As you may recall in Part Two when my daughter Hannah and I found the Pitt Family burials, at first glance of the tombstones, the names and dates were barely legible as they were very old, worn and weathered.
Since it wasn’t going to be possible for us to go onto the property of “Mr. P” to search for the “Reuben Long Family Cemetery”, I adopted the Pitt Family as my own.
My genealogical skills kicked in, and indeed, I found them!
I do have to make a correction however, what I read as the letter “O” (O.M. Pitt), was actually the letter “D”.
Here’s what I was able to find out:
David M. Pitt was born February 8, 1820, in Fleming County, Kentucky. He met and married Amanda Rhodes, September 12, 1842. She was born May 16, 1820, according to the 1860 U.S. Census.
Together they had 8 children:
Elisabeth Ellen Pitt, born June 25, 1843 in Kentucky.
Snowden M. Pitt, born February 11, 1846 in Kentucky.
**John W. Pitt, born July 14, 1848 in Kentucky, died October 20, 1858 in Kirksville, Adair County, Missouri.
David Pitt, born February 6, 1851 in Kentucky.
Sarah Amanda Pitt, born April 25, 1853 in Adair County, Missouri.
**Mary Virginia Pitt, born October 23, 1855 in Kirksville; died July 8, 1856 in Kirksville, Adair County, Missouri.
Sarah Belle Pitt, born in Adair County, Missouri.
Frances Pitt, born March 6, 1860 in Adair County, Missouri.
On the 80 acres once owned by the Pitt Family, my daughter and I found John and Mary.
The family moved to Kansas by 1880, and Amanda died November 7, 1895, and is buried in Richland Cemetery, Angola, Kansas. David remarried to a woman named Freedonia Brundolf, but died 2 years later. He is also buried in the Richland Cemetery.
John W. was 10 years old when he died, and Mary Virginia was only 9 months old when she died.
They are gone and forgotten for a time, but have been found and remembered again; this time, they won’t be forgotten!
© 2011 Patricia K. Long/Tombstone Treasures
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