Elmer and Della had the following known children:
Elmer lived with his family in Clear Creek township, Cooper County, Missouri during the 1880 census By the 1900 census of Clear Creek Township, Cooper County, Missouri, Elmer and family appeared as follows:
This family was enumerated 23/55/2/93.
I do not have the abstracts from the 1910 census. However, the index lists the following for Cooper County, Missouri:
On the 1920 census of Pilot Grove, Cooper County, Missouri, Elmer and family appeared as follows:
This family was enumerated 26/85/5/51. Living at 26/85/11/8 was Elmer's brother, Albert Piatt and at 26/86/7/18 was their half-brother, Charles S Piatt.
Elmer's parents and grandmother were in Clear Creek Township, Cooper County, Missouri, as follows:
I'm not sure who the A F Piet age 32 is who is also enumerated in Clear Creek Township.
Elmer and Della's son, Lloyd, died in 1923. His death certificate appears as follows:
Missouri State Board of Health; Certificate of Death; County: Cooper; Township: Booneville; City: [blank]; No: [blank]; Street: [blank]; Ward: [blank]; Registration District: 218; Primary Registration District: 5298; File No: 566; Registered No: 9; Full Name: Lloyd Piatt; Residence No: [blank]; Street: [blank]; Ward: [blank]; Sex: Male; Color: White; Marital Status: single; Name of Spouse: [blank]; Date of Birth: Aug. 17 - 1902; Age: 20 years 5 months 12 days; Occupation: Farmer; General nature of industry: [blank]; Name of Employer: [blank]; Birthplace: Near Pilot Gove - Mo; Name of father: Elmer Piatt; Birthplace of Father: Missouri; Maiden Name of Mother: Della Brownfield; Birthplace of Mother: Pilot Grove, Mo; Informant: Elmer Piatt; Informant Address: Booneville – Mo, R. F. D. Filed: 1-30-1923 H R Smiley?; Date of Death: Jany 29, 1923; I hereby certify that I attended the deceased from 1923, to Jany 29th, 1923, that I last saw him alive on Jany 29, 1923, and that death occurred on the date stated above, at 12:00 a.m. The cause of death was as follows: Pneumonia Catarrhal 11A 107A; Duration: [blank] yrs [blank] mos 10 ds; Contributory and duration: Influenza [blank] yrs [blank] mos [blank] ds; Did an operation precede death? no; Was there an autopsy? no; What test confirmed diagnosis? x; Signed: H J Quigg? M. D. 1-30, 1923 address: Booneville Mo; Place of burial or removal: Pilot Grove - Mo; Date of Burial: 1-31-1923; Undertaker: J. H. Goodman; Undertaker address: Booneville Mo.
The following death certificate leads me to believe that Lloyd Piatt (above) may have fathered a child before his death. Note that Elmer Piatt is the informant:
Missouri State Board of Health; Certificate of Death; County: Cooper; Township: ?Larnine; City: [blank]; No: [blank]; Street: [blank]; Ward: [blank]; Registration District: 217; Primary Registration District: 5308; File No: 34343; Registered No: [blank]; Full Name: Jack Milton Piatt; Residence No: [blank]; Street: [blank]; Ward: [blank]; Length of residence in city or town where death occurred: [blank] yrs [blank] mos [blank] ds; Sex: Male; Color: white; Marital Status: single; Name of Spouse: [blank]; Date of Birth: July 20 1923; Age: 3 years 4 months 3 days; Occupation: [blank]; General nature of industry: [blank]; Name of Employer: [blank]; Birthplace: Cooper County, Mo; Name of father: Lloyd Piatt; Birthplace of Father: Cooper County, Mo; Maiden Name of Mother: Daisey Smith; Birthplace of Mother: Cooper County; Informant: Elmer Piatt; Informant Address: Larnine? Mo: Filed: 11/24, 1926 W. L. ?leuey?; Date of Death: 11-23 , 1926; I hereby certify that I attended the deceased from Nov 8, 1926, to Nov 23, 1926, that I last saw him alive on Nov 23, 1926, and that death occurred on the date stated above, at 4 p.m. The cause of death was as follows: Scarletina; Duration: [blank] yrs [blank] mos 16 ds; Contributory and duration: Cervical Cellulitis [blank] yrs [blank] mos 9 ds; Did an operation precede death? [blank]; Was there an autopsy? [blank]; What test confirmed diagnosis? [blank]; Signed: W T Hessey? M. D. 11-24, 1926 address: Blackwater Mo; Place of burial or removal: Pilot Grove Cemetery; Date of Burial: Nov 25 1926; Undertaker: Goodman & Belks?; Undertaker address: Booneville Mo
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