ANN W> PRATT
Mrs. Ann W. Pratt is the widow of Isaac Pratt, who was born in Wayne county, New York, in 1816. He was reared in his native State and there married Ann Wake, who was born in Yorkshire, England, in 1826. She came with her parents to the United States in 1832. Her parents, George and Mary Wake, settled in Wayne county, New York, and in 1850, removed to Illinois, where her father died. Her mother still lives in that State, at the advanced age of eighty-three years. Mr. and Mrs. Pratt were married in New York, in July, 1847. They removed to Rock Island county, Illinois, in 1850, where Mr. Pratt died in 1863. They had six children, five of whom are living -- Mary E., Wilbur D., Roland C., Anna E. and George I. Emma, their second child, is dead. Mrs. Pratt settled with her family, on her present farm, in 1875. It contains one hundred and twenty acres, located on section 23, of Benton township.
Transcribed by Gloria Goltiani from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pp. 646.
