David PICKLESIMER {M} = Sarah Elizabeth PRATER¹ {F}

Married 15 April 1817

Sarah Elizabeth PRATER:

Alias Sally PRATER
Born ABT 1797, Floyd Co, KY
Died 1882, Salyersville, Magoffin Co, KY
It has been handed down in the family that her first son, Elijah was born out of wedlock. He was said to be the son of David Picklesimer, who did not marry Sally until much later in his life, and when Elijah was about 5 years old. Elijah went to live with his Uncle William Prater at about the age of 15. In 1832 Sarah gave permission for her son Elijah Prater to marry Jemima Patrick. He is probably the man listed in the 1850 census of Madison Co, AR, Heilburn Twp, family #226. Elijah was mentioned in his grandfather, Archibald Prater's Will... "Elijah Prater, son of my daughter Sally." GBP
Isodore and James Picklesimer are also named as grandsons of Archibald, sons of daughter Sally, in Archibald's Will.
According to later census records, Sarah "Sally" (Prater) "P'Simer", was born in Virginia. At the time of the 1850 census for Floyd County, Kentucky, Sarah reported her age as being "50", thereby indicating that she was born about the year 1800. At the time of her marriage she stated that she was "22 years of age", thus indicating that she was born about the year 1794 or early 1795. Apparently Sarah had added a few years to her age in the affidavit for the marriage license and subtracted a few years at the time of the 1850 U.S. Census, since the headstone at her grave shows 1797 as the year of her birth.
Sarah's father, Archibald Prater, has been named as a member of the early party of Pioneers who established the first settlement - Prater's Fort or Licking Station - on the upper Licking River near what is now Salyersville, in Magoffin County, Kentucky. He was a Revolutionary War veteran, having enlisted in the Virginia Line September 11, 1780, and serving for a period of eighteen months.
Sarah "Sally" (Prater) Picklesimer did not marry again after the death(?) of David. She did have other children in addition to Elijah Prater, Jr., and Isadus and James Picklesimer. The five known additional children were "Picklesimers" not because they were children of David, but due to the fact "Sally" did not re-marry.
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Birth: Census records vary as to Sarah's age, but she was probably born close to 1797 if the birth of Elijah in 1812 is correct.
Death: Little is known concerning Sarah (Prater) Picklesimer during the remaining years of her life subsequent to the time of the 1850 U.S. Census, at which time she would have been 53 years of age. Although she was not found named in any later census records (1860, 1870 and 1880), she apparently lived to be about 85 years of age. According to the dates inscribed on the headstone at her grave in the Bluegrass Cemetery at Salyersville, Kentucky, she died in "1882".
"The wind scatters the leaves to the ground, but the live timber burgeons with leaves again in the season of spring returning. So one generation of man will grow while another dies". Homer - The Iliad.
per John Walter Pickelsimer JPick323

Marriage: David first obtained a marriage license in Floyd County, Kentucky, February 24, 1817, to marry one Celia Howard. At the time he executed bond, with Michael Risner as surety, David filed a certificate signed by "James Howard" stating that Celia was his daughter and was "of lawful age". No minister's return of a marriage was ever recorded and, apparently, the marriage did not take place for "Celia Howard" later married Isham Dykes in Floyd Co., Kentucky. An affidavit signed by "Celia Howard" and stating that she was "21 years of age and upward and willing" is on file with the marriage bond of Isham Dykes. [Note: There is an Isham B. Dykes in Hawkins, TN -- which is where so many of the COPES ended up. psw] Almost two months later, April 10, 1817, David again applied for a marriage license. This time he filed bond, with Alexander Young as surety, for a license to marry "Sally" Prater. In an affidavit which David presented to the Court Clerk when he executed bond, "Sally Prater" stated that she was "22 years of age a free agent to act for myself and have agreed to marry David Picklesimer". (She was not "22 years of age") (Alexander Young who witnessed "Sally's" affidavit and co-signed David's marriage bond was also a Revolutionary War Veteran. He had served in the South Carolina Line of the Continental Army.) On April 15, 1817, five days after he obtained the license, David and "Sally" Prater were married by the Rev. Samuel Hanna, a minister of the United Baptist Church.

1 : "David P'simer, http://members.tripod.com/~blakjac/davep.htm"