Thomas Prather and Mary Ann McCalmont

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Husband Thomas Prather ^{1 2}

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           Born: 10 Apr 1808 - Cherrytree Twp, Venango Co, PA 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 4 Apr 1876 1
         Buried:  - Cherrytree Presbyterian Cemetery, Cherrytree Twp, Venango Co, PA

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         Father: Henry Prather (1778-1818) 1 2 4
         Mother: Lydia Ricketts (Abt 1780-1855) 5

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       Marriage: 1832 - Venango Co, PA 1

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Wife Mary Ann McCalmont ^{1 6}

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           Born: 11 Jul 1809 - President Twp, Venango Co, PA 7
     Christened: 
           Died: 6 Mar 1879 6 7
         Buried:  - Cherrytree Presbyterian Cemetery, Cherrytree Twp, Venango Co, PA

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         Father: Thomas McCalmont (1774-1852) 8 9
         Mother: Nancy [Unk] (1784-1833) 10

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Children

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1 F Ann Prather ^{6 11 12}

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           Born: 19 Sep 1833 12
     Christened: 
           Died: 17 Jun 1906 11 12
         Buried:  - Fairview Cemetery, Pleasantville, Venango Co, PA 12

         Spouse: James Lynch (      -      ) 12

         Spouse: Jesse Alcorn (1830-1909) 11 13 14 15

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2 M John McCalmont Prather ^{6 12 16}

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           Born: 24 Nov 1835 12
     Christened: 
           Died: 24 Oct 1903 12
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Sarah Jane Strawbridge (      -      ) 12

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3 M Henry Ricketts Prather ^{6 12}

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           Born: 14 Jun 1839 12
     Christened: 
           Died: 24 Nov 1884 12
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Nancy Jane "Jennie" Snyder (      -      ) 12

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4 M James Cameron Prather ^{6 12}

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           Born: 26 Feb 1842 - Venango Co, PA 6 12
     Christened: 
           Died: 31 Jan 1924 12
         Buried:  - Troy Center Cemetery, Crawford Co, PA

         Spouse: Emma Hofford (1840-      ) 6
           Marr: 28 Mar 1867 6

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5 F Sarah Lydia Prather ^{6 12}

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           Born: 19 Jan 1845 12
     Christened: 
           Died: 19 Apr 1885 12
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Benjamin Strawbridge (      -      ) 12

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6 F Nancy Ellen Prather ^{6 12}

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           Born: 16 Jan 1850 12
     Christened: 
           Died: 18 May 1926 12
         Buried:  - Sunville Cemetery, Sunville, Plum Twp, Venango Co, PA 17

         Spouse: David Wright Goodwin (1838-1904) 18 19

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7 M George W. Prather ⁶

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           Born: 6 Oct 1847 12
     Christened: 
           Died:  - Buffalo, Erie Co, NY
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Elizabeth "Lizzie" Strawbridge (      -      ) 12

         Spouse: Maude Grocer (      -      ) 12

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8 M William L. Prather ^{6 12}

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           Born: 19 Aug 1852 12
     Christened: 
           Died: 13 May 1858 12
         Buried:  - Cherrytree Presbyterian Cemetery, Cherrytree Twp, Venango Co, PA 12

         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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General Notes: Husband - Thomas Prather

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He attended school at Cherrytree, a distance of three and one-half miles, through the woods. He settled on sixty acres, which he fell heir to from his father's estate. They lived for a number of years in a hewed-log house, two stories high, a chimney on each story. He afterwards purchased the Samuel Irwin tract of land, and erected a more comfortable dwelling. Soon after his removal into his new residence he engaged in the mercantile business, in connection with farming. At one time he owned one thousand five hundred acres of land.
Another source states that he was born in 1818.
He died in 1875, aged sixty-six years. [HCC 1885, 1104]

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Notes: Marriage

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It was a double wedding: her brother, Henry Conrad McCalmont, married her groom's sister, Rebecca Prather, in the same ceremony.

1 J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Columbus, OH: J. A. Caldwell Publishers, 1879), Pg 567.

2 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 590.

3 Earl M. Prather, McCalmont History in Venango County, Pennsylvania (Centerville, PA: Self-published, 1996), Pg 10.

4 Earl M. Prather, Pioneers 1795 - 1997 Ricketts, Prather, & McCalmont (Centerville, PA: Self-published, 1997), Pg 3.

5 Earl Prather, The Alcorn Family in Northwestern Pennsylvania (Self-published, 1997), Pg 3.

6 —, The History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner Beers & Co., 1885), Pg 1104.

7 Earl M. Prather, McCalmont History in Venango County, Pennsylvania (Centerville, PA: Self-published, 1996), Pg 2.

8 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 545.

9 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 453, 587.

10 Earl M. Prather, McCalmont History in Venango County, Pennsylvania (Centerville, PA: Self-published, 1996), Pg 1.

11 Earl Prather, The Alcorn Family in Northwestern Pennsylvania (Self-published, 1997), Pg 6.

12 Earl M. Prather, McCalmont History in Venango County, Pennsylvania (Centerville, PA: Self-published, 1996), Pg 11.

13 J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Columbus, OH: J. A. Caldwell Publishers, 1879), Pg 568.

14 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 1048.

15 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 526, 908.

16 Earl Prather, The Alcorn Family in Northwestern Pennsylvania (Self-published, 1997), Pg 15.

17 Venango County Historical Society, Venango County Pennsylvania Cemetery Records and Early Church Histories, Vol. 8, Plum Township (Franklin, PA: Venango County Historical Society, 2000), Pg 81.

18 —, Memoirs of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Vol. II (Madison, WI: Northwestern Historical Assosciation, 1904), Pg 176.

19 Earl Prather, The Alcorn Family in Northwestern Pennsylvania (Self-published, 1997), Pg 18.