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Evelyn Martin [? - 5/18/1950] married William Henry Prather, Sr. [? - 9/28/1942] in August 1889. Their children were Mamie [3/17/1891 - ?], William Henry, Jr. [9/11/1893 - 2/14/1967], George [1895? - ], Charles [9/15/1896 - ], Estelle [2/7/1897 - circa 1923], Henson [3/1900 - 6/10/1964], Arthur [8/2/? - 11/13/1964], Spencer [7/27/1904 - 11/21/1966], and Elsie [2/20/1911 - ].
On March 17, 1896, Evelyn and William Henry Prather purchased from William W. Welsh the lot at 315 Lincoln Avenue in his new subdivision of Lincoln Park. Evelyn's relatives Ella and Wallace Martin also owned property on the same street, and, in 1902, William Henry's mother, Hester Butler, bought a lot adjacent to his.
The Prathers' house was built by Adam Powell, and most of their children were born at 315 Lincoln. The house was remodeled in the 1950's, and the Prathers' youngest child, Elsie Prather Jackson, still resides there.
The Prathers sponsored a window in the Jerusalem M.E.Church, and they were charter members of the Eureka Tabernacle Number 29 of the order of Galilean Fishermen.
William Henry Prather, Jr. was known as "Henry." He was married to Rhoda Duffin. They had a daughter, Frances.
George and Gertrude Prather had a son Claude [6/15/1915 - 2/?/1986]. Claude Prather owned and operated the Rockville Ice Company at 736 Montgomery Avenue.
Charles T. Prather served in the military during World War I as a Private First Class in the 154th Depot Brigade from December, 1918, and then in the 593rd Motor Transport Company from November, 1918, until being honorably discharged in May, 1919.
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