NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11217 MERCER CO – HARVEY B. PRITCHETT – Pritchett, Holladay 11217 Pike County Missouri History, Des Moines, Iowa, Mills and Company, 1883, p. 903. Mercer Co. Harvey R. Pritchett, farmer and stock-raiser, of Hartford township, post-office Middletown, Montgomery county. He was born in Mercer county, Kentucky, October 30, 1815. At seven years of age he came with his parents to Pike county, Missouri, where he was reared and educated. After leaving school he commenced farming and continued the same until the spring of 1834, when he went to Wisconsin, where he followed lead mining until 1838, when he returned to Pike county, Missouri, where he became engaged in cattle dealing and farming, and still follows the same, owning a fine stock farm of 280 acres of well improved land, well watered, and mostly fenced with a fine hedge. He has a fine residence. He has been a leading member of the Christian Church about twenty-four years. He was married in Pike county, Missouri, September 8, 1840, to Miss Sarah Holladay, a native of Kentucky, born March 23, 1821. By this union they had seven children of whom there are six living: Mary A., Edwin W., Melissa, Samuel N., Eliza E. (deceased), Christina, and Lewis W. KYBIOGRAPHIES Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybiographies KYRESEARCH Archives:http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kyresearch