EDGAR ALLEN CRACE
1942-1944
  
Edgar Allen was born at Oil Springs, Johnson County, Kentucky, on
March the seventeenth, Nineteen Hundred and Forty-Two.  He was the
little son of Carl and Mary Ward Crace.  All his short life he had
enjoyed good health and his parents, together with all his
neighbors and friends were looking forward to that day when he
would come to take his place in the world as a great man.
  
But as haunts every step of man from the cradle to the grave on or
about December the 20th. Edgar Allen was found to be suffering
with measles and this soon developed into pneumonia.  He was
rushed to Paintsville where the most skilled medical aid was
called, but in spite of all that medical skill and loving hands
could do, on the evening of December the thirtieth while his
father and mother and friends surrounded his bed, he slipped away
and returned to the great giver of all good and perfect gifts.
    
The body was prepared for burial and on the next day, returned to
the home at Oil Springs.  On the following Saturday morning the
services were held with the Methodist Church at Oil Springs with
the Rev. (can't read first name) Allen officiating.
  
Immediately after the services the body was laid to rest in the
Litteral cemetery near by, there beside all his people who had
gone on before.
  
Baptist Tidings Volume 5 NO. 7,
Paintsville, KY.
Feb. 1944.

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