C. F. PRATT, of Crescent City, was born in Abbeville County, South Carolina, October 19, 1824, the son of William and Martha (Murdoch)Pratt. His mother was born July 31, 1800, and his father September 27, 1798, both being descendants of English, lrish and Welsh ancestry. Mr. Pratt's grandfather came to America at the age of sixteen years, in 1776, at the commencement of the Revolutionary War, first locating in Newberry County, South Carolina, and engaging in a distillery. He married Elizabeth Davenport, a native of the same county, and they moved to Abbeville, where they spent the remainder of their days with their son. William Pratt received a good education, his father being a teacher, and married Gabriella Callahan, who was born in Abbeville County, July 31, 1824, and then left his parental home, in his twentv-first year, 1845, locating in Chatooga County, Georgia. There he purchased 160 acres of land, for which he paid $800; seventy acres of this tract had been cultivated by an old Cherokee Indian named Overtaker. The improvements, therefore, were few and meager. Here Mr. Pratt commenced raising grain, fruit and cotton, and also his own domestic animals, and continued there until 1855, when he sold the place at $1,600, and bought another two miles distant for $800. On that place there were forty acres cleared. He cleared twenty-five acres more, put up a log house and barns, and made many other improvements. He added to it by purchase until he finally had 370 acres of good farming land.

Then in September, 1861, he enlisted in the military service, joining Company F, Thirty-fifth Georgia Volunteer Infantry, under General Holmes, and was engaged in many hard-fought battles, as those of Fair Oaks, Virginia, the Wilderness, Seven Days' fight in front of Richmond between Lee and McClellan, etc. In 1862 he enjoyed a furlough, being disabled, and remained at home something more than a year. In 1863 he returned to service under General Early, whose forces scoured d another furlough home, and before its term expired the war closed. He was in most of the hottest battles of Virginia during the four years of the war, but was not wounded.

April 12, 1869, he sold his farm already described and started for Utah, by way of Chattanooga, Memphis, St. Louis, etc., by rail and water, and on arriving at Omaha, May 1, be stopped here until July, doing odd jobs. Then he rented a farm of eighty acres in Rockford Township, Pottawattamie County, of which forty acres were broken. After following agricultural pursuits there for a year, he purchased a saw-mill and ran it for ten years. June 26, 1876, he moved the mill to Crescent City and ran it two years. Then he sold it to his sons and bought his present farm of sixty acres within the limits of Crescent City, which had been improved some, having a log house upon it. Nearly all the improvements there at the present day are the product of his own labor,-a good residence, outbuildings, etc. It is indeed a well furnished and comfortable home.

Mr. Pratt is a high-principled Democrat, sympathizing with the so-called "Greenback" movement, and liberal in his heart toward all parties. In local elections he is of course independent, voting, for the best man, regardless of party. He was Justice of the Peace eight years in Georgia, two terms in Rockford Township, and two in Crescent Township. He is a member of Mount Hickory Lodge, No. 133, F. & A. M., of Georgia, esteeming this order far above all other organizations. He has also been the second officer of the Grange for a number of years, and has held other offices. He also belongs to the Crescent M. P. Society, this lodge being the oldest of the kind in the State. In thus he has officiated as president, vice-president, etc., ever since its foundation. He is also a member of the Farmers' Alliance. He and his wife were Baptists in Georgia, both being baptized on the same day and by the same minister; they are now members of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

Mr. and Mrs. Pratt are the parents of nine children, as follows: John W. and Nancy E., born in Chattooga County, Georgia, June 2, 1846: John W. resides in Harrison County, Iowa; Nancy E., is the wife of E. L. McKinney, in Jackson Countv, Indian Territory; James A., born September 14, 1849, in Chattooga County, Georgia, now resides in Crescent City; S. V. was born April 10, 1852, in Georgia, and also resides in Crescent Township; Martha Ann, born August 12, 1853, in Chattooga County, died July 21, 1871; Emma C. was born also in that county, April 11, 1855, and is now the wife of C. D. Watts, in Sherman County, Kansas; Phoebe J. born also in Chattooga County; August 11, 1857, is the wife of J. M. Boyd, in Crescent City; Charles F., born November 10, 1861, in Chattooga County, and resides at home; Leona born also in Chattooga County, February 28, 1864, is the wife of Clement Hough at Crescent City. Mr. and Mrs. Pratt are the grandparents of twenty-one children, all living. Mrs. Pratt is of English and Irish descent; was born in Abbeville County, South Carolina, the daughter of John and Nancy (Stevenson) Callahan; was brought up as a farmer's daughter, within four miles of where she was married to Mr. Pratt, July 2, 1845. She is the fifth in order of birth in a family of twenty-three children, and the daughter of her father's second wife. All those children grew up and married during their father's lifetime. Mrs. Pratt is now aged sixty-seven years.