The Hickman Courier
Jan 8 1892
Mrs. Martha J. Prather, wife of Mr. R.C. Prather, Sr., died at the family home, near Jordan, on Wednesday morning Dec. 30th. Mrs. Prather was universally loved as a real good woman, carrying her influence in her sphere by a never ceasing kindness, tenderness and affection in and for all with whom she was associated. She had passed her three score years and ten, reared a large family of sons, lived to see each of them reach manhood's estate, and in old age to pass the ordeal of having four of her sons in the prime of young manhood precede her across the river of death. Three sons, whose honorable characters remain as living monuments to her excellence and nobility, together with her aged husband and a number of grand children, survive, comforted only in their sad bereavement by the blessed realization that such a mother, such a character, is not dead, only the physical dies--but the real life, that life that the good God fives his children, illustrated in the good life of this good mother, lives forever, in surroundings better and happier. Mr. and Mrs. Prather were reared in Jefferson county, and settled in this county in 1840, and have lived on the same farm they originally settled continuously since. Of one of the oldest and best of Kentucky families they, each, exemplified that strict integrity and honorable bearing that characterized the lives of Kentucky pioneers. Sincerest sympathy is extended to the aged husband and father, and to all the bereaved.
Jan 8 1892
Mrs. Martha J. Prather, wife of Mr. R.C. Prather, Sr., died at the family home, near Jordan, on Wednesday morning Dec. 30th. Mrs. Prather was universally loved as a real good woman, carrying her influence in her sphere by a never ceasing kindness, tenderness and affection in and for all with whom she was associated. She had passed her three score years and ten, reared a large family of sons, lived to see each of them reach manhood's estate, and in old age to pass the ordeal of having four of her sons in the prime of young manhood precede her across the river of death. Three sons, whose honorable characters remain as living monuments to her excellence and nobility, together with her aged husband and a number of grand children, survive, comforted only in their sad bereavement by the blessed realization that such a mother, such a character, is not dead, only the physical dies--but the real life, that life that the good God fives his children, illustrated in the good life of this good mother, lives forever, in surroundings better and happier. Mr. and Mrs. Prather were reared in Jefferson county, and settled in this county in 1840, and have lived on the same farm they originally settled continuously since. Of one of the oldest and best of Kentucky families they, each, exemplified that strict integrity and honorable bearing that characterized the lives of Kentucky pioneers. Sincerest sympathy is extended to the aged husband and father, and to all the bereaved.
The Hickman Courier
Jan 8 1892
Mrs. Martha J. Prather, wife of Mr. R.C. Prather, Sr., died at the family home, near Jordan, on Wednesday morning Dec. 30th. Mrs. Prather was universally loved as a real good woman, carrying her influence in her sphere by a never ceasing kindness, tenderness and affection in and for all with whom she was associated. She had passed her three score years and ten, reared a large family of sons, lived to see each of them reach manhood's estate, and in old age to pass the ordeal of having four of her sons in the prime of young manhood precede her across the river of death. Three sons, whose honorable characters remain as living monuments to her excellence and nobility, together with her aged husband and a number of grand children, survive, comforted only in their sad bereavement by the blessed realization that such a mother, such a character, is not dead, only the physical dies--but the real life, that life that the good God fives his children, illustrated in the good life of this good mother, lives forever, in surroundings better and happier. Mr. and Mrs. Prather were reared in Jefferson county, and settled in this county in 1840, and have lived on the same farm they originally settled continuously since. Of one of the oldest and best of Kentucky families they, each, exemplified that strict integrity and honorable bearing that characterized the lives of Kentucky pioneers. Sincerest sympathy is extended to the aged husband and father, and to all the bereaved.
Jan 8 1892
Mrs. Martha J. Prather, wife of Mr. R.C. Prather, Sr., died at the family home, near Jordan, on Wednesday morning Dec. 30th. Mrs. Prather was universally loved as a real good woman, carrying her influence in her sphere by a never ceasing kindness, tenderness and affection in and for all with whom she was associated. She had passed her three score years and ten, reared a large family of sons, lived to see each of them reach manhood's estate, and in old age to pass the ordeal of having four of her sons in the prime of young manhood precede her across the river of death. Three sons, whose honorable characters remain as living monuments to her excellence and nobility, together with her aged husband and a number of grand children, survive, comforted only in their sad bereavement by the blessed realization that such a mother, such a character, is not dead, only the physical dies--but the real life, that life that the good God fives his children, illustrated in the good life of this good mother, lives forever, in surroundings better and happier. Mr. and Mrs. Prather were reared in Jefferson county, and settled in this county in 1840, and have lived on the same farm they originally settled continuously since. Of one of the oldest and best of Kentucky families they, each, exemplified that strict integrity and honorable bearing that characterized the lives of Kentucky pioneers. Sincerest sympathy is extended to the aged husband and father, and to all the bereaved.
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