William Todd Pitt (1781)

Born 30 Oct 1781 in Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina, USA

Descendants

Biography

Mary Raley b 1792 and husband William Todd Pitt of Charleston had married about 1809/10 and the Pitts also moved to Alabama, probably with the Raleys in 1818. Wm Pitt was a professional carpenter and conducted business with the early planters in the Decatur and Trinity communities. They were in Morgan County in 1830 living near Charles and Sarah near Old Spring Hill on Old Trinity Road, and in 1830 he purchased state land near Decatur. In 1840 they were at the same Spring Hill location still near the widowed Sarah, were in Lawrence County at least by the 1848 taxes, and to our knowledge they owned no slaves. They are found in 1850 in Lawrence County at the community later called Pitt or Pittsburg named for them. That place name still exists and there are many Pitt descendants in Lawrence and Morgan Counties today. Mary Pitt died at about age 60 in 1852 and may be buried in Lawrence County or at old Spring Hill in Morgan County, where her husband was later buried. Her middle name or initial if any is unknown. Wm Pitt was age 79 in Lawrence County in 1860, and he died of diphtheria during the Civil War years at his daughter Elizabeth Pitt McCullough's Trinity home, perhaps even while her husband Joe McCullough was still a POW at Camp Chase after being captured with fellow Confederate nitre workers from Trinity Cave.^[1]

Sources

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• Year: 1850; Census Place: District 7, Lawrence, Alabama; Roll: M432_8; Page: 462B; Image: 204, NameWm T Pitt

• Year: 1860; Census Place: Southern Division, Lawrence, Alabama; Roll: M653_12; Page: 927; Image: 285; Family History Library Film: 803012

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/51260978/william-todd-pitt : accessed 30 June 2022), memorial page for William Todd Pitt (30 Oct 1781–unknown), Find a Grave Memorial ID 51260978, citing Spring Hill Cemetery, Decatur, Morgan County, Alabama, USA ; Maintained by C. R. Lane (contributor 46928647) .

Footnotes

1. ↑ Entered by Cameron Sivley.

Acknowledgments

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