{"id":431,"date":"2011-11-07T20:01:22","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T02:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea2\/?p=431"},"modified":"2011-11-07T20:01:22","modified_gmt":"2011-11-08T02:01:22","slug":"george-pritchett-went-to-oklahoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/george-pritchett-went-to-oklahoma\/","title":{"rendered":"George Pritchett Went to Oklahoma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My great grandfather George W. <strong>Pritchett<\/strong> left Rhea Co. for Oklahoma in 1909. George was the son of William and Priscilla <strong>Essex Pritchett<\/strong>. William had lived in Rhea Co. from 1859 until his death 13 March 1916. Priscilla died in Rhea Co. 11 May 1905. William and Priscilla where married 1 April 1863. Priscillas parents were William and Mary <strong>Long Essex<\/strong>. They where married in Rhea Co. 4 Nov 1838.<\/p>\n<p>William and Priscilla had the following children: George W., James Lindsay, William J., and Polly. William was married to Laura and according to my grandfather he went to Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>James Lindsay Pritchett married Mary Texana <strong>McMillan<\/strong> and had the following children: Inda Bessie, Samuel A., Charles Benton, James Harvey, Jesse, George Levi, Robert, Alvin H., Joseph Manuel, Johnny, Daniel, Milton. James and his family also went to Oklahoma in 1909 and appear on the 1910 McClain Co. census. However they returned to Rhea Co. not long after that and many of James and Marys descendants still live in the county.<\/p>\n<p>George married Martha <strong>McMillan<\/strong> 28 Feb 1886 and had the following children all born in Rhea Co: Andrew J., Wealthy Ann, James H., Joseph, Oscar William, Minta, Carol Roy, Lydia, and Viola. Wealthy died in Tennessee before the move to Oklahoma. The family settled in McClain Co., Oklahoma. Minta and Carol Roy died in just a few years. During the depression James H. <strong>Pritchett<\/strong> moved his wife Bertha <strong>Johnson Pritchett<\/strong> and his children to Eddy Co., New Mexico for several years and then to Fresno Co., CA. Oscar also came to Fresno Co. but most of the other children stayed in Oklahoma.<\/p>\n<p>My father, James Edward <strong>Pritchett<\/strong> used to say that when they left Oklahoma they looked like the Grapes of Wrath except the car in the movie looked better than the one they actually had. They where very poor and worked at anything they could. James H. and Bertha eventually bought a boarding house. Their children have all been prosperous and hard working.<\/p>\n<p>Submitted by<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:Letrman5@aol.com\">Letrman5@aol.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My great grandfather George W. Pritchett left Rhea Co. for Oklahoma in 1909. George was the son of William and Priscilla Essex Pritchett. William had lived in Rhea Co. from 1859 until his death 13 March 1916. Priscilla died in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/george-pritchett-went-to-oklahoma\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[134],"tags":[189,191,190,188],"class_list":["post-431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exodus","tag-essex","tag-long","tag-mcmillan","tag-pritchett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}