Henry and Ollie had the following known children:
Mary appeared alone as a head of household with her children - including a newborn infant on the 1900 census of JP 2 District 151 Taylor County, Texas, next door to her brother-in-law, William Pyeatt, and his family as follows:
This family enumerated #48/48 pg 61B (Ancestry.com image 6/26). Why was Henry in Arizona and not with his poor wife at this time? She isn't listed as widowed, but, 'married' as is he in District 9, Cochise County, Arizona, as follows:
I know that Mary had just recently moved back to Texas from Arizona due to the children's places of birth. Was this just a short trip of six months or something for this family? Why didn't Henry come with them? Evidently, they all moved back to Arizona where they were living at the time of the 1910 census in Elgin District, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, as follows:
This family was enumerated #10 pg 226A ED #117. Ollie says that she has eight children living and seven are in their household. It appears that 20-year-old Ozella has already married. I couldn't locate a J Koogler in Arizona or any place that seemed likely. When the index is expanded to 'every name' - I need to search for Ozella with her birthyear and place.
By the 1920 census, the family appeared in Canello, Huachuca Mountains, Cochise County, Arizona, as follows:
This family enumerated #2/2 (Ancestry.com image 1/2) Neighbors were the Pardas family. 'Garces District' had been written at the top of the page. Also in 'Garces District/District 13' was Henry's brother, John Benton Pyeatt and family. Their son, Joseph, was in Tombstone, Cochise County, Arizona.
This article was written about thier 50th anniversary party:
Casa Grande Dispatch | Casa Grande, Arizona | Friday, May 07, 1937 | Page 1
Grandsons Present At Golden Wedding
Grand children from Casa Grande were among the many members of the family which were present at the celebration of the golden wedding aniversary of Mr. and Mrs. James Henry Pyeatt, pioneer Negates couple, conducted Sunday at their ranch in the Huachuca mountains. Ben Pyeatt and Roland Curry were the Casa Grande grand sons present. Mr. and Mrs. Pyeatt were married 5O years ago at Ramsey canyon in the Huachucas being among the early white settlers in that section.
James Henry Pyeatt's obituary appeared as follows:
Tucson Daily Citizen | Tucson, Arizona | Tuesday, March 03, 1942 | Page 5
Funeral For Cochise Pioneer Set Thursday
BISBEE. March 3. Funeral services will be conducted at Canelo in Santa Cruz county Thursday for James Henry Pyeatt, 81, rancher and territorial Indian fighter, who suffered a fatal heart attack while plowing one of his properties west of the Huachuca mountains. Pyeatt came to Arizona 38 years ago with a herd of cattle, living in Douglas and later Hereford. He was employed by the Greene Cattle company until 1901 when he bought the Igo ranch. Pyeatt is survived by his wife, Mary, and five sons, Seth of Florence, Lon and Irving of Tombstone, Russell and Buster of Fort Huachuca, and two daughters, Mrs. H. F. Cooper of Los Angeles and
Mrs. J. G. Hanley, Bisbee.
Mary's obit appeared as follows in 'The Arizona Republic' Tuesday, Dec 20, 1949:
Mary Pyeatt, Huachuca Area Pioneer Dies
Bisbee, Dec. 19 -- (AP) -- Mrs. Mary Ollie Pyeatt, 79 years old, who once
attended school with Billy Clanton, one of the principals in the
Earp-Clanton feud during Tombstone's frontier days, died Sunday in
Tombstone. A native of San Antonio, Tex., she came to Arizona with her family in 1880. She was married at Charleston in 1887 and since that time the family lived in the Huachuca mountain area and Tombstone. She was acquainted with Doc Holliday, the McLowery family, Sheriff John Slaughter and other famous Tombstone characters of its heyday. Surviving are four sons, Seth Pyeatt of Florence, Lon of Tombstone, Irvin
of Fry, Russell, Nogales, Roland of Elgin; two daughters, Mrs. J. G. Hanley of Bisbee and Mrs. Luella Cooper, Tucson; and brother Dave Kelly, Petersburg, Tex., 33 grandchildren and 21 great-grandchildren.
Graveside rites are scheduled at 1:30 p.m. Friday at Black Oak Cemetery
near the ranch at Canelo in the shadow of the Huachucas.
The following Arizona land purchases probably belong to this Henry:
Others purchasing land in Cochise County were Daisy Blakeslee Pyeatt, John Pyeatt, and Samuel Thomas Pyeatt.
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