John A. Prall

Birth Date

1827-01-13

Death Date

1907-10-02

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Bourbon County, Kentucky, attorney and politician. Woodford County, Kentucky, native. Married to Nannie Williams Prall. Father of Charlotte Prall and Freddie Prall. Attended Centre College in Boyle County, Kentucky. Read law with George W. Williams in Bourbon County, Kentucky. Farmer in Woodford County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned twelve enslaved persons in Woodford County in 1850. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Bourbon County from 1859 to 1867. Attorney in Bourbon County in 1860. Owned eight enslaved persons in Bourbon County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Woodford County, District 1, p. 439B.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Woodford County, District 1.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbon County, Paris, p. 499.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbon County, Paris, p. 141B.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington Ward 4, p. 324B.
Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1878), 66.
"Col. John A. Prall." The Bourbon News, October 8, 1907.
"Col John Andrew Prall (1827-1907)," Find A Grave, Memorial 99397345, accessed November 17, 2017, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/99397345.

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