Muhlenberg County Kentucky

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William Walker Prine & Emmeline E. Owen

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: Emmeline E. Owen
Married: 06 February 1868, Randolph Co., IL
Died: 1875

Marriage 2: Family Group Record of William Walker Prine & Sarah E. Lawson.

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

Children of William W. Prine & Emmeline E. Owen:

  1. Mary C. Prine, born March 1869, IL; died after 1930 probably in CA
    Married Stephen Andrew Beauchamp about 1887. He was from Larue Co., KY; born 24 February 1863 and died 12 December 1914 in Larue Co., KY; buried South Fork Church Cemetery.

    Mary lived in California in 1920 and 1930 censuses and is not buried with husband so she probably died and was buried in California.

  2. Unknown Prine, dead by 1918
  3. Abigail Elizabeth Prine, born about 1872; died 08 July 1961, Jefferson Co., KY
    Married Thomas B. Terhune, 24 May 1892, Cook Co., IL. Thomas was a Presbyterian Minister. He was born about 1870 and died 30 October 1962, Jefferson Co., KY.

Contributed by Dorann O'Neal Lam

Updated August 5, 2017