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Benjamin and Elmira Lavina Bayless Piatt

Benjamin Piatt was born c1814 in Ohio (probably Adams County) to Benjamin and Mary 'Polly' Waddell Piatt. There are some differing opinions of the biography of Benjamin's father, Benjamin Sr. However, a sketch that appeared in "A History of Adams Co OH," by Nelson W Evans & Emmons B Stivers (1900), pp 331 & 336 gives: Benjamin Piatt was born in 1763 in Virginia. He came to Adams County in 1810, and bought land in Tiffin Township. He was a first lieutenant under General McCullough. He married Polly Waddle in Virginia, and was a pensioner. He died in 1851, at the age of ninety-eight [my note: Does not add - born 1753 if 98. MCP], and is buried near West Union, probably in the Trotter Cemetery. No stone marks his grave. He had a son, Benjamin, who was living in 1898, near West Union. A daughter, Margaret Denning, lived near Stone Chapel in 1898. He had six children, three sons and three daughters. His son Jacob married Polly Trotter. His son John married Hester Black. Benjamin married Myra Bayless. Margaret married Newton Denning. Elizabeth married Lewis Trotter. Polly married John Black.

He married Elmira 'Myra' Lavina Bayless. They had the following known children:

Benjamin and Mary can be found on the 1850 census in Tiffin Township, Adams County, Ohio, as follows:

This family was enumerated 30th Aug 1850 #1465/1465 pg 148. Their neighbors were #1459 Levi Scott w/ John Scott, #1460 ? McCarty, #1461 Daniel Denning, #1462 John B Denning, #1463 Samuel Stuart, #1464 Franklin Seamon, * and #1466 Benjamine Piatt Sr.

Next door was Benjamin's parents:

This family enumerated 30 Aug 1850 #1466/1466 on page 148. Other neighbors were #1467 Elam Sparrow w/ Elizabeth Young, #1468 James Lindsey, #1469 Willis E/C Denning, #1470 John Ellison, #1471 James Ellison, #1472 Crawford Ralston, and #1473 Alexander Compton.

Also in Tiffin Township was Benjamin's brother, Jacob Piatt, with his wife and six children.

By the 1860 census of Tiffin Township, Adams County, Ohio:

This family was enumerated #793/799 pg 111 (ancestry.com image 23/45). Neighbors were #791 Rachel ?Sunter; #792 Noah Young, #794 Elizabeth Mahony, #795 Ira Trotter, and #796 Albert Peuce. Also in Tiffin Township were Robert and Ann Piatt and family, Hetty Piatt and family, and the Jacob and Mary Ann Piatt family.

On the 1870 census of West Union, Tiffin Township, Adams County, Ohio:

This family was enumerated #185/191 pg 502 or 24 (ancestry image 11/35).

By the 1880 census they appeared in Tiffin Township, Adams County, Ohio:

This is an abstract from familysearch.org; page 230A - I did not view the original entries. Other Piatt families nearby in Tiffin Township were: Horatio and Ann Piatt family, Hannah Piatt and daughters, Lewis B and Scottie M A Piatt and family living with her parents - William and Rebecca Baldwin, Jacob and Mary Ann Piatt family, James and Sarah Piatt family, Jacob and Aura Piatt family, and the Andrew J and Elizabeth Piatt family. In neighboring West Union Township was Benjamin's son, Jackson Pierce Piatt.

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