Eliza Pierce
 

Cincinnati Enquirer, 26 April 1873, page 7

NEWPORT


MRS. ELIZA PIERCE now residing at Cold Spring, six miles from Newport, was the first white child born in Campbell County. She is now seventy-nine years old.

The house in which Mrs. Pierce was born is still standing on Front street, near the Newport Barracks. It belongs to the Hawthorn estate.

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Asbury Methodist Cemetery records show that Eliza R Pierce was born 21 March 1793 and died 30 March 1877. She was married to Elijah L Pierce.

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Posted on Find a grave:

A few sentences from a long article written 21 Nov 1878 in the Newport Local by John W Stevens (1796 -d-13 Jan 1884) about the first school houses built in Campbell Co & home life then.

"Old Mayor Bartle, the father of Mrs Elijah Peirce, who was said to be the first white child born in the county, taught in the first house & was my first teacher. The second house was further off. Wm DeCourcy, when a young man, taught several terms in that house".
William DeCourcy was a grandson of Eliza Peirce & the s/o Mary Ann "Peirce" DeCourcy.
From other research, Eliza wasn't the first "white" child born in the county. Her dad, John Bartle married 1st, Elizabeth "Mold" & she died giving birth to their only child, Eliza, who was born about 1791. Then John -m- Elizabeth's sister, Lydia, & they named their 1st child Eliza also, making her the 2nd "white" child born in the county. One has to remember that at this time , there were Indians & slaves in the county.

 

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