Joseph and Jean Brooks Pyatt

Joseph and Jean had the following known children:

• daughter Pyatt
• Leander Pyatt b: 1828 (or 1826) NC (probably Watauga or Yancey Co) d: 10 Feb 1863 (in the Civil War) m: c1847 (probably Yancey Co) Francis Matilda Capenter (d/o Jacob and Margaret ? Carpenter) b: 9 Dec 1826 Burke County (later Yancey, then Mitchell, now Avery) North Carolina d: 28 Jun 1902 m2: 15 Apr 1877 Mitchell Co, MO, William Vance (s/o John Vance and Elizabeth Davis
• Eleazer A Pyatt b: 9 Oct 1832 Yancey Co, NC d: 5 May 1902 m: 20 Jul 1865 Ann E Mahaffey
• Rachel Evaline Pyatt b: 8 Jan 1835 d: 7 Jan 1926 m: 15 Mar 1855 Jacob Carpenter II
• Elmira Pyatt b: 6 Oct 1837 d: 3 SEp 1909 m1: Albert Bolic m2: James Gaither Wiseman

He appears on the 1840 census of Yancey County, North Carolina:

• Piatt, Joseph 1m5-10; 1m10-15; 1m50-60; 2f<5; 2f15-20; 1f40-50

My interpretation: The male 5-10 would be Eleazer; the male 10-15 would be Leander; the male 50-60 is Joseph; one female under 5 would be Rachel and the other Elmira; the two females age 5 to 20 could be other daughters or just females in their household; the female 40-50 is Jean.

There is a Joseph Pyatt listed in the index to the 1850 census of Yancey County, North Carolina. However, I do not have the abstract. He was enumerated on pg 418 while his son, Leander Pyatte, was on pg 419.

He is probably the Joseph Pyatt indexed on pg 915 in Yellow Mountain, Yancey County, North Carolina on the 1860 census.

Sources:

• "The Pyatt Family of Western North Carolina" 1977 Martha A Pyatte
• 1820 Burke Co, NC, federal census
• 1840-1860 Yancey Co, NC, federal census
• Marriage records of North Carolina
• Portrait and Biographical Record of Shelby and Moultrie Counties, Illinois - 1891

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