Parents: mother: Elizabeth Green father: Stephen Grubb Chittum
Served in the Civil War, Co.I, 58th Reg't Virginia Infantry, Capt Wm. a. Higginbottom's Co. Prisoner of War at Camp Lookout, Md from April 2, 1865 till June 26, 1865.
John W. Chittum, Confederate Veteran, Dead
Mr. John W. Chittum, a confederate veteran of the 58th Virginia regiment, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Houston Chittum, in Buena Vista Sunday, Nov. 5, 1916, aged eighty six years. Funeral services were held in the Lutheran church at Donaldsburg the following Tuesday, conducted by Rev. J. C. Garber, with interment in Green Hill cemetery. Mr. Chittum is survivedby his wife, who was Miss Painter of this county, and seven children: W. J. abd C. N. Chittum of Fairfield; C. C. Chittum of Miday; J. J. Chittum of Midvale; Mrs. Phoebe Green of Midvale, and Misses Frannie and Georgie Chittum of Buena Vista. Rockbridge County News, His obit shows he was buried at Green Hill but he has a marker with his wife at Spring Valley. Family links: Spouse: Mary Frances Painter Chittum (1828 - 1923)* Children: William J. Chittum (1856 - 1932)* Phoebe Chittum Greene (1856 - 1928)* Mary Frances Chittum (1860 - 1937)* Cleve Cornelius Chittum (1861 - 1953)* Henrietta Chittum Weeks (1865 - 1913)* John James Chittum (1865 - 1949)* Georgie Etta Chittum (1869 - ____)* Charles Nicholas Chittum (1871 - 1955)*
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