McNAIRY COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - John R. Prather, 26 Sep 1905
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JOHN R. PRATHER
McNairy County Independent, September  29, 1905 

John R. Prather, aged about fifty years, died at  his home near Pleasant Grove, Tuesday morning of cancer.  He leaves a wife and seven children.  For about ten years he has been afflicted with the dreaded cancer.  He was a member of the M. E. Church South, and was buried at the Pleasant Grove cemetery, Rev. J. B. Maxedon officiating.  A large concourse was present at the last sad ceremony.  He was a good citizen and of one of the oldest and most respectable families of the county.  He was a brother of our townsman J. W. Prather.

JOHN R. PRATHER
Name of paper and date unknown
   John R. Prather was born August 27, 1853; died September  26, 1905, aged 52 years and about one month. He leaves a wife and seven children to mourn his loss. He professed religion several years ago, under. the ministry of Rev. T. G. Pettygrew, who was then his pastor and conducting a revival meeting at Pleasant Grove church near his home (now Selmer circuit), but never connected him self with the church until three or four months before his death. He died with that dreadful disease cancer. He was a sufferer for many years, but only confined to his bed six or eight months before his death. He bore his sickness with the that Christian fortitude which only a child of God could, being always cheerful, and hopeful, he would often say to the writer wh??? and prepared to go when it was the Lord's will to call him.
   We laid his body to rest in the Pleasant Grove cemetery after a short funeral service, conducted by the writer
   We will say to his loved ones weep not as those who have no hope, for we believe if we art faithful until death we shall meet him on the banks of sweet deliverance. 
	J. B. MAXEDON