PIONEER DIES - -

George Albra Prough Sr., son of Hannah and Andrew Prough, was born October 01, 1873, in Kane, Jersey County, Illinois, and passed away at his home in Wellston, Oklahoma, on August 19, 1952, at the age of 78 after several months illness of a heart ailment.

On March 7, 1896, he was married to Miss Grace Cope. To this union were born four children, one boy died in infancy.

He came to Wellston, Oklahoma in November, 1901, with his family and parents and settled on a farm they purchased near Fallis, Oklahoma north of Wellston in Section 27 in the Tohee Township where he lived until 1922 when he moved to Wellston. He engaged in farming and later served as a peace officer for several years.

At the age of 14 he professed faith in Christ and was baptized in the Bethel Baptist Church near Kane, Illinois. He renewed that faith and united with the Wellston Baptist Church on April 22, 1952.

He leaves besides his wife, Grace; one son, George A. Jr. Wellston, Oklahoma; two daughters, Leola, Stillwater; Oklahoma and Ethel, Wellston, Oklahoma; two brothers, Harry, Kane, Illinois; and Robert Augustus, Bristow, Oklahoma; eighteen grandchildren and thirty great-grandchildren, other relatives and many friends.

Services were conducted Friday afternoon, August 22, 1952, from the Baptist Church in Wellston with Rev. C. L. Mills conducting the last rites assisted by Rev. Oren Newby.

Mills Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.

Interment was made at the Wellston Cemetery. Bearers were Roy Swinford, Orbun Bradshaw, Elmer O’Keefe, Bob Bailey, P. Z. Baber and Walter Ingram.