Individual Details

Death

Mrs. F. W. Prouty passed away at 6:45 Friday morning, at her home in Ferndale, Wash. Death came as a general breaking down of age hastened by an accident in which her clothing caught on fire, severely burning her body some three weeks before her death. Mrs. Prouty, whose maiden name was Eleanor B. Prosser, was born in Sharon, Pa., May 6th, 1851, and married Fred William Prouty at Ottumwa, Ia., Sept. 24th, 1872. Later they made their home for 21 years in Woodbury County, Iowa. They came to Bellingham in the spring of 1900, residing there until November of last year, when the family moved to Ferndale. She was the mother of twelve children. The father and nine children - J. Albert, Frank W., Mrs. John F. Joseph, Arthur, Walter I., Emery S., Fred W., Mrs. O. C. Purnell, and Blanche E. - surviving the mother. All except Mrs. Joseph and Frank were present during the last few hours. Mrs. Prouty was a member of Broadway United Presbyterian Church and of Bellingham Relief Corps.
Rev. J. W. Moles officiated at the service which was held at the Ferndale home Sunday 12 M., after which the body was taken to Bellingham for interment in Bay View Cemetery under the auspices of the Bellingham Relief Corps. Floral offerings were profuse and beautiful indeed. The attendance at the last rites was large and the ceremony very impressive. Deceased had many warm friends here and elsewhere, for hers was a life of duty filled with the sunshine of contentment - with a smile and a kind word for all. No better evidence of the great moral worth of deceased that the fact that the fondest fruition of her hopes had been realized in the rearing to perfect man and womanhood of such a large and useful family, who, with the husband and father, have the sympathy of all.
(From The Ferndale Record, April 7, 1911)

Inscription at the top of the stone is WE SHALL MEET AGAIN