John G. Pratt, SR

PRATT, BEAVER, GILLETTE

Posted By: Cindy Bray Lovell (email)
Date: 3/4/2007 at 08:04:57

JOHN G. PRATT, SR.

John G. Pratt, Sr., was born in Hebron, Me. Married in Maine. Came to Allamakee county, Iowa in 1858. Here his wife died in January 1866. In the month of April 1869, he came with his sons Lemuel and Alanson to Fredericksburg township. He died at the home of his son Hiram; I have not the exact date, but it was the seventies. Seven children were born to these parents: Maria, John, Lemuel, Alauson, Hiram, Wilson and Alfred. Maria married Spencer Gillette, he died in 1890; she married for her second husband Henry Beaver; she is now a widow and resides in North Dakota. John died in Waukon, Iowa.

From the Fredericksburg News (Fredericksburg, Iowa) July 26, 1906