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John Westley Pringle
24 Nov 1863 – 26 May 1937
| Birth | 24 Nov 1863 |
| Death | 26 May 1937 |
| Cemetery | Mustang Prairie Cemetery Blue Ridge , Falls County , Texas , USA |
| Added by | couchpotato on 01 Nov 2008 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/31049979 |
Bio
John Wesley Pringle was the twenty-third child of John A. Pringle, but the eleventh child of John and second wife Mary Susan Overstreet Pringle. John Wesley was born near Marion or Meridan, Lauderdale Co. MS during the Civil War. It is thought that John Wesley was named for an older brother who died just weeks before the Union Federal Prison at Memphis, TN. John A. & Susan Pringle with at least 13 children migrated from MS to Texas in about 1867, when entering East Texas the family contracted some illness. John & wife Susan and several children died and were buried in the wilderness, exact place unknown. The surviving 8-9 children made their way to Limestone Co. TX, where family members and friends took the orphaned children in and raised each until they married and began their own families. Known surviving children in Texas were: Matthew James, Samuel Sylvester 'Ceb', William Alexander 'Bud', George Kennady, Sarah Catherine 'Katy', Mary Alice, John Wesley & Lela Pringle. John Wesley was raised by W.T. 'Tommy' Yates in Falls Co. TX. John's son Eugene Britton Pringle told this family history at his home in Kosse in 1972, while building a pole barn at age 74. John Wesley and Fannie had ten children, seven sons & three daughters, two of which died as infants. John Wesley Pringle lived nearly 70 years of his life in Falls & Limestone Cos., with 38 years lived in Kosse, TX.
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- John A. Pringle Jr 1826–1834
- William Henry Pringle 1830–1867
- Mary Ann Frances Pringle Dixon 1836–1905
- Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Pringle 1837–1917
- John Westley Pringle 1839–1863
- Samuel Sylvester "Ceburn" Pringle 1851–1936
- Mathew J. Pringle 1852–1944
- William Alexander "W.A." Pringle 1853–1931
- Christopher Pringle 1854–1867
- George Kennedy Pringle 1858–1952
- Sarah Katherine "Katy" Pringle Buttrill 1858–1936
- Elvira Pringle 1859–1867
- Mary Alice Pringle Everheart 1862–1928
- Lela "Lila" Pringle 1867–?
Children
- Simeon Baswell "Sim" Pringle 1886–1918 FaG
- Charles Hiram "Charlie" Pringle 1887–1962 FaG
- William Henry Pringle 1889–1938 FaG
- Lela Mae Pringle Harper 1903–1980 FaG
- Clyde Thomas Pringle 1905–1966 FaG
- Lena Ross Pringle Wedgeworth 1908–1933 FaG
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