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Facts and Events
Name |
Martha Emily Hill |
Gender |
Female |
Birth? |
10 Dec 1831 |
, Fayette, Georgia |
Marriage |
5 Feb 1848 |
, Fayette, Georgiato Daniel Franklin Hyatt |
Census[1][7] |
4 Jun 1870 |
Cleburne county, Alabama |
Census[2][8] |
1880 |
Lost Creek, Cleburne, Alabama |
Other[3][9] |
25 Nov 1881 |
Marshall County, AlabamaLand Homestead Claim |
Other[4][10] |
30 Jun 1891 |
Marshall County, AlabamaLand |
Census[5] |
1900 |
Marshall County, Alabama |
Death? |
26 Feb 1904 |
Ruth, Marshall, Alabama |
Burial? |
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Ruth, Marshall, Alabama |
Ancestral File Number |
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1DSZ-PX |
Other[6][11] |
10 Mar 1904 |
Guntersville, Marshall, AlabamaObituary |
References
- ↑ United States. Census Office. Alabama, 1870 population census schedules, M593. (Washington, D.C. : The National Archives, 1962, 1968)
Daniel Hyatt household; Cleburne county; roll 9, folio 372. - ↑ United States. Census Office. Alabama, 1880 population census schedules, T9. (Washington : National Archives and Records Service, [19--])
Martha E Hyatt household; Lost Creek, Cleburne County; roll 8, page 253A; FHL film 1254008.
- ↑ United States. National Archives. Records of the Bureau of Land Management, Record Group 49
Homestead Case File of Martha E Hyatt; Alabama, Huntsville Land Office; June 30 1891; Patent Number 5902.
- ↑ United States, Bureau of Land Management. General Land Office Records. (http://www.glorecords.blm.gov)
Martha E Hyatt; Alabama, Marshall County; June 30 1891; Document No. 5902.
- ↑ United States. Census Office. Alabama, 1900 population census schedules, T623. (Washington : The National Archives, [19--?])
John H Hyatt household, Marshall County; Roll 30, E.D. 96, sheet 16, line 69; FHL film 1240030.
- ↑ Alabama, Marshall County newspapers
The Guntersville Democrat, (Guntersville, Alabama); 10 March 1904, page 3.
- ↑ She is 39 years old and keeping house on the farm.
- ↑ She was listed as 59 years of age and a Farmer. She worked the farm with five sons and two daughters
- ↑ She settled on this land in November of 1881 with her children. After improving the land they filed with the land office in Huntsville in September 1888 to obtain permanent possession of the land. The land consisted of 158.35 acres. The land was mountainous with timber. The trees were pine, oak, hickory. They did not harvest the timber except to clean and build their log cabin. They built a double log cabin each 18 by 20 feet with two stone chimneys, a barn, a garden and orchard of 35 acres. In 1888 she put the total value of all the improvements at $200.They had the following farm animals; One yoke oxen, three cows, two calves, 2 sheep, six hogs, and forty chickens. The first year on the land they farmed 12 acres of crops and steadly increased through the years
The grew cotton, corn, potatoes and vegatables. They have averaged about two bales of cotton, and one hundred bushels of corn each year. Martin Briscoe was a witness to her claim. Soon after there arrival to the homestead Martha's son, Daniel , married Nancy Briscoe daughter of Martin Briscoe. It was in 1885 that Frances Briscoe, daughter of Martin Briscoe, married Frances Hyatt. Now in 1888 Martin Briscoe was attesting to the facts of the claim
- ↑ Township, 8-South, Range 1-East; Section 9; Aliquot Parts - West 1/2 Southeast quarter and Section 8; Aliquot Parts -East 1/2 Southeast quarter; Huntsville meridan.
- ↑ Arab: Mrs Martha E Hyatt died near Eddy, Feb 14
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