Spratt, James

Born: 1822-10-15 Ohio

Died: 1893-04-05 DeWitt County, Illinois

Flourished: DeWitt County, Illinois

Alternate name: Spath

James Spratt was a farmer. In October 1844, Spratt married Elizabeth Wheeler in Clark County, Ohio. James moved his family to Illinois, settling in DeWitt County, Illinois. In May 1853, he was a member of the jury that found Moses Loe, a client of Abraham Lincoln, guilty of manslaughter in the stabbing death of James Gray. James and Elizabeth Spratt lived in Rutledge, Illinois, in 1860 and had a "large family," with at least nine children. James owned real property valued at $6,000 and had a personal estate of $1,800. In 1870, Spratt owned real estate valued at $28,800 and had a personal estate value of $2,000.

The Clinton Public (IL), 7 April 1893, 4:4; Ohio, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1774-1993, 20 October 1844, Clark County (Lehi, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, 2016); U.S. Census Office, Seventh Census of the United States (1850), DeWitt County, IL, 443; U.S. Census Office, Eighth Census of the United States (1860), Rutledge, DeWitt County, IL, 205; U.S. Census Office, Ninth Census of the United States (1870), DeWitt, IL, 5; People v. Loe, Martha L. Benner and Cullom Davis et al., eds., The Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln: Complete Documentary Edition , 2d edition (Springfield: Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, 2009), http://www.lawpracticeofabrahamlincoln.org/Details.aspx?case=135583; Gravestone, Johnson Cemetery, Solomon, IL.