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(2170.) to (2201.) No further record.The Hiett and Fichter Families of Brown Co., OHio by Bruce Grimes.
A week after Lizzie was born, her grandfather, Samuel Hiett, died. The family farm passed to Griffith's sister, Ruth and her husband, Ephraim Martin rather than to Griffith or his younger brothers, John and James.
Griffith and Kizzie moved to Dayton in 1902 (Pension Papers). They must have sold their farm to go into retirement. The 1900 census shows that their 19 year old son, Raymond, was already living there. In 1910, Griffith and Kizziah were living in Dayton with both sons (Gilbert and Ray) as well as granddaughter, Elizabeth, who was four. Gilbert';s wife died young, so that grandmother Kizzie was probably helping raise Elizabeth.
Griffith Hiett, age 82 died October 13, 1916 at his home in Dayton, Ohio.
Native of Brown Co., living at Scoffield, Huntington Township. He was a member of the 70th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He leaves his wife, two sons, one daughter, one sister and two brothers; John Hiett of Ripley, J.W. Hiett and Mrs. John Buchanan of Huntington Township" Ripley Bee death notice.Griffith's brothers, John Hiett age 20 and Samuel Hiett, age 29, enlisted on October 16, 1861. Griffith enlisted three days later on October 19 and was 27. Some of his cousins also volunteered for a term of three years. The three Hiett brothers and at least one of their cousins (Samuel Evans) were in Company F. of the 70th O.V.I.
Steamboat Armada up the Tennesse River: The Battle at Shiloh
On March 9, 1862 our Regiment marched aboard the stern-wheel steamers Shenango and Maringo, and by 10:00 that day 75 steamers were moving up the Tennesse River, having on board the Army of the Tennesse; the expedition was led by the gunboats Lexington and Tyler. The armada pushed up the Tennessee River reaching the Mississippi-Tennessee border on March 14. On the 15th they backtracked a little to Pittsburg Landing where they set up came. Many of our boys were taken sick, die to the unhealthy conditions of our camp. Men would take sick in the morning and we would have to bury them before night.
Not far from this camp, the Army became engaged in the famous battle at Shiloh April 6 and 7, 1862. The fighting at Shiloh lasted two days beginning on a Sunday. Sunday night after dark it began to rain heavily; men on both
sides had to try to sleep through the rain, all the while listening to the groans and moans of the wounded and dying still on the wet battlefields: "The groans and cries that greeted our ears from the wounded and dying on the field were very distressing indeed. "In addition, all through the night at 10 or 15 minute intervals the two gunboats would shell the Confederate positions. The regiment suffered their first death at Shiloh where the total figures were: 9 dead, 60 wounded, 30 missing.
From Shiloh the regiment headed west to Corinth, Mississippi, the junction of two important rail lines, one linking north to south and the other running east and west. The object of course was to secure these for the North. The
campaign against Corinth lasted a month went finally on May 30, the army entered Corinth after the Rebels retreated, "many houses still burning."
Moving west toward Memphis on the Mississippi River, the 70th passed through La Grange where "the sidewalks and street were completely lined with all classes and conditions of the colored race, giving expressions of joy in various ways -- some were shouting, some laughing, some hallooring, some running, while others were clapping their hands and bowing their heads. The march to Memphis in the summer of 1862 was hot and dry. At Memphis they left their sick of which there were many, and Griffith Hiett was probably amoung them.
At the end of the first year of Ohio 70th had 9 killed, 50 wounded, 15 died of disease and effects of wounds, 1 killed by gun accident, 8 taken prisoner, 114 discharged and 5 deserters. Total loss of the regiment in the year was 152. One of these was Griffith's older brother Samuel who was discharged November 1, 1862 in Cincinnati on "surgeon's certificate of disability." (Samuel lived another two and a half years, but he died on April 18, 1865 -- just a few days after the close of the Civil War and Lincoln's assassination. I can only suppose his death was the results of wounds or illness stemming from his service.)
More men in the Civil War suffered from illness than they did from wounds on the battle field, and the most common form of illness were different types of intestinal diseases. Griffith's pension papers indicate that he suffered
(at least in later life) from diarhea and rheumatism.
On November 26, 1862 when the 70th went down to Mississippi to participate in the campaign against the city of Vicksburg, Griffith's military record indicates he was "left sick in Memphis." He apparently was loaded on a boat and sent up river to an army hospital in Keokuk, Iowa. Keokuk is the first town you come to in Iowa just past Missouri, he remained there about 9 or 10 months. While talking by phone to a park ranger at the Shiloh National Military Park, he did not know anything about the hospital in Keokuk, but speculated that maybe he was sent there to be quarantined as they were in the habit of quarantining people in those days.
When he rejoined his unit in September 1863 at Luka, Mississippi, he spent a couple more months being sick. About December 1863 after some fighting in the mountains of eastern Tennessee, the 70th was making its winter camp at Scottsboro, Alabama. In January 1864, those who had enlised in 1861 were nearing the end of their term and the war wasn't over yet; so there was an appeal for men to re-enlist. Those who did were promised 30 days leave at home. Griffith nor his brother John chose to re-enlist, so I guess they stayed in Scottsboro in February 1864 while many went by train to Chattanooga to Louisville and then up the Ohio River by steamer to their homes in southern Ohio. They returned to Scottsboro on March 10.
On May 5, General Sherman began moving his armies around Chattanooga in preparation for his campaign against the city of Atlanta which city fell to Union forces at the end of August. These quotes out of the history of the 70th and dated July 29, 1864 are interesting, "We were engaged in gathering up the wounded and burying the dead of both armies. Long trenches were dug, and in some of these would bury as many as 300 without coffins or boxes... to avoid being exposed to the enemy fire, we dug deep ditches, and then dug out little caves or rooms in the banks of the ditches to be used for our sleeping apartments... Every time it rained...we were compelled to stand in water and mud until it dried up."
Griffith's military record shows that he now assigned to the Pioneer Corps until he was discharged; later in his pension records he, himself, testifies that he "never done any duty with the Regiment after... taken sick except a little guard duty in fall and winter of 1863." What he was doing is unclear, he seems to have been detached from the 70th. I asked a park ranger what he could tell me about the Pioneer Corps. He said the pioneers corps were the guys who went out to advance to scout, or to select a camp site and make it ready for the rest of the unit when they caught up.
In October 28, 1864 Griffith and his brother, John were discharged in Chattanooga, Tennessee. For them the war was over although it lasted another six months. I suppose they made their way home the same way the men on 30 day furlough did in Feb. of 1864 -- rail form Chattanooga to Louisville and then up the river by boat.
Included a copy of Griffith and Kizziah's wedding certificate: License obtained from Brown County Probate Court on October 11, 1866 and married October 16, 1866, by J.C. Waldron, Justice of the Peace.
Document date Feb 1879: Summary of his military records from the War Department in Washington ending with this, "The records of this office do not furnish any evidence of disabilities as claimed"
Document dated Feb. 10, 182, signed by Griffith and Samuel Evans, notary public in Brown Co. (Samuel is Griffith's cousin) Griffith's claim to an "invalid pension number 263482" giving reasons why he was unable to introduce
any medical testimony for his treatment while in the service.
Document dated 1892: Griffith's Declaration for Invalid Pension under Act of June 27, 1890. He is 57 and claims he is unable to earn a support by reason of "Chronic Diarhea and resulting piles, and Rheumatism, and injury to collarbone and injury to head result of fall in tabacco barn about 15 years ago as near as I can remember when I fell." Scoffield P.O. is his Brown County address.
Document dated 4 Jun, 1898: Sought biographical information. Married Kizziah King by J.C. Waldron J.P. Brown Co., Ohio A.D. 1866 record in Probate Court; not previously married; Living children and birth dates; S.G. Hiett 23
Aug, A.D. 1867; Sarah E. Hiett Feb 25, A.D. 1872; Raymond C. Hiett Jan 27 A.D. 1881. (It is interesting that he did not list Sarah by her married name although she was my now married to Andrew Fichter.)
Document dated October 20, 1903 re: Pension Claim Cert. #265,254: The Pensions office apparently sent him a letter asking for something and he replies, "I cannot furnish the evidence therein called for because I moved from Brown County, Ohio to Dayton May 27, 1902 and since being in Dayton have not been treated by a physician." His address in Dayton: No. 22, Krug Street.
Document attached to above: "In the matter of Pension Claim Cert. #265,254... I am the claimant in this case and state that I was not treated for Rheumatism in any hospital in the service. I also state that the present Post Office Address of each of the folliwng named persons called for is: Capt. James Drennin, Aberdeen, John Hiett (his brother), Ripley; John Buchanan (Brother-in-law) Ripley; and P.W. Waldron, Aberdeen.
Document dated May 25, 1912; Griffith at age 77 comes forward to make a "Declaration for Pension" under the Act of May 11, 1192. His address is 663 Randolph Street in Dayton. The document says his description at time of
enlistment was, "Five feet six and one-half inches high, dark complexion, blue eyes, and black hair."
Document dated Dec 19, 1912: By Act of May 1, 1912, Claim #265, 254 is reissued. Griffith Hiett entitled to pension at the rate of $30. per month beginning May 25, 1912.
Document dated May 7, 1915: Seeks biographical information. Griffith said he was born Oct 4, 1834 in Huntington Township, Brown County, Ohio; served in Company F., 70th O.V.I; his post office at time of enlistment was Aberdeen;
wife's maiden name was Kizziah King, Married Oct 16, 1866 in Huntington Township; neither he nor Kizziah had been previously married.
Document dated Oct 20, 1916: Official notice by governor of the Nation home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers to the Commissioner of Pension in Washington that Griffith had died. IT stated he died "outside Hoem grounds on Germantown St., cause of death unknown, wife is Mrs. Kitty Hiett, RR 15, Dayton."
Document date October 24, 1917: Kizziah's Declaration for Widow Pension. Her mark is witnessed by Theodore Kountz and Martin Murphy, both living at the National Military Home, Ohio (Presumably in Dayton). Geroge Kountz signed as notary public, his address also being at the Military Home.
Document dated Jan 12, 1917: Griffith had died and Kizziah files his claim for pension as a widow. Her address: R.R. 15, Dayton. She said she was 72 but added, "I am unable to prove my age by any public, church, or family record for the reason that there are no such records. The old family Bible was destroyed by fire many years ago. I was born February 18th 1845, in Huntington Township, Brown Co., Ohio where lived my parents John King and Mary King in 1850 and 1860 - I had six brothers and sisters living in said years as follows, viz. David King, Ann King, James King, Thomas King, Ephraim King, and Lucinda King." Witnessing her mark were her son, Raymond Hiett; and grand-daughter, Elizabeth Hiett.
The King Family came from a crossroad known as Slickaway in Huntington
Township near Aberdeen. In the 1850 and 1870 census, her father was described
as a carpenter, while in the 1860 he was listed as a stone mason.
Economically, the family appears to have been on the lower end of the scale.
In 1850 John King's real estate totaled only $250. By contrast, Griffith's
father, Samuel Hiett, had real estate of $5,675. Ten years later, John King
was worth $320, while Griffith Hiett alone had $4,350. So Kizzie's family
appears not have been very well-off.
In January 1917, while filing a claim for pension as a widow, Kizziah said
she was 72 but added, "I am unable to prove my age by any public, church or
family records for the reason that there are no such records. The old family
bible was destroyed by fire many years ago. I was born February 18th 1845, in
Huntington Township, Brown Co., Ohio where lived my parents John King and Mary
Jane King in 1850 and 1860 - I had six brothers and sisters living in said
years as follows, viz, David King, Ann King, James King, Thomas King, Ephraim
King and Lucinda King. Witnessing her mark were her son, Raymond Hiett, and
granddaughter, Elizabeth Hiett.
Concerning her age, census records vary considerably. In the 1850 census,
she was 8, which contracts with here claim that she was born in 1845. In 1860
she was said to be 18. In 1870 she was 30, which would mean she was born in
1840. Ten years later, she is 34 -- only four years older or born about 1846,
a little closer to what she was claiming in 1917.
Her death certificate says she was born February 18, 1845. Her mother's
maiden name was Gibson, and her mtoher was born in Ohio.
Mrs. Griffith Heitt, formerly of Scoffield, died Dec 7, 1917 at Dayton.
her daughter, Mrs. Andy Fichter of Dayton, attended the funeral. Death record
in Ripley Bee.
Her son Raymond, filed the death certificate. She died of some form of
pneumonia for which she was treated for three days, and died on December 7,
1917. She was buried December 11 at Hiett's Chapel according to her death
certificate.
In 1989, I did not find Kizzie Hiett at Hiett Chapel where I would expect
her to be next to her two childre, Lizzie and Joseph Hiett, whose graves I
found.
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(2165.) WILLIAM G. HOUSE (797.) (212.) (33.) (4.) (1.):
b. b.1832, Brown Co., Ohio; m. in Brown Co., Ohio, 10-7mo-1855, to SARAH E. GAMES, d/o John F. and Amanda (Early). Games; d. 19-lmo-1922, at Monroe City, Iowa, at the home of her daughter Frances E. Kennewitt, while visiting there.CH: (4120.) Samuel David; (4121.) John H.; (4122.) Amanda E.; (4123.) Frances E.; (4124.) Mary E.; (4125.) Emmer H.; (4126.) William K.; (4127.) Early Taylor.) (R87).
W.G. Housh (Hawk) was a farmer in Hiett, also a music teacher; he attended Wesleyan U. He was an elder in the Huntington Presbyterian Church.
(4122.) AMANDA E. HOUSH (2165.) (797.) (212.) (33.) (4.) (1.):
d. age 2 years. (R87).