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{3960} Isaiah Saral HOCKETT
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{32872}
William Henry Jarrison Hoggatt
b10/18/1812 [NC],
m10/31/1834 [Randolph Co., IN],
d01/25/1888 [Salem, IA]
( 75.3)
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{32873}
Laurana Green Hoggatt
b02/22/1815 [Guilford Co., NC],
d09/16/1904 [Bloomsport, IN]
( 89.5)
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{32874}
Cyril Henty Hoggatt
b04/14/1818 [NC],
m11/24/1842 [Warren Co., IN],
d01/13/1864 [Randolph Co., IN]
( 45.7)
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{32875}
Abner Wiley Hoggatt
b08/24/1820 [NC],
m10/28/1841 [Randolph Co., IN],
d10/06/1871 [Wayne Co., IN]
( 51.1)
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{32876}
Sarah Jane
(HOGGATT)
Adamson
b04/23/1823 [NC],
m10/15/1863 [Randolph Co., IN],
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{32877}
Elizabeth Ann
(HOGGATT)
Chamness
b01/21/1827 [NC],
m11/16/1843 [Randolph Co., IN],
d11/14/1897 [Lynn, Randolph Co., IN]
( 70.8)
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{32878}
Clorinda Coffin
(HOGGATT)
Chamness
b01/13/1830 [Randolph Co., IN],
m11/06/1850 [Randolph Co., IN],
d07/15/1885 [Bloomsport, IN]
( 55.5)
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{32879}
Jabez Hunt Hoggatt
b01/13/1830 [IN],
m12/01/1850 [Wayne Co., IN],
d10/31/1888 [Lynn, Randolph Co., IN]
( 58.8)
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Isaiah Hoggatt was born May 28, 1791, the tenth and youngest child of Joseph and Phebe (Haworth) Hoggatt. His parents were members of the newly-formed Springfield Monthly Meeting of Friends and lived in Guilford County, North Carolina. The Springfield Meeting is located near High Point, North Carolina.
In February, 1812, Isaiah was dismissed from the Quaker Meeting over his marriage to Elizabeth McFetridge. She was born January 7, 1793 in North Carolina. Her parents were Daniel McFetridge and his first wife. Daniel remarried twice and later moved to Gibson County, Indiana where he died in 1838. Land records in Gibson County prove that he was Elizabeth's father, but we do not know the name of her mother.
Isaiah was only 24 when his father died in 1815. In his will, Joseph named his two youngest sons Zimri and Isaiah as co-executors. Zimri inherited all his father's land and Isaiah inherited a half-interest in his store. Joseph's two daughters were to split the other half-interest. Joseph's six older sons each received a dollar. I have seen a number of wills from this period where parents left the bulk of their estate to the younger children and left only a token gift to the older children who were already established.
Isaiah's brother Zimri died sometime between 1820 and 1825 leaving his brothers and sisters as heirs. There are court records from Guilford County naming his siblings as well as court orders to sell his land to satisfy some debts. These records indicate that Isaiah was still living in Guilford County. The executor for Zimri's estate was Abner Wiley. Isaiah's fourth child, Abner Wiley Hoggatt, was apparently named for him. Isaiah made a final settlement of his father's estate in 1825.
Isaiah and Elizabeth's first six children were born in North Carolina. Sometime between 1827 and 1830 they moved to Indiana. The youngest two children were twins, Clorinda Coffin Hoggatt and Jabez Hunt Hoggatt, born in Indiana on January 13, 1830. They were probably born in southern Randolph County since Isaiah appears in Greens Fork Township in the 1830 census which was taken later that summer.
Between 1834 and 1841 Isaiah bought 80 acres on the west bank of the Greens Fork southeast of Bloomingsport at the southern line of Randolph County. In 1842 he was forced to sell this land to pay notes which he had given to Nathan Hoggatt. Cash money was scarce at that time and people frequently exchanged IOU's instead. Isaiah had trouble paying off his obligations on more than one occasion. In May, 1838 Nathan Hoggatt brought a civil suit in the Randolph County Circuit Court over a note for $122.65 which Isaiah had given him in 1824. Isaiah was arrested and bail was posted the following day. That same fall Nathan again loaned Isaiah money totaling $138.97.
In 1840 Nathan again brought suit and Isaiah was arrested. In the court records in Randolph County there is a four page rebuttal of Nathan Hoggatt's claims. It is difficult to decipher, but involves a patent for making bellows which wasn't properly recorded at the U.S. Patent Office, bricks which were promised but not delivered, a brick house which was built and then collapsed, a horse supposedly of a certain blood line which was not of that blood line, hogs which were promised and not delivered, etc, etc. It was a wild story! In the end the court ordered that Isaiah's land be sold to pay his debt (Randolph County Circuit Court, Civil Docket Book E, pp. 14, 26, 420 and Book B, pp. 24 and 68; papers in Box 137, file 10 and Box 611, file 3).
At the end of 1853 Isaiah bought 110 acres a half-mile south of Bloomingsport and the following year bought a lot in Winchester. In 1863 Isaiah and Elizabeth sold part of their land to their son Abner.
The Civil War took a heavy toll on the Hoggatt family. Isaiah and Elizabeth's grandsons James A. and Daniel S. Hoggatt enlisted in Company C of the 69th Indiana Regiment in September, 1862. James was killed at Black River Bridge in Mississippi on July 26, 1863. Daniel returned from the war ill with smallpox and died on January 9, 1864. Smallpox spread through the family killing the boys' father Cyril, two of Abner's young children, and finally Isaiah and Elizabeth. Isaiah died on January 15, and Elizabeth died on January 25, 1864. They are buried in Cherry Grove Cemetery.
Two of Isaiah and Elizabeth's daughters had not married and remained at home with their parents. In 1863 at the age of 40, Sarah Jane married Simon Adamson. After Isaiah and Elizabeth died, Simon bought their property. Isaiah also left many IOU's bearing his signature which are still on file with his estate record in Randolph County. The oldest daughter, Laurana Green Hoggatt, lived to be 89. Her estate record lists the descendants of Isaiah and Elizabeth from Indiana to California.
Isaiah and Elizabeth also left a Friends Bible which was printed in 1844. It may have originally belonged to Isaiah's sister and brother-in-law, Pheby and Samuel Newby, since Samuel's birth and death dates are recorded in it. The Bible contains birth and death dates for Isaiah, Elizabeth and their children as well as the families of Joshua H. Chamness and Elmer Chamness. It also contains a small buckle and a few locks of hair. I received the Bible from Elmer's daughter Alice Summers who had received it from her mother.
Isaiah and Elizabeth (McFetridge) Hoggatt
Compiled by David W. Chamness
December 14, 2013
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