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Subject: [PIATT] Re: PIATT-D Digest V01 #140
Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 22:49:20 EST
To Marianne, John and Laverne and others who are interested in Benjamin F.
Piatt.
I have Benjamin's death listed as Shelby Co. from several sources but the one
that I felt confirmed his death to be in Shelby Co. was the 1880 census of
Shelby Co., Hendricks Twp. Page 32, Enumeration Dist 206. His widow Ann
Piatt was listed on this page as head of household #279. She is 65. Living
with her is her son Simeon age 31, her daughter-in-law, Clara E. age 25. Ann
is keeping house but under the column listed as disabled, the census taker
listed Gen Dibt with a notation above that I didn't understand. I took this
to be generally disabled, her son is a farmer and her daughter-in-law is
listed as "Housework". Under birth records Ann is NJ in 3 columns, Simeon is
IN, VA & NJ, his wife is MO, IN, IN. Benjamin lived in Hendricks Twp. My
grgrandmother, Harriet McCrea and her family lived there also. Wm Carter
Piatt attended Rush Med. School in Chicago with Harriet's brother Samuel.
One Xmas Sam took him to meet Harriet whom he married a year later. Wm
Carter Piatt left Shelby Co for KS after his father's death.
The Warren Packer records and research on film, LDS, states Benjamin died in
Shelby Co. Mary Ensley Weinantz who compiled "The John Carter Family In
America Through Nine Generations" lists the following as her sources "History
of Shelby Co., IN by Brant & Fuller plus marriage records from both counties.
M. Weinantz lived in Edinburgh, IN. I felt the census confirmed the Packer &
Weinantz record. In house 278 on the census lives another son of Benjamin,
Estelle Leonard, his wife Laura & daughter Alva. To me Ann is still living
in her home in 1880. Benjamin died in 1875.
This is not primary evidence but I feel there is enough evidence from three
records plus family history of Daisy Warner and her mother Harriet.
Marienne said something about not having the descendants of Benjamin. Am not
sure which Benjamin but for the record here are Benjamin F. Piatt's children.
Elizabeth A. b. 10 Apr 1834, d. 9 Sep 1835, bur. Carter Cemetery
John W. b. 4 Feb 1836, d. 12 Feb 1836, bur. Carter Cemetery
Rebecca J. b. 17 Mar 1837, d. 1 Dec 1847, bur. Carter Cemetery. I have
tombstone pictures from Lynn White. (Laverne was on this trip) All three b.
Shelby Co.
William Carter b. 21 Feb 1839 Columbus, IN, Bartholomew Co., d. 2 Oct 1914
Topeka, KS bur. Ellsworth, KS
Nathan S. b. 5 May 1841, Columbus Jct., Bartholomew Co., d. 22 Jul 1922 bur.
Glenwood, IA
Mary E. 1844, IN d. 1880
Simeon Augustus b. 1849, Johnson Co., IN d. 1929, Canada
Martha S. 18 Mar 1851, Shelby Co., d. 22 Apr 1881
Estell Leonard b. Jan 1852 or 1853, d. 7 May 1915
Lafayette b. 28 Sep 1855, d. 30 Apr 1857 bur. Carter Cem.
Simeon, the son who was living with Ann , married Clara Hackney 8 Apr 1880
and shows up on that census in Ann's household. Simeon must have been living
with his mother and married in the census year.
I'm sure I have more material as to where some of the above children are
buried but I've spent the last few years researching the McCreas as I had
reached a dead end on the Piatt line. There must be wills in Nicholas Co or
Hampshire Co which might help in sorting out some of the confusion.
In the Draper Collection there is a Wm Piatt and Mary Brady writing to him
about Mary's father. I sent this material to Deb Hascall and possibly
Laverne has it. Am not sure but they may be Augusta Co. also. Sorry I can't
be of more help. Dee
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