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Subject: Re: Re: [PIATT] Elizabeth Hannah Piatt Armfield
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 21:10:47 -0700


HI! i JUST HAD TO BORROW AN PC AND WRITE A QUICK NOTE...i DO NOT HAVE MY ADDRESSES WITH ME TO WRITE TO THE LIST SO MAYBE YOU COULD FORWARD THIS FOR ME? ANYWAY I his pay dirt in OR!!!! YES Moses and Jane Smith were correct names! I have Hannah's death cert and also Orvilles! I also took pictures and found all the graves PLUS seversl other PIATT and ARMFIELD names in the Rose City Cemetery. The only thing that bothered me was the fact I did not have anyone to share my excitment with!!! As soon as I get home I will post all the names and about my finds. This may help with other info. good night Anita
>
> From:
> Date: 2002/08/05 Mon PM 03:21:05 PDT
> To:
> Subject: Re: [PIATT] Elizabeth Hannah Piatt Armfield
>
> For Anita,
>
> If Hannah was 23 at the time of her marriage she may
> have been living with her own parents or her older
> siblings before that time. The 1830 census for Moses
> makes me think that Hannah would have been one of the
> younger children IF she were his daughter. Moses was
> getting on in years by 1830 and may have died within a
> few years thereafter.
>
> If Hannah had come to live with Peter Case after the
> 1850 census and before her 1851 marriage she would have
> been old enough not have needed Peter Case for a
> guardian. However, you do bring up a good point and the
> Franklin Co OH records should be check for any
> guardianships for any younger children of Moses, in case
> Hannah was one. I did some work in Franklin Co years
> ago, but think I did not get very far and certainly
> there may be more to be learned there.
>
> Have a safe and productive trip to the northwest and do
> photograph that tombstone if you find it.
>
> --
> Laverne Ingram Piatt
> Ontario, OH
>
> > Laverne!!! YOUR WONDERFULL!!!!
> > I think you've got it! E liz Hanna was born July 18, 1828 and was married
> > in 1851 so that should make her 23? at time of marriage.
> >
> > She died Dec 27 1914 in Portland OR. Just a few years after she had come
> > West with her son Orville.
> >
> > In fact I'm on my way to OR and WA tomorrow morning. I plan on searching for
> > the cemetery etc and try to get some more records.
> >
> > So I won't be able to post more of the bible info until I get home. This was
> > an unexpected trip.
> > Boy, I wish I had a laptop! My next project, hopefully!
> > You know I have read off and on in a few places that some Piatt children
> > were taken in by other Piatts when their parents died. ?Maybe this is what
> > happened and my Elizabeth was one of these children? I can not for the life
> > of me remember where I read about this. It seems to me that Peter case must
> > have been some kind of guardian? I do believe this story is about to
> > unravel! Maybe I will find a little more info in OR.!
> > So also maybe I'll find records in Franklin Co. OH, Back to the microfilms.
> > And I think I shall search the Montfort WI records...just may be a little
> > there, because she lived there until her husband Isaac Armfield died.
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <>
> > To: <>
> > Sent: Sunday, August 04, 2002 5:13 PM
> > Subject: [PIATT] Elizabeth Hannah Piatt Armfield
> >
> >
> > > For Anita,
> > >
> > > While in Indiana last week for some research I thought I
> > > would swoop into the courthouse in Hamilton Co IN and
> > > solve the HANNAH PIATT ARMFIELD question. I found her
> > > marriage record just as it appeared in the Piatt Family
> > > Newsletter Volume 5, 1990.
> > >
> > > HANNAH PEATT [sic] to ISAAC ARMFIELD
> > > 22 Dec 1851 Bk 1:42
> > > License issued to ISAAC ARMFIELD and HANNAH PIATT, both
> > > of Lawful Age and she a resident of Hamilton County,
> > > Indiana, proven by affidavit of PETER CASE, Daniel R
> > > Brown, Clerk of Circuit Court, Noblesville, 22nd Dec
> > > 1851. Minister's Return - 24 Dec 1851 - William W Boyden
> > >
> > > Nothing new there. But why did HANNAH have to prove her
> > > residency? Was she new to the area? And who was PETER
> > > CASE?
> > >
> > > I went to the Noblesville library which has a wonderful
> > > Indiana Room to check on Peter Case. I found this:
> > >
> > > 1850 Census, Hamilton Co IN, White River Township
> > > Page 094m family 193/193
> > >
> > > Case, Peter 40 M farmer 1000 PA
> > > Ann 30 F VA
> > > Mary 11 F OH
> > > John 8 M (twin) OH
> > > Jacob 8 M (twin) OH
> > > Ann 6 F OH
> > > Josephine 2 F OH
> > >
> > > And I thought that I had struck out because there was no
> > > HANNAH PIATT living in this family a year before her
> > > marriage in 1851. But when I checked the Piatt Family
> > > Newsletter for CASE I found this in Volume 6, 1991:
> > >
> > > >From EARLY MARRIAGE BONDS OF OHIO, 1803-1864, (Franklin
> > > Co, OH) DAR typescript, 1938
> > >
> > > 12 Jul 1838 ANN PIETT [sic] m. Peter Case, by Alexander
> > > Cameron, JP [Bk 3:197] [Indexed PRATT]
> > >
> > >
> > > What a coincidence! The Peter Case in the 1850 census
> > > has a wife ANN born in VA. In 1850, 12 years after the
> > > marriage, all the children are under 12 and all born in
> > > OH. So the Case family itself had been in OH until 1848
> > > if the birthplaces can be believed. Is it a stretch to
> > > think that ELIZABETH HANNAH PIATT had gone to live with
> > > her older sister and help out with the children? (That's
> > > now my mother left home.)
> > >
> > > What PIATTs were in Franklin Co OH in 1830? Only:
> > >
> > > Truro Township, Franklin Co OH
> > > MOSES PIATT
> > > 1 male 50-60
> > > 2 males 20-30
> > >
> > > 1 female 40-50
> > > 2 females 15-20
> > > 1 female 10-15
> > > 2 females 5-10
> > > 1 female < 5
> > >
> > > Would this family have been able to produce a female who
> > > married in 1838 and one who married in 1851? Yes. If
> > > ANN was born in 1820 and was 10 in 1830 she would fit in
> > > this family. We don't know HANNAH's age at marriage but
> > > there are females in both age groups younger than ANN's.
> > >
> > > Is this enough to solve the question of the parentage of
> > > HANNAH PIATT? No, but there are indications that HANNAH
> > > could be a daughter of MOSES if the information listed
> > > above. And, I belive, Anita's family tradition says
> > > that MOSES could be HANNAH's father. Maybe we are on
> > > the right track here.
> > >
> > > Anita, do you have a birthdate for HANNAH or know how
> > > old she was when she died?
> > > --
> > > Laverne Ingram Piatt
> > > Ontario, OH
> > >
> > >
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