Church of Ste. Genevieve, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri - Various Marriage Records:
1776 PRATTE, Jean Baptiste, Widower of Marianne Lalumandiere, to BILLERON, Therese

PERSI:Surname: Pratte, Topic : Pratte, Article: Jean Baptiste Pratte Ltr., 1787, Ont. to Illinois
Periodical: Museum of the Fur Trade Quarterly, Vol 31, Issue: 4, Winter of 1995. photocopies available from Allen County Public Library.

Creoles of St Louis, Author: Paul Beckwith, Call Number: R929.1 B39
This book contains the history and genealogy of Chouteau family of New Orleans.
Beckwith, Paul. Creaoles of St. Louis. Nixon-Jones Printing Co. St. Louis. 1893.
MILIE LABBADIE. 565. Born in St. Louis in 1781, died there Nov. 3, 1844. Married May 13, 1794, Bernard Pratte, who was born in St. Genevieve in 1772, and died in St. Louis April 1, 1836. Son of
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Jean Baptist and Madeline Lalumandiere Pratte. Her father, Alphonse Lalumandiere, married Aimee de la Haye, whose family were of the old French nobility. Bernard Pratte came to St. Louis in 1893, where he engaged in commercial life.

570. Sylvestre S. Pratte, born in St. Louis, Sept.
22, 1779, and was in the employ of the
American Fur Company for many years;
he died near Pike's Peak, Colo., June,
1828. He married Odile de Lassus
of Ste. Genevieve, who died June 5, 1842,
daughter of Camille de Lassus, younger
brother of the last Spanish Governor of
Upper Louisiana. After her husband's
death she married Louis Valle of Ste.
Genevieve.
571. Bernard Pratte, Jr., married Marie Louise
Chenie.
572. Emilie Pratte, married Ramsay Crooks.
573. Therese Pratte, married W. B. Alexander,
secondly, Louis D. Peugnet.
574. Celeste Pratte, married Stephen F. Nidelet.
575. Pelagie Pratte, married Louis V. Bogy.
576. Aimee Pratte, married Joseph Blaine.
BERNARD PRATTE, JR. 571. Born in St. Louis, Dec. 17, 1803, died there July, 1887. In early life he was engaged in the fur
trade, and was interested in the American Fur Company; he owned at one time a steamboat plying in the New Orleans trade.
He was elected president of the Bank of Missouri., and was mayor of the city of St. Louis from 1844 to '45. During his
mayoralty, occured the great flood,

and Mayor Pratte donated his entire salary to the sufferers. In 1850 he retired from active life and purchased a farm
in Montgomery County, Mo., where he died. Mr. Pratte was of commanding presence and courtly manners and was
prominent in social life in the early days of St. Louis. He married, July 20, 1824, Marie Louise, daughter of Antoine and
Marie Therese Papin Chenie.

577. Louise Pratte, married Clay Taylor.
578. Celeste Pratte, married Nov. 16, 1853,
Augustus C. Tracy. He was up to the
date of his death engaged in the wholesale
dry goods business in St. Louis,
where his widow was living in 1893. Son
of Edward Tracy, who came to St. Louis
from New York in 1818, and entered
commercial life, was appointed city auditor
and re-appointed in 1820. He married
Mary Ann, daughter of Frederick
Dent, whose sister married Gen. U. S.
Grant, President of the United States.
The children of Edward Tracy were,
Charles, married Sophie Morton; Edward,
married Zoe Papin; Henry, died
unmarried; John W., died unmarried;
Augustus C., married Celeste Pratte;
William, married Maggie Sloan and was
living in New York in 1893.
579. Julia Pratte, married J. H. Dickinson,
U. S. A., secondly, Hon. William
Gilpin.
580. Lina Pratte, married P. G. Robinson.
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ID: I15922
Reference Number: 15922
Name: Jean Baptiste Sebastion PRATTE source 1
Sex: M
Change Date: 21 APR 1997
Birth: 21 AUG 1739 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada 1
Death: 22 SEP 1826 in Ste. Genevieve, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri 1

Marriage 1 Marie Therese BILLERON b: 1758 in Kaskaskia, Randolph Co., Illinois
Married: 19 NOV 1776 in Ste. Genevieve, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri = sources 2 1
Children
1. Marie Therese PRATTE b: 01 AUG 1777 in Ste. Genevieve, Ste. Genevieve Co., Missouri

Sources:

1.Title: Ancestor Charts of Joyce Ste. Gemme Martin
Abbrev: Martin/Ste. Gemme charts
Note:
Ancestor Charts of Joyce Ste. Gemme Martin, recieved 21 Apr
1997.
From Joyce Ste. Gemme Martin
400 Maple Valley Drive
Apartment #1
Farmington, MO. 63640
2.Title: Correspondence with Thomas A. Beauvais
Abbrev: T.A. Beauvais (1) 04/06/94
Author: Thomas A. BEAUVAIS
Publication: Family Groups sheets
Note:
RIN#17128
Repository:
Name: Jeanne Marie/Beauvais/