The family coat-of-arms was also verified by other family researchers, Mr. Stout Lillard, Member of the Library of Congress, Washington D.C. and again by Mrs. Francis C. Culver, Historical Registrar of the Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, MD. It was also verified by Gary Benton Prather, a family historian, with the College of Heraldy, and files at Somerset House records office in London, England (1986). And again, Gary witnessing the Arms carved in stone on the tomb of Richard Prater of Nunney, Somerset England ----- and the tomb of Judith Ivye Prater at West Kingston, Wiltshire. It was also registered by Bishop of Wilton in the General Survey of Wiltshire before 1564 at Latton Manor, Wiltshire -- the Armorial barings of George Prater "Esquire" of Latton Manor, Wiltshire. Jonathan Prather (1630 to 1680 registered the Prater Coat-of-Arms with the College of Heraldry in Baltimore, Maryland in 1650 (then an English Colony), stating "Descendant of a long and Noble family of Latton, Wilts". Thus, the Prater Coat-of-Arms was to include his descendants which used the Prater / Prather name (including other spellings).
