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Family name spelled Callahan and Callaham
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Gabrilla Callahan was born July 30th, 1823, Abbeyville, County, South Carolina. Her father was born near Richmond Virginia, where in his early life he raised tobacco, rolling it to market in hogshead containing several hundred pounds. It was drawn by a mule hitched between shafts attached to each end of the hogshead.

Gabrilla married to Charles Felix Pratt, July 2nd, 1845. She was the mother of nine children, four sons and five daughters: John William, James Abner, Silvester Valentine, Charles Felix, Nancy Elizabeth, Martha Ann (who died July 8th, 1887), Emma Matilda, Phoebe Jane, Mary Leona. She and her family were members of the Crescent City Branch of the R.L.D.S. Church. After a short illness she died January 23rd, 1902, and was buried beside her husband in the Crescent Cemetery.
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C. F. Pratt, farmer, P. O. Crescent City, was born October 19, 1824, In Abbeville County, S. C.; son of W. Pratt, who was born in Abbeville County, S. C. September 27, 1798, and was engaged in farming, when he married Martha Murdock, born in Newberry County, S. C., July 30, 1803; he died January 26, 1863, but hsi wife survives, and is now seventy-nine years old. To her seven children were born; five survive, of whom Mr. C. F. Pratt is one. He spent his earlier years on the farm of his father, receiving a common school education. At the age of twenty, at his home, July 2, 1845, he married Gabrilla Callaham, who was born in the same county July 30, 1823; her parents were John and Nancy (Stephenson) Callaham, who were born respectively in Virginia and South Carolina. In 1845, Mr. Pratt removed to Chattooga County, Ga., and engaged in farming and school teaching; he enlisted as a volunteer September 2, 1861, in Company I, Thirty-fifth Georgia, Hill's corps of Lee's army; took part in a number of engagements, and surrendered at Kingston, Ga., May 17, 1865. In 1869, he came West, and stopped a few months at Omaha, Neb., then came to Pottawattamie County, Iowa, and engaged in saw-milling until 1879, when he changed to farming,, in which business he still continues. Mr. and Mrs. Pratt had nine children, one of whom is dead. Their names are John W., Nancy E., James A., Sylvester V., Martha Ann (dead), Emma M., Phebe J. Charles F., and Frances L. Mr. Pratt belongs to the Latter-Day Saints, or Mormons; he is a Greenbacker in politics, having been a candidate several times for county offices on that ticket. He joined the Masonic fraternity in 1863, and is also a member of the Mutual Protectionists. (From the 1892 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa)

Charles Felix and Gabrilla Pratt's children:
John William (farmer): Born June 2, 1846. Died, July 25th, 1924 at Mondamin, Iowa. Married to Mary Motz.

Nancy Elizabeth: Born June2, 1846. Died, February 12, 1917, in Oklahoma. Married to Tobe McKinney.

James Abner (farmer): Born September 14, 1849. Died at Crescent Iowa. Married to Mary Toomy. She died November 25, 1951, Council Bluffs, Iowa.

Sylvester Valentine (farmer): Born April 10, 1852. Died September 22, 1907 in Hays, Kansas. Married To Margaret T. Currie - Margaret T. Currie: Born September 6, 1860. Died May 27, 1940 at Loveland, Colorado. Buried in the Lakeside Cemetery, Loveland.

Martha Ann: Born August 12, 1854. Died July 6, 1871, Crescent, Iowa.

Emma Matilda: Born August 24, 1856, Rome Georgia. Died September 2, 1943, Cresent, Iowa. Married to Charles Watts.

Phoebe Jane: Born August 11, 1859. Died December 23, 1941, Norton, Kansas. Married to John Newton Boyd, January 23, 1889.

Charles Felix: Born November 19, 1861. Died July 28, 1926, Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Married to Marie Darling Butterworth.

Mary Frances (Leona ): Born February 28, 1864. Died Council Bluffs, Iowa. Married Clement Hough.