Walter Perry Ratheal and Emma Daisy Bradburry Ratheal
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Emma and Walter Ratheal
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Walter and Emma Ratheal

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RATHEAL, Walter Perry 8/28/1881 12/9/1978
Born: Newton Co.,Miss.
Father: W. Johnas [Jonas] RATHEAL b. 8 Jan 1843, SC; d. 24 Aug 1895, Olive Branch Baptist Cemetery, McClellan Co., TX
Mother; Sarah Ann Elizabeth WILLIAMS b. 10 Aug 1846, GA; d. 17 May 1937, Crosby Co, TX [Parents: Andrerson (Bill) and Mary Ann Smith WILLIAMS
Occupation: Farmer
Religion: Baptist
Source: Adams Funeral Home
Emma Daisy Bradbury was born on April 26, 1883, in Choctaw County, Mississippi, her father, Isaac Willington Bradbury, was 39 and her mother, Sarah Ann Robertson, was 41. She married Walter Perry Ratheal on August 19, 1900, in Texas at the age of 17, Walter was 19. They had six children in 15 years. She died on August 23, 1972, in Crosbyton, Texas, at the age of 89, and was buried there. Walter Perry Ratheal was born on July 28, 1881. He died in December 1978 in Lamesa, Texas, at the age of 97, and was buried in Crosbyton, Texas. Note: Soon after the marriage of Walter and Emma the family moved to Granite, OK. Making the move was Walter´s mother, Sarah (Sallie), his brother Tom Wesley, and sisters Luvenia (Lula), Annie and Edna. The move was to find work. Walter and Tom worked in construction building the OK Reformatory for Men in Granite. The family remained in granite until 1911 when they moved to Pansy, TX in 19ll and then to Crosbyton in 1950
Ratheal, Emma Daisy 4/26/1883 8/23/1972
Born: Choctaw Co.,Miss.
Father: Issac Willington BRADBURY; married on 11-Jan-1865 in Oktibbeha Co. MS
Mother: Sarah Ann ROBERSON; b. 1842 in MS
Religion: Baptist
1910 Pansy, 1950 Crosbyton. 72nd Wedding Anniversary,
Source: Adams Funeral Home
Transcribed by Bettye Odom
Additional info by Pam Reed
Emma was born in Choctaw County, MS, she was called Emmer. Emma´s mother died when she was very young. After moving to TX, Emma lived with her brother, William Henry Bradberry (also spelled Bradbury, Bradbery) and his family in McLellan Co., TX.

Email from Wynola Merle Ratheal Early:

Walter and his family moved to McLellan Co., TX from Newton, MS about 1893 or 1894. The whole Ratheal family moved at the same time, apparently leaving Mississippi in the dark of night, because Walter, who was about 12 at the time, had gotten into trouble while fighting with another boy... there was a knife involved. It wasn´t fatal , but Sally (Sarah Ann Elizabeth) didn´t want Walter to be there for whatever would happen next.

According to Walter, Jonas worked as a sharecropper for a McLellan Co. judge who offered him a chance to just start payments on the land with no down payment. Jonas didn´t choose to do this... we don´t know why. I just know that Walter was angry with him about it, even decades later. Walter was with his family when Jonas and Jeannie died in McLellan Co in 1895. (Both died of typhoid fever about the same time) He would always cry when he talked about them..........

Jonas told his family that he had left the Carolinas as a young man during the Civil War and that he had left behind his mother and 1 brother. Walter told my dad that Jonas had been "enrolled" after the war and that the "carpetbagger" who enrolled him had spelled his name as Ratheal and wrote it down for him on a piece of paper. We found spellings like Reichel and Reichell that we think are probably the most likely candidates for our "real" name. A German professor at Baylor told my brother, Otto, that Ratheal was too "French" to be a German ancestry name.

Email from Max Ratheal:

A family story on Emma, Walter´s wife and my grandmother. I was visiting one afternoon (7th grade) preparatory to spending a night with them. Grandpa was pretty hard of hearing (wore one of those old fashion hearing aids that had an earpiece that attached to a receiver that you put in your shirt pocket--you know--it looked like a transistor radio--and he and I were watching TV while grandma was fixin´ supper. Grandma was a little bitty lady but had a big voice and she came to the door and commenced to chew on grandpa pretty hard over some infraction he supposedly had done. I mean she chewed on him about 10 minutes. I thought, gee, grandpa your pretty cool to take that tongue lashing with out saying a word or getting mad. Grandma went back into the kitchen and I asked Grandpa how he liked the new game shows on TV. He looked over at me, reached down and turned his hearing aid back on and said, "What?" he had not heard a word she said. Perfect way to stay cool under fire!!
Submitted by Charles Caballero

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Walter Perry 12 yrs. old
Family at Wedding
At Home 1950
Walter and Emma´s 69th wedding anniversary
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Obituary

CROSBYTON (Special) Mrs. Walter (Emma) Ratheal, 89, of Crosbyton died about 5 a.m. Wednesday in Crosbyton Hospital.

Services will be at 2:30 p.m. Friday here in First Baptist Church with her grandson, the Rev. Melvin Ratheal of Tucson, Ariz., officiating, assisted by the Rev. L.E. Simms of Pansy and the Rev. Ernest Stewart, pastor of the local church. Burial will be in Crosbyton Cemetery directed by King Funeral Home.

A native of Choctaw County, Miss., Mrs. Ratheal moved to the Pansy community in 1910. She moved to Crosbyton in 1950. She and Mr. Ratheal celebrated their 72nd wedding anniversary Aug. 19.

Survivors, other than the husband (Walter P.) and grandson, included a daughter, Mrs. Ola Moore of Crosbyton; three sons, Clarence, Horace and Alvey, all of Crosbyton; 14 grandchildren, 35 great grandchildren and four great great grandchildren.

Grandsons will be pallbearers.

©Lubbock Avalanche Journal, August 23, 1972
Record provided by Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum
transcribed by Linda Fox Hughes
CROSBYTON (Special) - Services for W.P. Ratheal, 97, of Crosbyton will be at 2 p.m. today in the First Baptist Church of Crosbyton with the Rev. Bobby Rine, pastor, the Rev. Melvin Ratheal, of Sun City, Ariz., and the Rev. Preston Beeks, pastor of the Pansy Baptist Church, officiating.

Burial will be in Crosbyton Cemetery under the direction of Adams Funeral Home.

Ratheal died at 8:30 p.m. Saturday in Crosbyton Clinic Hospital following a sudden illness.

The Newton County, Miss., native moved to Pansy in September, 1911, and to Crosbyton in 1950. He married Emma Daisy Bradberry Aug. 19, 1900, in Olive Branch. She died Aug. 23, 1972.

He was a retired farmer and a member of the First Baptist Church of Crosbyton, a charter member of the Pansy Baptist Church and a former member of the Woodsmen of the World.

Survivors include three sons, Clarence, Horace and Alvie, all of Crosbyton; a daughter, Ola Moore of Crosbyton; a sister, Edna Wills of Medina, Calif.; 16 grandchildren; 35 great grandchildren; and 20 great great grandchildren.

Grandsons will be pallbearers.

©Lubbock Avalanche Journal, December 11, 1978
Record provided by Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum
transcribed by Linda Fox Hughes



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