SILAS RATLIFF
1875-1952
    
Well-Known Man Dies
After Long Illness
   
Funeral services were held at 2:00 p.m., Saturday, December 29,
for Silas (Cap) Ratliff, 76, who died at 9:15 a.m.,
Wednesday, December 26, 1952 at his home here after an illness
of five years.
    
A son of the late James and Rebecca Blanton Ratliff, he was
born June 10, 1875, in Johnson County, where he had resided all
his life.  A retired teamster, he was a member of the Freewill
Baptist Church.
    
He was preceded in death by his wife on August 31, 1939.
    
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Malta Whited, and a son,
Addie Ratliff, both of this city.
   
Also surviving are two half-brothers, John Elliott Ratliff,
Barnetts Creek, and Paris Ratliff, Rushtown, Ohio.
    
Services were held in the Paintsville Freewill Baptist
Church by Revs. Claude Preston and C. W.
Krebs.
   
Burial was in the Huff Cemetery under the direction of the
Jones Funeral Home.
    
PAINTSVILLE HERALD
Thursday 
January 3, 1952

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