Payette County ID Archives Obituaries.....Prickett, Bernie D. 1906
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Payette Independent  4-6-1906
Payette Independent
Payette, Idaho
Friday, April 6, 1906

Obituary (Contributed)

Bernie D. Prickett, adopted son of Mr. L. E. Prickett and Mrs. Sarah A. 
Prickett, formerly of Payette but at present residing at Kline Falls, Ore., 
passed away Sunday, April 1, at 7:45 a.m., at the private hospital of Mrs. 
Humphrey on College street in this city. He was 17 years of age.

His was a very malignant case of typhoid and the care and attention that he 
received may best be judged by the fact that he lived two and a half weeks 
after having suffered thirty hemorrhages in 24 hours. For a man to live at all 
after such an experience was an unheard of thing to the Drs. Woodward, his 
attending physicians. His adopted father and mother were sent for and were 
with him the last two weeks of his life. Their love for him was genuine and 
their grief is that of real parents. When but eighteen months old he was one 
of a carload of infants shipped from New York City to Republic, Mo., and it 
was here that he found his parents to be in Mr. and Mrs. Prickett. They had 
previously adopted a child that they lost at the age of five years and without 
thought of taking one of these little unfortunates they went down to see them 
unloaded. But when the nurse stepped out with this boy, the youngest of them 
all, and he, instinctively as it were, turned to Mr. Prickett, the matter was 
soon settled and he went to live with them as their own boy. For such 
ministrations of love they shall have their reward for the Christ hath spoken 
it.

The funeral service was from the Christian church. Elder Keltner of the 
Brethren church officiated, assisted by Mr. Davidson, minister of the 
Christian church. The deceased was a member of Company I, of the National 
Guard of Idaho, and his comrades attended in a body and fired the usual 
military salute across the grave, after the body was lowered.

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