JOB BRATT, farmer; P. 0. San Jose; was born in Staffordshire, England, April 22, 1822; came, with his father, to New York May 23, 1834, and to Vigo Co., Ind., in Juno following; there his father bought a farm of eighty acres, and they followed farming; January, 1853, he went to Christian Co., Ill.; the November following, to Mason Co.; bought land and settled. Married, Sept. 14, 1852, Sarah Wilkinson; she was born in Sangamon Co., Ill., Jan. 1, 1830; her father, Gary Wilkinson, was born in Scott Co., Ky., and married Nancy Moon; she also was born and raised in Scott Co.; he died March 17, 1834, and she Oct. 19, 1875; they are buried in Sangamon Co., Ill. George Bratt, father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Staffordshire June 12, 1781, and married Esther Bratt in 1825; she was born in London, July 25, 1779; on account of unsettled business, she did not join her family until 1839; she died May 9. 1841, he June 7, 1861. Mr. and Mrs. J. Bratt have had nine children, viz., Ella G., born Aug. 12, 1854; George R., April 13, 1856 (died June 1, 1872, by a stroke of lightning, which killed him and his horse, also the horse under his brother, Jonah W., who escaped comparatively uninjured), Mary H., born Aug. 24, 1857; Jonah W., July 16, 1859; Esther Al., May 29, 1861; Josiah C., Oct. 19, 1864; Reuben W., March 25, 1866; Clarence, Nov. 12, 1869, and Sophia C., Sept. 28, 1872; she died Feb. 24, 1873. They own 440 acres and very fine house, where they reside, in Allen's Grove Township, also 232 acres in Nebraska; in politics, is a Republican.



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