Funeral Notice of Bernice Connelly Pratt

Bernice Hackley Connelly Pratt
1807-1890 

     Belle Tisdale Booksh's Grandma Pratt died on 23   June 1890 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She was 83 years old, born 9 April 1807 in Scott County, Kentucky.

     She and her husband, Willia Henry Pratt, migrated to Arkansas about 1830 and then to Louisiana 1846.

     They had nine children:

Frances Ann and James William, born in Kentucky

Marion Franklin, Eliza Helen (Belle's mother), Valerie Catherine, Susan May, and Albina Sarah, born in Arkansas

Joel Eugene and Franklin Edward, born in Louisiana.

      She is buried in Magnolia Cemetery in Baton Rouge along with her husband who died in 1880.