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Oliver J Pyatt and Josephine E Jones

Oliver J Pyatt was born c1834 in Pennsylvania to Benjamin and Margaret McKeon Pyatt and died in 1903. He married in Woodford County, Illinois, on October 19, 1865, Josephine E Jones. I have a record in Cook County, Illinois, for a marriage between 'Oliver P Pyatt' and 'Josephine Jones' for October 23, 1865. The notation 'Fink' appears. I would assume that the Woodford County information was taken from a secondary source and is in error.

Oliver and Josephine had the following known children:

Janvier Piatt b: 1867 IL

Edith M Piatt b: 1869 Jacksonville, IL m: Wiliam Samuel Dunlap

Benjamin C Piatt b: 1871 IL

Addie Piatt b: 1873 IL

Charles Piatt b: 1875 MO

Josie Piatt b: 1878 MO

Janvier was named for his great-grandmother, Susan Janvier.

I first located Oliver on the 1850 census of Morgan County, Illinois, as follows:

Cassell, Peter age 23 born KY / m / merchant
Cassell, Crisy age 18 born PA / f
Pyatt, Oliver age 16 born PA / m / tobacconist
Capell, W. age 1/12 born IL / m (This family enumerated #11/#11 pg 170C.)

This Crisy Cassell is Oliver's sister, Emily, who married Peter T Cassell in Morgan County. Also in Morgan County were Olivers parents, his brother, Benjamin Pyatt Jr, who was a success tobacco manufacturer and probably his employer; and, his brother, John Pyatt.

By the 1860 census of Jacksonville, Morgan County, Illinois, Oliver had moved into the household of his parents as follows:

Pyatt, Benj age 75 born PA / male / carpenter / $2000/$100
Pyatt, Margaret age 69 born PA / female
Pyatt, Oliver age 25 born PA / male / tobacconist / $0/$1500 (This family enumerated #623/604 13th June 1860 pg 412 (ancestry image 90/563) pg 412 (from index only)

By the 1870 census of Denmark, Morgan County, Illinois, Oliver's family had grown and looked as follows:

Pyatt, Oliver age 35 born PA / W M / Tobacconist / $10200/$2000
Pyatt, Josie age 32 born IL / W F / Keeping House
Pyatt, Jan age 4 born IL / W M
Pyatt, Edith age 2 born IL / W F
Pyatt, Ben age 9/12 born ?Sep/Aug? IL / W M
Pyatt, Margaret age 79 born PA / W F / father of foreign birth

This family was enumerated #137/140 3 Jun 1870 pg 516 (#13 left top corner)(ancestry image 216/330); O J Pyatt was Asst Marshall who did the enumeration.

By the 1880 census the family had moved to Lewis County, Missouri - 7th Street in Canton:

Pyatt, Oliver J age 45 born PA
Pyatt, Josephine E (wife) age 41 born IL
Pyatt, Janvier (son) age 13 born IL
Pyatt, Edith M (daughter) age 11 born IL
Pyatt, Benjamin C (son) age 9 born IL
Pyatt, Addie (daughter) age 7 born IL
Pyatt, Charles (son) age 5 born MO
Pyatt, Josie (daughter) age 2 born MO
Millburn, Clarence (nephew) age 19 born IL

They were enumerated 20/26/44/11: 7th Street, Canton.

Of interest to me is the Clarence Millburn who lives with this family as I know of other Illinois Pyatts with the Milburn name. In Perry County, Illinois and in Montgomery County, Illinois were first cousins whose first name was Milburn.

Daughter Edith Pyatt Dunlap DAR # DAR #78104 Revolution Volume 79 page 42
Mrs. Edith Pyatt Dunlap. DAR ID Number: 78104 Born in Jacksonville, Ill. Wife of William Samuel Dunlap. [p.42] Descendant of Capt. Moses Woodward. Daughter of Oliver J. Pyatt (1834-1903) and Josephine Jones (b. 1835), his wife, m. 1865. Granddaughter of John T. Jones (1795-1877) and Emily Woodward (1805-52), his wife, m. 1827. Gr-granddaughter of William Wallis Woodward (1769-1837) and Susan Janvier (d. 1849), his wife, m. 1791. Gr-gr-granddaughter of Moses Woodward and Eunice Wallis (d. 1789), his wife. Moses Woodward (1740-1810) served as commissary of prisoners at Portsmouth. He was born in Gloucester, Mass.; died in Portsmouth, N. H. Also Nos. 35663, 60570.

Sources:

1850/1860/1870 Morgan Co, IL, federal census
1880 Lewis Co, MO census
Marriage of Cook Co, IL
Vol 79 pg 42 DAR Index Edith Pyatt Dunlap
AGI Source Records - marriage

Updated Jul 2004

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