Individual Details

Spelling of nickname from marriage record & gravestone. It was told in the family that when he was about 7, he was showing off the new britches his mother made for him when someone declared, "Now don't he look tidy in those!" Hence his unusual nickname.

Birth	27 Jul 1889	TN
Census	1900	Cannon Co., TN
Marriage	25 Apr 1912	Coffee Co., TN - Sarah Delora DUKE
Census (family)	1920	Thebes, Alexander Co., IL - Sarah Delora DUKE
Marriage	14 Nov 1925	Cannon Co., TN - Della 'Aliean' MOONGHAM
Census (family)	1930	Cannon Co., TN - Della 'Aliean' MOONGHAM
Death	10 Nov 1957	Woodbury, Cannon Co., TN
Burial		Prater (Mears) Cemetery, Woodbury, Cannon Co., TN

Spouse	Della 'Aliean' MOONGHAM (1906 - 1999)
Child	Living
Child	Living
Child	Living

Spouse	Sarah Delora DUKE (1895 - 1921)
Child	Mary P. PRATER (1912 - )
Child	Living
Child	Marvin James PRATER (1915 - 1950)
Child	Living
Child	Estel William PRATER (1920 - 2011)

Father	Moses Ulysses Uriah "L.E." PRATER (1838 - 1915)
Mother	Tennessee COLLINS (1862 - 1927)
Sibling	Lucinda "Lucindy" PRATER (1890 - 1956)
Sibling	Samual Arley "Sam" PRATER (1893 - 1963)
Sibling	Jenny Lee "Jennie" PRATER (1896 - 1936)
Sibling	Elizabeth Jane "Eliza" PRATER (1896 - 1928)
Sibling	Lilly Mae PRATER (1898 - 1972)
Sibling	Dewey P. "Dewie" PRATER (1902 - 1976)
Sibling	Charlie PRATER ( - 1900)

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