Diana PYATT
- Born: Abt 1770, Washington County, PA
- Marriage: Thomas THORNBURGH
- Died: July 26th 1850, PA about age 80
Other names for Diana were Diana PEAT, Diana PIAT and Dinah PYATT.
Noted events in her life were:
• Cemetery: Union Cemetery, 1850, Allegheny County, PA.
Union Cemetery, Robinson Twp, Allegheny Co, PA
Dinah Piatt Thornburg is buried in Union Cemetery in Robinson Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. This cemetery is a large one lying below Union Presbyterian Church which sits on a hill on PA 60. The church has a commanding view of ever expanding retail development west of Pittsburgh. Dinah's tombstone is strangely shaped, remining me of the headboard of a four poster bed, and it is dark but readable. The inscription is: In memory of Dinah wife of Thomas Thornburgh [sic] who departed this life July 26th 1850 aged 70 years. The original tombstone of Thomas Thornburg is no longer readable, but in front of the older stone a newer flat stone has been set which reads: Thomas Thornberry [sic] PA militia Revolutionary War 1769-1855. With this inscription we can surmise that Dinah was born between 27 July 1769 and July 26, 1770. She would have turned 14 the year that her father Jacob Piatt (who married Elizabeth Dunham(?)) died in 1784 in Washington County, Pennsylvania. Jacob's will (written in 1770 when she was about 10) bequeathed to her "one cow, one Ew [sic, (ewe)] and one lamb." Others of the family of Dinah and Thomas are buried in this cemetery in Robinson Township. One daughter, Rebecca Thornburg (b 9 Dec 1791, Thornburg PA; d June 1852, Robinson Township, Allegheny Co PA) married William Forgey. One of their sons (grandson of Dinah and Thomas Thornburg) was named Jacob Piatt Forgey. Jacob Piatt Forgey was born 28 Feb 1811 in Robinson Township but died in Cincinnati OH on 8 Dec 1879. He is buried in Cincinnati in the Spring Grove Cemetery where other Piatts, notably poet John James Piatt, are buried. With the Piatt name still prominent in and around Cincinnati at the time Jacob Piatt Forgey was there I have to wonder if Jacob Piatt Forgey ever investigated his relationship to the others.
Diana married Thomas THORNBURGH, son of John THORNBURGH and Unknown. (Thomas THORNBURGH was born in 1769 and died in 1855.)
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