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This research note follows Charles Prickett, born 16 October 1829 in Apakesha Grove, Champaign County, Ohio, and died 10 July 1903 in Vernon, Yuma County, Colorado. Research compiled for this page identifies Charles as a child of James Prickett and Rebecca Wisham. Charles married Adeline Amanda Holderman Prickett, who was born 24 April 1835 in Marion County, Ohio, and died 28 September 1918 in Vernon, Yuma County, Colorado. Their marriage is reported as 6 February 1853 in Kendall County, Illinois, with a stated confidence level of 99%, supported by Illinois marriage indexes and Kendall County registration records. The Charles and Adeline Prickett family belongs to a westward-moving Ohio, Illinois, and Colorado research pattern that is useful for Prickett, Holderman, Wisham, Smith, and related-family researchers.

The child line being followed here is Charles Prickett → Rose Ann Prickett → Archie T. Smith → Noma Vade Smith → Doug O’Neal → Jeremiah O’Neal. Federal census tracks from 1870 and 1880 in Braceville, Grundy County, Illinois, are reported to support several children of Charles and Adeline. These include Jane Ellen Prickett, born 6 October 1854 in Grundy County, Illinois, and died 12 December 1939 in Kersey, Weld County, Colorado; Rheu Ann Prickett, born about 1858 in Illinois and married Pierre Bergeron on 6 May 1892 in Yuma County, Colorado; Joel Andrew Prickett, born about 1865 in Illinois and later connected to Colorado with Clarisa Adora Shepard; Rose Ann Prickett, born 30 July 1869 in Braceville, Grundy County, Illinois, and died 28 October 1952 in Yuma County, Colorado; and Elizabeth Prickett, born 24 December 1870 in Coal City, Grundy County, Illinois, and married Lewis Phillip Callaway in Yuma County, Colorado. These facts are being presented as high-confidence working genealogy, but researchers should still review the underlying census, marriage, cemetery, probate, and county records directly.

A separate Illinois Prickett lead appears in the Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Champaign County, Vol. 2 from 1905, which mentions W. R. Prickett of Edwardsville. This is useful as a surname research lead, but it should not be used as proof that W. R. Prickett was closely related to Charles Prickett. A comparative lineage places Charles Prickett under James Prickett and Rebecca Wisham, while William Russell Prickett of Edwardsville is reported as a child of Colonel Isaac Prickett, born 22 December 1790 in Savannah, Georgia, and Nancy A. Lamkins of Hopkinsville, Kentucky. The current relationship evaluation is that Charles Prickett and William R. Prickett were distinct Illinois Prickett branches, not siblings and not an uncle-nephew pair. A distant older Prickett connection may exist somewhere in broader colonial Prickett migration history, but no close relationship is established here. The detailed research page is available at: https://map.j03.page/charles-prickett-family-research.html