NameETHAN PRATT
Birthabt 1761, SAYBROOK, CONNETICUT
Misc. Notes
Ethan Pratt settled about half a mile east of Oak Hill, married Mabel Skeels, a sister of Adoniram Skeels. They had 7 children, viz., Daniel, John, Ethan, Sally, Deborah, Eveline and Edmund. Daniel married Sylvina, a sister of Daniel and Eben Booth, and lived and died in Chemung county. Ethan became a minister of the Gospel in Bainbridge, where he died. Deborah was said to be the handsomest young lady in town, married Ira D. Smith, and her son, Thomas Smith, now lives near Cairo. Sally married Henry Chittenden , and was highly esteemed as a mother in Isreal. She died May 21st, 1872. Eveline married Zina Whittlesey , of sainted memory, who died in Rochester, June 9, 1877. She still survives. Edmund married Eunice Hull, and after her death Rebecca Chittenden. By his first wife he had three sons, Elizur, Ezra and Theodore. Elizur graduated from Williams College, in the class of 1867, and from Union Theo. Seminary in 1870---has spent the most of his ministerial life thus far at Cape Vincent, near the Thousand Islands in the St. Lawrence River. Ezra became a doctor, and is practicing at Brownville, Jefferson county. Theodore died in early life. Their father became a member of the church Sept. 4, 1831, and an elder June 10, 1857.
Ethan Pratt was a brother of Captain Jonathan and Abijah Pratt. He lived one-half mile east of Oak Hill. He married Mabel Skeels. Ethan, his son, became a minister. Sarah married Col. Hervey Chittenden. Eveline married Deacon Zina Whittlesey. Edmund married Eunice Hull. Elizur H., son of Edmund, graduated from Williams College in 1867, also from Union Theological Seminary in 1870. He became pastor of the church at Cape Vincent, New York. For the last few years of his life, he was associate editor of the New York Evangelist. He died July 4th 1883, in his 41st year. He was one of the best and purest of men; and the world and the church met with a great loss when he breathed his last. His only surviving brother; Ezra B. Pratt, M. D., is a prominent physician, living at Brownsville, Jefferson county. N. Y.