OBIT: Death of High School Boy-
Ruford W. Pieratt, seventeen years old, a student in the South Milford High School, died early Sunday morning at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Pieratt, north of Mount Pisgah.
His funeral was held Tuesday afternoon at the home, with sermon by Charles Greenawalt, and burial was made in Woodruff cemetery.
Buford White Pieratt, son of James and Phoebe Jane Montgomery Pieratt, was born in Menifee County, Kentucky, October 20, 1900. In the spring of 1908, he came with his family to Milford township, where he completed his brief life, seventeen years, five months, seventeen days. Besides his father and invalid mother, there survives him three sisters, Mrs. Lona Baird, Mrs. Jennie Miller and Mrs. Ada Hunter; and three brothers, Calvin, Clyde, and Lloyd. The young man was strong and healthy, and the main reliance of his parents, being the eldest son.
His death was the indirect result of appendicitis, for which an operation was performed in early March. Then followed an operation for bowel trouble, March 31, from which he could not rally.
Source: Lagrange Standard- Apr 12, 1918; Lagrange, Ind.
Ruford W. Pieratt, seventeen years old, a student in the South Milford High School, died early Sunday morning at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Pieratt, north of Mount Pisgah.
His funeral was held Tuesday afternoon at the home, with sermon by Charles Greenawalt, and burial was made in Woodruff cemetery.
Buford White Pieratt, son of James and Phoebe Jane Montgomery Pieratt, was born in Menifee County, Kentucky, October 20, 1900. In the spring of 1908, he came with his family to Milford township, where he completed his brief life, seventeen years, five months, seventeen days. Besides his father and invalid mother, there survives him three sisters, Mrs. Lona Baird, Mrs. Jennie Miller and Mrs. Ada Hunter; and three brothers, Calvin, Clyde, and Lloyd. The young man was strong and healthy, and the main reliance of his parents, being the eldest son.
His death was the indirect result of appendicitis, for which an operation was performed in early March. Then followed an operation for bowel trouble, March 31, from which he could not rally.
Source: Lagrange Standard- Apr 12, 1918; Lagrange, Ind.
OBIT: Death of High School Boy-
Ruford W. Pieratt, seventeen years old, a student in the South Milford High School, died early Sunday morning at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Pieratt, north of Mount Pisgah.
His funeral was held Tuesday afternoon at the home, with sermon by Charles Greenawalt, and burial was made in Woodruff cemetery.
Buford White Pieratt, son of James and Phoebe Jane Montgomery Pieratt, was born in Menifee County, Kentucky, October 20, 1900. In the spring of 1908, he came with his family to Milford township, where he completed his brief life, seventeen years, five months, seventeen days. Besides his father and invalid mother, there survives him three sisters, Mrs. Lona Baird, Mrs. Jennie Miller and Mrs. Ada Hunter; and three brothers, Calvin, Clyde, and Lloyd. The young man was strong and healthy, and the main reliance of his parents, being the eldest son.
His death was the indirect result of appendicitis, for which an operation was performed in early March. Then followed an operation for bowel trouble, March 31, from which he could not rally.
Source: Lagrange Standard- Apr 12, 1918; Lagrange, Ind.
Ruford W. Pieratt, seventeen years old, a student in the South Milford High School, died early Sunday morning at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Pieratt, north of Mount Pisgah.
His funeral was held Tuesday afternoon at the home, with sermon by Charles Greenawalt, and burial was made in Woodruff cemetery.
Buford White Pieratt, son of James and Phoebe Jane Montgomery Pieratt, was born in Menifee County, Kentucky, October 20, 1900. In the spring of 1908, he came with his family to Milford township, where he completed his brief life, seventeen years, five months, seventeen days. Besides his father and invalid mother, there survives him three sisters, Mrs. Lona Baird, Mrs. Jennie Miller and Mrs. Ada Hunter; and three brothers, Calvin, Clyde, and Lloyd. The young man was strong and healthy, and the main reliance of his parents, being the eldest son.
His death was the indirect result of appendicitis, for which an operation was performed in early March. Then followed an operation for bowel trouble, March 31, from which he could not rally.
Source: Lagrange Standard- Apr 12, 1918; Lagrange, Ind.
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