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From: "jangrp" <>
Subject: [PIATT] Introdction
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 17:44:34 -0400

My name is Garrett Driscoll. I reside in Florida. My Piatt line stems from
my GGrandmother, Emma Piatt Simmons Croxton. Emma was the Mother of my
GFather, Charles Simmons. She was the daughter of
William Piatt and Mary Gay. She was born in Rock Island County, Ill. Crossed
the Oregon Trail, presumabley
with her Mother and Father. She may have left Illinois earlier after being
wed. The trail is muddy at best.
The whole family settled in Grants Pass, Oregon, now Josephine County. The
father of Charles is unknown at this juncture. I have one indication that he
was born in Kansas in 1881 and another that it was around 1875/6.
Since the former is LDS listing for the Croxton Family and the latter is the
Oregon Census, 1880, which listed him and Emma living with William in Grants
Pass and his age is listed as 5 years. I have not yet found anything on
marriages or the dates that Emma and/or the rest of the family left Illinois
for Oregon. Anything that anyone has on this line will be greatly
appreciated.
Side notes: I am originally from Darke County, Ohio. For reasons having
nothing to do with the Piatt line, I never knew that I had Emma in my
heritage until around 1990, about a year before my mother, Emma's Gdaughter,
passed away. Since that time, I have learned there are many Piatts in Darke
County. I would have loved to known that when I was growing up. I left there
in 1951. Equally interesting, in about 1950, I took my Mother to the Castles
in Ohio and she did not mention the heritage. The silence, I have learned,
stemmed from a divorce between Charles and my maternal GM. Sad, isn't it?
I look forward to learning more about this line and "meeting" other members
of the family. I apologize for the long intro.
G. Driscoll

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