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From: "Sharolynn Pyeatt" <>
Subject: [PIATT] RE: PIATT-D Digest V03 #112
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 12:02:06 -0600


Laverne,



My results are quite similar to everyone else's. Based upon the films,
this is how I interpreted what I found.



Since I couldn't find them in the index for 1860 and there were only a
few pages listing "Rutledge P.O." as opposed to Morristown, I didn't
look very closely at the 1860 census. I just assumed that we were
missing part of the county in BYU's holdings and had planned to check it
out in Salt Lake next time I go up.



In 1850, I read the family's surname as PIOTT and the head of the
household was Flemming with wife Susan &, since he was still married to
her in 1870, it looks like Susan may be the mother of all of his
children. Son, John, who was 4 in 1850 is there in Robin's accounting
for 1860 at age 14, but he is not enumerated with the family in 1870,
when he would have been about 24-nor does he appear in the 1870 census
index for Tennessee (and I went through every P listing). So, my guess
is that he either moved on when he married or that he may have been a
Civil War casualty.



In 1870, the head of household is just listed as F.S. (with wife Susan
and the family). It's kind of interesting to note that Nathaniel had a
son named "Flemmie Sanders"-named after Nathaniel's father and perhaps a
clue as to what the S. stands for in the elder Flemming's name? I agree
with Dick that the surname is spelled PYATT or PYOTT, but I thought the
initial for the youngest daughter looked more like an S., based upon the
S as it appears in F.S. and in Susan.



In 1870, Lydia & Hester PYATT are enumerated with the William Smith
family a few pages before the listing for the Flemming S. family appears
in the same township, etc. Lydia and Hester are listed as being 40 and
38, respectively. Could they be sisters of Flemming? William Smith and
his wife, who is only listed by her initials E.J. or E.L., are both 25
years old. There is nothing to indicate that Lydia and Hester are
servants, but there is nothing to indicate otherwise either, since the
"occupation" is left blank next to their names, even though William is
listed with an occupation & his wife is listed as "keeping house."
Since Lydia is only 15 years older than either William or his wife, it
seems a bit unlikely that either she or her sister could be the mother
of one of them. So, it seems unclear to me exactly what their
relationship might be.



My other impression was that only the men seemed to have any
education-in 1870, Flemming, 13-year old Nathaniel, & 8-year old William
are able to read and write. In 1850, Susan was listed as unable to
either read or write. In 1870, none of the womenfolk (including Lydia &
Hester) were listed as being able to write. Then again, there is no
indication as to just how literate the menfolk actually were, so maybe
I'm being nitpicky.



Hope this helps you somewhat!!



Sharolynn Pyeatt








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