sentences:  On August 18, 1835, Prentice married Harriet Benham (1820-1868), daughter of Louisville, Kentucky, attorney Joseph Benham and a graduate of Nazareth College in Bardstown, Kentucky.She was an accomplished musician and for 20 years choir director for Christ Church in Louisville.Although their children Mary Louise and George Benham died young, William Courtland Prentice (1837-1862) and Clarence Joseph Prentice (1839-1873) reached adulthood.