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.