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William Lawrence Ratekin

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William Lawrence Ratekin

Birth
Gallia County, Ohio, USA
Death
18 Nov 1906 (aged 71)
Richardson County, Nebraska, USA
Burial
Rulo, Richardson County, Nebraska, USA Add to Map
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Ratekin, William Lawrence

W.L. Ratekin was born February 16, 1835 in Gallia county, Ohio, and died November 14, 1906 of heart disease aged 71 years, 9 months and 14 days. He was married to Mary Anne Vaughn in February, 1858 by Rev. M.D. Vaughn. They came to Rulo in 1864 where they settled on a farm one and a half miles from Rulo and here they lived until about three years ago, when they moved to Rulo.
To this union were born thirteen children, three of whom were born in Ohio, and the rest on the old home place. The deceased leaves a wife and nine children. They are Marion Ratekin, Hiawatha, Kas., Sarah Fenderburgh, Butte Valley, Cal., Mary Wilhoit, Centralia, Kas., John Ratekin, Eckert, Col., Ida Coupe, James, Will, Minnie and Dan Ratekin, of Rulo. Also one brother, Johnson Ratekin, of Falls City, and one sister, Mary Sanguinette, of Preston.
Mr. Ratekin was a christian man, having been converted at the age of nineteen and becoming a member of the Baptist church. As there was no church at Rulo of that denomination he united with the Methodist church, but at the time of his death he was a member of the Holiness church. Funeral services were held at Rulo last Wednesday.


[Note: He was buried in Rulo city Cemetery, Rulo, Richardson County, Nebraska. In the History of Richardson
County, Nebraska, it states William L. Ratekin..."During the early part of the Civil War he served as a driver of a commissary wagon in the Eastern Division and in 1864 came west and proceeded by a steamer to Rulo, where he landed and where he made his permanent home,..." It also states that his daughter Minnie married George Goodale.]


Falls City Tribune (Nebraska)
November 23, 1906
Transcribed by Henny Evans

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Obituary

Ratekin, William Lawrence

W.L. Ratekin was born February 16, 1835 in Gallia county, Ohio, and died November 14, 1906 of heart disease aged 71 years, 9 months and 14 days. He was married to Mary Anne Vaughn in February, 1858 by Rev. M.D. Vaughn. They came to Rulo in 1864 where they settled on a farm one and a half miles from Rulo and here they lived until about three years ago, when they moved to Rulo.
To this union were born thirteen children, three of whom were born in Ohio, and the rest on the old home place. The deceased leaves a wife and nine children. They are Marion Ratekin, Hiawatha, Kas., Sarah Fenderburgh, Butte Valley, Cal., Mary Wilhoit, Centralia, Kas., John Ratekin, Eckert, Col., Ida Coupe, James, Will, Minnie and Dan Ratekin, of Rulo. Also one brother, Johnson Ratekin, of Falls City, and one sister, Mary Sanguinette, of Preston.
Mr. Ratekin was a christian man, having been converted at the age of nineteen and becoming a member of the Baptist church. As there was no church at Rulo of that denomination he united with the Methodist church, but at the time of his death he was a member of the Holiness church. Funeral services were held at Rulo last Wednesday.


[Note: He was buried in Rulo city Cemetery, Rulo, Richardson County, Nebraska. In the History of Richardson
County, Nebraska, it states William L. Ratekin..."During the early part of the Civil War he served as a driver of a commissary wagon in the Eastern Division and in 1864 came west and proceeded by a steamer to Rulo, where he landed and where he made his permanent home,..." It also states that his daughter Minnie married George Goodale.]


Falls City Tribune (Nebraska)
November 23, 1906
Transcribed by Henny Evans

Find A Grave contributor mkb

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