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Subject: [PIATT] Warren and Elizabeth Lee(?) Piatt, Noble Co IN
Date: 4 Jul 2002 20:37:25 -0600

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While researching in northern Indiana last week I came across a document which comes as close to being the perfect genealogical document as I have seen. It concerns the children of WARREN and ELIZABETH LEE(?) PIATT of Noble Co IN. Would that we could find such a document for each of our lines.

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Noble Co IN Deed Book 45, page 240-241

This Indenture Witnesseth That MARY ELLEN PIATT (unmarried) in Consideration of the Sum of Forty-five dollars in hand paid by JAMES D PIATT do hereby Remise(?) Release and forever Quit claim unto the said JAMES D PIATT his heirs and assigns forever all my title Interest and Estate legal and equitable in the following premises with appurtenances Situate in Noble county in the State of Indiana and bounded and Described as follows: The East half of the South East quarter of Section Sixteen (16) Township thirty five (35) North Range Nine (9) East and I the said MARY ELLEN PIATT do also hereby Sell assign and transfer to said JAMES D PIATT a certain legacy given to me by the last Will and Testament of my father WARREN PIATT Deceased of Seventy five Dollars and I authorize the said JAMES D PIATT to receive and collect the same of the Executor of my father's Estate or any other Person who may be liable to pay the same when the same shall become due and I hereby release to said JAM!
ES D PIATT all my right title and Interest in said Legacy under said Will also all my right and title to all real and personal Estate of said Deceased the above Described Real Estate being the lands of which WARREN PIATT died seized leaving as his widow ELIZABETH PIATT and Eleven Children, viz: JANE PIATT who married Clark C Watkins, MARY ELLEN PIATT (the Grantor herein), JOHN H PIATT (now deceased), DEBORAH PIATT, (now deceased) who married William Steinbarger, CATHERINE PIATT who married Henry McHenry, ISABELL PIATT, who married Edwin Osterhout (he who is now deceased) ELIZABETH PIATT who married Emery Shawl, ALEXANDER PIATT, HUGH H PIATT, JAMES D PIATT (the Grantee herein) and JOSEPHINE PIATT who married Alvin Billman being all the children and heirs at Law of said WARREN PIATT Deceased.

In Witness Whereof the said MARY ELLEN PIATT (unmarried) has hereunto set her hand and Seal this 6th day of September 1880.

Attest John BaughmanMARY ELLEN PIATTseal

The State of Indiana
Noble County ss Before me John Baughman County Recorder in and for said County this 6th day of September 1880 personally came MARY ELLEN PIATT and acknowledged the Execution of the annexed Deed.

Witness my hand and Official Seal John Baughman Recorder

Recorded September 6, 1880
at 4 O'Clock PM
John Baughman, RNC [Recorder, Noble Co?]
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Apparently JAMES D PIATT (and maybe in collaboration with his brother ALEXANDER as indicated by other deeds) was acquiring the home place from the other heirs. Other quit claim deeds establish the residences of some of the other heirs:

Emery and Elizabeth Piatt Shaul [sic], St Joseph Co MI
Alva and Josephine Piatt Billman, Noble Co IN
Isabel Piatt Osterhout, Kent Co MI
Henry and Catherine Piatt McHenry, Kent Co MI
Hugh H Piatt, Noble Co IN
Calvin and Nancy Jane Piatt Watkins, Noble Co IN

WARREN PIATT bought the land described above from the State of Indiana on 18 October 1853 (Noble Co Deed Book 10, page 385). The land is north across the road and just a little east of the church cemetery in Cosperville (first called Springfield) where his son JOHN H PIATT is buried with a Civil War marker which indicates that JOHN H served with Co B, 88th Indiana Infantry. There are no dates on the marker. JOHN H PIATT and his wife sold land on 3 Nov 1874 but both were dead by the time of the quit claim deed of MARY ELLEN PIATT in 1880. Next to JOHN's marker is that of his wife, CATHERINE STEINBARGER PIATT, 1843-1877, and in the same row is a marker for their daughter LEANA PIATT, d/o JH & C PIATT, d 12 Nov 1869, 8mo, 15d. Also in the same row is a marker for WILLIAM PIATT, 1867-1877. If this is a son of JOHN H and CATHERINE, that fact is yet to be established.

A book of Noble Co cemetery inscriptions states that a transcript of the Cosperville Cemetery done by the DAR in the 1930s lists ELIZABETH PIATT as being buried in the same cemetery giving her death date as 9 Apr 1881 being 65y, 3m, 19d. (By the printing of the other book in 1996 no stone for ELIZABETH could be found.) If ELIZABETH is there it would not be difficult to suspect that her husband WARREN would be in the same cemetery, too, but as yet there is no proof.

Laverne Ingram Piatt
Ontario, OH

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