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Submitted: 7/2/13 • Approved: 7/2/13 • Last Updated: 7/5/13 • R903335-G518547-S3
Nannie
January 17, 1860 - April 25, 1931
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Benton County Record & Democrat & Sun
Thursday, April 30, 1931
RATLIFF, Mrs. T.T. (KELLER} - Mrs. T.T. Ratliff died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Frank Douglas, near Highfill April 25th at the age of 71 years. She had been an invalid for almost two years. Funeral services, conducted by Rev. Asbell of Fayetteville, were held on Sunday followed by burial in the cemetery at Temperance Hill Church. Mrs. Ratliff was born in Lame County, Kentucky Jan. 17, 1860 where she grew to womanhood. In 1879 she was married to T.T. Ratliff. Two years later they loaded all their earthly possessions in a covered wagon and emigrated to Benton County where they homesteaded 160 acres of government land near Osage Mill. Here they made their home until the death of Mr. Ratliff in 1929. Since then she had lived with her children. Surviving Mrs. Ratliff are her four children: Mrs. Frank O'Neal of Healing Springs; Mrs. Arthur Vaughn, Healing Springs; Emmett Ratliff of Fayetteville and Mrs. Frank Douglas of Highfill; eight grandchildren, four brothers, Phil Keller and Fred Keller of Centerton, Jake Keller of Washington and Virgil Keller of Kansas City and her sisters, Mrs. Chas. Jones of Centerton, Mrs. Octavia Purcell of Bentonville.
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Gentry Journal-Advance
Thursday, April 30, 1931
Mrs. Ratliff died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Frank Douglas, Saturday. Short funeral services were held at the Douglas home and further services at Temperance Hill and she was tenderly laid to rest in the Temperance Hill cemetery beside her husband who passed away about two years ago. We extend our sympathy to the children in this, their sad hour of bereavement.
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Rogers Democrat
Thursday, April 30, 1931
RATLIFFE, Nannie P. - Funeral services were held Sunday for Mrs. Nannie P. Ratliffe, 71, who died Saturday at her home at Highfill. Burial was in the Temperance Hill cemetery under the direction of A.D. Callison. Mrs. Ratliffe had been in ill health for nearly two years.
Thomas
April 12, 1851 - July 30, 1929
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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.
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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.
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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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