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From: "Lisa Perry" <>
Subject: [MOMONROE] NBC: Ragsdale
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 18:56:49 -0400


Article from unknown source with handwritten date of 1964. Extracted
from the newspaper article collection started in 1879 by Mrs. Nannie
Brown of Madison, Missouri.



Ernest Ragsdale



"Ernest O. Ragsdale, 88, died at his home around 12:15 a.m. Sunday,
November 1, after suffering a stroke. He had been in ill health for the
past several months. A son of the late William James and Elizabeth
Moore Ragsdale, he was born January 18, 1876, on a farm near Madison.
He moved with his parents to Holliday in 1887 and became a member of the
Christian Church. He has been active in church work for 50 years,
serving as a deacon and elder in the Madison Church. He was also active
in civic affairs, having served as alderman, Mayor and city collector of
Madison. Mr. Ragsdale was employed by the MKT Railroad June 1, 1896 and
served 42 years with the MK&T and Wabash railroads. He was married in
1898 at Madison to the former Annie M. Harper, who survives.

Other survivors are two daughters, Mrs. Guy Threlkeld and Mrs. Ralph
Doyle, Madison; one brother, James, New Franklin; two grandsons, Donald
Doyle, Columbus, Ohio, and Robert Threlkeld, Chicago, Ill.; four great
grand children, Dana and Gena Doyle, and Mary and Robert Threlkeld. The
body was a t the home of Mrs. Threlkeld until funeral services were held
Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the First Christian Church in Madison
with Rev. C.W. Cornn officiating. Burial was in the Mausoleum at
Madison.

Those from out of town attending were: Mr. and Mrs. I.D. Ragsdale, New
Franklin; Betty Ragsdale Shrader, Holliday; Dysart Ragsdale, Paris; Mrs.
T.C. Garrison, Centralia; Mrs. Walter McCann, Paris; Mrs. Ollie Todd,
Paris; Mrs. Beulah Semon, Paris; Mr. and Mrs. Ray Batsell, Paris;
Herbert Ragsdale, Holliday; Mr. M.M. Butts, Moberly; Mr. Glenn Graham,
Cairo; Mr. and Mrs. Henry Howell, Holliday; Mrs. Archie Jones, New
Franklin; Mr. Clyde A. Fawks, Moberly; Mr. and Mrs. T.B. Allen, Moberly;
Elsie Perkins, Decatur, Ill.; Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Turner, Huntsville;
Mr. and Mrs. A.H. Kerr, Centralia; Mrs. Dwight Guthrie, Paris."





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