Individual Details

Seymore was well known in his community by his unique ablity of telling the future and ESP He died not use this in a commercial way but had many friends, neighbors, and local residents call on him at all times for his help. It is said that his ablities were amazing!
In one story a local farmer told:

My Mule came up missing and I could not find him anywhere. I went to Mr. Prather's home and asked for his guidence. Mr. Prather told me that the mule that was missing was the one with a mark behind his ear, and that I could find him in a section of a nearby farm. "Well", I didn't even know that the mule had a mark behind his ear. But when I went to the spot where Mr. Prather told me he could be found, "Well" there he was. When I took a look behind that ear, guess what I found. The mark.

A story told by a local farm lady:

I lost the stone out of my ring and could not find it anywhere. I went to Mr. Prather farm and asked him if he could help. He told me that the stone fell out of my ring when I was feeding the chickens. He told me not to sell any of those chickens but to use them for my dinner table. He said check in the gizzard of each one and I would find the stone out of my ring. All my relatives thought that I was crazy to listen to Mr. Prather but I knew him well and trusted in his power to see what no other human could see. When I found the stone to my ring in one of those gizzards no one in my family ever laughed at Mr. Prather predictions again. They even began to visit him with their troubles.... which he always solved.

It is said in the family that his powers grew stronger as he aged and before he died. Mr. Seymore Prather died with a brain tumor.

Birth	21 Apr 1867	Coosa Co., Ala
Census	1870	Vincent, Coosa Co., Ala
Census	1880	Monroe Co., MS
Marriage	7 Nov 1892	Lee Co., MS - Aquilla "Quilla" WRIGHT
Marriage	8 Apr 1897	Rachel Lee ROYE
Census (family)	1900	Troy, Pontotoc Co., MS - Rachel Lee ROYE
Census (family)	1910	Pontotoc Co., MS - Rachel Lee ROYE
Census	1920	Troy, Pontotoc Co., MS
Census	1930	Pontotoc Co., MS
Census	1940	Pontotoc Co., MS
Death	21 Apr 1945	Woodland, Pontotoc Co., MS
Occupation		planter
Burial		Pleasant Grove Cemetery, Pontotoc, Pontotoc Co., MS

Spouse	Aquilla "Quilla" WRIGHT (1879 - 1895)
Child	Oren Arthur "Prate" PRATER (1893 - 1916)
Child	Noonan Curtis "Cirt" PRATER (1895 - )

Spouse	Rachel Lee ROYE (1868 - 1942)
Child	Seymour 'Herman' PRATER (1898 - 1982)
Child	Robert 'Roy' PRATER (1898 - 1959)
Child	Mary Lou PRATER (1901 - 1988)
Child	Eddie Brown PRATER (1905 - 1998)
Child	Tilton Eugene "Gene" PRATER (1907 - 1987)
Child	Bessie Valera PRATER twin (1909 - 1994)
Child	Jesse Belle PRATER twin, of Starkville, MS (1909 - 2003)

Father	Lewis Meadors "Leo" PRATER (1843 - 1945)
Mother	Mary Jane "Mattie" WHITE (1842 - 1929)
Sibling	G.A. PRATER (1861 - 1870)
Sibling	Thomas J. PRATER (1863 - 1880)
Sibling	James Andrew Washington "Jim/Wash" PRATER (1869 - 1907)
Sibling	Carry PRATER (1870 - 1887)
Sibling	John Rufus Oren PRATER (1871 - 1952)

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