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- In a letter written to Gary Benton Prather via American Online Computer
network 21 June, 1997 from Bob Prater of Tulsa, Okla.:
Elizabeth Ann Prater is listed in the 1900 Maries Co., MO. census as living in
the household bo her son Naploeon Prater (See 1900-MO Film 874 EnuberDist. 73
Maries County's Boone Township Dwelling 211 Family 218). Her date of birth is
listed Feb., 1822 with place of birth TN and mother and father's place of
birth TN. I believe that is in error. Her father was Henry V. Warren (c.
1785) and mother Barbara... Their places of birth are listed as VA. in
earlier census records. However, Henry Warren was in Warren Co., TN possibly
as early as 1814. I have no marrieage date for Henry and Barbara but their
first recorded child was Elizabeth Ann, born 1822.
Henry and Barbara had all but one of their children in TN. He and the family,
less Elizabeth Ann, moved to Miller Co., MO. abt 1840-41. Elizabeth had
married Benjamin Prater in 1839 and stayed in TN.
I tracked Benjamin up to 1860. In 1870 his oldest son, William, was still in
TN. but the rest of Benjamin's family had left Warren/Cannon County. In 1870,
I have two of Benjamin's sons (Henry V. in Osage Co., MO. and Thomas Dillard
in Maries Co., MO.) This goes along with family stories of these two family
members migrating out of TN after the Civil War. Thomas Dillard Prater,
sometime after 1870, migrated to Osage, Indian Territory (Okla.) near Hominy,
Okla. for his health. Stories goes from some of his descendants that he had
bad lungs from the war and left MO. for the dry climate in Okla.
I cannot find Benjamin and his other children in 1870 or 1880. The next thing
I find is his wife Elizabeth Ann prater listed as the mother of Napoleon
Prater living in napolenon's household.
My dad, Leonard Prater, told me he can remember his grandfather Herny V.
Prater and Henry's Brother napoleon Prater taking Elizabeth Ann (Known as
Becky Ann) to a train station in Dixon, MO. in a wagon when dad was about 3 or
4 years old, for her trip to Okla. to visit her family in Northeast Okla.
That would have been about 1901/3. She was going to Vinita, Okla. where her
youngest son Samuel was going to meet her.
Later, I found from Samuel's son, Nelson Prater, that his father Samuel picked
her up at the train station and she went to Samuel home in Chelsea, Okla.
She suffered a stroke there and lay in a coma for about two weeks and died.
Nelson and Nelson's cousin Velma (Youngblood) Klamm told me that "Granny" was
buried in West Adair Cem. Velma took me to her grave where she is buried
beside her Youngblood and Prater descendants. Benjamin is not there however.
I've looked in counties where their descendants lived thinking that Benjamin
and Elizabeth Ann may have lived near their children in 1870/80. I can't find
them over that 20 year period. I suspect that when Benjamin died, wherever
that was, that his widow Elizabeth Ann moved to MO. to be near her Prater and
Warren kinfolk. Her Warren family had moved back there in 1840/1 and two of
her sons werer living in MO. at the time.
I'm lost as to where Benjamin spent his last days after the war..... three of
his sons had been in the war and two had moved to MO. to be near their Warren
Grandparents. His family scattered after that war, probably from the turmoil
back in Warren County, TN.
Benjamim and his brother Thomas had been deeded a 350 acre farm and
"Millhouse" from their father Archelus in 1852 in Warren Co., TN.
I have a copy of the court record and a copy of the estate sale if you would
like one. I can find no record of how they desposed of that property though.
Take Care,
Bob Prater Tulsa, Okla.
BPrater@aol.com (1997) (My File #31383)
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