Daniel Pratt Cemetery is the final resting place of early Alabama industrialist Daniel Pratt, 1799-1873, and his wife, Esther Ticknor Pratt, 1803-1875, as well as southern itinerant painter George Cooke. Pratt was from New Hampshire and Esther from Connecticut; they married in 1827 at Fortville, Jones County, Georgia. After training as a carpenter’s apprentice and practicing his craft in Milledgeville, Georgia, where he gained skill in building and design, Pratt came to Alabama in 1832 to build cotton gins. Encouraged by Esther to remain in Alabama, he established a manufacturing complex and the village of Prattville, founded in 1839. In 1847 he received the University of Alabama’s first honorary degree, his design strongly influenced the 1851 rebuilding of the State Capitol, and he served as a legislator during the Civil War period. George Cooke was born in Maryland in 1793 and married Maria Heath of Virginia in 1815. His work ranged across landscapes, portraits, and religious and historical subjects, and many of his paintings, including “Interior of St. Peter’s-Rome,” are owned by the University of Georgia. He studied in Europe from 1826 to 1831, where he met poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who remained a lifelong friend. Cooke’s patron Daniel Pratt displayed a collection of his paintings in the art gallery at the Pratt mansion, and after Cooke’s death in New Orleans in 1849, he was buried here near the Pratt gallery as a tribute to his life and work.