Final resting place of early Alabama Industrialist Daniel Pratt, 1799-1873, and wife Esther Ticknor Pratt, 1803-1875. He was from New Hampshire and she, Connecticut. Married in 1827 at Fortville, Jones County Georgia. The former carpenter's apprentice practiced his craft in Milledgeville, Georgia where he gained skill in building and design. in 1832 Pratt came to Alabama to build cotton gins. Esther encouraged Pratt to remain in Alabama in order for him to establish a manufacturing complex and the village of Prattville, founded in 1839. In 1847 Pratt was the recipeint of the University of Alabama's first honorary degree. His design strongly influenced the 1851 rebuilding of the state capitol. Pratt served as a legislator during the Civil War Period.