John and Mary Foresman Piatt
John Piatt was born March 19, 1793, Washington Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania
to John and Elizabeth Cline Piatt and died January 19, 1828, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, aged 34 years, 10 months and 11 days. He is buried in the Christ Lutheran Stone Church. He married January 1, 1818, in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, Mary Foresman who was born August 27, 1793 to John and ? Foresman. Mary died March 10, 1853 - aged 59 years, 7 months, and 19 days. She is also buried in the Christ Lutheran Stone Church, Brady Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania.
Children of John Piatt and Mary Foresman are:
- Catherine J Piatt b: 08 Dec 1818 Lycoming Co, PA d: 14 Jan 1886 Santa Ana, CA (while visiting her son, Robert; buried 25 Jan 1886 in the Bethel, Sand Hill Cemetery, Cedar Co, IA; obit Tipton Advertiser, Tipton, IA Thurs Jan 28, 1886, Pg 2, Col 5) m1: 11 Feb 1836 (?Lycoming Co, PA) James H Whitson b: 1813 d: Nov 1854 Tipton, IA (also buried Sand Hill Cemetery)
- Mary Bell Whitson
- Julia Ann Whitson
- Charlotte Whitson
- Nancy M Whitson
- John Thomas Whitson b: 1845 d: 1904 m: 1872 Ida Cordelia Dietz b: 1854
- Grace Whitson b: Clinton, IA m: Walter Mears Long (Grace's DAR ID Number: 85967)
- Oscar J Whitson and Robert C Whitson
m2: Nov 1859 Cedar Co, IA Manna C. Stearns (also buried Sand Hill Cemetery)
- John Piatt b: c1819/1820 PA (probably Lycoming Co) m: c1844 Elizabeth R Grafius b: 1825 PA
- Mary Piatt b: c1845 Lycoming Co, PA
- Joseph G Piatt b: c1848 Lycoming Co, PA
- B Anthony Piatt b: c1851 Lycoming Co, PA
- Jennie H Piatt b: c1859 Lycoming Co, PA
- Robert Piatt b: c1862 Lycoming Co, PA
- Lydia Ann Piatt b: 27 Jan 1822 PA (probably Lycoming Co) d: 28 Oct 1889 m: 8 Oct 1841, Lycoming Co, PA, by Samuel Tate Suydam
- Robert Piatt b: 1823 PA (probably Lycoming Co) d: 6 Jun 1880 Ponch Springs, Co [attorney] (?1870 Tipton, Cedar Co, IA as 'H C Piatt' lawyer)
- William Alphanzo {sic} Piatt b: 1826 Lycoming Co, PA d: 1880 Cherry Tree, Indiana Co, PA m: 1851 Margaretta Jane McCormick
Other information is available on these lines except Robert Piatt. The 1850 census of Lycoming Co, PA, Williamsport lists a Robert Piatt, aged 27, at the U.S. Hotel. He was listed as an attorney at law.
Mary and family appeared as follows on the 1830 census of Washington Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania:
Piatt, Mary 1m<5; 1m5-10; 1m10-15; 1f<5; 1f5-10; 1f10-15; 1f30-40
This family was enumerated Pg 214, Line 147. This accounts for all of the known children, with 1 female child left over, the under 5 one. Her neighbors were Robert Shulley, Jerrett Vanfleet, Elizabeth Carrachn, George Goodlander, James McKinney, * , Samuel Billman, Catherine Forseman, Benjamin Simonton, and John Forseman. Also in the same township were Elizabeth Piatt, William Piatt, William Piatt Jr and Rachel Piatt.
Sources:
- Piatt Family Newsletter, Volume 7, 1992
- Lynn virtuallynn@aol.com
- obit of Catherine J Piatt Stearns
- "Stones & Sites of Cedar County"
- 1830 census of Lycoming Co, PA
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