Jospeh Waters Pruitt (1834 - 1863)

Born 1834 in Decatur, DeKalb County, Georgia, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Malinda Elizabeth (Blanton) Avants — married 9 Jan 1860 (to 18 Nov 1863) in Winston County, Mississippi, United States

Descendants

Died 18 Nov 1863 at about age 29 in Louisville, Winston County, Mississippi, United States

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Biography

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Joseph Waters Pruitt (son of Tillman Dixon Pruitt and Diannah Hillsman Farrar) was born 1834 in Cross Keys, near Decatur, DeKalb Co. Georgia, and died November 18, 1863 in Winston Co. Mississippi. He married Melinda Elizabeth Blanton on January 09, 1860 in Winston Co. Mississippi.

Notes for Joseph Waters Pruitt: Joseph Waters Pruitt was 13 when his father died. He married Malinda Elizabeth Blanton January 9, 1860 and the young couple are listed in the 1860 census of Winston Co. Mississippi with his mother Diannah and siblings. In November 1860 Joseph and Malinda's only child, Martha Dianne, was born.

Joseph Waters Pruitt enlisted for service in the Confederate States Army on May 6, 1862 in the 27th Regiment Mississippi Infantry. On August 17, 1863 Joseph was sent to the hospital by order of the Brigade Surgeon. There is no more information in his military record.

Martha Dianne Pruitt, at age three, remembered her father, Joseph Waters Pruitt, coming home from the Civil War shortly before he died. She told her second great granddaughter, June Nack, she remembered he was hobbling on crutches or a cane. Joseph had been injured on August 17, 1863 in battle. She was told he walked home from the hospital in Rome, Georgia to Winston Co. Mississippi. Joseph died soon after arriving home on November 18, 1863.

Sources

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/156127861/joseph-waters-pruitt: accessed 9 January 2023), memorial page for Joseph Waters Pruitt (1834–18 Nov 1863), Find a Grave Memorial ID 156127861; Burial Details Unknown, Family burial location unknown; Maintained by Lynn Mayes (contributor 48630416).

• DAR Record for a descendant of Tillman Dixon Pruitt, husband of Diannah Farrar, granddaughter of Patriot Ancestor Thomas Farrar
  • Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed 10 November 2018), "Record of Thomas Farrar", Ancestor # A039012.

See also:

• Daymon Catlege, great grandson of Joseph Waters Pruitt.

• Book; The Pruett Pruitt Family by Haskell Pruett Ph.D

• Tillman Dixon Pruitt & Diannah Hillsman Farrar Their Ancestors and Descendants, by Donna Duckworth.

• 1840 Census Paulding Co. Georgia, page 108. There is a listing for "T.D. Pruet" but the ages of family members do not fit Tillman and Diannah's family. May be correct name, but census taker may have copied wrong line of family and ages.

• 1850 Census Paulding Co. Georgia, page 61, Family #119. Listed as "Joseph Pruitt" age 16, Farmer, born GA.

• 1860 Census Winston Co. Mississippi, page 94/690, Family #609. Listed as "Joseph Pruett" 26, born GA, married within the year.