Joseph and Jane had the following known children:
Joseph had appeared with his parents on the 1850 census in Cherokee County, North Carolina. About 1857/58 Joseph and his brothers, John S. Pyatt and William Calton Pyatt (along with a (?cousin) William Pyatt who was married to Matilda Loving) and their families started west. Some say they started for Kansas. Anyway, they stopped in Wright County, Missouri, and many descendants are still there today. Since the oldest children were born in North Carolina, it can be assumed that Joseph and Jane married in Cherokee County before coming to Missouri.
Joseph's family appeared in his own household as follows on the 1860 census of Wright County, Missouri (Hartville Twp):
I believe that Joseph's age should be 32 in keeping with all future census answers. Jane gave her month and year of birth as March of 1834 which would have made her 26 on this census. Living in Boone Township were Joseph's brother, John S Pyatt and William C Pyatt with their families.
In Wright County, Missouri, will and estate records can be found the estate of J. P. Bradshaw, who died intestate. The Administratrix was Mariam C. Bradshaw. Securities were E. A. Mingus, James Connally and J. A. Pyatt (21-22) 8 Nov 1864. This record probably belongs to Joseph Alfred Pyatt. I find a connection to the Bradshaws and Mingus' by looking at the 1880 census. Joseph's son, Thomas, was married to Rusha Belle 'Ruth' Mingus. She appears as a five-year-old with her parents on the same census page as the family of Joseph Pyatt. In that household lived her grandmothers, Sarah Mingus and Mary Bradshaw. There were actually three other Bradshaw families on the same page as the Mingus and Pyatts. So, evidently these families were all neighbors, friends and relatives in at least one case.
By the 1870 census of Wright County (Boon Township) the family had grown as follows:
This family was enumerated ?/1 pg 432. Joseph's brothers were still living in Wright County as well.
The family was still in Boone Township on the 1880 census as follows:
Jane was living with her son on the 1900 census of Boone Township, Wright County, Missouri, as follows:
This family was enumerated #114/117 pg 110B 714/144/6/57 (Ancestry.com image 12/23). Living nearby was Jane's brother-in-law, William C Pyatt, and the families of two of his sons, John R Pyatt and William T Pyatt. Her daughter, Cornelia, was in Gasconade Township. I find it odd that Jane was credited with one child born and one child still living since she was in a household with two of her sons. I wonder what the true number of children born to her was and how many of them were still living. Have her daughters, Frances and Mary, married or died? I find a Francis Prock (w/o James Prock) who was born May of 1860 in North Carolina enumerated in Union Township, Wright County, Missouri. Her parents were both born in North Carolina and she had been married for 20 years. They are enumerated again in Union Township on the 1920 census.
From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas,
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
Paul Ellis, dealer in oak railroad ties, fence posts and hardwood
lumber, and also general merchant at Cedar Gap, Wright Co., Mo., was
born in Waldo, Webster County, Mo., September 28, 1858, and was there
reared to manhood. He received his education in Mountain Dale Semi-
nary, and began earning his own living, by teaching a district school
at the age of seventeen years. He became one of the popular educators
of Webster and Wright counties, but at the end of six years gave up
this calling to become a mercantile clerk. He first engaged in merc-
antile pursuits on his own account at Duncan, but three months after-
ward came to Cedar Gap, where he engaged in his present business four
years later. In 1888 he checked by the Greene County Bank $23,000
shipping the same year 517 car loads of lumber, and February, 1889,
shipped 147 car loads. Mr. Ellis has been remarkably successful, as
he began business with nothing, and is now considered one of the
prosperous young business men of the county. When twenty-four years
old he was married to Miss Mollie Pyatt, a native of Wright County,
Mo., born in 1862, by whom he became the father of three children:
Jesse, living, and Victoria and Victor, deceased. Mr. Ellis is a Republican, a Mason, and a son of J. W. Ellis, who was norn in North Carolina, and there married Rachel Mingus. He was a carpenter by trade, and in 1852 came to Missouri, enlisting from this state in the Confederate army, and was killed, while on his way home, by a band of robbers. His wife, who was born in North Carolina, is still living, and resides in Duncan. Her mother is also living. Mrs. Paul Ellis is a daughter of Judge Joseph and Jane (Allen) Pyatt, who were also natives of North Carolina, and were there reared and married. After coming to Missouri Mr. Pyatt was elected judge of the Wright County Court, and was farmer and school teacher by occupation. He was a Federal soldier in the late war.
From a list of Wright County, Missouri, elected officials:
May 1864: Presiding Judge, William Wood; Associate Judge, Shields; Associate Judge, Young; Assessor, Joseph Pyatt; Public Administrator, Littleton Freeman; County Clerk, Edward Beaumont**; Sheriff, John L. Tate; **(Beaumont appointed to replace Fly who died)
1873: County Judge, J. A. Pyatt; County Judge, Hunter; County Judge, Whittaker; Assessor, John C. Crockett
1875: Presiding Judge, John Royster; Associate Judge, William Young; Assoicate Judge, J. A. Pyatt; Sheriff, J. W. Hensley; County Clerk, James Forrest; Treasurer, N. N. Nichols; Road Commissioner, J. L. Tate; Assessor, J. C. Crockett; Collector, A. P.Pool
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