Elijah L and Eliza Pierce
Elijah Pierce* was born 13 October 1784 in Virginia and as a young man came to Newport and in 1808 bought lot #130 for $51 from James Taylor. He married Eliza Bartle 20 Jan 1809, but she was the second white child born in Campbell County in 1793, to Captain John Bartle and Lydia Mold.
Headstone spells Elijah's name Peirce
Children of Elijah Pierce and Eliza Bartle
Anne Pierce b-15 Sep 1811 in
Newport; d-12 Sep 1816 in Newport; br-Ashbury Methodist
Chapel Cemetery
Mary Pierce b-15 Aug 1813 in Newport; d-12 Feb 1814 in
Newport; br-Ashbury Chapel Cemetery
Elizabeth Pierce b-15 Sep 1816 in
Newport; d-15 Feb 1839; br-Ashbury Chapel Cemetery; m Ebenezer Caldwell
Elijah Pierce b-23
Mar 1820 in Newport; m-Mary Helm
29 Aug 1842 in Campbell Co; d-1880; br-Ashbury Chapel Cemetery
William Holmes
Pierce b-11 Feb 1823 in Newport; d-6 Nov 1842; br-Ashbury Chapel Cemetery
Mary Ann Pierce b-21 July 1825 in Newport; d-21 March 1854 in Cold Spring; br-Asbury
Methodist Chapel Cemetery in Highland Heights; m-Joel Henry Spilman DeCourcey 23
February 1848 in Newport
Charles Pierce b-1828 in Newport
Andrew Louis Pierce b-21 May 1831 in
Newport; d-31 May 1905; br-Ashbury Chapel Cemetery; m-Josephine
Lydia Pierce b-Nov 1833 in Newport; d-7 March 1870 in Cold Spring; br-Asbury
Methodist Chapel Cemetery
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Children of Mary Ann Pierce and Joel Henry Spilman DeCourcy
1. William Elijah DeCourcy b-Feb 1849 in Cold
Spring; d-1 May 1906 in Cincinnati; br-St Joseph New Cemetery in Cincinnati;
became a doctor
2. Paul DeCourcy b-14 Oct 1852 in Cold Spring; d-13 August 1853 in Cold Spring;
br-Asbury Methodist Chapel Cemetery
3. Price DeCourcy b-1854 in Cold Spring
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Cincinnati Daily Enquirer, Sunday, 25 September 1870, page 7
A boy about four years old was brought before Judge Berry, of the County Court, day before yesterday, on a writ of hapeas corpus, sued of by his mother Mrs. Elijah Pierce. It seems that the child was placed into the care of its grandfather, residing in this county, about three years ago, by the mother, she having separated from her husband. The child was then ten months old. Grandfather Pierce took great pains in rasing the boy.
Now that he is four years old the mother, although she is no more stable than she was three years ago to support the youngster, comes forward and claims him. The Court, after hearing all the facts in the cse, remanded the child to the custody of its grandfather, Elijah Pierce. There was the usual affecting scene when the judgment was announced.
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Cincinnati Enquirer, 21 October 1876, page 7
Mr. Elijah Pierce, the oldest citizen of Campbell County, was in the city yesterday, looking hale and hearty. Mr. Pierce was the first man to drive a horse and dray through the streets of Cincinnati, the wheels of which dray were solid pieces of wood with a hole in the center for the axle.
This relic of the early days of the great city can be seen by any person who visits his residence on the Alexandria pike.
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Cincinnati Enquirer, 11 February 1877, page 7
NEWPORT
The venerable Elijah Pierce, of Cold Springs, still enjoys a drive to town, although he lacks but two years of being a centenarian. He worked at the carpenter business in this city some seventy years ago.
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Elijah died in 1878 in Cold Spring and was buried in the Ashbury Methodist Chapel Cemetery.