Family of Edgar W. TERHUNE and Nellie PRATT

Husband:	Edgar W. TERHUNE (1859-1897)
Wife:	Nellie PRATT (1859-1888)

Husband: Edgar W. TERHUNE

Name:	Edgar W. TERHUNE 1
Sex:	Male
Father:	John G. TERHUNE (1833-1907)
Mother:	Catherine CARMAN (1836-1889)
Birth	1859	new Brunswick, New Jesrsey 75yrs. 1
Death	6 Nov 1897 (age 37-38)	Evanstone, Cook Co. Ill 1

Additional Information

Death

Cause: Appendists

Wife: Nellie PRATT

Name:	Nellie PRATT 1
Sex:	Female
Father:	-
Mother:	-
Birth	1859	Peoria, Cook Co. Ill 1
Death	6 Nov 1888 (age 28-29)	Chicago Cook Co. Ill 1

Note on Husband: Edgar W. TERHUNE - shared note

[William Carman.FTW]

 

Edgar was a lawyer in Chicago in 1880 and also Evanston Ill. His first father-in-Law was also an Attorney. When he married he lived on 13 VanBuren St. in Chicago. He married the 2nd time and most likely moved and married and livied in Evanston Ill.

He was buried in Oakwood Cemetery along side of his parents.

Note on Wife: Nellie PRATT - shared note

[William Carman.FTW]

 

News paper clipping date and newspaper unknown. Found in Family Bible.(Carman)

THE LATE MRS. TERHUNE

Mrs. Nellie Pratt Terhunes died last Thrus, at her late residence #13 E. VanBuren St. age 29 years. Mrs. Terhune was wife of Edgar Terhune, A well known lawyer of this city and dau of Lorin Grant Pratt, the Brilliant Att. who died in this city in 1881.

She leaves a husband, a son of temder age, a mother and sister who are deeply stricken with he sudden and untimely demise. Born in Peoria buried in Peoria, beside her father.

 

Died in Chicago

 

The following from the chicago Inter Ocean in regard to the death of Mrs. Terhune, who a Nellie Pratt was born and spent her girlhood in Peoria, will be interent.

Died, Tuesday, November 6, at her reidence, No 16 East Van Buren street, Mrs. Nellie Pratt Terhune age 29. Mrs Terhune was the wife of Edgar Terhune a well-known Lawyer of this city, and daughter of the daughter of the late Lorin Grant Pratt, the brilliant, active and successful attorney, who died in this city in September of 1881. Mrs Terhune inherited to a large extent, the quickness of thought and brightness of expression which charaterized ( next line is unreadable) she leaves a husband and son of most tender age, a mother and sister who are deeply stricken with her sudden and untimley demise, Her work is done and in all her relations of wife, mother, daughter and sister her part was well performed.

True friends will Friday evening, escort her remains to Peoria, her native city where on Saturday morning in the family burial lot, they will kindly, lovingly, and tenderly lay her to rest beside her father whom she so much admired

Sources

1	"William Carman.FTW". Text From Source: Date of Import: Aug 19, 2000