Laverne, My name is Nancy, and I have been the go between for Elise and my sister-in-law Carolyn Mills who lives in the old Lewis Piatt house. I was reading her your posting about Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt when she read me some very interesting information that came from the Kentucky Enclyopedia. It says that when her husband died in 1917 that Sarah moved to Caldwell N.J. and lived with her son Cecil until her death. She died December 22, 1919, but is buried in Springrove Cemetery in Cincinnati. She also said that in 1882 that John James took Post of Us Consul in Cork Ireland, and that they lived there for 13 years. Lot of her poems were published when they lived there.
For Nancy, Thanks for the information on the burial site of Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt. I knew her husband was buried in Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati but I guess I had assumed that she might be buried in Caldwell as she was living with her son Cecil there when she died. I checked her obituary in the Piatt Family Newsletter and it did not give her burial place. I'm glad to know that both she and her husband are in the same cemetery. It's only fitting. And you've saved me a wild goose chase in Caldwell NJ this summer. A few years ago some of the Piatts at the researchers' conference went to Spring Grove cemetery and located some Piatt graves there. It is a large and beautiful cemetery. And the records are easily accessible. I didn't visit it at the time as I was probably chasing some dusty tome in an archive or over in Boone Co looking for other Piatts. Yes, SMB and JJ Piatt did spend a number of years in Ireland where she wrote poetry. I believe this fact was omitted from the article in the Columbus Dispatch. Another time when I was in the Cincinnati are I located the property at North Bend where SMB and JJ Piatt lived. It is on the northwest corner of Cliff Road, running along the Ohio River, and Rittenhouse Road. The section of the property which lies across the Cliff Road from the residence and over looks the river offers the most beautiful view of North Bend Bottom and Boone Co KY that can ever be imagined. No doubt sunsets there are unsurpassed. -- Laverne Ingram Piatt Ontario, OH