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Submitted: 5/2/11 • Approved: 7/2/13 • Last Updated: 7/5/13 • R518547-G518547-S3
Nannie
January 17, 1860 - April 25, 1931
Thomas
April 12, 1851 - July 30, 1929
*Obituary (as written)
Benton County Herald
Thursday, August 8, 1929
RATLIFF, Thornton Thomas - T.T. Ratliff, aged 77 years and eight months, died at his home near Healing Springs on Wednesday afternoon, July 24th. Mr. Ratliff had been ill for some time and his aged wife also has been confined to her bed for several weeks suffering from a stroke of paralysis. Mr. Ratliff's death occurred on the farm he homesteaded 50 years ago. He is survived by three daughters and one son, E.M. Ratliff, Fayetteville building contractor, who built the new school structure recently completed here at Bentonville.
*Obituary
Benton County Record & Democrat & Sun
Thursday, August 1, 1929
T.T. Ratliff, living near Healing Springs, died at his home there Tuesday after a long illness. Funeral services were conducted by the Rev. Elmer Rice of Springdale and interment was made in the Temperance Hill cemetery Wednesday. Mr. Ratliff was born 78 years ago and had been a resident of the Healing Springs community for nearly 50 years. He is survived by a son, E.M. Ratliff of Fayetteville and by three daughters: Mrs. Ada O'Neal and Mrs. Ida Vaughn of Healing Springs and Mrs. Edith Douglas of Highfill.
*Obituary
Benton County Record & Democrat & Sun
Thursday, August 22, 1929
Excerpts from a tribute signed by J.D.E. - Born December 12, 1851 in Marion County, Ky., the son of William Franklin Ratliff and Mary Jane Dodson Ratliff, whose families were among the first families of Virginia, having large slave interests in that state, Thornton Thomas Ratliff availed himself of the opportunities for study and self culture to be had at that period. In his early life in Kentucky he occupied himself in the work of his brother-in-law, a well known evangelistic singing, accompanying evangelist on his tours over the country, and this leaning toward things musical clung to him thruout life. On August 14, 1879 he was married to Nannie Parilee Kellar and soon after, or in 1881, the couple moved to Arkansas, settling on the Ratliff homestead near what is now Healing Springs. Here it is that five children were born, four of whom, together with their mother, survive the deceased; Mrs. Ida Vaughn and Mrs. Ada O'Neal of Healing Springs, Mrs. Edith Douglas of Highfill and Emmett M. Ratliff, architect of Fayetteville. Died, July 30, 1929 and was buried at Temperance Hill graveyard.
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