Helaman Pratt

Helaman Pratt (31 May 1846 – 26 November 1909) was an early leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the U.S. states of Nevada and Utah and later in Mexico.

He was born in a covered wagon during a one-hour stopover on the Mormon Trail near Mount Pisgah, Iowa.

Next he married, as a plural wife, German-born Anna Johanna Dorothy ("Dora") Wilcken (Dahme, Zarpin, Rheinfeld, Ostholstein, Schleswig-Holstein, 25 July 1854 – Colonia Dublán, Galeana, Chihuahua, Mexico, 22 June 1929), in Salt Lake City, Utah, on 20 April 1874.

Dora and Bertha were daughters of Carl Heinrich "Charles Henry" Wilcken (Eckhorst, Holstein, Schleswig-Holstein, 5 October 1831 – Salt Lake City, 9 April 1914) and Eliza Christina Carolina Reiche (Neustadt in Holstein, Ostholstein, Schleswig-Holstein, 1 May 1830 – Salt Lake City, 13 August 1906).

[1] Carl had first come to Utah as part of Johnston's Army but later joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

c. 1898
Anna Johanna Dorothy ("Dora") Wilcken (1854–1929), c. 1896