Benjamin Paul Prather (1880 - 1947)

Born 29 May 1880 in Urbana, Champaign Co., IL

Ancestors

Son of Homer Silsby Prather and Jessie Emma Marriott

Husband of Cordie May Reese — married 6 Sep 1902 in Urbana, Illinois

Husband of Mae Rose Harrington — married 1 Jan 1907 in Aberdeen, Brown Co., SD

Descendants

Died 21 Nov 1947 at age 67 in Aberdeen, Brown Co., SD

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Biography

Paul Prather is the son of Homer Silsby Prather.^[1]

This biography was auto-generated by a GEDCOM import.^[2] It's a rough draft and needs to be edited.

Birth

Birth:

Date: 29 MAY 1880

Place: Urbana, Champaign Co., IL

Birth:

Date: 29 MAY 1880

Place: Urbana, IL

Source: Footnote: 1880 Census-age "9/30" on June 7, Cham. Co:Birth Record, #1985, Champaign Co.

FOOT 1880 Census-age "9/30" on June 7, Cham. Co:Birth Record, #1985, Champaign Co.

Found multiple copies of BIRT DATE. Using 29 MAY 1880

Death

Death:

Date: 21 NOV 1947

Place: Aberdeen, Brown Co., SD

Cause: Heart Attack

Death:

Date: 21 NOV 1947

Place: Aberdeen, Brown Co., S.D.

Found multiple copies of DEAT DATE. Using 21 NOV 1947Array

Occupation

Occupation: Farmer

Note

Note: #N2235

PHOTO

PHOTO @M157@

Object

Object: @M157@

Object: @M256@

Sources

1. ↑ Paternal relationship is confirmed by a 35 out of 37 Y-DNA marker match between this Family Tree DNA yDNA test for Jerry Prater and this Family Tree DNA yDNA test of his (8th cousin once removed) paternal line cousin H Martin Prather Jr.
2. ↑ Prather-966 was created by H Martin Prather, Jr through the import of PRATH_2015_2015-03-18.ged on Mar 18, 2015. This comment and citation can be deleted after the biography has been edited and primary sources are included.

Notes

Note N2235Paul married Cordie in 1902, to which a son Avery was born in 1903. After their divorce in 1906, Paul removed to the plains of South Dakota where he met his 2nd wife, Mae. In his begining years in South Dakota Paul worked on a local farm, the "Lincoln Ranch". Near there he met Mae, of Brown Co., S.D. They married in 1907, and lived and farmed on rented land near Plana, S.D., (Cambria Township)In 1915 they bought 160 acres in Bath Township, raised their four children and lived there until Pauls death in 1947. Over the years paul and his family raised live stock. But on of Pauls specialities was the development of "Improved Brown County Yellow Dent Seed Corn". To develop this champion seed corn he took a good ear of corn, cut off and discarded the tip and butt (small kernels), shelled the ear, "graded" the kernels, and planted the bigger plum kernels. The result was ears with bigger plum kernels. Paul sold this improved seed corn by the ear to farmers who came from miles around. During the dry weather periods of the 30's, their sandy S.D. plains soil blew easily, requiring extraordinary measures to ensure a crop. His name was listed as Benjamin Paul Prather on his birth Cert. but most other documents including his divorce documents list him as Paul Benjamin Prather.