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Subject: [PIATT] Re: Jacob Piatt
Date: 7 Sep 2001 16:12:24 -0600



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My interest in the Piatt family came from a legend in Ripley, OH which started in May of 1934 when Jacob's daughter Artimisha was found hanging from a rope in nearby Eagle Creek. She, however, was not buried as Artimisha, but Nellie Kunzman, one of the many names she was known by.She, to say the least, had a quite colorful past before ending up with a sash cord around her neck. I picked up the investigation from news articles from 1934 and discovered her actual name and her 9 marriages. She left a path of tragedy upon about everybody who encountered her. It's a strange, fascinating story. A section of Ripley is known as Dead Woman's Hollow because of her. She's buried in an unmarked grave in the Pisgah Ridge Cemetery which is in Levanna, a west section of Ripley.

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