Daughter of Willard Barnes and Dolly Stevens
Married Addison Pratt, 3 Apr 1831, Dunham, Canada
Children - Ellen Saphronia Pratt, Lois Barnes Pratt, Ann Louisa Pratt, Frances Stevens Pratt
Heart Throbs of the West, Kate B. Carter, Vol. 4, p. 199 - 201
Louisa Barnes Pratt, was the first woman called and set apart to fill a mission for the Latter-day Saint Church. At the conference in Salt Lake City on April 6, 1850, she was called by President Brigham Young to take her family, consisting of four daughters, and go, in company with other missionaries, some of whom were taking their families, and labor as a missionary on the Society Islands. Her husband, Addison Pratt, had gone to the Island on his second mission eight months previous. In just one month from the time of her call, she was ready to begin her long journey of 1,000 miles by land and 5,000 miles by water. She had already come from Nauvoo to Salt Lake Valley without the aid of her husband, who was then absent on his first mission.
Louisa Pratt was born and reared in Massachusetts, and had a very good education for that early day. She had taught school in the States, Canada, Nauvoo, Winter Quarters, and Salt Lake City, and now she was to continue her teaching among these dark-skinned people. Her eldest daughter Ellen, a young lady almost nineteen years of age, learned the language very rapidly and acted as interpreter for her mother until she, too, had mastered the language. She taught the native children to read and write their own language, the half-breed and white children she taught English. The women she taught cleanliness, and the gospel of Christ as given in the Bible, and as revealed by the Prophet Joseph Smith in this day. They grasped the truths she taught them very quickly.
She also taught them to sew and to knit. Each day she gathered them around her in the "prayer room" (meeting house) and gave them a lesson from the Bible. She set herself the task of translating a chapter every day, which helped her very much in learning the language.
Heart Throbs of the West, Vol. 8, p. 211
I now return to the subject of my own marriage. I was a member of the Episcopal church. It was required that "the banns of matrimony" be published three Sabbaths in succession in the church. There was a blunder made in the reading thereof, much to the amusement of the young girls. Instead of reading "Addison Pratt, Winchester, N. H.," they left off the first name, connected the second with Winchester, so the gentleman came out with a new name, by which he was accosted at the close of the services. On the third day of April, 1831, we were married. The nuptial rites were celebrated at my father's house in presence of many of my relatives.
Ephraim Pratt was a adopted son of Louisa B. Pratt. He entered the U.S. service under his father's name, Frank Grouard, and received distinguished honors as an Indian scout. Twice he was captured by the Indians, but the color of his skin saved his life.
Married Addison Pratt, 3 Apr 1831, Dunham, Canada
Children - Ellen Saphronia Pratt, Lois Barnes Pratt, Ann Louisa Pratt, Frances Stevens Pratt
Heart Throbs of the West, Kate B. Carter, Vol. 4, p. 199 - 201
Louisa Barnes Pratt, was the first woman called and set apart to fill a mission for the Latter-day Saint Church. At the conference in Salt Lake City on April 6, 1850, she was called by President Brigham Young to take her family, consisting of four daughters, and go, in company with other missionaries, some of whom were taking their families, and labor as a missionary on the Society Islands. Her husband, Addison Pratt, had gone to the Island on his second mission eight months previous. In just one month from the time of her call, she was ready to begin her long journey of 1,000 miles by land and 5,000 miles by water. She had already come from Nauvoo to Salt Lake Valley without the aid of her husband, who was then absent on his first mission.
Louisa Pratt was born and reared in Massachusetts, and had a very good education for that early day. She had taught school in the States, Canada, Nauvoo, Winter Quarters, and Salt Lake City, and now she was to continue her teaching among these dark-skinned people. Her eldest daughter Ellen, a young lady almost nineteen years of age, learned the language very rapidly and acted as interpreter for her mother until she, too, had mastered the language. She taught the native children to read and write their own language, the half-breed and white children she taught English. The women she taught cleanliness, and the gospel of Christ as given in the Bible, and as revealed by the Prophet Joseph Smith in this day. They grasped the truths she taught them very quickly.
She also taught them to sew and to knit. Each day she gathered them around her in the "prayer room" (meeting house) and gave them a lesson from the Bible. She set herself the task of translating a chapter every day, which helped her very much in learning the language.
Heart Throbs of the West, Vol. 8, p. 211
I now return to the subject of my own marriage. I was a member of the Episcopal church. It was required that "the banns of matrimony" be published three Sabbaths in succession in the church. There was a blunder made in the reading thereof, much to the amusement of the young girls. Instead of reading "Addison Pratt, Winchester, N. H.," they left off the first name, connected the second with Winchester, so the gentleman came out with a new name, by which he was accosted at the close of the services. On the third day of April, 1831, we were married. The nuptial rites were celebrated at my father's house in presence of many of my relatives.
Ephraim Pratt was a adopted son of Louisa B. Pratt. He entered the U.S. service under his father's name, Frank Grouard, and received distinguished honors as an Indian scout. Twice he was captured by the Indians, but the color of his skin saved his life.
Daughter of Willard Barnes and Dolly Stevens
Married Addison Pratt, 3 Apr 1831, Dunham, Canada
Children - Ellen Saphronia Pratt, Lois Barnes Pratt, Ann Louisa Pratt, Frances Stevens Pratt
Heart Throbs of the West, Kate B. Carter, Vol. 4, p. 199 - 201
Louisa Barnes Pratt, was the first woman called and set apart to fill a mission for the Latter-day Saint Church. At the conference in Salt Lake City on April 6, 1850, she was called by President Brigham Young to take her family, consisting of four daughters, and go, in company with other missionaries, some of whom were taking their families, and labor as a missionary on the Society Islands. Her husband, Addison Pratt, had gone to the Island on his second mission eight months previous. In just one month from the time of her call, she was ready to begin her long journey of 1,000 miles by land and 5,000 miles by water. She had already come from Nauvoo to Salt Lake Valley without the aid of her husband, who was then absent on his first mission.
Louisa Pratt was born and reared in Massachusetts, and had a very good education for that early day. She had taught school in the States, Canada, Nauvoo, Winter Quarters, and Salt Lake City, and now she was to continue her teaching among these dark-skinned people. Her eldest daughter Ellen, a young lady almost nineteen years of age, learned the language very rapidly and acted as interpreter for her mother until she, too, had mastered the language. She taught the native children to read and write their own language, the half-breed and white children she taught English. The women she taught cleanliness, and the gospel of Christ as given in the Bible, and as revealed by the Prophet Joseph Smith in this day. They grasped the truths she taught them very quickly.
She also taught them to sew and to knit. Each day she gathered them around her in the "prayer room" (meeting house) and gave them a lesson from the Bible. She set herself the task of translating a chapter every day, which helped her very much in learning the language.
Heart Throbs of the West, Vol. 8, p. 211
I now return to the subject of my own marriage. I was a member of the Episcopal church. It was required that "the banns of matrimony" be published three Sabbaths in succession in the church. There was a blunder made in the reading thereof, much to the amusement of the young girls. Instead of reading "Addison Pratt, Winchester, N. H.," they left off the first name, connected the second with Winchester, so the gentleman came out with a new name, by which he was accosted at the close of the services. On the third day of April, 1831, we were married. The nuptial rites were celebrated at my father's house in presence of many of my relatives.
Ephraim Pratt was a adopted son of Louisa B. Pratt. He entered the U.S. service under his father's name, Frank Grouard, and received distinguished honors as an Indian scout. Twice he was captured by the Indians, but the color of his skin saved his life.
Married Addison Pratt, 3 Apr 1831, Dunham, Canada
Children - Ellen Saphronia Pratt, Lois Barnes Pratt, Ann Louisa Pratt, Frances Stevens Pratt
Heart Throbs of the West, Kate B. Carter, Vol. 4, p. 199 - 201
Louisa Barnes Pratt, was the first woman called and set apart to fill a mission for the Latter-day Saint Church. At the conference in Salt Lake City on April 6, 1850, she was called by President Brigham Young to take her family, consisting of four daughters, and go, in company with other missionaries, some of whom were taking their families, and labor as a missionary on the Society Islands. Her husband, Addison Pratt, had gone to the Island on his second mission eight months previous. In just one month from the time of her call, she was ready to begin her long journey of 1,000 miles by land and 5,000 miles by water. She had already come from Nauvoo to Salt Lake Valley without the aid of her husband, who was then absent on his first mission.
Louisa Pratt was born and reared in Massachusetts, and had a very good education for that early day. She had taught school in the States, Canada, Nauvoo, Winter Quarters, and Salt Lake City, and now she was to continue her teaching among these dark-skinned people. Her eldest daughter Ellen, a young lady almost nineteen years of age, learned the language very rapidly and acted as interpreter for her mother until she, too, had mastered the language. She taught the native children to read and write their own language, the half-breed and white children she taught English. The women she taught cleanliness, and the gospel of Christ as given in the Bible, and as revealed by the Prophet Joseph Smith in this day. They grasped the truths she taught them very quickly.
She also taught them to sew and to knit. Each day she gathered them around her in the "prayer room" (meeting house) and gave them a lesson from the Bible. She set herself the task of translating a chapter every day, which helped her very much in learning the language.
Heart Throbs of the West, Vol. 8, p. 211
I now return to the subject of my own marriage. I was a member of the Episcopal church. It was required that "the banns of matrimony" be published three Sabbaths in succession in the church. There was a blunder made in the reading thereof, much to the amusement of the young girls. Instead of reading "Addison Pratt, Winchester, N. H.," they left off the first name, connected the second with Winchester, so the gentleman came out with a new name, by which he was accosted at the close of the services. On the third day of April, 1831, we were married. The nuptial rites were celebrated at my father's house in presence of many of my relatives.
Ephraim Pratt was a adopted son of Louisa B. Pratt. He entered the U.S. service under his father's name, Frank Grouard, and received distinguished honors as an Indian scout. Twice he was captured by the Indians, but the color of his skin saved his life.
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