KIT CARSON PRATT

     Kit Carson Pratt, b ca 1910, d July 4, 1937 in Falls County, Texas - was a son of Henry Thompson Pratt, b Smythe County, Virginia, and his wife, Martha Carson, of Grayson County, Virginia. He married on September 3, 1932 in Marlin, Texas to Clarac Alma Woodland (called "Alma"), b March 4, 1908 in Marlin, d December 7, 1975 and buried in Calvary Cemetery there - a daughter of George and Clarac Alma (Johnson) Woodland.

     Kit came to Falls County, Texas where his Uncle Oliver Pratt had settled on a ranch near the Woodland homestead. He and Alma had one child, Alma Lavonne Pratt, b October 10, 1935 - just eighteen months before Kit was accidentally killed by a horse.

     Alma managed the family estate after Kit's death - including the Marlin, Hog Island, and Encinal property (bought by her grandparents), until her death. She married second to Harold Waldemar Swensen, b 1901, d 1966, who was from Austin, Texas and was in the oil leasing business.

     Kit and Alma's daughter, Alma Lavonne Pratt (called Lavonne), was a 1954 graduate of Marlin High School, and in 1957 graduate of Baylor University - having studied in Mexico City for ten months. She worked at the University of Southern California and University of California at Los Angeles. On Easter Sunday, April 6, 1958, Lavonne married in the George Woodland in Marlin to Harry Foster Rogers.

Copyright Permission granted to Theresa Carhart for printing the biographies of these Falls County Families to this Web page.
"Families of Falls County", Compiled and Edited by the Falls County Historical Commission, page 364 column 1 and 2.  
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