Prather, Reason bio

History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co., Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 959, Woodland Township
Reason Prather, farmer; P. O., Astoria; was born in Indiana in 1829; a little over a year from this date the parents of our subject, Darius and Caroline Prather, stopped in Schuyler county one year, and the following year located in Fulton county; Reason received a good education for that period; before attaining his majority he was united in marriage to Miss Rebecca, daughter of Cornelius O’Donnel, by whom he has had 6 children, - Margaret, Mary, Riley (dec.) Preston, Benton (dec.), and Melinda. Mrs. Prather died in 1860, and the following year Mr. Prather married Zilpha Parks, by whom he has 6 children. After many years of industrious toil Mr. Prather s {is} the owner of 320 acres of valuable land, and ranks among the awelthier {wealthier} farmers of Woodland tp.