Breckinridge County KyArchives Obituaries.....Wrather, Richard A. July 31, 1905
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Breckinridge County News; 8/2/1905
Richard Wrather Dead.

Well-known Farmer Near Irvington Succumbs to Typhoid.

Richard A. Wrather, one of the best known farmers in the Irvington neighborhood,
died Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock, of typhoid fever, at his home a quarter of a
mile from that place.  He had been ill for five weeks.

Mr. Wrather was born in Meade county on February 12, 1857.  He lived in Meade county
until 1892, when he moved to Irvington and bought the farm on which he died.  He was
married in Meade county to Miss Glovia Munford, who, with three grown children,
survives him.  The children --e Embry Wrather, of Chicago, an Misses Mary and
Elizabeth Wrather.  He also leaves one brother, Goerge Wrather, and two sisters,
Mrs. Weed S. Chelf, of Elizabethtown, and Mrs. W. W. Vertreese, of Meade county.

The news of Mr. Wrather's death was received with extreme regret by his many friends
in Breckenridge and Meade counties.  He had been a member of the Baptist church
since boyhood and was a man of fine Christian character.  He was liked by a large
acquaintance.

The funeral was held yesterday afternoon from the Baptist church at Irvington, Rev.
J. T. Lewis, of this city, officiating, assisted by Rev. Graves and Rev. Hynes, of
Irvington.  The pall bearers were: John Wimp, Bate and Jesse Herndon, Will Garnder,
Thos. Bythe, K. F. Claycomb, Mr. Mudd, G. O. Baily.  The interment was at the old
Washington graveyard.




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