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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

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

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

Marianne Adelaide Bayard

15 Friday May 2020

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On May 15, 1932, Marianne Bayard was born to John F Bayard and Marianne Bonneau in Vincennes, Indiana.  She was the fifth of nine children to the couple.  Her brothers and sisters included Samuel, Susan, Mary Louise, John Jr, Eleanor, Joseph, Mary Elizabeth and Margaret.  Her father was originally from France and her mother’s family was one of the first families to settle in the Vincennes area.

In 1850, a young grocer named Marcel LaCroix was living with the family.  Three years later, just months after her father’s death, Marianne married Marcel at the Old Cathedral in Vincennes. Marcel continued to work hard and eventually owned a well-respected mercantile in town.  He and Marianne had four children: John, Anna, Adele, and Helen.  All of them lived long lives.  In December 1876, Marcel was stricken with paralysis and passed away on December 4 of that year.  Marianne continued to raise the children as a single parent.  As she reached her senior years, Marianne resided with John and his wife Mary until her death.  On March 12, 1911, Marianne succumbed to pneumonia at the age of seventy-eight.  She was laid to rest in Mt. Calvary Cemetery.

 

Marianne Bayard was my 4th cousin, 5x removed on my mom’s side.

REFERENCES

  • United States Census, 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910
  • Indiana Death Certificates
  • Indiana Marriage Index
  • Find a Grave website
  • Vincennes Weekly Sun, December 8, 1876.

Florence Thompson

14 Thursday May 2020

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Florence Thompson was born on May 14, 1859, the first child of Stewart Thompson and Margaret Jones.  The new family was living in Madison Township in Pike County, Indiana in 1860, so it was likely Florence was born there.  She had five younger sisters and two brothers: Alice, Eleanor, Thomas, Nancy, Maggie, William, and Emma.  Alice, Nancy and Maggie died as children.

By 1870, Stewart had relocated the family to Johnson Township in Knox County where they continued to farm.  On September 2, 1879, Florence married John Leveron and they set up their household near Decker.  Over the next twenty years, they would build a family of eight children, seven of which lived to adulthood: sons Shirley, Levi , and Stewart and daughters Margaret, Annie, Ruth, Grace and Hilda.  Grace died shortly after her first birthday in 1898.

In March 1904, Florence’s father died at the age of seventy-one from tuberculosis.  Seven years later, at the age of sixty-nine, her mother died apoplexy.  Florence and John continued to raise their family in the Decker area, only for John to succumb to kidney failure in December 1917.  Shirley, Levi, and Stewart continued to help work the farm; Levi going so far as to be separated from his wife and seven children in Vincennes to assist.

On September 26, 1933, Florence passed away at home from a cerebral hemorrhage after several weeks of poor health.  She is buried at the Warth Cemetery in Decker Chapel next to her husband.

 

Florence Thompson was my 1st cousin 4x removed on my mom’s side.

REFERENCES

  • United States Census – 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1920, 1930
  • Indiana Death Certificates
  • Indiana Marriage Collection
  • Find A Grave website
  • Princeton Daily Clarion, September 27, 1933 via Newspapers.com
  • Vincennes Sun Commercial, September 27, 1933

Joanna DeMoss

13 Wednesday May 2020

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Joanna DeMoss was born on May 13, 1813 in Fleming County, Kentucky.  She is believed to be the daughter of William and Polly DeMoss.  She had several siblings including Lewis, Polly, William J, Elizabeth and Sarah.  Joanna was one of the youngest of the DeMoss children.

Joanna married John G Wilson around 1832 likely in Kentucky.  Since most single families did not relocate alone, but rather in a group, it is likely that the Wilsons migrated to Daviess County, Indiana at the same time as her brother William and her sister Polly, who was married to Thomas Harmon.  These families can all be found in Reeve Township living fairly close together in 1850.

Joanna and John are thought to have had seven children: Minerva (m. John Scales), Nancy (m. Frank Malray), James, Sarah Jane (m. Phillip Scales), Rebecca, Deborah (m. Joseph Armes), and Indiana (m. Charles Mattingly).  John died just days before his daughter Indiana was born in October 1852.  It is speculated that Rebecca perished in the mid-1850s since she was missing from the 1860 census.

Joanna continued to work the farm near Alfordsville until her death on March 10, 1867.  She was fifty-three.

 

Joanna DeMoss was my 5th great aunt on my dad’s side.

REFERENCES

  • United States Census, 1850, 1860
  • Find a Grave website

Ara Belle Gilmore

11 Monday May 2020

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Ara Belle Gilmore was the seventh of nine children born to Robert Gilmore and Martha Jane Lankford.   She was born on May 11, 1873 in Steen Township, Knox County, Indiana.  Her older siblings, in order of birth, were Elizabeth, Bertha Ellen, Susan, Sarah, Benjamin and Nancy.  She was followed by younger brothers Irvin and George.  Elizabeth was the only child not to live to adulthood.  In 1884, Ara’s sister Ellen died.  Ellen’s son Charles was raised by his grandparents Robert and Martha.

Ara married on May 3, 1899 at the age of twenty-five to Thomas Albert Strange from Daviess County.  They had a daughter in 1901 named Elsie.  Albert worked for the railroad and was often gone for stretches of time doing construction.  On May 23, 1905, he was hit and killed by a passenger train in Mitchell, Indiana.

Ara and her daughter lived with her parents for a few years until she met and married Charles Downey around Christmas 1910.  They made their home together in Bicknell where Charles was a farmer.  Ara’s father died in 1920 and her mother followed in 1925.  At the age of sixty-six, Ara passed away on August 6, 1940 from complications associated with a hernia.  She is buried in the Odd Fellows Cemetery in Bicknell.

 

Ara Belle Gilmore is my 1st cousin 4x removed on my dad’s side.

REFERENCES

  • United States Census – 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930, 1940
  • Indiana Death Certificates
  • Indiana Marriage Collection
  • Find A Grave website
  • Vincennes Commercial, December 23, 1910
  • Vincennes Sun-Commercial,  August 7, 1940
  • Daviess County Democrat, May 27, 1905