Son of John Henry Pattillo and Mary Polly Winfield/Pattillo. Husband of Sallie Elizabeth Chase/Pattillo. Aged 72 years.

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4/14/1909 - Atlanta Constitution - RESOLUTIONS OF REGRET AT DEATH OF PATTILLO

- Trustees of Emory College and Fire Insurance Agents Act -

Funeral services over the body of W. P. Pattillo, who died Monday evening, will be held at Trinity church this afternoon at 3 o'clock. Bishop Warren A. Candler and Dr. J. Weiderman Lee will officiate. Interment will take place in Oakland Cemetery.

Messages of regret and condolence are coming to the bereaved family of the deceased from all over the state. Resolutions of regret were yesterday adopted by the board of trustees of Emory college, the alumni association of the same institution and by the fire insurance agents of the city. These organizations will attend the funeral in bodies.

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4/13/1909 - Atlanta Constitution - W. P. Pattillo, widely know throughout the insurance field of the country, died suddenly last night in the presence of his children and grandchildren.

Death came without the faintest warning and was so quick and unexpected that his last work, helf uttered, died on his lips.

Always robust and full of life, Mr. Pattillo was a picture of health, even as he breathed his last. At this usual hour, he was at his desk in his office in the Century building in the morning and never seemed in better physical condition.

William Pulaski Pattillo was born in Harris County, Georgia on 1/27/1837. His father was John Pattillo while his mother Mrs. Mary Wingfield was a member of an old and leading family of that section. He passed his boyhood days on the farm, attending the schools in that section. When 16, he entered Emory college and graduated in 1857. From college, he went to Alabama, where he taught school one year and in 1858, moved to Texas. In the fall of 1858 he became a member of the Eastern Texas conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, and for three years was an itinerant preacher in eastern Texas.

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The above article is quite long, and I put most important parts above. I found a number of long articles on his death.