Individual Details
Jackson Thomas Mygatt
(20 Jan 1864 - 20 Sep 1911)
On the 1900 U. S. Census of DuQuoin, Perry Co., Illinois, John T. Mygatt appears with his wife Sarah and children Mattie, William, Ernest and Garrett. John is a day laborer. Sarah is the mother of 6 with 4 currently living.
Belleville News Democrat, Belleville, Illinois, September 9, 1911: Fall of Coal Causes Death, New Baden Miner Died in Hospital Here. J. T. Mygatt, 47 years of age, a coal miner of New Baden, died in St. Elizabeth's Hospital on Wednesday morning from injuries sustained in an accident which occurred in the Southern Coal and Mining Company mine at New Baden last week. Mygatt was brought to this city on a Southern train last Friday and taken to the hospital in the Gundlach & Co. ambulance. He was injured internally by a fall of coal. He was born in Franklin county, Ill., January 20, 1864, and was married to Miss Sarah Kirkpatrick. He leaves his widow and five children---Mrs. Mattie Knight, W. H., Ernst, Garret and Marie Mygatt, and two brothers, Wallace and Scott Mygatt. The interment will take place in New Baden.
Gravestone at findagrave.com shows: Illinois Infantry Co. K, Spanish American War.
Belleville News Democrat, Belleville, Illinois, September 9, 1911: Fall of Coal Causes Death, New Baden Miner Died in Hospital Here. J. T. Mygatt, 47 years of age, a coal miner of New Baden, died in St. Elizabeth's Hospital on Wednesday morning from injuries sustained in an accident which occurred in the Southern Coal and Mining Company mine at New Baden last week. Mygatt was brought to this city on a Southern train last Friday and taken to the hospital in the Gundlach & Co. ambulance. He was injured internally by a fall of coal. He was born in Franklin county, Ill., January 20, 1864, and was married to Miss Sarah Kirkpatrick. He leaves his widow and five children---Mrs. Mattie Knight, W. H., Ernst, Garret and Marie Mygatt, and two brothers, Wallace and Scott Mygatt. The interment will take place in New Baden.
Gravestone at findagrave.com shows: Illinois Infantry Co. K, Spanish American War.
Events
| Birth | 20 Jan 1864 | Franklin Co., Illinois |  | ||
| Marriage | 1 Jan 1884 | Franklin Co., Illinois - Sarah Ann Kirkpatrick | | ||
| Death | 20 Sep 1911 | Belleville, St. Clair Co., Illinois | | ||
| Burial | Mitchell Cemetery, Sesser, Franklin Co., Illinois | |
Families
| Spouse | Sarah Ann Kirkpatrick (1866 - 1948) |
| Child | Nettie Mygatt (1884 - 1900) |
| Child | Mattie Mae Mygatt (1885 - 1961) |
| Child | William Harrison Mygatt (1889 - 1967) |
| Child | Ernest Mygatt (1890 - 1956) |
| Child | Garrett Hobart Mygatt (1896 - 1929) |
| Child | Marie Mygatt (1902 - 1966) |