| Home Surname List Name Index Sources | Fifth Generation353. Effie L Prosise162,163,319 was born on 2 April 1880 in Clinton, Anderson County, Tennessee. She appeared in the census in 1880 in Anderson County, Tennessee. Effie 1/12 dau f s w TN TN TN She appeared in the census in 1900 in Anderson County, Tennessee. Effie 20 dau f s w Apr 1880 TN VA TN Effie appeared in the census in 1910 in Anderson County, Tennessee. Dist. 6, Anderson County, Tennessee, 18 Apr 1910; p.71a, dwelling number 8, family number 8; Prosise Effie 28 head f s w TN VA TN; Jasper D. 25 bro m s w machinist, coal mine TN VA TN; Samuel M. 23 bro m s w TN VA TN She appeared in the census in 1920 in Henry County, Missouri. Effie L. 35 wife f m w TN VA VA She appeared in the census in 1930 in Henry County, Missouri. Effie 48 wife f m@35 w operator, telephone switchboard TN TN TN Effie died on 5 January 1961 in Nevada, Vernon County, Missouri. Missouri Division of Health - Standard Certificate of Death 1.a County: Verson Effie L Prosise and Robert Alexander Prosise were married on 23 August 1917. It has been said she married her first cousin Robert Alexander Prosise ( no place of marriage). She and Robert A. had no children. No record of the marriage has been found despite diligent searching. Oral family history suggests that they might have married in Kansas where it was legal for first cousins to marry. Robert's daughters are said to have disliked Effie. Phyllis Peterson's interviews with Robert's grandchildren persuade her that the couple never married. The marriage date of 23 Aug 1917 cannot be substantiated. The ancestry.com Family Data Collection says that she was married in 1912. This also cannot be substantiated. (RGB) Robert Alexander Prosise7,162,163 was born on 5 December 1856 in Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee. He appeared in the census in 1910 in Henry County, Missouri. He appeared in the census in 1920 in Henry County, Missouri. Osage Twp, Brownington, Henry County, Missouri, 4 Feb 1920; p.188a, dwelling number 2, family number 2; Prosise Robert A. 63 head m m w telephone exchange, own office VA VA VA; Effie L. 35 wife f m w TN VA VA Robert appeared in the census in 1930 in Henry County, Missouri. Osage Twp, Brownington, Henry County, Missouri, 8 Apr 1930; p.73a, dwelling number 35, family number 35; Prosise Robert A. 73 head m m@26 w owns home ($700) TN VA TN; Effie 48 wife f m@35 w operator, telephone switchboard TN TN TN He died on 9 January 1936 in Brownington, Henry County, Missouri. PROSISE, Robert Alexander - 1856 - 1936 Clinton MO, Jan 1936 - R. A. Prosise, beloved and honored throughout Henry county and one of Brownington's most prominent citizens, died at 5 a.m., Thursday, January 9, at the home where he had lived the past 28 years. He had been in declining health the past three years, his trouble being diabetes, and the last six months he was dangerously ill and suffered intense pain. Robert Alexander Prosise was born December 5, 1856, on the banks of the beautiful Clinch River at Clinton, Tenn. He grew to splendid manhood here and January 7, 1885, was united in marriage to Miss Emma C. White of Knoxville. The day of his marriage, he and his bride left Tennessee for Missouri, making their home first on a farm near Coal in Henry County. Later they moved to Mt. Zion and it was here that his wife died 35 years ago. Their only son, Thomas Dudley, died the same year as his mother and both were buried in Mt. Zion cemetery. later the bodies were removed to beautiful Maplewood Cemetery, south of! Brownington. By this first wife, Mr. Prosise also had four daughters who survive: Mrs. Ella Bonwell, Detroit, Mich; Mrs. Wray Shadwell, Clinton; Mrs. Perce Bolinger, Coal; Mrs. Russell McElwee, Kansas City. Many years after the death of his wife, he returned to his childhood home for a visit and there met Miss Effie Hill of Knoxville. About a year later, he returned to Tennessee and August 23, 1917, he and Miss Hill were married. Twenty-eight years ago Mr. Prosise went to Brownington where he built the Brownington telephone exchange, which he owned and operated since, with the happy and untiring assistance of his wife since their marriage. The Brownington exchange operates in the town and has a toll line to Mt. Zion. It is also connected with the Bell and United Telephone systems for long distance calls. The exchange was noted for its outstanding efficiency as all service was prompt and willing. In all this work, Mrs. Prosise was closely associated with her husband, and she shouldered her full share of the responsibility on keeping the lines always in good shape and ready for use. In his earlier maturity, Mr. Prosise attended the Presbyterian Church, but in later years he went to the Christian Church as his wife joined it when she came to Brownington. He supported the church and its work in many ways. The great outdoors held a lifelong fascination for Mr. Prosise, and he was never more contented than when he was tramping the countryside with a dog and his gun or with a rod and line. He had a cabin on the Osage where he made frequent trips to hunt and fish and he was one of the most active and enthusiastic members of the Henry County Fox hunters Association. Mr. Prosise was interested in anything that meant the progress of his community. He was especially active in getting good roads to Brownington and one of his last acts along this line was to use his influence in getting the farm-to-market road which has just been completed from Brownington ! to highway 13, south of Deepwater. A jovial, friendly man, Mr. Prosise was known over the entire county and in many communities outside the county, and nearly everyone he met was added to his list of friends. Surviving Mr. Prosise besides his wife, who was ever a devoted and faithful companion, are his four daughters, also seven grandchildren, Chester and Glenn Smith of the U.S. Navy at San Diego, Calif; Franklin and Kathryn Shadwell, Clinton; Judson McElwee, Kansas City; Juanita Bonwell, Detroit; P. J. Bolinger, Coal; a great-granddaughter, Marjorie Ann Smith, San Diego; three brothers, Ed Prosise, El Paso, Texas; Tom Prosise, Ash Grove, MO.; and Lawrence Prosise, New Mexico; and three sisters, Mrs. Mattie Cardwell, Ash Grove; Mrs. Emma Townsend, Vinita, Okla.; and Victoria of Utah. Funeral services were held Friday at 3 p.m. at the Christian Church in Brownington. C. E. Hosack of Brownington read the scripture and offered the prayer and Haysler Allen Poague, close friend o! f Mr. Prosise, paid a wonderful tribute to the deceased. Burial was in Ma plewood Cemetery. Active pallbearers were J. W. Dunning, John Moore Jr., Herschel Renfro, Fred Tye, Ned Webb, Jim Harris, Ralph Dodson, Jim Smith. Honorary pallbearers were S. W. Whitaker, Lester Reasoner, Jesse Parscale, Dr. C. D. Taylor, Chas. and E. E. Leach, Deepwater. Many friends from Henry county and other nearby places attended the funeral and those from a distance were his brother Tom Prosise and son Clifford, and Earl Cardwell, Ash Grove; and Mr. and Mrs. Ray Conrad and daughter Mildred, Kansas City. He was buried on 10 January 1936 in Englewood Cemetery, Clinton, Henry County, Missouri. |