COD-carcinoma breast & liver
Her brother-in-law, Dr Herbert Acuff, operated on her, but she had let it go too long and the cancer had already spread, so he just opened her up and closed her and could do nothing for the cancer. She continued to try to lead an active life, and even when she was too weak to stand, she cooked in the kitchen by sitting in a cane seated chair and "walking" it from side to side to move. Her will power was tremendous. The chair legs showed this wear from her will to keep going.
She was forbidden to marry her cousin, Joseph Keisling, but their love produced a child, Loe.
She left Loe with her parents and moved to Nebraska territory to find work keeping house for Robert Sullivan, a bridge surveyor. They married about 1898 but he went out on a job and never returned. She had to wait 7 yrs to have him legally declared dead and then she married Clyde Pruden in 1907 after being his house keeper for a time after returning from the Oklahoma territory. She did this type of work in order to provide a home for she and her daughter Loe.
To the marriage of Clyde & Eliza, 5 children were born. The eldest, Thomas Harrell Pruden, died during the terrible 1918 influenza epidemic at the age of 10. The youngest, Herbert Acuff Pruden, only survived about a month, being born with a fatal birth defect of a hair-lip & cleft palate that, back in 1917, was not reparable.
Three children, Gladys Ruth, Ross Clemens Morrison & Bess survived to adulthood, married and had their own families.
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MRS. ELIZA PRUDEN: Death came to Fort Sanders Hospital late yesterday for Mrs. Eliza Pruden of Powell's station. Mrs. Pruden was 50. Her husband, Clyde G. Pruden is baggage master on the L&N Railroad. Mrs. Pruden was a member of Calvary Baptist Church.
In addition to the husband, she leaves daughters, Mrs. Bessie Creaser, Greensboro, Ind.; Mrs. Low Scarborough & Miss Gladys Pruden of Knoxville; son, R.C. Pruden, of Pruden, Tenn.; sister Mrs. Mary Livingston, of Middleton; brothers, Webber Herrell & Charles Herrell of Knoxville & Sorrell Herrell of Washington, D.C.
Pallbearers: L. Perkins, R.H. Stokes, W.D. Floyd, T.E. Archer, L.C. Davis, W.T. Welch.
Services at 10:30 a.m. Friday, at Mann's the Rev. Judson Taylor & Rev. B.s. Williams officiating. Burial in Greenwood Cemetery.
Her brother-in-law, Dr Herbert Acuff, operated on her, but she had let it go too long and the cancer had already spread, so he just opened her up and closed her and could do nothing for the cancer. She continued to try to lead an active life, and even when she was too weak to stand, she cooked in the kitchen by sitting in a cane seated chair and "walking" it from side to side to move. Her will power was tremendous. The chair legs showed this wear from her will to keep going.
She was forbidden to marry her cousin, Joseph Keisling, but their love produced a child, Loe.
She left Loe with her parents and moved to Nebraska territory to find work keeping house for Robert Sullivan, a bridge surveyor. They married about 1898 but he went out on a job and never returned. She had to wait 7 yrs to have him legally declared dead and then she married Clyde Pruden in 1907 after being his house keeper for a time after returning from the Oklahoma territory. She did this type of work in order to provide a home for she and her daughter Loe.
To the marriage of Clyde & Eliza, 5 children were born. The eldest, Thomas Harrell Pruden, died during the terrible 1918 influenza epidemic at the age of 10. The youngest, Herbert Acuff Pruden, only survived about a month, being born with a fatal birth defect of a hair-lip & cleft palate that, back in 1917, was not reparable.
Three children, Gladys Ruth, Ross Clemens Morrison & Bess survived to adulthood, married and had their own families.
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MRS. ELIZA PRUDEN: Death came to Fort Sanders Hospital late yesterday for Mrs. Eliza Pruden of Powell's station. Mrs. Pruden was 50. Her husband, Clyde G. Pruden is baggage master on the L&N Railroad. Mrs. Pruden was a member of Calvary Baptist Church.
In addition to the husband, she leaves daughters, Mrs. Bessie Creaser, Greensboro, Ind.; Mrs. Low Scarborough & Miss Gladys Pruden of Knoxville; son, R.C. Pruden, of Pruden, Tenn.; sister Mrs. Mary Livingston, of Middleton; brothers, Webber Herrell & Charles Herrell of Knoxville & Sorrell Herrell of Washington, D.C.
Pallbearers: L. Perkins, R.H. Stokes, W.D. Floyd, T.E. Archer, L.C. Davis, W.T. Welch.
Services at 10:30 a.m. Friday, at Mann's the Rev. Judson Taylor & Rev. B.s. Williams officiating. Burial in Greenwood Cemetery.
COD-carcinoma breast & liver
Her brother-in-law, Dr Herbert Acuff, operated on her, but she had let it go too long and the cancer had already spread, so he just opened her up and closed her and could do nothing for the cancer. She continued to try to lead an active life, and even when she was too weak to stand, she cooked in the kitchen by sitting in a cane seated chair and "walking" it from side to side to move. Her will power was tremendous. The chair legs showed this wear from her will to keep going.
She was forbidden to marry her cousin, Joseph Keisling, but their love produced a child, Loe.
She left Loe with her parents and moved to Nebraska territory to find work keeping house for Robert Sullivan, a bridge surveyor. They married about 1898 but he went out on a job and never returned. She had to wait 7 yrs to have him legally declared dead and then she married Clyde Pruden in 1907 after being his house keeper for a time after returning from the Oklahoma territory. She did this type of work in order to provide a home for she and her daughter Loe.
To the marriage of Clyde & Eliza, 5 children were born. The eldest, Thomas Harrell Pruden, died during the terrible 1918 influenza epidemic at the age of 10. The youngest, Herbert Acuff Pruden, only survived about a month, being born with a fatal birth defect of a hair-lip & cleft palate that, back in 1917, was not reparable.
Three children, Gladys Ruth, Ross Clemens Morrison & Bess survived to adulthood, married and had their own families.
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MRS. ELIZA PRUDEN: Death came to Fort Sanders Hospital late yesterday for Mrs. Eliza Pruden of Powell's station. Mrs. Pruden was 50. Her husband, Clyde G. Pruden is baggage master on the L&N Railroad. Mrs. Pruden was a member of Calvary Baptist Church.
In addition to the husband, she leaves daughters, Mrs. Bessie Creaser, Greensboro, Ind.; Mrs. Low Scarborough & Miss Gladys Pruden of Knoxville; son, R.C. Pruden, of Pruden, Tenn.; sister Mrs. Mary Livingston, of Middleton; brothers, Webber Herrell & Charles Herrell of Knoxville & Sorrell Herrell of Washington, D.C.
Pallbearers: L. Perkins, R.H. Stokes, W.D. Floyd, T.E. Archer, L.C. Davis, W.T. Welch.
Services at 10:30 a.m. Friday, at Mann's the Rev. Judson Taylor & Rev. B.s. Williams officiating. Burial in Greenwood Cemetery.
Her brother-in-law, Dr Herbert Acuff, operated on her, but she had let it go too long and the cancer had already spread, so he just opened her up and closed her and could do nothing for the cancer. She continued to try to lead an active life, and even when she was too weak to stand, she cooked in the kitchen by sitting in a cane seated chair and "walking" it from side to side to move. Her will power was tremendous. The chair legs showed this wear from her will to keep going.
She was forbidden to marry her cousin, Joseph Keisling, but their love produced a child, Loe.
She left Loe with her parents and moved to Nebraska territory to find work keeping house for Robert Sullivan, a bridge surveyor. They married about 1898 but he went out on a job and never returned. She had to wait 7 yrs to have him legally declared dead and then she married Clyde Pruden in 1907 after being his house keeper for a time after returning from the Oklahoma territory. She did this type of work in order to provide a home for she and her daughter Loe.
To the marriage of Clyde & Eliza, 5 children were born. The eldest, Thomas Harrell Pruden, died during the terrible 1918 influenza epidemic at the age of 10. The youngest, Herbert Acuff Pruden, only survived about a month, being born with a fatal birth defect of a hair-lip & cleft palate that, back in 1917, was not reparable.
Three children, Gladys Ruth, Ross Clemens Morrison & Bess survived to adulthood, married and had their own families.
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MRS. ELIZA PRUDEN: Death came to Fort Sanders Hospital late yesterday for Mrs. Eliza Pruden of Powell's station. Mrs. Pruden was 50. Her husband, Clyde G. Pruden is baggage master on the L&N Railroad. Mrs. Pruden was a member of Calvary Baptist Church.
In addition to the husband, she leaves daughters, Mrs. Bessie Creaser, Greensboro, Ind.; Mrs. Low Scarborough & Miss Gladys Pruden of Knoxville; son, R.C. Pruden, of Pruden, Tenn.; sister Mrs. Mary Livingston, of Middleton; brothers, Webber Herrell & Charles Herrell of Knoxville & Sorrell Herrell of Washington, D.C.
Pallbearers: L. Perkins, R.H. Stokes, W.D. Floyd, T.E. Archer, L.C. Davis, W.T. Welch.
Services at 10:30 a.m. Friday, at Mann's the Rev. Judson Taylor & Rev. B.s. Williams officiating. Burial in Greenwood Cemetery.
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