Prater/Prather Genealogy* 120,000+ Family Members
Steven Timothy Prather
Generation: 1
Generation: 3
Generation: 4
1. Steven Timothy Prather (son of Sterman Thomas Prather and Wilma Jane Meroney). Notes:
living - details excluded
Steven — Lyn Cagle. [Group Sheet]
Children:
2. Sterman Thomas Prather (son of Grissom Bartlett Prather and Della McCray, McCary). Notes:
living - details excluded
Sterman — Wilma Jane Meroney. [Group Sheet]
3. Wilma Jane Meroney Notes:
living - details excluded
Children:
- della Mae Prather
- 1. Steven Timothy Prather
- Debral Ann Prather
- Patricia Jane Prather
- Gay Lanelle Prather
- Gregory Prather was born , Grand Prairie, Dallas Co., Tx..
- Grissom Bartlett Prather was born 09 Nov 1958, Grand Prairie, Dallas Co., Tx.; died 08 Apr 1985.
Generation: 3
4. Grissom Bartlett Prather was born 11 Feb 1893, Leon, Okla. (son of John Samuel Prather and Ella Godley); died 05 Jun 1978, Nocona, Montague Co., Texas; was buried , Starkey Cem.. Other Events:
- Record Change: 12 Apr 2009
Grissom married Della McCray, McCary 21 Jul 1915, Montague Co., Tx.. Della was born 05 Sep 1891, Marysville, Tx.; died 21 Jun 1981, Muenster, Tx.; was buried , Starkey Cem.. [Group Sheet]
5. Della McCray, McCary was born 05 Sep 1891, Marysville, Tx.; died 21 Jun 1981, Muenster, Tx.; was buried , Starkey Cem.. Other Events:
- Record Change: 12 Apr 2009
Children:
- Grissom Bartlett Prather, II.
- 2. Sterman Thomas Prather
- Della Fern Prather
- Pearl Elizabeth Prather
- Dorothy Elina Prather
- Bobbie Lou Prather was born Apr 1934, Burkburnett, Wichita Co., Tx.; died Apr 1934.
Generation: 4
8. John Samuel Prather was born 28 Apr 1860, Somerset, Pulaski Co., Ky. (son of William Frederick Prather and Martha Patsy Ann Hart); died 09 Nov 1943, Ft. Worth, Tarrant Co., Texas. Other Events:
- Occupation: Rancher; Law enforcement
- Record Change: 12 Apr 2009
Notes:
John moved from Ky. to Okla. and settled near Leon, Okla., his son Grissom
was born there. Later he moved to Ft. Worth, TX.
On May 12, 1894, J.S.Prather, Mr. Madsen, and Louis Eichoff arrested Felix
Young. Ten days later, those three men and several others trailed and arrested
o;utlaw Vic Casey. Casey was wounded during his arrest and died before he
stood trial.
On Nov. 24, 1894, four men attempted to rob the Panhandle Express at Canadian,
Tx. but botched the job. Prather, Eichoff, Madsen, and William Banks followed
the would-be robbers and arrested them, apparenty with no resistance.
In April, 1895, the Bill Dooin gang held up the Rock Island train at dover,
near Kingfisher, Okla.
Prather and Banks wsere among the several men in the posse which trailed them.
They caught up with the gang, and in a sharp gun battle, outlaw "Tulas Jack"
was killed.
From: Western Publications, Stillwater, Okla. (Sept., 1995)
Submitted to this researcher by: Wm.C.Bailey Broken Arrow, Okla. (1995)John married Ella Godley 31 Dec 1890, of Montague, Tx. Ella was born 23 Apr 1862, Louisiana; died 23 Oct 1936, Saint Jo, Montague Co., Texas; was buried , Starkey Cem. Montague Co., Tx.. [Group Sheet]
9. Ella Godley was born 23 Apr 1862, Louisiana; died 23 Oct 1936, Saint Jo, Montague Co., Texas; was buried , Starkey Cem. Montague Co., Tx.. Other Events:
- Record Change: 12 Apr 2009
Notes:
!Has a 2nd death,9 Nov 1913,Nocona,Montague,TX. WJP
Children:
- Mary Callaway Prather was born , of Okla..
- Lora Lee Prather, Lona was born 26 Sep 1891, of Okla..
- 4. Grissom Bartlett Prather was born 11 Feb 1893, Leon, Okla.; died 05 Jun 1978, Nocona, Montague Co., Texas; was buried , Starkey Cem..
- Miriam Prather was born 09 Nov 1894, of Okla. or Tx.; died 02 May 1896, Nocona, Montague, Tx.
- Living Prather
- John Samuel Prather, II was born 28 Oct 1901, of Okla. or Tx.; died 20 Mar 1903, Nocona, Montague, Tx.
- Living Prather