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From: John Keilch <>
Subject: [PIATT] Abner, Joseph P. and Josiah Piatt
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 19:15:32 -0800
In-Reply-To: <1e9.5977295.2bbb5a62@aol.com>


Hi, Liz --

Regarding A. B. Piatt, to whom you referred in your message below. Could
he have been Abner Piatt, who is shown in the following 1880 census record?

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1880 Chicago, Cook, Illinois
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Abner PIATT Self M Male W 53 PA Commn. Merchant PA PA
Annie PIATT Wife M Female W 40 PA PA PA
Hermand PIATT Son S Male W 23 IOWA Commn. Merchant PA PA
Harry PIATT Son Male W 16 IOWA PA PA
Emma PIATT Dau S Female W 9 IOWA At School PA PA
Annie PIATT Dau S Female W 5 IL PA PA
Silbe KUKAWSKI Other Female W 21 PRUSSIA Servant PRUSSIA PRUSSIA
Charlie MCGUIRE Other Male B 25 PA Coachman PA PA
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This record suggests that Abner and Annie Piatt were from Pennsylvania,
started their family in Iowa in the 1850s, and then moved to Illinois in
the 1870s. Not too far east of Chicago along the lakeshore is La Porte
Co., IN, where Hannah Piatt and others of her children lived.

In 1880 Joseph P. Piatt's family was in El Paso, Woodford Co., Illinois.

In 1880 Josiah Piatt's family was in the 4th Ward, La Porte, La Porte,
Indiana (indexed as Josia PRATT).

You can use the LDS FamilySearch site to look up records for the 1880
census at the following address:
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp
Sometimes, it is better to use the census records search page, because on
it, unlike the main search page, you do not need to enter a first name
(e.g., you can select to get all the Piatts born in a particular state):
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=census/search_census.asp

Beware that the FamilySearch site seems to be missing some of the 1880
records. I have seen several 1880 census records for Piatts that do not
seem to be included in the database for this site, though of course they
might be listed under some unusual variant spelling, as happened with
Josiah Piatt above.

-- John F. Keilch
Berkeley, California


At 04:10 PM 4/1/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>Well, I'm almost packed. I gotta get my taxes done before I can really get
>packed. If I led a less complicated life it would be a lot easier. Not
>complaining mind you, it's OK at the time but then it takes forever to find
>documents and sort stuff out. OK, I am complaining.
>
>Think positive thoughts about the weather - no whiteouts, no tornadoes. I
>clearly remember the sound of a freight train in the middle of the night and
>one such experience is enough.
>
>I'm hoping to find the obituary for David Piatt, the remarriage date for
>Hannah and Thomas Darling, and their obituaries. Found gravesites at the
>Patton Cemetery-the Old Walker Section, Centre Township, City of La Porte:
> Josiah Piatt (son of David?)
> Sarah Piatt (daughter of David)
> David -
> Frederika (this is a new name - who is she?)
>
>When I get over to South Bend, I hope to find out more about Jonathan Hardy,
>father in-law of Joseph Paxton Piatt. JPP and wife Mary Carper Hardy lived
>with Jonathan and family for several years, or at least used it as a home
>base. How - and when - did JPP get to South Bend? Last I knew, he had been
>shipped off to Yonge Street, near Toronto Canada in 1833 - I think he went
>with his grandmother Mary Jackson and Uncle Josiah Jackson.
>
>Dick Piatt lists 10 children for David and Hannah Jackson Piatt:
> Elizabeth - ca 1821 PA
> William - ca 1823 m. Susan Roudebush
> Joseph Paxton - 1824 PA
> A.B. (Abraham Benjamin?) ca 1825-1830
> Josiah Jacob - ca1828 PA
> Amanda - ca 1830 PA
> Harriet - ca1835 OH
> Hannah - ca1838 OH
> Sarah - ca 1840 OH
> Arabella - ca 1842 OH (sometimes spelled Annabella)
>
>I don't know if anyone has traced any of the other children. Dick speculates
>that Elizabeth died young.
>
>You've certainly been busy with finding ineresting Piatt tidbits. Just 59
>days to go and counting for your school teaching career. Any end of year,
>retirement parties planned?
>
>
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