PHYSICIANS. HER RECENT ATTACK WAS NOT CONSIDERED ALARMING UNTIL SATURDAY, WHEN HER RELATIVES IN THE CITY AND INTIMATE FRIENDS GATHERED ABOUT HER MINISTEREY ATTENTIVELY TO HER EVERY SPOKEN UNSAID WISH AND REAMINED WITH HER UP TO THE TIME OF HER DEATH. A FEW MINUTES BEFORE SHE BREATHED HER LAST HER PASTOR, REV. W. H. MOORE WAS AT THE BEDSIDE OF THE DYING AND COMMANDED THE DEPARTING SPIRIT TO HIM WHO GAVE IT TO THE USUAL FORM OF THE CHURCH.
THE REMAINS OF THE DECEASED WILL BE REMOVED FROM THE ST. NICHOLAS THIS EVENING AND TAKEN TO THE RESIDENCE OF MR. J. J. PEDDECORD ON FRANKLIN STREET WHERE THEY WILL REMAIN UNTIL THE ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE FUNERAL ARE COMPLETED. MRS. PEDDECORD WHO WENT TO BALTIMORE, MD SOME DAYS AGO WITH HER HUSBAND ON A VISIT TO THEIR DAUGHTER HAS BEEN NOTIFIED BY TELEGRAPH OF THE SUDDEN DEATH OF HER SISTER, BUT SHE CANNOT ARRIVE UNTIL WEDNESDAY MORNING AT THE EARLIEST.
MRS. AMANDA OGLESBY PRATHER WAS BORN IN OLDHAM COUNTY, KENTUCKY, IN 1819 AND WAS THEREFORE ABOUT 62 YEARS OF AGE AT THE TIME OF HER DEATH. SHE CAME TO DECATUR IN 1836 AND IN 1838 SHE BECAME THE WIFE OF HON HENRY PRATHER, WHO MET A TRAGIC DEATH BY BEING THROWN FROM A BUGGY DURING THE EXCITEMENT ATTENDING A FALSE ALARM OF FIRE IN THE FIRST WARD IN AUGUST 1869. SHE WAS THE ELDEST SISTER OF OUR FELLOW TOWNSMAN, EX GOVERNOR OGLESBY, MRS. J. J. PEDDECORD AND MRS. WILSON, WHO RESIDES IN KENTUCKY.
PRATHER
THE FUNERAL SERVICES OF THE LATE MRS. AMANDA M. PRATHER, WHICH TOOK PLACE FROM THE RESIDENCE OF MR. J. J. PEDDECORD, AT 2 OCLOCK THURSDAY AFTERNOON WAS VERY LARGELY ATTENDED. REV. W. MOORE, RECTOR OF ST JOHNS CHURCH, READ THE EPISCOPAL BURIAL SERVICES IN AN IMPRESSIVE MANNER AND THE REMAINS FOLLOWED BY A LARGE NUMBER OF SORROWING FRIENDS WERE CONVEYED TO GREENWOOD CEMETERY, IN WHICH PEACEFUL SPOT THEY SHALL "SLEEP THE SLEEP THAT KNOWS NO WAKING".
THE PALL BEARERS WERE HON S. F. GREEN, HON J. R. GORIN, W. J. CLOSE, ISSAC SHELLABARGER, JOHN IMBODEN,CAPT. J. S. POST, W. T. STAMPER AND CHARLES LAUX.
DECATUR DAILY REPUBLICAN 3/21/1881
THE SILENT REAPER
DEATH OF MRS. HENRY PRATHER THIS FORENOON AT THE ST NICHOLS HOTEL.
ONE OF DECATURS MOST ESTIMABLE CHRISTIAN WOMEN, MRS. AMANDA PRATHER, DIED THIS FORENOON AT 11 OCLOCK, IN HER APARTMENTS AT THE ST. NICHOLAS HOTEL, AFTER A PAINFUL ILLNESS OF ABOUT FIVE DAYS DURATION. MRS. PRATHER HAD BEEN IN BAD HEALTH FOR THE PAST 10 YEARS, BEING TROUBLED WITH A COMBINATION OF DISEASES WHICH BAFFLED THE SKILL OF THE BEST PHYSICIANS. HER RECENT ATTACK WAS NOT CONSIDERED ALARMING UNTIL SATURDAY, WHEN HER RELATIVES IN THE CITY AND INTIMATE FRIENDS GATHERED ABOUT HER MINISTEREY ATTENTIVELY TO HER EVERY SPOKEN UNSAID WISH AND REAMINED WITH HER UP TO THE TIME OF HER DEATH. A FEW MINUTES BEFORE SHE BREATHED HER LAST HER PASTOR, REV. W. H. MOORE WAS AT THE BEDSIDE OF THE DYING AND COMMANDED THE DEPARTING SPIRIT TO HIM WHO GAVE IT TO THE USUAL FORM OF THE CHURCH.
THE REMAINS OF THE DECEASED WILL BE REMOVED FROM THE ST. NICHOLAS THIS EVENING AND TAKEN TO THE RESIDENCE OF MR. J. J. PEDDECORD ON FRANKLIN STREET WHERE THEY WILL REMAIN UNTIL THE ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE FUNERAL ARE COMPLETED. MRS. PEDDECORD WHO WENT TO BALTIMORE, MD SOME DAYS AGO WITH HER HUSBAND ON A VISIT TO THEIR DAUGHTER HAS BEEN NOTIFIED BY TELEGRAPH OF THE SUDDEN DEATH OF HER SISTER, BUT SHE CANNOT ARRIVE UNTIL WEDNESDAY MORNING AT THE EARLIEST.
MRS. AMANDA OGLESBY PRATHER WAS BORN IN OLDHAM COUNTY, KENTUCKY, IN 1819 AND WAS THEREFORE ABOUT 62 YEARS OF AGE AT THE TIME OF HER DEATH. SHE CAME TO DECATUR IN 1836 AND IN 1838 SHE BECAME THE WIFE OF HON HENRY PRATHER, WHO MET A TRAGIC DEATH BY BEING THROWN FROM A BUGGY DURING THE EXCITEMENT ATTENDING A FALSE ALARM OF FIRE IN THE FIRST WARD IN AUGUST 1869. SHE WAS THE ELDEST SISTER OF OUR FELLOW TOWNSMAN, EX GOVERNOR OGLESBY, MRS. J. J. PEDDECORD AND MRS. WILSON, WHO RESIDES IN KENTUCKY.
PRATHER
THE FUNERAL SERVICES OF THE LATE MRS. AMANDA M. PRATHER, WHICH TOOK PLACE FROM THE RESIDENCE OF MR. J. J. PEDDECORD, AT 2 OCLOCK THURSDAY AFTERNOON WAS VERY LARGELY ATTENDED. REV. W. MOORE, RECTOR OF ST JOHNS CHURCH, READ THE EPISCOPAL BURIAL SERVICES IN AN IMPRESSIVE MANNER AND THE REMAINS FOLLOWED BY A LARGE NUMBER OF SORROWING FRIENDS WERE CONVEYED TO GREENWOOD CEMETERY, IN WHICH PEACEFUL SPOT THEY SHALL "SLEEP THE SLEEP THAT KNOWS NO WAKING".
THE PALL BEARERS WERE HON S. F. GREEN, HON J. R. GORIN, W. J. CLOSE, ISSAC SHELLABARGER, JOHN IMBODEN,CAPT. J. S. POST, W. T. STAMPER AND CHARLES LAUX.
THE SILENT REAPER
DEATH OF MRS. HENRY PRATHER THIS FORENOON AT THE ST NICHOLS HOTEL.
ONE OF DECATURS MOST ESTIMABLE CHRISTIAN WOMEN, MRS. AMANDA PRATHER, DIED THIS FORENOON AT 11 OCLOCK, IN HER APARTMENTS AT THE ST. NICHOLAS HOTEL, AFTER A PAINFUL ILLNESS OF ABOUT FIVE DAYS DURATION. MRS. PRATHER HAD BEEN IN BAD HEALTH FOR THE PAST 10 YEARS, BEING TROUBLED WITH A COMBINATION OF DISEASES WHICH BAFFLED THE SKILL OF THE BEST PHYSICIANS. HER RECENT ATTACK WAS NOT CONSIDERED ALARMING UNTIL SATURDAY, WHEN HER RELATIVES IN THE CITY AND INTIMATE FRIENDS GATHERED ABOUT HER MINISTEREY ATTENTIVELY TO HER EVERY SPOKEN UNSAID WISH AND REAMINED WITH HER UP TO THE TIME OF HER DEATH. A FEW MINUTES BEFORE SHE BREATHED HER LAST HER PASTOR, REV. W. H. MOORE WAS AT THE BEDSIDE OF THE DYING AND COMMANDED THE DEPARTING SPIRIT TO HIM WHO GAVE IT TO THE USUAL FORM OF THE CHURCH.
THE REMAINS OF THE DECEASED WILL BE REMOVED FROM THE ST. NICHOLAS THIS EVENING AND TAKEN TO THE RESIDENCE OF MR. J. J. PEDDECORD ON FRANKLIN STREET WHERE THEY WILL REMAIN UNTIL THE ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE FUNERAL ARE COMPLETED. MRS. PEDDECORD WHO WENT TO BALTIMORE, MD SOME DAYS AGO WITH HER HUSBAND ON A VISIT TO THEIR DAUGHTER HAS BEEN NOTIFIED BY TELEGRAPH OF THE SUDDEN DEATH OF HER SISTER, BUT SHE CANNOT ARRIVE UNTIL WEDNESDAY MORNING AT THE EARLIEST.
MRS. AMANDA OGLESBY PRATHER WAS BORN IN OLDHAM COUNTY, KENTUCKY, IN 1819 AND WAS THEREFORE ABOUT 62 YEARS OF AGE AT THE TIME OF HER DEATH. SHE CAME TO DECATUR IN 1836 AND IN 1838 SHE BECAME THE WIFE OF HON HENRY PRATHER, WHO MET A TRAGIC DEATH BY BEING THROWN FROM A BUGGY DURING THE EXCITEMENT ATTENDING A FALSE ALARM OF FIRE IN THE FIRST WARD IN AUGUST 1869. SHE WAS THE ELDEST SISTER OF OUR FELLOW TOWNSMAN, EX GOVERNOR OGLESBY, MRS. J. J. PEDDECORD AND MRS. WILSON, WHO RESIDES IN KENTUCKY.
PRATHER
THE FUNERAL SERVICES OF THE LATE MRS. AMANDA M. PRATHER, WHICH TOOK PLACE FROM THE RESIDENCE OF MR. J. J. PEDDECORD, AT 2 OCLOCK THURSDAY AFTERNOON WAS VERY LARGELY ATTENDED. REV. W. MOORE, RECTOR OF ST JOHNS CHURCH, READ THE EPISCOPAL BURIAL SERVICES IN AN IMPRESSIVE MANNER AND THE REMAINS FOLLOWED BY A LARGE NUMBER OF SORROWING FRIENDS WERE CONVEYED TO GREENWOOD CEMETERY, IN WHICH PEACEFUL SPOT THEY SHALL "SLEEP THE SLEEP THAT KNOWS NO WAKING".
THE PALL BEARERS WERE HON S. F. GREEN, HON J. R. GORIN, W. J. CLOSE, ISSAC SHELLABARGER, JOHN IMBODEN,CAPT. J. S. POST, W. T. STAMPER AND CHARLES LAUX.
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