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Edward Samuel Prather

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Edward Samuel Prather

Birth
Wheatland, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, USA
Death
28 Sep 1956 (aged 54)
Oklahoma, USA
Burial
Fort Cobb, Caddo County, Oklahoma, USA GPS-Latitude: 35.1106639, Longitude: -98.4405395
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The Carnegie Herald, Wed., Oct. 3, 1956
Prather Funeral Held Monday At Oney Church
Funeral services for E.S. Prather, pioneer Caddo county resident, were held at 2 p.m. Monday from the First Christian Church, Oney, and interment was in the Oak Grove cemetery at Fort Cobb, Rev. Harold Mosley of Lone Wolf, former Oney pastor, was in charge with rev. Otto Shifley assisting.
Mr. Prather, apparently in good health, had been doing his usual morning chores Friday and he and his wife had been moving some irrigation pipe when while in became critical and death came as a result of a heart attack. He was born April 16, 1902, near Wheatland, and with his family moved to the farm northeast of Carnegie in 1908. He was married to Pauline Claunch in December, 1927, and continued to live on the farm near Cobb Creek. In 1943 they moved north of Fort Cobb and in 1962 purchased the farm two miles south of Oney, where they were living when he died. He was a member of the Oney Christian church.
Survivors include the wife, Pauline Prather of the home; three brothers, John and George Prather of Rivera, Calif., and Otis of Stockton; five sisters, Mrs. Ida Padberg of Oklahoma City, Mrs. Ethel Lathram of Clinton, Mrs. Rose Gyles of Springdale, Ark., and Mrs. Velma Bickford and Mrs. Opal Goodwin of Carnegie.

Contributed by Lillian #47192135
The Carnegie Herald, Wed., Oct. 3, 1956
Prather Funeral Held Monday At Oney Church
Funeral services for E.S. Prather, pioneer Caddo county resident, were held at 2 p.m. Monday from the First Christian Church, Oney, and interment was in the Oak Grove cemetery at Fort Cobb, Rev. Harold Mosley of Lone Wolf, former Oney pastor, was in charge with rev. Otto Shifley assisting.
Mr. Prather, apparently in good health, had been doing his usual morning chores Friday and he and his wife had been moving some irrigation pipe when while in became critical and death came as a result of a heart attack. He was born April 16, 1902, near Wheatland, and with his family moved to the farm northeast of Carnegie in 1908. He was married to Pauline Claunch in December, 1927, and continued to live on the farm near Cobb Creek. In 1943 they moved north of Fort Cobb and in 1962 purchased the farm two miles south of Oney, where they were living when he died. He was a member of the Oney Christian church.
Survivors include the wife, Pauline Prather of the home; three brothers, John and George Prather of Rivera, Calif., and Otis of Stockton; five sisters, Mrs. Ida Padberg of Oklahoma City, Mrs. Ethel Lathram of Clinton, Mrs. Rose Gyles of Springdale, Ark., and Mrs. Velma Bickford and Mrs. Opal Goodwin of Carnegie.

Contributed by Lillian #47192135


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