For Carolyn in the deep south: (Sorry it's taken me this long to work backwards in my e-mail to your posting to the PIATT-L list last November 2. Here's the lineage up to WILLIAM PIATT and ELLA [PRECIOUS] (MARY?) KEENE, then we run into a snag: .Rene Piatt and Elizabeth Sheffield (NJ) ..Jacob Piatt and Mary Hull (NJ, PA) ...Jacob Piatt and Jean Paul (PA) ....Jacob Piatt and Elizabeth Dunham (Washington Co PA) .....James Piatt Sr and Nancy Coleman (Monroe Co OH) ......James Piatt Jr and Catherine Moffett (Monroe Co OH) .......William Piatt and Mary Keene (Monroe Co OH) [was she also known as Precious and/or Ella?] William's family is really confused because his first wife died while there were several young children. Those young children apparently were sent to live with others. William then married a widow, Hannah Ferrel Dixon, who had three children of her own. Only the Dixon children and the children William had with Hannah lived with him afterward as far as I can tell. To complicate matters, the birth date for William and Ella [Precious] (Mary) Keene Piatt's son John is "about 1855." He is also listed as John H rather than John N. This John did marry a Jane and was living with her in Green District, Wetzel Co WV in 1880 with their son Harry aged 1 month. Is this a match for your John Nelson Piatt? If so you fit right in with these Monroe Co Piatts listed in David Eckert's posting of November 3. [Source: Piatt Family Newsletter, Volume 9, 1994] -- Laverne Ingram Piatt Ontario, OH