After the convictions of the six Prathers in Crawford and Perry Counties in March and May 1859, still more court actions against them were brought. On 4 July 1859 in the Court of Common Pleas, three citizens from Harrison County – Marcus Clark, Horatio Woodbury and Samuel Pepper – brought suit against Rensler, Pleasant, Jack, Jonathan and William Prather. This may have been redress through the civil court for a criminal matter (i.e., theft of horses from these three men). The Hon. Lemuel Q. DeBruler served as the first judge of this court from January 1853 to January 1861. On 4 October 1859, judgment of $182.80 was awarded them. Jonathan H. Prather could not be found and the Sheriff was ordered to sell the lands of Prather to satisfy the judgment.
On 12 November 1859, Sheriff Patterson auctioned the real estate of Jonathan Prather. George T. Gordon made the highest and best bid of $223.74 and received a Sheriff’s Deed to Prather’s 200 acres.
The Circuit Court of Judge M. F. Burke did not overlook Jonathan Prather. An arrest warrant for him was issued on 6 June 1859, less than 2 weeks after the Prather trial. A warrant was also issued around this time for Elizabeth Prather, the charge being Larceny. This was his mother, Mrs. Robert Prather. However, her importance to the law was based upon her recent acquisition of Pleasant Prather’s 158-acre farm in Leopold Township. While he was awaiting trial in the Crawford County jail, Pleasant sold the farm to Elizabeth Prather on 11 February 1859 for the $210 he had paid for it in 1857. Pleasant and Jonathan were the only Prather sons who had any property to seize for payment to Clark, Woodbury and Pepper.
Neither Jonathan nor Elizabeth could be found and the charges were continued on 15 August 1859, 22 February 1860 and 20 August 1860. Finally, on 19 August 1861, Prosecutor Shanklin dismissed the indictments against both Jonathan and Elizabeth Prather. Elizabeth and Robert Prather were then legally free to sell Pleasant’s farm to Grason Frakes on 7 April 1866 for $300.