Anson Pratt

Biographical Summary

Anson Pratt, born January 9, 1801, has been thrice married.

1. To Sally Barber, daughter of John Barber, who resided at Hallet’s Cove (now Astoria) Long Island, New York, at which place the marriage was celebrated about the year 1825, by whom he had five children.
2. He married Elizabeth Clark about the spring of 1842.
3. He married Ann Miller

Anson Pratt became a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints, being baptized <by his brother, Orson> about the 25th of March, 1832. A few years afterward he removed to Michigan, a few miles east of Detroit; he again moved to Ypsilanta Michigan. While in Michigan he lost his wife. In the winter of 1846 and 1847 he was with the saints at their Winter Quarters, [page break] on the west side of the Missouri river, now called Florence, Nebraska. From this place he removed to St. Joseph, Missouri, at which place he died of the cholera May 26, 1849, and was buried in one of the cemetaries of that place, and a grave stone erected to his memory. He left no children by his second and third wives.

Children by his First Marriage.

1. Mary <Ann> Pratt, born 1826 at Astoria, Long Island, and died at the same place, about 1848, unmarried.
2. Sariah Pratt, born June 12, 1833, at Astoria
3. Jane Elisabeth Pratt, born Oct. 22, 1837
4. Joseph Anson Pratt born 1838, at Hamtrasnick, near Detroit, Michigan
5. Caroline Amelia Pratt born Jan 22, 1840, at Hamtrasnick, 3 miles from Detroit

SOURCE: Pratt, Orson, "Brief Abstract of Genealogy and Ancestry of Jared Pratt"

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• Residence: 1900 - St. Louis, Missouri, United States
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