Elizabeth (Mayo) Witt (1765 - 1863)

Born 26 Sep 1765 in British Colonial America

Ancestors

Wife of Burgess Witt — married about 28 Sep 1793 in Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States [uncertain]

Descendants

Died 23 Oct 1863 at age 98 in Monroe County, Tennessee, USA

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Biography

Elizabeth Mayo was born in 1765 in Virginia.

She married Burgess Witt in Spartanburg, South Carolina in 1793.

Burgess Witt applied for a revolutionary pension while living in McMinn County, Tennessee, in 1818. He was born in 1765 in Virginia. He was the son of Hezekiah Witt. He enlisted in North Carolina troops under Captain William Little and Colonel Archibald Little. He marred Elizabeth Mayo. Their children were Hezekiah, Valentine, Mary, Burgess, William and Ephraim. Note. Burgess Witt died in Monroe County, Tennessee, December 16, 1863. ^[1]

The source on Confederate Papers 1861-1865^[2] could lead to further information on Eliza (Elizabeth) Mayo Witt.

Sources

1. ↑ Zella Armstrong, Some Tennessee Heroes of the Revolution (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing, 2002) p.118 (originally published in pamphlet form in 1933 in Chattanooga, Tennessee)
2. ↑ "United States Civil War Confederate Papers of Citizens or Businesses, 1861-1865," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VW1H-JCQ : 4 December 2014), Eliza Mayo, 1861-1865; from "Confederate Papers Relating to Citizens or Business Firms, 1861-1865," database, Fold3.com (http://www.fold3.com : n.d.); citing NARA microfilm publication M346 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 672.

• Husband's DAR record https://services.dar.org/Public/DAR_Research/search_adb/?action=full&p_id=A127228