Individual Details

Re: his parentage:
"CHARLOTTE WHO WAS BEN PRATER'S MOTHER. I HAVE A PICTURE OF BEN AND CHARLOTTE. LETTIE MOVED BACK TO N.C. WITH CHILDREN..." -- Maggie Race

Henry, it seems we have opened a can of worms. Even Aunt Hazel (who just turned 90, but still has a great memory) wrote me this past January that your grandfather, Benjamin, and my great uncle, Thomas, were born to Charlotte Yvonne Crits. Yet, subesequent notes from others who have dates, show Lettie and Thomas M. stayed married until he died between 1880 and 1890. Family rumor is that she left him and moved to NC (which could have been TN before state lines were changed), and then he married Charlotte. -- Carol Gray

Birth	17 Jan 1868	TN
Census	1870	Warren Co., TN
Census	1880	Warren Co., TN
Marriage	8 Aug 1886	Warren Co., TN - Laura Ann "Lory" EMERY
Census (family)	1900	Cannon Co., TN - Laura Ann "Lory" EMERY
Emigration	1905	TN to TX
Census (family)	1910	Iverson, Hill Co., TX - Laura Ann "Lory" EMERY
Death	1 Jun 1925	Loving, Young Co., TX
Burial		Loving Cemetery, Loving, Young Co., TX

Spouse	Laura Ann "Lory" EMERY (1865 - 1946)
Child	Eliza Bell "Lisa" PRATER (1886 - 1964)
Child	Oscar Harrison PRATER (1888 - 1960)
Child	Richard 'Floyd' PRATER (1891 - 1954)
Child	Ada Della PRATER (1892 - 1970)
Child	Bessie L. PRATER (1894 - )
Child	Claude 'Homer' PRATER (1897 - 1964)
Child	Lettie Elizabeth "Lizzy" PRATER (1899 - )
Child	James Lee "Jimmy" PRATER (1905 - 1984)
Child	Ollie PRATER (1907 - 1910)

Father	Thomas M. "Tom" PRATER (1828 - 1880)
Mother	Charlotte Yvonne CRITS Cherokee Indian (1834 - 1895)
Sibling	Francis Elizabeth PRATER (1858 - 1901)
Sibling	Thomas J. PRATER (1859 - 1870)
Sibling	Martha Ann PRATER (1863 - 1918)
Sibling	Jessie 'Dallas' PRATER (1865 - 1937)
Sibling	John PRATER (1868 - 1943)
Sibling	Mary PRATER (1868 - 1870)
Sibling	Elisha/Elijah PRATER (1875 - 1893)
Sibling	Nancy "Nan" PRATER (1876 - 1930)
Sibling	Thomas Paul "Tom" PRATER (1878 - 1969)

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