Muhlenberg County Kentucky

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William Walker Prine & Sarah E. Lawson

William Walker Prine
Occupation: Methodist Minister & Mechanic
Born: 12 April 1846, Randolph Co., IL
Married: 1) Emmeline E. Owen, 6 Feb 1868, Randolph Co., Illinois.
Married: 2) Sarah E. Lawson, 17 Oct 1877, Randolph Co., Illinois.
Married: 3) George Alice Brownfield, Apr 1888.
Died: 13 March 1918 on IC Train in Indiana
Buried: Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Jefferson Co., KY
Father: James Prine
Mother: Sarah Elizabeth Walker

William Walker Prine was a Union soldier, 30th Illinois Regiment Infantry, Co. G, Private to Corporal. Veterans Gravesite, Cave Hill National Cemetery, 701 Baxter Ave., Louisville, KY, Section E, Site 4774.

Muhlenberg County, Kentucky - 1799-1996 History and Families, p. 62
“United Methodist Church Central City [states] on December 20, 1889, James and Sarah Davenport made deed to the Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, a lot 66 x 160 ft. at the corner of South Second and Broad Street for a church building. About 1891 when the Rev. R.Y. Thomas Sr. was pastor, a frame church was erected on this lot. The pastors serving the church following Rev. Thomas were Revs. L.C. Coward, J.C. Brandon, R.D. Bennett, B.A. Cundiff, Rev. Langhorn and W.W. Prine.”

Marriage 1: Family Group Record of William Walker Prine & Emmeline E. Owen.

Marriage 2: Sarah E. Lawson
Married: 17 October 1877, Randolph Co., IL
Died: about 1887

Marriage 3: Family Group Record of William Walker Prine & George Alice Brownfield.

Children of William W. Prine & Sarah E. Lawson:

  1. Amzi Eleazer Prine, born 15 April 1879; died 24 Aug 1958
    Married Esther Wood, daughter of James Wood; born 04 June 1881; died 16 April 1976; buried Maplelawn Park Cemetery, Paducah, McCracken Co., KY
  2. Ruth M. Prine, born February 1882 in IN; died 1910; buried Nickell Cemetery, Lyon Co., KY; married about 1902, James Haggard Nickell Jr.
  3. Bertha Prine, died young.

Contributed by Dorann O'Neal Lam

Updated August 5, 2017