U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946 <http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=8939&enc=1> Record about Ernest E Pyatt
Name: Ernest E Pyatt
Birth Year: 1921
Race: White, citizen
Nativity State or Country: West Virginia
State: West Virginia
County or City: Jackson
Enlistment Date: 14 Sep 1944
Enlistment State: Virginia
Enlistment City: Huntington West
Branch: No branch assignment
Branch Code: No branch assignment
Grade: Private
Grade Code: Private
Term of Enlistment: Enlistment for the duration of the War or other emergency, plus six months, subject to the discretion of the President or otherwise according to law
Component: Selectees (Enlisted Men)
Source: Civil Life
Education: 1 year of high school
Civil Occupation: Tracktor Driver* or Truck Driver, Heavy or Chauffeur or Truck Driver, Light An asterisk (*) appearing after a job title indicates that a trade test for the particular occupation will be found in the United States Employment Service Manual, Oral Trade Test
Marital Status: Married
Height: 00
Weight: 000
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Death Certificate states he drowned while bathing.
Listed in the 1860 Washington County, Arkansas census in the Samuel Carnahan family was Patsy Carnahan a 30 year old female, born in Arkansas.
"...Samuel, was born in South Carolina in 1794, and made his home with his father until 1827, when he moved to Cane Hill, Ark., where he passed the remainder of his days. During the time he was living at Crystal Hill his father moved back to Tennessee, but after Samuel moved to Cane Hill his father made his home with him. Samuel Carnahan died in 1867. He was the owner of 500 acres of land at the time of his death." -- History of Benton County. Chicago: The Goodspeed publishing Co., 1889.
"His wife was of French descent, born in South Carolina in 1797, and died in 1879. She was a daughter of Jacob Pyeatt, and became the mother of twelve children, nine of whom are living..." -- History of Benton County. Chicago: The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889.
He died without issue.
"James Carnahan died without issue. When the U.S. Government moved the Seminole Indians from Florida to their present home in Indian Territory, James Carnahan and James White took their teams and went to Des Arc on the White River to help move them to Ft. Gibson. James Carnahan had the honor of conveying 'Wild Cat,' the chief and successor to Osceola who was a prisoner in the east. James remained several days among them after their arrival. In this time scouts returned and reported 'enemies.' James attended the war council, heard Wild Cat harangue his followers, saw them paint and hold the war dance and give the war whoop. He afterward said the scene and the noise of the war whoop seemed to make the hair of his head stand, and to chill the blood in his veins.
"In 1849, James and John Carnahan, Rankin and Porter Pyeatt, and many other citizens of Cane Hill joined a wagon train for California. They arrived at Sutter's Camp in September 1850. Three weeks later (Oct. 3, 1850), James sickened and died. It was said that he was the first white man to be buried there. Major William Quesenbury cut his name on a stone, which he placed at the head of the grave." - The Pyeatts and the Carnahans of Old Cane Hill, by Reverand Alfred E. Carnahan, page 21.Sutter's Camp may be either Sutter's Mill near Coloma in El Dorado County, or Sutter's Fort in Sacramento County, California.
She was John's twin.
He went to California in 1849 & never returned to Arkansas. When last heard
from, he was living near Eureka, Nevada in 1882."John Carnahan never came back to ARkansas. When last heard from (1882) he was living near Eureka, Nevada." - The Pyeatts and the Carnahans of Old Cane Hill, by Reverend Alfred E. Carnahan, page 22.
They were farmers in Mount Holly, New Jersey