Breckinridge County KyArchives Obituaries.....RAITT, Mary Ann November 11, 1910
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Breckinridge News, Cloverport, Ky., November 16, 1910
OBITUARY
      MRS. RAITT FOUND DEAD IN FLAMES
At Her Home Last Friday Afternoon On The East Side (of Cloverport)
Funeral Held Sunday
          
     Horrible was the death of Mrs. Mary Ann RAITT who was found dead and 
wrapped in flames last Friday afternoon about four o'clock.
     Her daughter, Miss Anna RAITT, who was busy with household duties, smelt 
something burning, and ran quickly to her mother's room.  Entering the door, she 
was shocked at the sight of her mother's body lying on the floor in a mass of 
flames.  She screamed for help, and in an instant the flames were extinguished, 
but her mother was dead.
     It is thought Mrs. RAITT was dead when she fell to the floor, and her 
clothing caught from the fire in the grate, as one morning last week, she fell 
from her chair unconsciously.
     Mrs. RAITT was one of the oldest citizens of Cloverport, and her age and 
life was a source of pride to the town.  She was eighty-eight years of age.  Her 
birth place was in Meade County (KY), and her father, Dr. SEBASTIAN, came to 
Cloverport when there were just four houses there.
     She had a vivid memory, and could re-call stories of the old days with much 
interest to her friends.  For sixty years, she furnished the sacrement bread for 
the Methodist Church.  Her husband, Mr. John RAITT, died about twenty-two years 
ago.
     She was greatly loved, and hardly a day passed that someone did not think 
of her happiness, which was alswys the first thought of her two devoted 
daughters, Miss Annie RAITT and Miss Josie RAITT.  Besides them she is survived 
by:
two sons, Messrs. Chas. and Nat RAITT
two sisters:
Mrs. A. R. FISHER, of this city
Mrs. Joe HENSDALE, of Portland, Oregon
     The funeral was held Sunday afternoon at two o'clock from the family 
residence, conducted by the Reverend Mr. LEWIS, and the interment took place in 
the Cloverport Cemetery.  A large crowd of men and women gathered at the home to 
pay their last loving respects to Mrs. RAITT.




Additional Comments:
#0256 Old Murray Cemetery, located at Cloverport, Ky., in Breckinridge County.
Closed to burials.  Cemetery established approximately 1818.

RAITT, Elizabeth "Bettie"  1856 -- 05 Nov 1883
daughter of John Wesley RAITT & Mary Ann SEBASTIAN
have her death notice
she has a single tombstone

HER THREE SISTERS ALSO HERE:
RAITT, Eliza Jane "Jennie"  1862 -- 1878
daughter of John Wesley RAITT & Mary Ann SEBASTIAN
she has a single tombstone

RAITT, Josephine Murray "Josie"  21 Jul 1858 -- 12 Apr 1941
never married
daughter of John Wesley RAITT & Mary Ann SEBASTIAN
have her death certificate
she has a single tombstone

RAITT, Margaret Ann "Annie"  12 May 1852 -- 11 Oct 1929
never married
daughter of John Wesley RAITT & Mary Ann SEBASTIAN
have her death certificate
she has a single tombstone

THEIR PARENTS ALSO HERE:
RAITT, John Wesley  03 Sep 1816 -- __-___-1883
husband of Mary Ann SEBASTIAN
son of Nathaniel "Nathan" RAITT & Margaret Jane ROOP
he shares a double tombstone with his wife

RAITT, Mary Ann  09 Aug 1822 -- 11 Nov 1910
wife of John Wesley RAITT
daughter of Charles Broadwater SEBASTIAN & Elizabeth MURRAY
Her middle name is Ann, not Abigail, my mistake (Peggy)
she shares a double tombstone with her husband
Dana Brown & Peggy Russell












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