FARMER RATLIFF
1902-1963
  
Farmer Ratliff, 61, resident of Barnetts Creek, died in a local
hospital at 12:30 a.m. Thursday, May 23 1963, of a stroke after an
illness of three months.
  
The son of John E. and Dollie Trimble Ratliff.
  
He was born April 18 1902, at Barnett's Creek and had been a
lifelong resident of that community where he was a farmer and a
miner. He was a member of the Freewill Baptist Church.
  
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Martha Spradlin Ratliff; six sons,
John Ratliff, Johnstown, Ohio; Marlion Ratliff, Vandalia, Ohio;
Jack ratliff, Cherokee, Olka.; Henry, William and Donald Ratliff,
Columbus, Ohio; three daughters, Mrs.Anna Reed, Franklin, Ohio;
Mrs. Peggy Blair, Barnett's Creek; Mrs. Mary Ramey, Sunbury, Ohio;
two brothers, Freddie Ratliff, Staffordsville; Gordon Ratliff,
Jackson, Michigan; three sisters, Mrs. Glada Fraley, King's
Addition; Mrs. Sadie Melvin, Columbus, Ohio; Mrs. Clara Preston,
Barnett's Creek;
  
Also surviving are twenty four grandchildren.
  
Funeral services were conducted at 11:00 p.m. Saturday at the
Fairview Freewill Baptist Church with Leo Colvin and Scott Castle
as officiating ministers.
  
Burial was in Highland Memorial Park Cemetery.

NOTE: Published Obit error in location of burial.