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History of Cass County, Iowa
Springfield, ILL.:
Continental Historical Company, 1884

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        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 to 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.

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