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From: John Keilch <>
Subject: Re: [PIATT] Nancy Jane Piatt Watkins
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 20:54:25 -0800
In-Reply-To: <MFMBM002biloJZFfbMO00000bc8@mfmbm002.myfamilycorp.local>


Martha,

Nancy Jane Piatt was born in 1835, the first child of Warren Piatt (born
1813 in Ohio) and Elizabeth Lee (born 1816 in Ohio or Virginia). The
family was recorded in the 1840 census for Knox County, Ohio (which is
adjacent to Licking County, and not too far from Hocking County). One of
those counties may have been appeared as "Seaking Co." in your record. The
family was later recorded in the 1850 census for Union County, Ohio, and in
the 1860 census for Noble County, Indiana. Warren Piatt left a will and
died in 1863 in Noble County. Warren Piatt may have been a son of Peter
Piatt, whose family was recorded in the 1820 census for Coshocton County,
Ohio, or of John N. Piatt, whose family was recorded in the 1820 census for
Licking County, Ohio, and in the 1830 census for Rush County, Indiana.

Reproduced below is a lengthy Piatt List message that gives more
information about the family from Indiana Records, and includes a mention
of [Nancy] Jane Piatt and her husband, Clark C. Watkins. Please contact me
at if you want a bit more information about this
family group.

John F. Keilch
Berkeley, California

>From:
>Date: 23 Nov 2002 18:24:06 -0700
>Subject: [PIATT] Nancy Jane Piatt Watkins
>To:
>
>This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list.
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>Surnames: Piatt
>Classification: Query
>
>Message Board URL:
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>http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/5519/Z.2ACBAEB/253
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>Message Board Post:
>
>I am searching for the family of Nancy Jane Piatt who married Capt. Calvin
>Clark Watkins. Nancy was b. in Ohio 19 Dec 1835 - it appears on the
>census Seaking Co. but I cannot find a county by that name. She died 10
>Mar 1891 at Rome City, Indiana and her grave is at Orange Cemetery. If
>you are related or have any information contact - Martha Andrews at
> Subject: Nancy Piatt on e-mail please


>From:
>Date: 4 Jul 2002 20:37:25 -0600
>Subject: [PIATT] Warren and Elizabeth Lee(?) Piatt, Noble Co IN
>To:
>
>This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list.
>
>Classification: Query
>
>Message Board URL:
>
>http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Z.2ACBAEB/242
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>Message Board Post:
>
>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.
>
>*****
>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 Baughman MARY ELLEN PIATT seal
>
>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?]
>*****
>
>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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