011102 – Isaiah

1860 KY Pike 1Dist p849 25WM NC

1870 MN Kandiyohi Kandiyohi p191 34WM NC

1880 MN Otter Tail Township 137 Range 36 44WM NCNCNC

1900 SD Deuel Portland p290 67WM NCNCNC

Isaiah married Susan Hatten on November 18, 1852 in Ashe County, North Carolina (16).

Isaiah was living with his wife and children in Pike County, Kentucky in 1861 before he left with Francis Marion Wilcox and William H. Trivette for Ashe County, North Carolina (63). He had received a land grant for 50 acres in Pike County in 1858 (71).

He Enlisted July 8, 1862, age 25, in the 5th Battalion of the North Carolina Cavalry. He was noted as “foragemaster for company.” He transferred to Company B, 65th Regiment (6th Regiment, North Carolina Cavalry) on August 3, 1863. In the August 31, 1863 muster roll there is the comment, “deserted July 14, 1863, at Big Creek Gap, Tenn.” (30). There is no record stating he ever joined the Union army.

After the war Isaiah probably returned to Kentucky. The 1870 Kandiyohi County, Minnesota census shows his wife is Lucy A, 27 years old and born in Kentucky. At that enumeration, his two oldest children, three and one, are shown as born in Indiana. The youngest, Augustus, one month old, was born in Minnesota, so the family moved there in 1870. This also means Isaiah parted company from first wife Susan by 1867. In 1867, his two daughters by Susan were only 13 and 10, so those children probably stayed with Susan.

In 1882, Isaiah was living in Minnesota. While there, his son, John, brutally murdered two people and was subsequently lynched (68).

On September 10, 1889, Isaiah received a 160 acre federal land grant in Grant County, South Dakota (72). The name on the grant is Isaac Tribitt, but it is almost certainly Isaiah.

According to a descendant of Isaiah, his second wife, the former Lucy Johnston, died in 1900. Isaiah took his own life in 1901 and is buried in Goodwin cemetery near Goodwin, Deuel County, South Dakota.