McNAIRY COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - William "Willie" Perry Prather, 3 Jun 1893
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WILLIAM (Willie)PERRY PRATHER
The date and the name of the paper this obituary was printed in is 
unknown, but believe it was the McNairy County Independent or one of 
papers published before the McNairy County Independent. C 
William Perry Prather, died   June 3, 1893.  He was a son of the 
second marriage of Charlotte Perry Reeder. His father was William R. 
Prather. The Mrs. Frankie Huggins is a daughter(who married Thomas
Jefferson Huggins)  of Charlotte's first marriage to Kibby Thompson.  
Charlotte died in the home of her daughter, Frankie (Frances) Huggins,
July 9, 1909, Gainsville TX.

IN MEMORIAM
  Again the relentless hand of death has claimed for its victim 
another one of God's children, a home has been made desolate, 
two brothers at home and a precious Mother, broken hearted, who can 
best realize the situation, are left to morn their loss.
  We could scarcely give him up, we are grief stricken, but by the 
grace of God we say:
                      Give joy or grief, give ease of pain
                          Take life or friend away,
                      But let us all find them again;
                           In that eternal day.
  Tho last time we saw little Willie his face was cold in death, and 
Marked with that awful cyclone.  But our hopes are that the next time 
we meet it will it will not be so, for he is where there are no 
cyclone or death; but will be clothed in spotless white, and that 
sweet face will shine beneath a crown,
standing on the banks of sweet deliverance beckoning us home.
  He was only fifteen years old, in the full bloom of health and 
boyhood when the cyclone come; for over two years he had lived a 
faithful Christian and a member of the Missionary Baptist Church, of 
Gravel Hill.  Let our hearts be gladdened by the thought; of a happy 
union.
                His sister.
                  Mrs. Frankie Huggins