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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

James Duncan Piety

01 Friday May 2020

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James Duncan Piety was born May 1, 1796, in Nelson County, Kentucky, the third child of thirteen born to Thomas Piety and Mary Duncan.  James married twice during his lifetime.  He married his first wife, Eleanor Harned, on June 29, 1818 in Hardin County, Kentucky.  Shortly after that, the couple relocated to Vigo County, Indiana, where he used the dowry money from Eleanor’s parents to buy land in the area that is now known as Prairie Creek.  James supported his family as a farmer.  He was also an asset to the community in that he helped organize the First Baptist Church, as well as stake out the town.

Eleanor and James brought eight children into the world–Lucinda, David, Thomas, Julia, William, John, James, and Mary.  All but David reached adulthood. In 1838, Eleanor passed away at the age of 36.  Needing someone to raise his family, James married again on October 10, 1839 to Laurinda Thomas.  Together they added nine more children to the fold–Ellen, Emily, Louisa, Nancy, Margaret, Milton, Chauncey, Samuel and Sarah.  Both Margaret and Chauncey left this world as small children.

James continued to work the farm, even into his more advanced years.  He was considered a prominent farmer in the area, amassing over thirteen hundred acres at one time. James passed away on April 19, 1878 and is buried in the cemetery of the First Baptist Church which he helped establish.  His wife Laurinda followed him to the Promised Land a couple short years later on January 1, 1880.

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James D Piety was my 1st cousin 6x removed on my dad’s side.

REFERENCES

  • United States Census – 1830, 1840, 1850, 1860, 1870
  • An Early History of the Piety Family and Kinsmen, 1654-1956, written by Charles R Piety, 1956.
  • A Partial History of James Duncan Piety, written by Walter Piety Morgan, 1948.
  • Indiana Marriages
  • Kentucky Marriages
  • Find a Grave website

Mary Duncan

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Mary Duncan was a 4th great grandmother of mine.  She was born about 1786 in South Carolina.  Her father was Samuel Duncan.  Samuel moved the family to Miami County, Ohio where Mary met and married Isaiah Pemberton.  With Isaiah she had one daughter whose name is currently unknown.  Sometime around 1815, Mary then married Henry Neal and they had four children–John, Thomas, an unnamed girl and an unnamed boy.  Henry died sometime in the late 1820s and Mary married once again, this time to John Coppock.  Mary and John had one son, Benjamin, who is my 3rd great grandfather.

John Coppock toyed with the idea of moving to Indiana and went so far as to scout things out in 1836.  He changed his mind, though, and returned to Ohio.  His stepson John Neal, however, stayed and settled in Clay County, living with a brother-in-law.  It’s not clear if that brother-in-law is married to his (unnamed) sister or his wife Elizabeth’s brother.  It’s likely that Thomas Neal soon followed his brother and settled there as well.

John Coppock died at the age of 77 in Miami County, Ohio.  This was probably around 1842 when it is reported that Benjamin moved to Clay County and lived with Thomas and his family.  It’s likely that Mary came with him since she is reported to be living with Thomas in both 1850 and 1860.  According to Benjamin’s biography, Mary lived to be 81 years old.  Combining this with her approximate age from census records, Mary died around 1867 in Clay County.

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Miami County is just north of Dayton, OH which is to the northeast of Cincinnati.