Kimble County, TX - Obituaries:  Prentice, Mrs. James, 1947
Thursday, August 3, 2000

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 Found in the scrapbook belonging to the late Margaret Griffen Harrison, Junction, Texas
                                  (Name of paper not given)

                      Funeral Rites For Mrs. James Prentice Are Held Sunday

  Funeral services for Mrs. James A. Prentice, 74, who died in San Antonio Saturday 
morning, were held Sunday afternoon at 4:00 o'clock from the Presbyterian Church with 
the Rev. Stanley Hauser of Sonora, Episcopal minister, officiating.  The Hodges
Funeral Home had charge of arrangements.  Burial was made in the Junction cemetery.
  A bride of the "gay nineties", Mrs. Prentice moved to Kimbla, where she had spent
part of her childhood, after her marriage in the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
B. A. Davey, in Kerrville on October 4, 1898.  She and her husband owned and operated
extensive ranch holdings on North Llano and built up one of the first herds of 
registered Angora goats in the Hill Country.
  Among the early residents of the county, Mrs. Prentice, who was born in Salado, in
Bell County, on Sept. 9, 1872, came to Kimble in 1882 with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
B. A. Davey, and five years later moved to Kerr County.  The Davey family lived on
Bear Creek in a house which wa later replaced "Brambletye" and the children of school
age attended the Bear Creek school.
  Mrs. Prentice, nee Maude E. Davey, divided her time between the ranch, now operated
by her son, Junction and San Antonio since the death of her husband almost 5 years ago.
She had been in failing health for several years and was ill in San Antonio several
months before her death.
  Survivors include the son, Seaton, one daughter, Mrs. G. A. Witting, and one grandson,
G. A. Witting, Jr., both of San Antonio, one granddaughter, Mrs. Richard Bullock, of
Wenatchie, Washington; and three sisters, Mrs. Robert Knox of Uvalde, Mrs. Felix Watson
and Miss Myrtle Davey.
  Pall bearers were W. M. Carrico of San Antonio and Vann Martin, J. M. Livingston, Fred
Mudge, Sayers Farmer, Clay Secrest, James P. Rieck, and Bill Hamer. 
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