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Phillip Catt

25 Monday May 2020

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On May 25, 1750, Phillip Catt was born to Michael Katz and Anna Maria Mohr. He was born in the colony of Virginia, near present day Hardy County, West Virginia. Five siblings have been identified in the records to this day: Ludwig, George, Michael, Anna Maria and John. Documentation indicates around 1770 the family crossed the mountains and settled along the southern branch of the Potomac River in what is now Fayette County, Pennsylvania.

Migration of Phillip Catt

At the time the Revolutionary War broke out, the area where the Catts resided was under a jurisdictional dispute as to which colony it belonged to–Virginia or Pennsylvania. When news of Lexington and Concord reached this frontier area, the border dispute faded into the background and residents came together in the fight against the British. This area was referred to as “old Monongalia County, Virginia”. The four Catt brothers (George, Michael, John and Phillip) all served in the War in regiments from this area. Phillip, specifically, was in the Monongalia Militia. He served in several regiments under the direction of Captains John Whitesell, Kincaid, Wilson, Morgan and Jacob Tevebaugh, as well as Colonels Brodhead and Crawford on multiple campaigns.

About 1775, Phillip married Mary Magdalan ? and started a family, despite the War. Their first four children, Mary, Elizabeth, Phillip Jr, and Sebastian were born in Pennsylvania. In May 1785, they relocated westward and settled in Knox County, Indiana. Mary and Phillip added five more children to their family: John , Rebecca, Susannah, Daniel and Eutha Melinda.

Phillip’s wife Mary died between 1815 and 1820. He remarried to Sally Kimmons on November 14, 1820 and they continued to live in Johnson Township in Knox County until Phillip’s death on September 4, 1844.

Phillip Catt was my 7th great uncle on my mom’s side.

REFERENCES

  • United States Census: 1820, 1830, 1840
  • Find A Grave website
  • United States Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files
  • United States Revolutionary War Pensioners
  • Indiana Marriage Index
  • The Catt Family in America, Dr. W Cary Anderson, 1989.

Zeresh Puckett

24 Sunday May 2020

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Zeresh Puckett was born in Shelby County, Illinois on May 24, 1833, the daughter of Elihu Puckett and Rebecca Wilks.  She had an older sister Jamima and two younger brothers, Lewis and George.  Zeresh may also have had an older brother James Hughes from her mother’s first marriage.  Zeresh is a Biblical name from the Old Testament.

In 1836, Elihu and Rebecca moved the family from Illinois to Clay County, Indiana in the area served by the Coffee Post Office in Lewis Township. In 1853, Zeresh married Benjamin Coppock and they settled into farming in Lewis Township.  Zeresh helped support the family as a seamstress.  Later, Benjamin was employed as a grocer.

The couple had five children during their marriage: Jemima, Rebecca, Mary, Ida, and Thomas.  All lived long lives, reaching their seventies or beyond.   Zeresh, unfortunately, did not see her children to adulthood.  She died on February 27, 1873 at the age of thirty-nine.

 

Zeresh Puckett was my 3rd-great grandmother on my dad’s side

REFERENCES

  • United States Census: 1850, 1860, 1870
  • Find a Grave website
  • History of Clay County, Indiana, Volume II, William Travis, 1909.

Maude Frances Dyer

23 Saturday May 2020

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Maude Frances Dyer was born on May 23, 1898 in Knox County, Indiana to Asberry Dyer and Harriet Caroline Hougland.  Asberry supported the family through farming, and with his wife Carrie had a total of seven children:  Ellis, Maude, Ora, Emma, Evalena, Cecil, and Eva.  All of the siblings lived to adulthood except Evalena who died of cholera at seventeen months.  The family lived on the Knox County side of the White River, not far from Plainville and Edwardsport.

In 1907, the Dyer family lost their patriarch when Asberry died of ascites.  According to the newspaper account, he had been ill for several months and had refused medicinal treatment.  About a year later, with a large family to raise, Carrie married Charles W Barnes and they made their home farming in the Sandborn area.  Maude acquired four half-siblings from her mother’s second marriage: Martha, William, Harvey and a still-born sister.  William would only live a couple years, having been afflicted with a fatal bout of pneumonia in 1915.

Maude met William Miller from the Plainville area of Daviess County and married him on May 11, 1916.  They made their home in the Plainville area where William worked as a farm laborer.  They had three children, Ruth, Ollie, and James, all who lived very long lives.  In 1928, William died at the age of thirty-two from tuberculosis.  As a means of supporting herself and her three children, Maude worked as a seamstress at the Reliance Manufacturing Company, which was located in Washington, Indiana.  They made workshirts during the 1930s and shifted to parachute manufacturing during World War II.

On June 28, 1933, Maude married her second husband, widowed farmer Joseph Haskins.  At the age of thirty-seven, Maude died on November 3, 1935 from a thyroid disorder.  She was buried in the Plainville Cemetery, likely next to her first husband William.

 

Maude Dyer was my 2nd cousin 3 times removed on my dad’s side.

REFERENCES

  • The Daviess County Historical Society & Museum website

  • United States Census: 1910, 1920, 1930
  • Indiana Birth Certificates
  • Indiana Death Certificates
  • Indiana Marriages
  • Vincennes Commercial, May 12, 1916
  • Western Sun, April 5, 1907

Mary Emma Cardinal

22 Friday May 2020

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Mary Emma Cardinal was born May 22, 1874 in Knox County, Indiana to Franklin Cardinal and Mary Henrietta White.  She had three older siblings: William J, Eliza, and Charles.  Her family lived in Johnson Township near Decker where they worked the family farm.  It is believed that she went by her middle name Emma.

On August 18, 1892, Emma married Henry McGaughey across the river in Lawrence County, Illinois.  They made their home in Johnson Township were Henry farmed the land.  They had at least five children, four of which have been identified:  Jeremiah, Levi, Florence, and Lorene.

In 1904, typhoid fever was nearing epidemic levels in cities such as New York City.  Rural areas, such as Knox County, were not immune to the bacterial infection.  There were regular reports in the local paper of citizens, both old and young, who succumbed to the disease.  Unfortunately, the McGaughey family was hard hit by the bacteria in 1904.  Young Florence at the tender age of seven, died in September.  Emma fell victim on November 2, 1904 and eleven year old Jeremiah followed five days later.  All three are buried in the City Cemetery.

 

Mary Emma Cardinal was my 2nd cousin, 4 times removed on my mom’s side.

REFERENCES

  • United States Census: 1880, 1900
  • Indiana Death Certificates
  • Illinois Statewide Marriage Index
  • Find A Grave website

Maggie Mae Riley

21 Thursday May 2020

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Maggie Mae Riley was born May 21, 1889 in Texas. She was one of  nine children born to William Marshall Riley and Flora Dare.  Shortly after her birth, the family moved to Elk City, Oklahoma where they settled into farming. Maggie’s siblings included Alma, Robert, Bessie, Maudie and Lillie. Bessie lived to the tender age of four and the three other siblings died in infancy.

On April 11, 1909, Maggie married Jesse Cooper in Beckham County, Oklahoma, and set up house in North Fork Township.  They raised a family with six children, all who lived well into adulthood:  Blanche, Tina, Janie, Frankie, Charlie, and Noel.  In 1943, Jesse died at the age of 58.  Maggie continued to live in Beckham County after his death, watching her children raise families of their own.  She died in October 1971 and was laid to rest beside her husband.

 

Maggie Mae Riley was my 3rd cousin, 3 times removed on my dad’s side.

REFERENCES

  • United States Census: 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930, 1940
  • Oklahoma County Marriages
  • Find a Grave website
  • The Daily Oklahoman,  October 25, 1971 via Newspapers.com

James Eli Ishmael

20 Wednesday May 2020

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James Eli Ishmael was born on May 20, 1863 to John Ishmael and Mary Hunt in Fleming County, Kentucky.  Mary was John’s second wife.  From his first marriage, John had seven children (John, Laura, Rosanna, Samuel, Margaret, Nancy and an unnamed infant girl).  John and Mary added seven children (Margaret, Nancy, John Thomas, Martha, George, Sara and Minnie) in addition to James Eli.  The family’s main source of support was farming.

James married Lovisa Anderson around 1891.  Together they had six children: Arthur, Evie, James, William, Louzella, and Pat.  Lovisa died in 1907, leaving James to raise their family on his own.  He remarried in 1909 to a woman named Rebecca.  She lived until sometime in the 1920s, leaving James a widower twice over.  In his later years, James shifted from farming to working as a store clerk to support himself and youngest daughter Louzella who kept house for him.  James lived to the age of seventy-seven.  He died on January 22, 1941 in Flemingsburg after battling influenza which ultimately led to pneumonia. He is buried with Lovisa in Elizaville, Kentucky.

 

James Eli Ishmael was my 2nd cousin, 4x removed on my dad’s side.

REFERENCES

  • United States Census: 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930, 1940
  • Kentucky Death Records
  • Find a Grave Website

 

Jean Baptiste Cardinal

19 Tuesday May 2020

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Jean Baptiste Cardinal was born on May 19, 1728 to Jeanne Duguay and Jacques Jean-Baptiste Cardinal,  and was baptized at the Basilique Notre-Dame in Montreal. He was one of nine children which included two sisters named Jeanne, and brothers named Jacques, Joseph, Nicolas, Jean-Baptiste, Pierre and Charles.

On April 8, 1755 in Detroit, Jean Baptiste married Marie-Anne Maillet.  Their first two children, Jeanne-Marie and Marie-Anne, are believed to have been born in Canada.  At some point between 1758 and 1761, the family migrated southward and settled at Fort Vincennes.  Four more children were born to the couple over the next decade: Jacques, Genevieve, Jean-Baptiste, and Celeste.

Fort Vincennes played a pivotal part in the battles on the western front of the Revolutionary War.  The fort changed hands several times between the British forces, which were based in Detroit, and the American forces who made allies of the French Canadians who lived in the area.  Jean Baptiste supported the cause against the British by signing the Oath of Allegiance to Vincennes in 1778 and fighting in the militia under George Rogers Clark.  In 1780,  it is believed that Jean Baptiste marched with Augustin de la Balme in an attempt to take Detroit.  Along the way, La Balme took an unoccupied British and Indian trading post near present day Fort Wayne, Indiana.  When his expected reinforcements did not show up, he took some of his men to capture another post along the Eel River.  The local Indians were unhappy with the outsiders intruding and attacked.  After a lengthy battle, most of the men, include Jean Baptiste Cardinal, perished along the Eel River.

 

Jean Baptiste Cardinal was my 7th great-uncle on my mom’s side.

REFERENCES

  • Canadian Genealogy Index
  • Quebec Vital Church Records (Drouin Collection)
  • Quebec, Genealogical Dictionary of Canadian Families (Tanguay Collection)
  • “De La Balme’s Defeat” – Revolutionary War and Beyond website

May Lennington

18 Monday May 2020

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On May 18, 1863, Thomas S. Lennington and Anna R. Pierson welcomed their only daughter, May,  into this world in Licking County, Ohio.  Thomas supported the family as a farmer and served in the Civil War during 1864.

May married Marvin Custer, a nephew of General George Custer, on August 29, 1881 in Licking County.  They immediately started a family with their son George Armstrong Custer being born in 1882 in Iowa.  The small family returned to Ohio where they added a daughter Marie in 1885.

May’s father passed away in 1888, and her mother moved in with Marvin and May.  Anna resided with them until her death in 1912.  Marvin supported the family as a railroad engineer, having worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad for twenty-seven years at the time of his retirement.  Just shy of his sixtieth birthday, Marvin was suddenly stricken with a heart attack and died at his home on September 8, 1915.

Both of their children, George and Marie, married and had families.  Marie’s life was cut short at the age of thirty-five due to pregnancy complications.  May carried on, eventually living with George and his family.  She died at home on February 11, 1933 at the age of sixty-nine.

 

May Lennington was my 4th cousin, 5x removed on my dad’s side.

REFERENCES

  • United States Census, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1930
  • Ohio County Marriages
  • Find a Grave website
  • The Newark (OH) Advocate, Feburary 13, 1933, via Newspapers.com
  • Ohio Deaths
  • Lancaster Eagle-Gazette, September 9, 1915, via Newspapers.com
  • United States Civil War Draft Registration Records

 

Charles Cardinal

17 Sunday May 2020

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Charles Cardinal was one of at least 5 children born to Pierre Cardinal and Madeleine Cesar.  He came into this world on May 17, 1718 at Lachine, Quebec, Canada.  He had at least two brothers, Jean Baptiste and Francois, and two sisters, Marie Angelique and Marie Joseph.

Charles was married twice. His first wife was Marie Catherine Deniau and they were married on January 19, 1750 in Lachine.   No children have been identified from this union and it is likely Marie Catherine perished just a few short years after their marriage.

Charles married his second wife Susanne Amable Massiot on 20 January 1755 in Lachine.  To this marriage was born at least six daughters and one son: Suzanne-Catherine, Charles, Marie, Marie-Josephe, Suzanne, Marguerite, and Archange.  Suzanne-Catherine and Marguerite both died as infants and Marie-Josephe perished at the age of ten.

Charles is thought to have died himself in or around 1770, although documentation has not yet been located.

Charles Cardinal

Charles Cardinal was my 2nd cousin 8x removed.

REFERENCES

  • Quebec, Canada, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection)
  • Quebec, Genealogical Dictionary of Canadian Familes (Tanguay Collection)

Thomas Duncan Piety

16 Saturday May 2020

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Thomas Duncan Piety was one of thirteen children born to Thomas Piety and Mary Duncan.  He was born on May 16, 1801 in Shelbyville, Kentucky.  Among his brothers is James Duncan Piety whom we’ve previously discussed. His other siblings included Austin, Elizabeth, Sarah, Robert, Margaret, Samuel, Nancy, Ann, William, Susan, and Polly.

Thomas married Nancy Faught on March 6, 1823 in Bartholomew County, Indiana.  Much of the Piety family migrated to northern Knox County in the 1820s and settled in Busseron and Widner Townships.  Census information from 1830 and 1840 for Thomas and Nancy’s household would indicate the following children were born to the couple:

  • Boy, born between 1820 and 1825
  • Boy, born between 1825 and 1830
  • Girl, born between 1825 and 1830 – Barbara Ann
  • 2 Girls, born between 1830 and 1835 – Lucinda M

The 1850 census has two of the girls still living with their parents as indicated above in blue.  The identity or fate of the remaining three children is not clearly known.  It is likely that one of the sons is Samuel Duncan Piety (1826-1864).  He married in 1849.  Both Thomas and Samuel are buried in the same cemetery and their headstones are of the same style which could be a clue to their relationship.  The remaining son and daughter have not yet been identified or located.

Thomas’s wife Nancy perished at some point between 1850 and 1860.  Barbara Ann married John Adkins in the mid-1850s as well.  Lucinda remained at home, keeping house for her father until his death March 18, 1865.  He is buried in Oaktown, Indiana.

 

Thomas Duncan Piety was my 1st cousin 6x removed.

REFERENCES

  • United States Census, 1830, 1840, 1850, 1860
  • Indiana Marriages
  • Find a Grave website