Robert
Pruett
Born in Goochland County, Virginia, USA
Ancestors 
Son of Obadiah Addison Pruett
and Frances (Jarratt) Pruett
Brother of
Betsy (Pruett) Meyers, Vernal Franklin (Pruett) Prewitt, Wilson Pruett, Sarah (Pruitt) See [half], Mary (Pruett) Bryan [half], Granville Pruitt [half], Frances (Pruett) Greenlee [half] and Stokes Prewett [half]
Husband of
Mary Martha (Knapp) Pruett
— married
7 Sep 1812 in Mason County, West Virginia, USA
Descendants 
Father of
Meredith Pruett, Jarrett Wesley Pruett, Cynthia (Pruett) Blurton, Mary Ann (Pruett) Doolen, Agnes (Pruett) Robb, Burwell Pruett, Jane (Pruett) Wyckoff, Eliza Frances (Pruett) Bilderback, Elizabeth (Pruett) Sullenberger and Almariah (Pruett) Hedgecock
Died
at age 68
in Schuyler County, Illinois, USA
Profile last modified
| Created 20 Apr 2018
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Biography
Robert was born in 1791. His mother died when he was 6 months old and he was nursed by a negro slave. [Maybe it was Bett who was given to Obediah by his father.] When he was just 3 months past 2 years old, his father remarried, so he was raised by his step-mother, Nancy (Lovell).
Sometime before 1809 Robert moved with his father to Mason Co, (W)Va. They attended the Methodist Episcopal Church there.
The 1810 census of Mason Co, (W)Va. shows:
p375 - Prewet, Obed
p376A - Knap, Moses [his future father-in-law]
He married Mary Martha "Patsy" Knapp (b Aug 25, 1799, Fleming Co, Ky; she was 13 when they married) at Point Pleasant in Mason Co, (W)Va. Their marriage bond was signed Sept 17, 1812 by Robert Pruett and Moses Knapp.[1]
They spent their first years together in Virginia (now WV).
He was in the War of 1812.
1820 Mason county (W)Virginia[2]
Obed Pruett - 100101(age 45-up) - 21101
Wilson Pruett - 00001(26-45) - 301
Robert Pruett - 20001(26-45) - 101
(Vernal is not there)
Possibly in 1827, the family moved Indiana. Daughter Jane was born in Feb 1828 supposedly in Monroe co, IN (probably around Bloomington). Monroe County was formed in 1818 from Orange Co. The National Road didn't move into east Indiana until 1827, and didn't go to Indianapolis until 1831, so they must have had a rough road to travel. His daughter, Cynthia’s obit says they moved to Indiana in 1830.
On Oct 7, 1829 Robert and Martha Pruitt sold their land in Mason Co, WV to William “Nap” (probably her brother William Knapp) also of Mason Co., for $1.[3]
According to Brinkerhoff’s 1909 “History of Marion County, Illinois” (p617), Francis M. Robb’s wife, Agnes (Pruitt) Robb, was the daughter of Robert and Martha Pruitt, “who came to Marion county in a very early day, about 1812, settling in what is now Meacham township, where they got government land, but later went to Missouri.” [This is probably NOT the correct date.]
He must have moved NW to Vermillion County, IN before 1830.
(Vermillion county was organized in 1824.)
There was a Robert H. PUETT (sic) in Vermillion Co, Indiana in 1830 [middle initial is unreadable]
p221
2 males under 5 . . . . . . . . [Burrell-3]
1 male 5-9 years . . . . . . .[Jarrett-13, Meredith-15]
1 male 20-29 years . . . . .[Robert-39]
2 females under 5 . . . . . . .[Jane-2, Agnes-6]
1 female 5-9 years . . . . . .[Mary Ann-9, Cynthia-11]
1 female 20-29 years . . . .[Martha-31]
This family on the 1830 census doesn't totally match Robert Pruett's family though.
Robert Pruett of Vermillion co, Indiana (west side of IN) bought 80 acres on July 1, 1831, then again on March 18, 1837. He bought 2 pieces of land, one was 160 acres and the other was 80 acres. [4]
The 1850 census has Jane, Eliza, Elizabeth and Almariah born in Indiana between 1829 & 1837.
Robert must have moved about 30 miles NW into Vermilion County, Illinois by 1837.
The Illinois Public Domain Land Tract Sales database shows 2 purchases of land near Danville, Vermilion County in Mar. 1837, just a few miles inside Illinois.
Then they moved to Marion County, about 150 miles SW of Danville.
Here are 2 land purchases in Marion County in Nov. 1840.
[5]
1840 & 1850 he was in Marion Co, IL.
1840 IL census - Marion Co (twps not listed), p 168:
Robert Prewet - 0010101 - 3102101, which means:
male 40-50 [Robert, 49]
female 40-50 [Patsy, 41]
male 20-30 [Jarrett W.-23]
girl 20-30 [Cynthia-21]
2 girls 15-20 [Mary Ann-19, Agnus-16]
boy 10-15 [Burrell-13]
girl 5-10 [Jane-12]
3 girls 0-5 [Frances Eliza-7, Elizabeth-5, Ann Maria-3]
[on same page was Jesse Doolen; their children married each other: Alfred Murray Doolen & Mary Ann Pruett]
1850 Marion Co, IL, District 11 [6]
Pruett, Robert - 59, b VA, farmer 1500
. . . . . Martha - 51 KY
. . . . . Jane - 19 IA [Ind was often abbreviated IA at that time; Iowa didn't become a state until 1846]
. . . . . Eliza - 17 IA
. . . . . Elizabeth - 15 IA
. . . . . Maria - 13 IA
Day, Thomas - 4 IL
[Thomas Day’s’ mother (unk) died when he was a baby. When his father (unk) remarried his new wife would take the girls but not the boy, so he was given away to the Pruetts. Martha Pruett died in 1855 and Robert remarried in 1858. Prob his new wife didn’t want Thomas either. Maria (Almariah) also married in 1858 and Thomas (age 11) went to live with her and her husband Caustin Hedgecock.]
They moved to Schuyler Co., IL sometime in 1855 where Martha died Oct 20, 1855. She was buried in the Mt. Harmony Burying Ground (Davenport Cem), Birmingham twp.
Robert married 2nd to Lydia Johnson, May 28, 1858. [7]
He died Jan 7, 1860 (age 68) after being kicked by a horse in Schuyler Co, IL. (According to family rumor, his second wife's sons were responsible for hastening his death.)
Robert was buried[8] beside Martha at the Mt. Harmony Cemetery.
(After Robert died Lydia married Henry Hoyt, Aug 24, 1863).
Additional Biography Notes from Findagrave below: Robert was the son of Obediah Addison "Obie" Pruitt and Frances "Fanny" Jarrett. His mother died when he was 6 months old and Robert was nursed by a negro slave. His father married Nancy Lovell when he was 2 years old (1793). His father moved his family to Mason Co, WV before 1810.
He married Patsy Knapp at Pt. Pleasant in Mason Co, WV. Their marriage bond was signed Sept 7, 1812. He was in the War of 1812. They had 6 children in WV: Meredith (1815), Jarrett W. (1817), Cynthia (1819), Mary Ann (1821), Agnus (1824), Burrell (Jan 1827).
In 1827 he moved his family to Indiana. Daughter Jane was born there in Feb 1828 in Monroe Co, maybe near Bloomington. The 1850 census shows 4 of his children born in Indiana between 1829 & 1837: Jane (1828), Frances Eliza (1833), Elizabeth (1835, prob died young) Almariah (1836).
Robert must have moved to Marion Co, IL between 1837 & 1840. The Illinois Public Domain Land Tract Sales database shows 7 land purchases in Marion Co. from 1839 to 1855.
Sometime in 1855, when he was 64 and all their children married, he and Martha moved about 100 miles northwest to Schuyler Co, IL where Martha died Oct 1855. She was buried in the Mt. Harmony Burying Ground (aka Davenport Cem), Birmingham twp.
Robert married again to Lydia Johnson, May 28, 1858. He died in Jan 1860 after being kicked by a horse.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/35126300/robert-pruett
Sources
- ↑ Marriage record - https://www.wikitree.com/photo/jpg/Pruett_documents
- ↑ 1820 census - https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHLZ-NG7
- ↑ Mason Co, VA Deed Book H, p. 233
- ↑ Bureau of Land Management records at: https://glorecords.blm.gov/results/default.aspx?searchCriteria=type=patent|st=IN|cty=|ln=pruett|fn=robert|sp=true|sw=true|sadv=false
- ↑ Bureau of Land Management records at: https://glorecords.blm.gov/results/default.aspx?searchCriteria=type=patent|st=IL|cty=|ln=pruett|fn=robert|sp=true|sw=true|sadv=false
- ↑ 1850 Census - https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M85Z-647
- ↑ IL Statewide Marriage Index
- ↑ FAG - https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/35126300
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