1860 Rockcastle Co. Cenus, Page 490
Household #238 Family #238
Gran 32
Mary C. 34
Geo. S. M. 13
Mary E. 11
Ruth 7
Sarah 6
Jas W. 4
Tartilus 3
Cynthia 9/12mo.
All persons born in KY

Obituary: Mount Vernon News, Mar 22, 1907, Mount Vernon, Rockcastle County, Kentucky.
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Mount Vernon Signal
March 22, 1907

DEATH:
W. G. Proctor died at his home at Quail post office, this county, Wednesday morning at 5 o'clock. Mr. Proctor aged four score and one year. For more than two years he had been the sufferer of a complication of diseases and the end has long been expected.

Mr. Proctor was a man of generous impulses and never forgot the hospitable ways of the pioneer. The stranger, even though a beggar, never failed to find food and shelter if he sought it at his hands, and he was at home by the bedside of the sick and delighted in all kinds of neighborly offices.

He had borne adversity bravely and enjoyed prosperity quietly. He had filled the various relations of life, as son, husband, father, brother, friend, and filled them well. Who can do more? But he is gone! Another name is stricken from the ever-lessening roll of our settlers and the once happy home is left to attest how sadly they will miss him. It must be so; these tender human ties cannot be severed without a pang.

Yet in such a death there is really no cause for grief. His life work was done, and well done. He had passed his golden wedding day and wearied with life's duties and cares. Weary of suffering and waiting, he lay down to rest. He was a man who united sound sense with strong convictions, and candid outspoken temper, eminently fitted to mold the rude elements of pioneer society into form and consistency, and in raising a high standard of citizenship in our young and growing state.

How much his community owes him and such as he, is impossible to estimate. It would be a grateful task to trace his influence through some of the direct channels, to hold him up in these degenerate days, in his various characters of husband and father, of neighbor and friend, to speak of his sons and daughters he has reared to perpetuate his name and emulate his virtues. But it comes not within the scope of this brief article to do so. Suffice it is to say; he lived nobly and died peacefully at the advance age of 81 years. The stern Reaper found him, "as a shock of corn, fully ripe for the harvest". Not for him be our tears! Rather let us crown his grave with garlands. Few of us will live as long or as well and fewer yet will the Angel of death greet with such a loving touch.

He leaves 10 children, five boys and five girls, Messrs. George, J. W., Tartlis, J. A., and Dr. D. E. Proctor; Mesdames Andrew Herrin, E. A. Herrin, Mace Brown, Henry Brown and Mrs. Hubble, to mourn the loss of a kind and dutiful father.

The remains were laid to rest yesterday morning at 10 o'clock in the Providence cemetery beside his beloved companion who preceded him to the grave by only a few months.