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From: Laverne Piatt <>
Subject: Re: [PIATT] Benjamin Piatt [Pyatt] -- VA, OH, IN, MO
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 23:39:20 -0500
References: <4.2.0.58.20011205162047.00bcf230@popserv.ucop.edu>


Thanks to John Keilch for posting the Sims reference to William Peepyatt. Not
only do we have a more information now but also a new spelling!

A little further circumstantial information to suggest that Benjamin Piatt who
married Ann Carter was the son of William Piatt (who married Mary Smith
second) comes from a manuscript written by Benjamin's granddaughter Daisy
Piatt Warner and published in the Piatt Family Newsletter 8:72:

"What I know about our ancestors. I do not know the year Grandpa Piatt came
out from Virginia to Ind. with only his clothes and an ax. He left home at 16
years because of a stepmother. He had a younger bother and an older sister
that married a well to do Englishman and was disowned..."

That Benjamin had a stepmother seems to be supported by the 1810 census which
could be William Piatt and his first wife and children and the later census
which could be William Piatt and his second wife Mary Smith, Benjamin's
stepmother, and various children. Further The West Virginia Heritage
Encyclopedia, edited by Jim Comstock, Vol 22, pp 4848-4851 gives an account of
a John C Ward, "an early settler of what became Nicholas County, [who] was
born in England. He came to America in the early 1820's...[first to Augusta
Co Va, then Greenbrier Co VA, and in 1840 to Craigsville, Nicholas Co
VA]...[he] married Mary Elizabeth Peyatt, Peatt, Pyatt or Piatt of Virginia
around 1826, whose parents came from New Jersey." It is possible that this
Mary was Benjamin's sister and William's daughter, indicating that William
came from New Jersey. Again, this is just more circumstantial evidence which
needs hard evidence to back it up.

As to the burials of Benjamin and Ann, PFN states that they are buried in Mt
Pleasant Cemetery in Shelby Co IN with Benjamin dying first in Shelby Co and
Ann dying later in Bartholomew Co IN. It is conceivable that after Benjamin's
death Ann lived with a child in or near Columbus in Bartholomew Co but was
buried with her husband in Shelby Co. The town Edinburg is in Shelby Co but
on the Bartholomew Co line. Johnson Co IN borders both of these counties near
Edinburg and Benjamin and Ann were there in Blue River Township in 1850. In
this area a move across the road could constitute a move to a different county.

I was able to research in Bartholomew Co in 1988 and in checking the notes
taken then I find that the four children of Benjamin and Ann Carter Piatt who
did not live to maturity were buried in the Carter Chapel in Section 11 on
Lowell Station Road on the northwest edge (at the time) of Columbus. These
children are:

Piatt, Elizabeth Rd 9 Sep 18351y 4m 22d
Piatt, John Wd 12 Feb 1836 8d
Lafayetteb 28 Sep 1855d 30 Apr 1857
Rebecah Jd 1 Dec 184710y8m 14d

Also in the Carter Chapel were Ann Carter's parents:

Carter, Elizabeth w/o Nathand 30 Mar 184757y 4m 11d
Carter, Nathand 26 Mar 184777y 11m 28d

It would be interesting to know if the the last two died of an epidemic. The
Carter Chapel and cemetery are on land owned by Nathan Carter and presumably
given or sold to the church. There is also a mention in the records of the
"Carter Settlement." Benjamin and Ann Carter Piatt are not buried in this
cemetery as evidenced by no stones for them and their names not appearing in
the transcription of burials there. So we would have to accept that the
Shelby Co information is correct unless proved otherwise.

To confuse matters a bit further, Lynn White and I went back to Bartholomew Co
during a conference in a later year and also found the cemetery where the
OTHER Benjamin Pyatt and wife Rachel McWilliams are buried. It is west of
Columbus in Section 28 and listed as Mt Pleasant Cemetery (OF COURSE!!) but is
also known as the Christian Union Chapel Cemetery.

An amusing note of the trip that Lynn and I took to Bartholomew Co-- While
researching in the wonderful courthouse which has a paid genealogist on staff
we found record that the Sheriff had tried to serve a warrant on one Benjamin
Piatt who claimed that the Benjamin Piatt named in the warrant was not he.
The Sheriff then sought out the other Benjamin Piatt who made the same claim.
The Sheriff returned the warrant undelivered. Ah, the advantage of having the
same name.

*****
Personal note: I know I owe some of the listers e-mail responses and I've
been lax in posting to the surname boards. I beg for a little more time,
please. I will be away for the computer for a least a week beginning Dec 7
but will try to get back at it when I return.

Marianne, if you will e-mail me privately with a mailing address where I can
send you some hard copies of the Indiana information I will do so when I
return. You might want to add the info to your website. And keep up the good work.
--
Laverne Ingram Piatt
Ontario, OH


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