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From: (ed pyeatt)
Subject: Re: [PIATT] Elizabeth Hannah Piatt, brn 1828
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 23:55:25 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: "Anita Acosta" <alacosta@iwvisp.com>'s message of Fri, 19 Oct 2001 18:14:50 -0700


Anita -
Brothers marrying sisters, etc. may
not be so far fetched, after all. In the
Pyeatt (Piatt) lineage we find, about
1700, the brothers, Jacob and Thomas
Pyatt marrying the Hull sisters, Mary and
Mercy, respectively. Then, in about 1790,
the Pyeatt brothers (Maj.) Jacob and
James married the Finley sisters,
Margaret and Catherine, and emigrating
as a group to (what is now) Arkansas
in 1810. Then we find the son and daughter of (Maj.) Jacob and Margaret,
John and Mary marrying Martha (Patsy)
Carnahan and her brother, Samuel.
The grandsons of (Maj.) Jacob and
Margaret, John, Andrew (my ggf), and
their nephew, Peter, marrying the
daughters of Thos. H. Tennant,
Margaret, Miranda (my ggm), and
Nettie Tennant. These marriages
span the family history from New England
to North Carolina to Arkansas.
On my mother's side, we have my
gf, C.H.Roberts wed to Alice Hay,
who bore him the first four of his eight
children. She died in 1910, following
the birth of my uncle, Chas. Roberts.
C.H. Roberts then married Alice Hay's
sister, Ninnie Lou Hay. I suppose that,
should Ninnie Lou (Hay) Roberts have
died, Clyde H. could have married the
remaining Hay, Flora.
I doubt seriously that these were
all that isolated, as marriages went,
and may still happen. There was strength
in numbers in the past, and the group
loyalty would be enhanced by sibling
marriages. In fact, that is probably
still the case. Don't discount it as a possibility, the evidence is
right there, in the family history.
Keep searching, and be prepared for
pleasant and interesting surprises.
Ed


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