Person:Matilda Prather (2)

Name	Matilda Prather
Gender	Female
Birth^[3]	17 Sep 1811	Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States
Marriage	1829	Kentucky, United Statesto Samuel Smith Nicholas, Esq.
Death^[1]^[3]	19 Mar 1844	Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States
Burial^[3]		Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States

References

↑ The Biographical encyclopaedia of Kentucky of the dead and living men of the nineteenth century. (Cincinnati, Ohio: J.M. Armstrong, 1878)
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... In 1829, he married Matilda Prather, daughter of Thomas Prather, a wealthy merchant of Louisville, and in this marriage he had seven children. This wife died in 1844; and, in 1848, he married Mary Smith, a cousin, and the granddaughter of General Samuel Smith, who had taken him to live with him when a boy. She survived him, but died in 1874. In this second marriage, he had three children, making in all a family of ten children — seven daughters and three sons. ...
Jennings, Kathleen. Louisville's first families. (Louisville, Kentucky: Standard Printing Company, 1920)
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↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 87235968, in Find A Grave
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