Philip Pritchett Biography - Grant County Wisconsin

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Submitted by David W. Taft, dtaft @ cowtown.net

History of Grant County Wisconsin
Western Historical Publishing, Chicago, July 1881
Town of Smelser, Biographical Sketches, Page 1014

PHILIP PRITCHETT (deceased); was born in New York State; came to Wisconsin and 
engaged in anything that he could find to do he resided in Wisconsin until the 
time of his death in October, 1870.  His wife, Margaret Day, born in Louisville, 
Ky., Nov. 6, 1820; was married in December, 1834; they had nine children – Mary, 
born Jan. 2, 1837, now Mrs. Singer, at Whitewater, Wis.; Beverley, born Feb. 
8,1838; Joshua, born Nov. 6,1841; enlisted in 1862 in Co. C, 25th W. V. I.; 
discharged in 1865; now in Nebraska.  James, born Aug. 11,1843; enlisted in Co. 
C, 25th W. V. I.; died at Helena, Ark., Oct. 6,1863.  Allen, born Nov. 13, 1846; 
now in business at Fennimore.  William, born Dec. 20, 1849; now near home on a 
farm.  Garn, born Nov. 1, 1851; Louisa, born Aug. 28,1853; now at Patch Grove; 
Sarah H., born May 29, 1859.  Mrs. Pritchett has, by industry and economy, 
bought and owns 80 acres of land in Sec. 6, P. O. Lancaster.