Elizabeth Ann Waller was born in Spotsylvania County Virginia the daughter of Thomas Carr and Sarah Ann Dabney Waller. In 1785 she married Horace Pritchett in Fredricksberg, Spotsylvania County, Virginia. To this union ten (10) children were born:
Children1.Wealthy Ann PRITCHETT b: 1789 in Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania County, Virginia
2.Nancy PRITCHETT b: ABT 1792 in Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania County, Virginia
3.William PRITCHETT b: 7 MAR 1793 in Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania County, Virginia
4.Benjamin PRITCHETT b: 1794 in Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania County, Virginia
5.Waller PRITCHETT b: 26 DEC 1795 in Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania County, Virginia
6.Mary Ann PRITCHETT b: 7 AUG 1799 in Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania County, Virginia
7.Addison PRITCHETT b: MAY 1800 in Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania County, Virginia
8.Agnes Carr PRITCHETT b: 1802 in Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania County, Virginia
9.Horace PRITCHETT b: 20 JUN 1804 in Spotsyvania, Virginia
10.Robert PRITCHETT b: 1808 in Virginia

Historical Newspapers > The Daily Review (Decatur, Illinois) > 1897 > July > 6.

According to Judge T.A. Pritchett of Decatur, Speaking of James Pritchett and Elizabeth Waller, "In 1800 he sold his possessions with view of going to Kentucky to find a home. He died before this was done, however, and advised his family to carry out the plans he has made. James Waller, a brother of the widow, went with the family to Hopkins County. They made the trip in a wagon. Eight the children lived with the mother and all raised families of their own. Most of the descendents of the family now live at Madisonville, Hopkins County, KY., and last year I stood before 500 members of the family."

James Pritchett, my Grandfather July 5, 1897 , Pritchett - Ingels Family Reunion, Niantic, Illinois

James Pritchett, my great-grandfather, was born in Virginia. The year was about 1760. I know very little about him except that he was married to Elizabeth Waller in 1785 and to them were born ten children. In the early years of 1800 he sold whatever earthly possessions they had to seek a home in the "wilds of Kentucky", then known to Virginians as the "Far West". After dispossing of his property he was taken sick and died. While on his death bed he advised his wife, Elizabeth Waller Pritchett to take her young and large family and to carry out his purpose by seeking for herself and the family a home in Kentucky. So after laying him to rest in the soil of his native state of Virginia, at Fredericksburg in Spotsylvania County, Elizabeth set off to her destiny in Kentucky.

Elizabeth Waller Pritchett and her brother James Waller loaded up her family in covered wagons and began their long and tedious journey for their new home in Kentucky. The family continued until they reached southwestern Kentucky to what is now Hopkins County and in and around where the city of Madisonville, Kentucky is located. There eight of the children continued with their Mother, Elizabeth and their Uncle James Waller. The children of James Pritchett and Elizabeth Waller Pritchett all grew to adulthood in the Hopkins County, Kentucky area. It was here that they married and raised their families and where most of their descendants now live. The writer of this sketch last fall ( 1896 at a reunion in the church yard of Grapevine Cemetery, Madisonville, Kentucky. A picture of this gathering was in the possession of Mrs. Rowland Clark, Lexington, Kentucky) I had the pleasure of standing before a company of not less than 500 of them at one time and yet not near all of them were present. This was a crowd of cousins of which any one would be proud.

William A. Pritchett, he was the oldest son of James and Elizabeth Waller Pritchett. William A. Pritchett was born in Fredericksburg, Virginia on March 7, 1793 and with his widowed mother, Elizabeth Waller Pritchett, left Virginia in the company of the rest of the family and continued with them until they reached Fayette County, Kentucky. ( Fayette County was redistricted because it was such a large county that it was divided in half and became Fayette & Bourbon Counties. This happened after the Revolutionary War to pay honor to the French who came to the aid of Americans. ) William A. Pritchett found work on a farm as a farm hand. Leaving his mother, brothers and sisters to continue their journey to the southwest region of Kentucky to find their home. William A. Pritchett continued to work on a farm in Fayette County until the War of 1812. He volunteered as a soilder and was with General Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans. Once peace was restored, he returned to Fayette County, Kentucky where he became acquainted with Lydia Garner Wilson. Lydia was born in Fayette County, Kentucky on June 15,1799. This acquaintance culminated in their marriage on June 12, 1817. They were my father and mother and the grandparents of many of you...one of God's noble men and women.

This address was delivered by Thomas Alexander Pritchett, at a Pritchett - Ingels Family Reunion held in Niantic, Illinois on July 5, 1897