Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-03-28
HENRY PRADT.

On the morning of Thursday, March
BIRD, Henry Pradt was found dead at
the WauSau Country club house by +.
ID. Timlin and p. Y. O. Van Vechten.
He was lying on a cot fully dressed in
peaceful and natural position and,
as the subsequent inquiry developed,
had lain down in a fainting spell
caused by heart failure which proved
fatal. On Tuesday morning he was
seen by Mr., Van Vechten taking the
$50 car for the club house ana the
conductor of this car noticed that lie
seemed ill. At half past four that
afternoon Mr.. Van Vechten visited
the club house and then saw Mr..
Pradt lying Just as he was afterwards
found on Thursday and called to him,
but receiving no answer concluded
that he was sleeping and that he
would not disturb him. He was prob
ably, however, either unconscious or
dead at the time.
Mr.. Pradt had been in charge of the
club house during the winter and had
been accustomed TO go up each morn
ing to the house of his brother Louis
to look after his furnace and later in
the forenoon to the house of Mr.. Tim
iii w lOiiQCl dSSlSIdlIOC ll1os L 1hAAAh
in the care of her invalid daughter.
He went as usual on Monday morning
to his brothers house but announced
that he would not come again as his
services would not be needed longer
and that he was going to look after
some matters at the farm. Accord
ingly his brother felt no uneasiness at
not seeing him the following mornings,
sapeffcs rleRsl h. RI hn &
keeping up his visits at Mr.. Timlin'S
house or else he would have had an
inquiry from there respecting him.
Mr.. Timlin, however, took no special
note of his absence until Thursday
morning when he felt strong pre-
monition that something was wrong
and went down to the club house with
Mr. Van Vechten to investigate.
The body of Mr. Pradt was removed
TO his brothers house and the funeral
services were held on Saturday morn
ing at st. Johns Episcopal church, OF
which he was a member, by Rev. Mr..
Link of NaShotah, who officiated in
the absence of the rector. The mem
bers of Cutler Post @. A. r. escorted
the remains of their dead comrade
from the house to the church, the
casket draped with the flag so dear to
him and them and covered with flow
ers sent by loving friends. To be thus
honored and thus remembered means.
much and was very comforting to,
those who incurred his death. He
was buried by the side OF his mother,
Louis A. Pradt Jr. came from
Racine college and accompanied his
father and his brother Alan at the
services-Mrs Pradt being absent at
Washington. 8
Henry Wales Pradt was born in
Coudersport, Pa, March IS, 1876 In
1856 his parents moved to Sheboygan
county, Wis, their family consisting
of Henry, Louis and Walter. At the
age of eighteen in 1864, he enlisted
in the 49th Regiment of Wis. Vol.
Inf. and served until the close of the
war. He then worked on his fathers
farm until 1873, when the family
moved to the western part of Mara
thon county, then wilderness, where
the father and his sons each entered
homestead. In 1885 he came to
Wausau with his parents and engaged
in the work of surveying and timber
cruising. During the past few years
he conducted small farm two miles
east of the city which he sold in 1908
and invested jointly with his brother
Walter in a farm near Woodsboro,
Texas, few miles from the gulf coast.
In 1909 he returned to Wausau and
since then engaged in light work
making his home part OF the time
with his brother Louis. He was un-
married but had a wealth of affection
for his nephews and nieceS with much
to spare for the children of his friends.
His nature was transparency simple
and sincere and he was the embodi-
ment of kindness and unSelfiShneSS.
Thus he made genuine friends who
mourn him.
He was a constant reader of good
and was well informed on
many subjects with wholesome ideas
of his own. He was an uncOmpromis-
ing republican, yet he and Hi. Dun
field, who was an equally vehement
democrat, were close friends and
worked and hunted and fished together
for years with mutual respect and
affection and numerous joint de-
bates. 1t is a coincidence that the
of the death of each,
less than year apart, were very much
alike.