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Subject: Re: [PIATT] Richard Milton Piatt
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 04:55:35 +0000


For Robin:

Thanks for the kind words, but don't blame your shoelaces so much as the fact that the old folks used the name John Piatt way too much.

PFN Volume 4 gives a family group listing for John Pyatt and Margaret Katherine "Mary" Snyder. There were 12 children and a listing with brief information is:

1. Sarah E, b 20 Sep 1865, Kanawha Co WV
2. Emmagette, b 20 Dec 1867, Kanawha Co WV
3. Anne L, b 5 or 15 May 1869, Mason Co WV
4. Louisa J, b 8 Feb 1871, place not given (Happy Birthday, Louisa)
5. Edward William, b 2 Feb 1873, Nicholas Co WV (married Amy Throckmorton)
6. Nathan, b 20 Nov 1875, Mason Co WV
7. Rhoda Lee, b 19 Oct 1877, place not given
8. Margaret, b 18 Sep 1879, Putnam Co WV
9. Roxey Ellen, b 15 Apr 1881, Jackson Co WV (married George Bernard Collins); d 12 Aug 1958, Sewickley PA.
10. Mettie Belle, b 19 Oct 1883, Jackson Co WV
11. Nora Etta, b 4 Jul 1885, Monroe Co OH
12. John Grover, b 19 May 1887, place not given.

The only lines extended further in PFN are those of Edward William and Roxey Ellen. Sources for this information are Mason Co WV marriage Certificate and Jackson Co WV marriages 1880-1900; Register of Deaths; Obituary Notices; family records of Edith Collins Viskochil and Elmer Pyatt. Apparently Edith was a descendant of Roxey Ellen. It may be possible to find an obituary for Roxey Ellen Collins in the Pittsburgh papers.

If the birthplaces are correct here, Snider's John should have arrived in Jackson Co WV between child 8 and 9. But I can't find the family in the 1880 census--at least not yet. The 1880 census at LDS is an every name census. I searched on the given names of the older children, such as Emmagette, Nathan, Louisa, in WV, with no surname in the search field. There were many hits for the given names, but the family didn't show up in the lists. I'm not done searching, however.

The birthdate for Snider's John is given as 16 Jun 1840 but is calculated from information on his marriage--24 years, 3 months of age. The marriage is given as occuring in Nicholas Co, but Nicholas Co marriages are not listed as a source in the Viskochil information. A different listing in PFN gives the reference as Nicholas Co Marriage Book 3:19.

I haven't done any original research on the information above and pass it along only for further consideration.

And, BTW, the 1860 listing for Snider's John and his brother William who married Mary Snider's sister is:

1860 Nicholas Co VA, fam #733, 3 Aug 1860
James KOONTZ, 64, VA, married within the year (!, go James!)
Rebecca, 60, VA, (with four children, Sarah 27, John 25, Eliza 21, and Wooten 20, all b VA, surname not given in PFN whether Koontz or other)
WILLIAM PEYATTE, 31, VA
JOHN PEYATTE, 19
Wm Lovesey?, 60, VA, blacksmith

PFN lists Snider's John's death date as only c1894, age 54, of pneumonia.


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Laverne Ingram Piatt
Ontario, OH



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