David Sterett Gittings Jr. (1835 - 1890)

Born 20 Mar 1835 in Upper Falls, Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Ancestors

Died 22 Mar 1890 at age 55 in Upper Falls, Baltimore, Maryland, United States

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Biography

David was born March 20th 1835 at the family estate, "Roslin" in Baltimore County,.

He is the son of David Gittings.

NOTE: The Registrar did not add the YEAR ANY of these last baptisms that were done, we just have to go by the months...and the birth given.

"1819 Baptisms by Rev. J. R. Keech."

St. John's Joppa, Harford Co. Register

Births, Marriages, Deaths. 1769-1849

1832 (last year written)

June Bap'd for Dr. D. S. & Juiian Gittings their son David

Sterrett born Mar 20th 1835." ^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ St. John's Joppa, Harford Co. Register image 485/page 313

• Find a Grave, database and images (: accessed 24 November 2022), memorial page for David Sterett Gittings Jr. (20 Mar 1835–22 Mar 1890), Find A Grave: Memorial #26133825, citing Saint Johns Episcopal Church Cemetery, Kingsville, Baltimore County, Maryland, USA; Maintained by ga47 (contributor 46889430) .
• David S. Gittings Obituary. The Aegis and Intelligencer. Bel Air MD. 28 March 1890.

Mr. David S. Gittings died suddenly, of apoplexy, on Saturday evening, March 22, at his home, Roslin, near Upper Fails, Baltimore county. Mr. Gittings was the second son of the late Dr. David S. Gittings and a brother of the late Richard J. Gittings, a prominent lawyer of Baltimore. Col. John Beale Howard, of Sherwood, was his maternal grandfather.

He was born at Roslin on the 20th of March, 1835. After completing his education he passed some time in the counting-room of his kinsman, the late Lambert Gittings, of Baltimore. In 1857 he married Miss Varina Brandon, a daughter of the late Governor Brandon, of Mississippi. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Gittings resided at Roslin. He was buried in the family lot at St. John’s Church, Kingsville, on Tuesday morning, the rector, Rev. J. W. Larmour, officiating. The pallbearers ware Garrett Brown, Edward Reynolds, Edward A. Day, S. Haven Wilson, E. F. Raphel and R. B. Crane.

Among members of the family and near friends present were Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Cox, Dr. J. B. Howard Gittings, Dr. and Mrs. Lindsay, Mr. and Mrs. Marye, D. Sterett and Anna Gittings, Richard Howard and wife, Beale Howard, Frederick and Robert Tyson, Wm. P. Trimble, James Munnikbuysen and John B. Rumsey.

His wife and three sisters and a brother survive him. The latter is Dr. J. Howard Gittings, of Philadelphia. His sisters are Mrs. Mary Bryarly, of Roslin, Mrs. Lindsay, wife of Dr. Lindsay, of Baltimore, and Mrs. Joseph Cox, of Baltimore. Mr. Schulz, undertaker, of Upper Falls, had charge of the funeral arrangements. The large attendance at the funeral was an evidence of the esteem in which he was held, and he will be sadly missed by many to whom he had endeared himself by his many excellent qualities of mind and heart.

• "Maryland, Church Records, 1668-1995", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4ZX-GX5 : 16 March 2018), David S. Gittings in entry for David Sterrett Gittings, 1835; citing Christening, St. Johns Parish Joppa, Harford, Maryland, United States, various libraries, churches, historical and national societies, private and public records; FHL microfilm 14,133.

• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MD43-5T9 : 12 April 2016), David L Gittings, Baltimore county, part of, Baltimore, Maryland, United States; citing family 1617, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

• "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M699-23T : 12 December 2017), David Gittings, 1860.