Pratt of Savannah and Alabama

Rev. Horace S. Pratt, Presbyterian Minister, was born ca 1787 and died ca 1833 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He was married 1st to Jane Wood, a daughter of John Wood, a loyalist who fled from Savannah at the beginning of the Revolutionary War. Jane died in 1829 and in 1832 Pratt married her first cousin, Isabel Ann Drysdale, a daughter of another successful planter, Alexander Drysdale of Savannah. In 1839 they removed to Tuscaloosa, Alabama where Pratt became a professor of English literature. He died the following year at the home of his brother Great Oaks in Roswell, Georgia.

Issue by first wife:

• Laleah G. W. Pratt, born ca 1824 in Savannah.
• Isabell J. H. Pratt, born ca 1826 in Savannah.
• John W. Pratt, born ca 1828 in Savannah.
• Sarah E. Pratt, born ca 1830 in Savannah.
  Horace S. Pratt, born ca 1832 in Savannah.
• Mary Pratt, born ca 1834 in Savannah.

Orange Hall was built by Rev. Horace Pratt in Savannah ca 1826.


Great Oaks was built by Rev. Nathaniel Pratt, a brother of Horace Pratt, in Roswell, Georgia. During the War Between the States the home was occupied by Garrard's cavalry upon the orders of General Sherman.