This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Ig.2ADI/765 Message Board Post: The last of my Grandmothers siblings died Saturday from complications of lung cancer at St. Anthony's Hospital in Alton, Ill. Leo Delbert Pruitt, known as "Uncle Cotton" died Saturday, November 17, 2001. He was born on February 25, 1920 to Kersey Pruitt Sr. and Fannie (Skiff) Pruitt of Fieldon, Ill. He was proceded in death by six sisters and two brothers; Blanche Herring, Geraldine Feyerabend, Goldie (Golda) Pruitt, Beatrice Wadlow, Norma Carter, Ruth Devning, George Pruitt and Kersey Pruitt Jr. I'm sorry I never got to know him. Reach out to all your relatives this holiday season. Tammi Nottingham