Athensville Township. The first to make a settlement was EDWARD PRATHER, who came to Greene county and settled in what is now Athensville township, in 1822, entering land in both this and Rubicon township. He was a resident here for a time when he removed to the latter named township, where he lived until 1881, when he died. He was a native of Kentucky's dark and bloody ground, born in1795. He grew to manhood on that classic soil, and was there married to Maria Harrison, a native of Culpepper county, Va. They came to Illinois in 1819, but remained for about three years in Madison county, when he came here as above. He had a family of 13 children.