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remainder of their lives. His fellow citizens, however, would not allow him to remain entirely in retirement upon his farm, and for four years he representeed Pompey in the Board of Supervisors, and for one year was a Member of the State Legislature. In all his public official duties he manifested capacity and integrity that would be refreshing in these days of venality and corruption.

His first wife lived only ten years after their marriage, and she left five children who were in the order of their agesOthello C., Calvin B., Helen C., Mary E. and Leonidas E. A few years after the death of his first wife, he married Miss Pamelia Slauson, by whom he had one child, Marcus M. Pratt. With her he lived twenty-two years and she died. It was during this latter married life that a severe affliction came upon him, the nerve in his right leg became diseased to such an extent that he was obliged to submit to a painful surgical operation by which a part of the nerve was taken out, and he became again comparatively strong but to some extent lame.

After the death of his second wife, he married a Mrs. Adams with whom he is now living in the village of Pompey Hill, having sold his farm some twenty years ago. By his third wife he has one child, Carrie D. Pratt, now eleven years of age, the pride and comfort of her parents. During the past few years the nervous affection of his leg returned to trouble him, if possible, with redoubled fury. This time the attack was in the lower extremity of the limb, and the excrutiating torture which he suffered was beyond the endurance of any ordinary man. Although he had the most skilful medical aid and the best of care, his limb finally began to mortify and a counsel of Physicians gave him up to die. It was, however, determined to amputate the lower part of the leg, that it might be endurable to nurse him. This being done, to the surprise of all, his unconquerable tenacity for life mastered the difficulty, and he became well again. He manages to get about with the aid of a chair, refusing to use crutches.

But his suffering did not end. Last winter as he was going home from Capt. Taylor's store, he fell and injured the unlucky limb and received a great shock to his nervous system. Again his life is in iminent danger, but again that iron will and tenacious clinging to life overcomes the difficulty, and to-day, (Summer of 1875,) having a full head of black hair and black whiskers with a sound limb to help his locomotion, he would pass for a man of forty-five. Physically incapacitated as he is, he cultivates his garden, saws his own fire-wood, takes an interest in public affairs and keeps posted on all the current topics of the day. His mind is vigorous, and his memory retentive. In politics he has always been a democrat, and hopes to see the day when the people will wake up to the necessity of demanding of their public servants honesty in the administration of government, or if otherwise, to require them to step down and out. He is, probably, the oldest living person who was born in Pompey, and nothwithstanding his physical afflictions, is quietly passing down the declivity of life with apparently as much enjoyment as falls to the lot of man. Othello C. Pratt his eldest son, like his father, received a liberal education at the Pompey Academy, as did all Mr. Pratt's children. He was in 1849 a pioneer Californian, and knows much of the hardships of pioneer life. Having seen the golden State arise from infancy to a condition of wealth and influence, and having himself acquired a competency, he returned in 1857 to his native town, and married Lucinda, eldest daughter of Q. J. Wheaton, of Pompey, and he is now a resident of the healthful village of Pompey Hill.

Helen C. Pratt married E. Beard, of Pompey, and they reside in Syracuse, N. Y. He is engaged in the furniture trade with Seley Hayden, also a son of Pompey.

Calvin B. Pratt went to California among the early adventurers, and died in Nevada.

Mary Pratt married Orville Slauson, of Pompey, a farmer, and resides on the old Slauson homestead, about two miles north of Pompey Hill.

Leonidas Pratt, a lawyer, and married, resides in San Francisco, California. He has acquired some distinction in the golden State, having held the office of District Attorney, Supreme Court Judge and State Senator.

M. M. Pratt resides in Phoenix, Oswego Co., N. Y. He is adjuster of claims, and assistant Secretary of the Onondaga and Oswego Insurance Company.

Carrie D. Pratt, the youngest child, remains with her parents. So closes an imperfect record of a family that has kept the ancestral name untarnished. So should it be with all the families of our land.

MILLARD ROBINSON.

The old residents of Pompey will remember the earnest and impressive singer at the Methodist Camp Meetings. That singer was Millard Robinson. His father, Isaac Robinson, was a soldier in the revolutionary war, and died in Otisco, Onondaga Co., having early come to that town from Saratoga Co., N. Y. Millard was born in the town of Edinbury, Saratoga Co., Nov. 13th, 1792. At the age of 16 he became converted, and united with the Methodist Episcopal church, of which he was an earnest and prominent member till death called him away. October 10th, 1810, he was married to Electa Grimes, a daughter of Thomas Grimes, Esq., and in 1811, moved to Pompey, and settled two and a half miles south of Pompey Hill. He served as a musician in the war of 1812. Built a section of the Erie canal, and afterwards purchased a farm of one hundred acres, three miles east of Pompey Hill, about the year 1825, on Lot No. 65. Here he raised a large family of children and remained on this farm till his death, which occurred in 1867.

JOHN SMITH.

Almost every community has its John Smith. The list of the pioneers of Pompey would be incomplete without a

John Smith, but of him who was among the first settlers of Pompey there is more than simply the name John Smith. Pompey's John Smith was born in Buckland, Hampshire Co., Massachusetts, July 20th, 1787, and died in Pompey, September 15th, 1872, in the 86th year of his age. His father having heard a good report of the country in central New York, resolved to send his son John on a tour of inspection, that he might know from him what advantages the new country offered. Accordingly, there being no public conveyance, he came all the way on horseback to Pompey, through the wilderness, oft times having no companions but the wild denizens of the forest. Having explored the country to hist satisfaction, he returned to his eastern home on foot, having sold his horse. His report fully corroborated all that had been before related of Pompey's healthful clime and fertile soil. His father then resolved to find a home in the "western world," and called to his aid some neighbors, who assisted him to make a "sled." Soon they were on their way, his father with the other members of the family, and he, with a "yoke of stags," and the "sled," with their household goods. There was a gathering of neighbors, the farewells were spoken, and they were off. Scarcely had they started when the sled broke down. It was quickly repaired again, kind wishes were exchanged and very soon the "old homestead" was lost to view. The route they pursued lay over the Hoosac mountains to Williamstown, when they came upon bare ground. Here they purchased a cart, unloaded and repacked their goods, and left the "sled" at the hotel at Williamstown, where, long years after, the subject of this notice saw it in the same yard where it was left.

Before they got to Litchfield the axletree of the cart was broken. Again the goods were unloaded, and while the repairing was going on, some unruly swine made a raid upon their commissary department, and the good things prepared for their journey as was the custom in those days, were either consumed or greatly disarranged. When they came to Litchfield, snow again appeared, and they were obliged to

JOHN SMITH ESQ R

ENDICOTT & CO. LITH, N.Y.

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