Pratt, Caroline

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Caroline Pratt Soundex Code P630

Caroline Pratt was the married name of Caroline Adams.

Caroline Pratt was the wife of Paul Pratt.

Caroline and Paul were the parents of four children:

Adaline Pratt, Mrs. H.E. Peck, who resides at Ottumwa, Iowa.

Susan Pratt, wife of Louis Leonhardt, of Evanston, is the first white person born in that place, the date of that event being September 18, 1840.

Charles E. Pratt, who served three years in the Eighth Illinois Cavalry, is now a resident of Bagnell, Missouri.

The youngest, Willard Irvin Pratt, served two years in Company C, Eighty-ninth Illinois Infantry. After taking part in many hard-fought battles, he was captured at Dallas, Georgia, and incarcerated in Andersonville Prison, where he languished for seven months. When finally exchanged, he was so reduced by starvation that he was unable to walk to the boat which was to convey him to the North. The watch which he carried from home and secreted beneath his blouse while in captivity he gave to one of his comrades who assisted him to reach the vessel. He was sent to the hospital at Indianapolis, and the family, who had given him up for dead, caused him to be brought home, where he survived but five weeks.