Amasa Bigelow ⁷ PRATT

no children of Amasa and Betsy (Bigelow) Pratt:

Children of Amasa and Lydia (King) Pratt:

16251.861     Gardner C. Pratt, b 29 Aug 1853 Skowhegan, ME; d 18 Mar 1906 (aged 52) Dallas, Dallas County, TX; m Elizabeth McCracken (1854-1925)

16251.862     Lyman Amasa Pratt, b 04 Jun 1855 Skowhegan, Somerset County, ME: d 29 Aug 1936 (aged 81) Wayne County, MO; m twice

16251.863     Edwin Pratt, b 04 Jan 1858; d 09 Apr 1862 (aged 4)

16251.864     Charles Lincoln Pratt, b 09 Feb 1862 Ripon, Fond du Lac County, WI; d 25 Aug 1933 (aged 71) Ripon, WI; (see below)

16251.865     Meda Frances Pratt, b 20 Jan 1864 Ripon, WI; d 27 May 1899 (aged 35); m 1893 Marshall Vernon Adkins (1870-1942) (see below)

Sources:
The Bigelow Family Genealogy, Volume II, page 219;
The Bigelow Family Genealogy, Volume I;
Howe, Bigelow Family of America;
1850 census ME;
ME vital records.
New info from Aimee Bigelow  < sea_aggie96@yahoo.com >
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Charles L. Pratt, aged 71 years, a native of Ripon and for the past twenty-five years city engineer, passed away at his home on Watson Street at six thirty o'clock Friday morning, following a brief illness. Mr. Pratt had suffered from a heart illness for over a year.
The deceased, a son of Amasa B. and Lydia Pratt, was born in Ripon, February 9, 1862 and spent his early life here. He was graduated from Ripon high school and also attended Ripon college. For a number of years he was associated with a lumber concern at Stigler, Oklahoma, and also resided for some time in Texas, returning to Ripon in 1906. During his long service as city engineer he was in charge of several important civic construction projects. Mr. Pratt was a member of the Congregational church.
His only surviving relatives are a brother, Lyman L. Pratt, of Williamsville, MO, two nephews and a niece, George H. Pratt of Detroit, Benson K. Pratt of Chicago and Mrs. Laura Jenkinson, of Milwaukee.
Funeral services were conducted Monday afternoon at two o'clock from the Butzin funeral home with Prof. A.F. Fehlandt officiating. Burial was at Hillside cemetery. Serving as bearers were W.R. Woodmansee, L.G. Kellogg, C.A. Whiting, W.A. Simmons, August Nehls, and Herman Gatzke.
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Obituary of Meda Frances Pratt Adkins
Meda Frances Pratt Adkins was born Jan. 20, 1864 in Ripon, Wis. She was a daughter of Mr. A.B. Pratt who came from New England to Ripon June 8th, 1856. He is of the old puritan stock and is not ashamed of his ancestry.
She was a graduate of Ripon High School and taught in same for 8 years.
She was married April 26, 1893 to Mr. M.V. Adkins and removed to Chicago where they lived until last January, when they moved back to Ripon.
She enjoyed good health until the age of 17 or 18 years when she was attacked with heart difficulty which greatly weakened her physically and caused at two or three times partial strokes.
She was an affectionate daughter, loving sister and a devoted wife, and had hosts of admiring friends.
She made a profession of religion at an early day and joined the Methodist church and lived a faithful Christian life until death called her home. Her mother preceeded her to the better land Feb. 5, 1894. She leaves to mourn her loss besides her husband and father, an affectionate step mother and three brothers, one of whom lives in Texas, one in Missouri and the other, who was a favorite with her and resided with her in Chicago, is now ill at his father's home.
She was found unconscious in her room at her home last Friday afternoon about three o'clock and remained so until Saturday, May 27, at ten o'clock when she passed to her reward. "Accepted perfect and complete, For God's inheritance made meet. How true, how glorious, and how sweet."
The funeral was held Monday at 2:30 at the house, Rev. Grant and Rev. E.H. Merrell spoke, and Rev. E.G. Hamley lead in prayer; A select choir furnished very appropriate music for the occassion. The flower decorations were many and very beautiful. The remains were laid at rest in the old cemetery.

Hillside Cemetery; Ripon, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin
Obituary
Amasa Bigelow Pratt was born at Skowhegan, Maine, on March 27, 1817 and died at his late residence in Ripon on last Saturday, December 6, at the great age of nearly ninety-two years. His early life was spent in Maine where he received the training pecuiliar to the old New England life and education. He learned the carpenter's trade and was always known as a skillful mechanic, though he did not work at the trade during his mature life. He came to Ripon in 1857 and for a year lived on a farm. In 1852 he became engaged in the lumber business and this with building was the chief work of his active life. He built the Pratt block and several dwellings, all of which showed the skill of a thorough mechanic and the planning of a competent architect.
Mr. Pratt was thrice married, and of the second marriage there were born five children, two of whom, Lyman and Charles, survive.
Mr. Pratt belonged to a robust New England stock, and his physical frame suggested a long line of men temperate in habits and correct in morals and life. He at an early age imbibed the principles and took on the education peculiar to our best American civilization, and from youth to age he never swerved from the instruction and influence that surrounded his childhood. He was always on the side of true reform, and he was particuilarly zealous in promoting the great cause of temperance in intoxicating drink. He was not a member of any church, but he believed in the churches as promoters of all good, and he contributed liberally for the building of houses of worship and for the sustaining of the ministry of the Word. He had intellectual doubts concering many things believed by Christians, but he never was a bitter opponent of religion, and he encouraged his family in all their wishes for Christian work and worship. The funeral was from the residence on Tuesday afternoon.

Obituary
Mrs. Lydia King Pratt

The Ripon Free Press, February 6, 1894, Page 8
After an illness continuing during the last three years, Mrs. Lydia King Pratt, wife of A.B. Pratt, Esq., of this city, died at 7:30 o'clock yesterday morning, of nervous degeneration, aged 73 years and 2 days.
Mrs. Pratt was born in Gray, Cumberland County, Maine, Feb. 3, 1821. She was educated in the public school of her neighborhood and in Bloomfield Academy. She was married to Mr. Pratt at her father's home August 19, 1852. The new family lived at Skowhagen, Maine, Mr. Pratt's native town, about four years, when they removed to Wisconsin, arriving at Ripon June 8th, 1856. For two years the family lived on a farm near the city, when they removed to town where they have since resided. Five children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Pratt, four of whom besides the husband survive - three sons and one daughter.
Mrs. Pratt was a member of the Methodist church during the early part of her residence in Ripon, but she joined the Congregational church about fifteen years ago, at the time of the Craig defection. She was a quiet, consistant Christian woman, conscientiously performing her full duty in the cause of her faith, ever forgetful of her own comfort in the service of others. She was a rarely devoted mother and faithful wife. "The children think there never was such a mother." She was a peacemaker and lived in peace with all. Her sickness was long and painful, but she was uncomplaining through it all. At last she is at rest. The funeral will be held from her late residence tomorrow afternoon at 1:30 o'clock.

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