LEWIS PRAY
Lewis Pray came to Noble township in 1869, but did not buy land until the spring of 1870, when he purchased one hundred and twenty acres in sections 2 and 3. He was born in Ohio, in 1846. When he was eight years of age his parents removed to Preble county, Ohio, and in 1857 removed to Muscatine county, Iowa. He enlisted, in the fall of 1862, in company D, Thirty-fifth Iowa, in which he served until the close of the war, when he was discharged at Davenport. After his return from the war, he lived in Muscatine county until 1869, when he came to Cass county. He was married, in 1866 to Diana Pringey, daughter of Jonathan Pringey. They have two children -- Nettie and Lyman.
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. 668.
