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George W. Prentice of NY, OK and KS
By Linus Joseph Dewald Jr., Editor
Summer 2000 and Revised: 1 May 2009

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Update of 1 May 2009: This article has now been replaced by our Summer 2009 article entitled John and Bridget Prentice of Ireland and New York .

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1. George W. Prentice, b. Apr 1868 in NY, appears in the 1900 St. John, Stafford Co., KS census and in the 1910, 1920 and 1930 Alfalfa Co., OK census.

He m. Hulda M., b. Dec 1875 in IN. Children (per census):

1. Mary E. Prentice, b. Feb 1895, KS.
2. Pearl L. Prentice, b. Apr 1897, KS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [2]
3. Lowell Prentice, b. Oct 1899, KS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [3]
4. Loren/Oren C. Prentice, b. 12 Oct 1899, KS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .[4]
5. (perhaps) Jesse Prentice, b. c. 1904, OK. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .[5]

George may, or may not, be a brother to William A Prentiss who also appears in the 1900 Stafford, Stafford Co., census and who was b. Sep 1873 in OH and is about 5 years younger than George.

2. Pearl L. Prentice, b. Apr 1897, KS, and d. Jun 1979, Helena, Alfalfa Co., OK.

She m. Thomas Jefferson Williams on 2 Mar 1921 in Jet, OK. He was b. 31 Oct 1898 in Manchester, Grant Co., OK. and d. Dec 1983, Helena, Alfalfa County, OK. Children:

1. Warren Thomas Williams. He m. Jewel Christina Dupus, dau. of Leonard and Dollie Dupus. He may, or may not, be the Warren Williams shown in the SSDI as b. 5 Dec 1921, obtained his SS# in OK, and d. May 1976 at an unspecified location.
2. Edwin Beryl Williams, b. c. 1924. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [6]

3. Lowell Prentice, 12 b. Oct 1899, KS. (twin). He d. 17 Aug 1988 in Aline, Alfalfa Co., OK (per SSDI). He appears in the 1930 census living next door to his parents in Aline, Alfalfa Co., OK, with his wife and family.

He m. Lucy, b. c. 1901, and children:

1. Olin Prentice, b. c. 1924
2. Arlene Prentice, b. c. 1926

4. Loren/Oren Chester Prentice, b. 12 Oct 1899, KS. (twin). Died May 1984, Waynoka, Woods Co., OK (per SSDI). He appears in the 1930 census in Elberta, Woods Co., OK, with his wife and family.

He m. Ida Mae Whiteneck who he m. 16 Mar 1921 in Aline, OK. She was b. 2 Oct 1902, Aline, OK. An Ancestor Chart for her can be found at Ancestry.com . Children (per 1930 census and Ancestry.com)):

1. Richard Burton Prentice, b. c. 1924, OK. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [7]

2. Carol Mae Prentice, b. c.1927, OK. She m. Harlow Leland Steffen. Children:
   1. (dau.) Steffen. She m. Mr. Hendricison and had 3 dau. and a son.
   2. (son) Steffen. He m. Miss Beck and had 3 daughters.
   3. (son) Steffen. He m. Miss Bell.
   4. (son) Steffen. He m. Miss Krick.

5. (perhaps) Jesse Prentice, b. c. 1905, OK. He is listed separately in the 1910 Alfalfa Co., OK census. He may, or may not, be the Jess L. Prentice who appears in the 1930 census in Omaha, Douglas Co., NE as b. c. 1904 in OK and with his wife, Mary, b. c. 1895, NE, and son:

1. Robert F. Prentice, b. c. 1928-29, NE.

6. Edwin Beryl Williams, b. 3 Jan 1924, Aline, OK, and d. 2 Oct 1994. He m. Helen Pauline Roller on 3 Dec 1944, Carmen, OK. She d. 11 Apr 1984. She was the dau. of James and Helen Roller. His obituary reads as follows:

Edwin (Ed) Beryl Williams, age 70. pf Enid, died Sunday, October 2, 1994. Rose Croix services will be held at 2:00 pm Wednesday in the Anderson-King Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will follow in the Goodhope Cometery at Helena with Masonic Graveside Rites.

Ed was born June 3, 1924 at Aline, Oklahoma to Thomas J. and Pearl Prentice Williams and graduated from Carmen High School in 1942. He was raised in the Carmen and Helena communities. Ed and Helen Pauline Roller wer married in Carmen on December 3, 1944 and she preceded him in death April 11, 1984. He owned and operated a service station in Guymon before entering the U.S. Army in 1943. He served with the 135th Evacuation Hospital in the Battle of the Bulge in Germany and was there on VE Day and was honorably discharged at Camp Chaffee, Arkansas in April, 1946. He attended Enid Business College, entered the funeral business in 1947 and graduated from Dallas Institute of Mortuary Science in 1949. He worked for funeral homes in Tulsa, Cushing, Chickasha, Helena, and Enid retiring in 1993. He also farmed.

7. Richard Burton Prentice, b. c. 1924, OK. Not in 2004 SSDI.

He m. 1st Arlene Mae Rolfs. Her obituary published 10 Apr 2009 in the Salina Journal reads as follows:

Arlene Rolfs Prentice

LORRAINE -- Arlene Rolfs Prentice, 82, died April 2, 2009. She was born Aug. 10, 1926, in Lorraine to Walter and Lydia Schroeder Rolfs. She was preceded in death by her sister, LaVerne Trebilcock; and brother, Melvin Rolfs. Survivors include her son, Gart Prentice, of Saratoga, Calif.; daughter, Sue (Geoffrey) Russell, of Papua, New Guinea; two grandchildren; brothers, Merle Rolfs, of Fort Collins, Colo., and Ronald Rolfs, of Albuquerque, N.M.; and sisters, Marilyn Nickel and Lois Slabach, both of Clearwater.

Visitation will be from 8:30 a.m. until time of service Tuesday, April 14, at First Baptist Church, Lorraine, followed by service at 10:30 a.m. Memorials may be made to Wycliffe Bible Translators or the church, in care of Birzer Funeral Home, Lyons.

Children of Richard and Arlene:

1. Sue Elizabeth Prentice. She m. Geoffrey Russell and in 2009 lived Papua, New Guinea
2. Gart Richard Prentice. In 2009 lived in Saratoga, CA.

Richard m. 2nd Laurel Ann Minor and had:

1. Burton Kast Prentice. He m. Miss Baim

Richard m. 3rd Annalynne <>

In reviewing the 1870 NY census, there appears to be 2 sons born in that period, but neither fit:

1. George, son of George Prentice (b. c. 1847, NY) and his wife, Elsie, of Ossian, Livingston Co., NY, is #534 in our John3 eBook, but he m. in PA and in 1920 was living in PA.
2. And, he is probably not the son of Horace Prentice (b. c. 1843) and his wife, Catherine, of Volney, Oswego Co., NY, who our records show m. Agnes in NY.

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