Husband of Lucy Helen Knowles daughter of Consider Knowles and Mary Spurr Knowles.Father of a baby girl Helen/ Pansy born in Jan of 1882, her mother died and he gave her up for adoption to the Austin family in Vermillion.
Bio for Andrew T. Pickett:
From a letter by Andrew T. Pickett to his granddaughter Octavia, "I was born in what is now a part of Halton County, Ontario, Canada, on the 15th of January 1834. In the spring of 1869 I went to what is now known as Clay County, South Dakota, arriving at the Town of Vermillion,… on the 7th day of May 1869… [My family] came to join me in… the autumn of 1870… I took a claim… of 160 acres of land, and… was required to take out citizen papers,… This was done late in the summer [June 12] of 1869… [and finalized]… on November 16, 1876… [Re:] John T. Pickett… His mother died in September 1875, and he [later] went to live with his oldest sister… Anna M. Hopkins… And may God ever guide and keep you unto life eternal."
Andrew's first wife was Mary Ann McLaren (April 13, 1832 – Sept. [or Dec.] 3, 1875; buried in the Lowville United Church Cemetery, Halton, Ontario), daughter of John and Nancy McLaren of Nelson, Ontario.
She and Andrew married April 13, 1858. One child, James, died at six months in Canada, and two more (probably Andrew and Maggie) of their six died as infants in 1873 and 1874 in SD. The three surviving were Anna Mary Hopkins (mother of FDR's adviser Harry Hopkins), Eleanor J. "Ella" Whitlow, and John Thomas Pickett.
On June 6, 1877, at Vermillion, Andrew married Helen L. Knowles (Jan 9, 1839 – Feb 19, 1882). She was a daughter of Consider Knowles and Mary Spurr Knowles.
She died a month after the birth of their daughter, Helen "Pansy" Pickett, who was given to the Horace J. and Rachel Austin family for adoption. She was called "Pansy" because Rachel Austin thought she looked like a cute pansy in her childhood bonnet.
Only when Pansy reached the age of sixteen did she learn about her parents, when Andrew wrote a letter and gave her gifts of small items that had belonged to her mother Helen.
Little is known for certain about Andrew's third wife, Mary Williams Pickett.
She was a widow when they married about 1884, and she was listed as a florist in a 1909 Vermillion directory. She had borne two children, of whom one was still living in 1910, probably the Frank C. Williams who lived next door.
Living with them in 1910 were granddaughters Mildred and Irma Williams. Mary survived Andrew, and was a beneficiary of part of his estate.
She is believed to be the Mary Elizabeth (Chappell) Pickett, born 1848 in Rhode Island, who died March 4, 1930, and is buried at Hot Springs, SD.
Andrew was a very religious and kind man, with a good deal of book learning. He was a house carpenter, and built several homes and churches in Vermillion. One of them, the Austin-Whittemore house, now houses the Clay County, SD, Historical Society.
The above information is primarily from "The Picketts of Lowville, And Points East, South and West...," authored and privately issued by Andrew Pickett's great grandson, John Roland Scott, son of Octavia Pickett Scott Cramer.
Andrew Pickett married his first wife Mary McLaren on April 13, 1858.
Andrew married his second wife Helen Knowles in 1877.
Andrew married his third wife, Mary Williams around 1884.
Bio for Andrew T. Pickett:
From a letter by Andrew T. Pickett to his granddaughter Octavia, "I was born in what is now a part of Halton County, Ontario, Canada, on the 15th of January 1834. In the spring of 1869 I went to what is now known as Clay County, South Dakota, arriving at the Town of Vermillion,… on the 7th day of May 1869… [My family] came to join me in… the autumn of 1870… I took a claim… of 160 acres of land, and… was required to take out citizen papers,… This was done late in the summer [June 12] of 1869… [and finalized]… on November 16, 1876… [Re:] John T. Pickett… His mother died in September 1875, and he [later] went to live with his oldest sister… Anna M. Hopkins… And may God ever guide and keep you unto life eternal."
Andrew's first wife was Mary Ann McLaren (April 13, 1832 – Sept. [or Dec.] 3, 1875; buried in the Lowville United Church Cemetery, Halton, Ontario), daughter of John and Nancy McLaren of Nelson, Ontario.
She and Andrew married April 13, 1858. One child, James, died at six months in Canada, and two more (probably Andrew and Maggie) of their six died as infants in 1873 and 1874 in SD. The three surviving were Anna Mary Hopkins (mother of FDR's adviser Harry Hopkins), Eleanor J. "Ella" Whitlow, and John Thomas Pickett.
On June 6, 1877, at Vermillion, Andrew married Helen L. Knowles (Jan 9, 1839 – Feb 19, 1882). She was a daughter of Consider Knowles and Mary Spurr Knowles.
She died a month after the birth of their daughter, Helen "Pansy" Pickett, who was given to the Horace J. and Rachel Austin family for adoption. She was called "Pansy" because Rachel Austin thought she looked like a cute pansy in her childhood bonnet.
Only when Pansy reached the age of sixteen did she learn about her parents, when Andrew wrote a letter and gave her gifts of small items that had belonged to her mother Helen.
Little is known for certain about Andrew's third wife, Mary Williams Pickett.
She was a widow when they married about 1884, and she was listed as a florist in a 1909 Vermillion directory. She had borne two children, of whom one was still living in 1910, probably the Frank C. Williams who lived next door.
Living with them in 1910 were granddaughters Mildred and Irma Williams. Mary survived Andrew, and was a beneficiary of part of his estate.
She is believed to be the Mary Elizabeth (Chappell) Pickett, born 1848 in Rhode Island, who died March 4, 1930, and is buried at Hot Springs, SD.
Andrew was a very religious and kind man, with a good deal of book learning. He was a house carpenter, and built several homes and churches in Vermillion. One of them, the Austin-Whittemore house, now houses the Clay County, SD, Historical Society.
The above information is primarily from "The Picketts of Lowville, And Points East, South and West...," authored and privately issued by Andrew Pickett's great grandson, John Roland Scott, son of Octavia Pickett Scott Cramer.
Andrew Pickett married his first wife Mary McLaren on April 13, 1858.
Andrew married his second wife Helen Knowles in 1877.
Andrew married his third wife, Mary Williams around 1884.
Husband of Lucy Helen Knowles daughter of Consider Knowles and Mary Spurr Knowles.Father of a baby girl Helen/ Pansy born in Jan of 1882, her mother died and he gave her up for adoption to the Austin family in Vermillion.
Bio for Andrew T. Pickett:
From a letter by Andrew T. Pickett to his granddaughter Octavia, "I was born in what is now a part of Halton County, Ontario, Canada, on the 15th of January 1834. In the spring of 1869 I went to what is now known as Clay County, South Dakota, arriving at the Town of Vermillion,… on the 7th day of May 1869… [My family] came to join me in… the autumn of 1870… I took a claim… of 160 acres of land, and… was required to take out citizen papers,… This was done late in the summer [June 12] of 1869… [and finalized]… on November 16, 1876… [Re:] John T. Pickett… His mother died in September 1875, and he [later] went to live with his oldest sister… Anna M. Hopkins… And may God ever guide and keep you unto life eternal."
Andrew's first wife was Mary Ann McLaren (April 13, 1832 – Sept. [or Dec.] 3, 1875; buried in the Lowville United Church Cemetery, Halton, Ontario), daughter of John and Nancy McLaren of Nelson, Ontario.
She and Andrew married April 13, 1858. One child, James, died at six months in Canada, and two more (probably Andrew and Maggie) of their six died as infants in 1873 and 1874 in SD. The three surviving were Anna Mary Hopkins (mother of FDR's adviser Harry Hopkins), Eleanor J. "Ella" Whitlow, and John Thomas Pickett.
On June 6, 1877, at Vermillion, Andrew married Helen L. Knowles (Jan 9, 1839 – Feb 19, 1882). She was a daughter of Consider Knowles and Mary Spurr Knowles.
She died a month after the birth of their daughter, Helen "Pansy" Pickett, who was given to the Horace J. and Rachel Austin family for adoption. She was called "Pansy" because Rachel Austin thought she looked like a cute pansy in her childhood bonnet.
Only when Pansy reached the age of sixteen did she learn about her parents, when Andrew wrote a letter and gave her gifts of small items that had belonged to her mother Helen.
Little is known for certain about Andrew's third wife, Mary Williams Pickett.
She was a widow when they married about 1884, and she was listed as a florist in a 1909 Vermillion directory. She had borne two children, of whom one was still living in 1910, probably the Frank C. Williams who lived next door.
Living with them in 1910 were granddaughters Mildred and Irma Williams. Mary survived Andrew, and was a beneficiary of part of his estate.
She is believed to be the Mary Elizabeth (Chappell) Pickett, born 1848 in Rhode Island, who died March 4, 1930, and is buried at Hot Springs, SD.
Andrew was a very religious and kind man, with a good deal of book learning. He was a house carpenter, and built several homes and churches in Vermillion. One of them, the Austin-Whittemore house, now houses the Clay County, SD, Historical Society.
The above information is primarily from "The Picketts of Lowville, And Points East, South and West...," authored and privately issued by Andrew Pickett's great grandson, John Roland Scott, son of Octavia Pickett Scott Cramer.
Andrew Pickett married his first wife Mary McLaren on April 13, 1858.
Andrew married his second wife Helen Knowles in 1877.
Andrew married his third wife, Mary Williams around 1884.
Bio for Andrew T. Pickett:
From a letter by Andrew T. Pickett to his granddaughter Octavia, "I was born in what is now a part of Halton County, Ontario, Canada, on the 15th of January 1834. In the spring of 1869 I went to what is now known as Clay County, South Dakota, arriving at the Town of Vermillion,… on the 7th day of May 1869… [My family] came to join me in… the autumn of 1870… I took a claim… of 160 acres of land, and… was required to take out citizen papers,… This was done late in the summer [June 12] of 1869… [and finalized]… on November 16, 1876… [Re:] John T. Pickett… His mother died in September 1875, and he [later] went to live with his oldest sister… Anna M. Hopkins… And may God ever guide and keep you unto life eternal."
Andrew's first wife was Mary Ann McLaren (April 13, 1832 – Sept. [or Dec.] 3, 1875; buried in the Lowville United Church Cemetery, Halton, Ontario), daughter of John and Nancy McLaren of Nelson, Ontario.
She and Andrew married April 13, 1858. One child, James, died at six months in Canada, and two more (probably Andrew and Maggie) of their six died as infants in 1873 and 1874 in SD. The three surviving were Anna Mary Hopkins (mother of FDR's adviser Harry Hopkins), Eleanor J. "Ella" Whitlow, and John Thomas Pickett.
On June 6, 1877, at Vermillion, Andrew married Helen L. Knowles (Jan 9, 1839 – Feb 19, 1882). She was a daughter of Consider Knowles and Mary Spurr Knowles.
She died a month after the birth of their daughter, Helen "Pansy" Pickett, who was given to the Horace J. and Rachel Austin family for adoption. She was called "Pansy" because Rachel Austin thought she looked like a cute pansy in her childhood bonnet.
Only when Pansy reached the age of sixteen did she learn about her parents, when Andrew wrote a letter and gave her gifts of small items that had belonged to her mother Helen.
Little is known for certain about Andrew's third wife, Mary Williams Pickett.
She was a widow when they married about 1884, and she was listed as a florist in a 1909 Vermillion directory. She had borne two children, of whom one was still living in 1910, probably the Frank C. Williams who lived next door.
Living with them in 1910 were granddaughters Mildred and Irma Williams. Mary survived Andrew, and was a beneficiary of part of his estate.
She is believed to be the Mary Elizabeth (Chappell) Pickett, born 1848 in Rhode Island, who died March 4, 1930, and is buried at Hot Springs, SD.
Andrew was a very religious and kind man, with a good deal of book learning. He was a house carpenter, and built several homes and churches in Vermillion. One of them, the Austin-Whittemore house, now houses the Clay County, SD, Historical Society.
The above information is primarily from "The Picketts of Lowville, And Points East, South and West...," authored and privately issued by Andrew Pickett's great grandson, John Roland Scott, son of Octavia Pickett Scott Cramer.
Andrew Pickett married his first wife Mary McLaren on April 13, 1858.
Andrew married his second wife Helen Knowles in 1877.
Andrew married his third wife, Mary Williams around 1884.
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