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Silas Witt (1790 - 1881)

Silas Witt
Born in Dandridge, Jefferson County, Tennessee, USAmap
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Husband of — married 1812 in Jefferson Co, Tennessee, USAmap
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Died at age 91 in Moody, McLennan County, Texas, USAmap
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Biography

Silas Witt was born in Jefferson County, Tennessee, to Joseph Nathaniel Witt and Sarah Kimbrough Witt on 28 May 1790. On 30 July 1812, he married Susanna Randolph, the youngest child of James and Sarah Randolph.

Silas was a well-respected evangelist and minister of the Gospel and helped establish the New Hopewell Baptist Church in McMinn County, Tennessee in the 1820s. He continued his work as a minister when he and his family moved to Cherokee County, Alabama, in around 1833. He also was a moderator at various Baptist meetings and conventions in Alabama.

He served in the War of 1812 as a private in Tipton's Company of the East Tennessee Mounted Gunmen, serving under Captain Chiles in General Coffee's brigade. For this service he was given a grant of bounty lands in Cherokee County, Alabama. He also served in the so-called "Indian Wars" and the Mexican War of 1846-48.

In his eighties, he and his wife Susanna, along with the majority of their children and grandchildren, packed up all their belongings and headed to Texas in one large Witt wagon train. Silas and Susanna settled in McLennan County, near Moody. They enjoyed their wild-frontier Texas home for several years before Susanna died in 1880, and Silas followed her Home the following year. They are buried in the Old Perry Cemetery north of Moody.

(Information gleaned from Noel Parsons' website [1] )

Sources

  1. https://sites.google.com/site/nparsons13/Home/the-witt-family
  • "United States Census, 1820," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHGC-VS3 : accessed 4 September 2021), Silas Witts, Warren, Tennessee, United States; citing p. 300, NARA microfilm publication M33, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 122; FHL microfilm 193,684.
  • "United States Census, 1830," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHP4-XNN : 4 September 2021), Silas Will, McMinn, Tennessee, United States; citing 178, NARA microfilm publication M19, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 178; FHL microfilm 24,536.
  • "United States Census, 1840," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GYY6-998K?cc=1786457&wc=31SV-4WR%3A1588665921%2C1588666102%2C1588665902 : 24 August 2015), Alabama > Calhoun > Not Stated > image 107 of 145; citing NARA microfilm publication M704, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.). [Note: This record should have indicated the county as Benton, as that is what the name was in 1840. It was changed to Calhoun in 1858. It is recorded as Benton on Ancestry.com, but the record for FamilySearch incorrectly has it as Calhoun.]
  • "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHPT-514 : 19 December 2020), Silas Witt, Cherokee, Alabama, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
  • "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFN1-1BM : 20 February 2021), Silas Witt in household of Silas N Witt, Precinct 6, McLennan, Texas, United States; citing enumeration district ED 118, sheet 240D, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,255,318.
  • United States War of 1812 Index to Service Records, 1812-1815, database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q292-38H3 : 8 March 2021), Silas Witt, 1812-1815; citing NARA microfilm publication M602 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); roll 230; FHL microfilm 882,748.
  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33289694/silas-witt : accessed 03 September 2021), memorial page for Rev Silas Witt (28 May 1790–15 Jul 1881), Find a Grave Memorial ID 33289694, citing Old Perry Cemetery, Moody, McLennan County, Texas, USA ; Maintained by Rick Williams (contributor 46992227) .
  • Jones, Joseph. Doing the Possible: The Story of Cane Creek, a Pioneer Church. United States, iUniverse, 2004, pp. 4, 16 and 81.




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Witt-3234 and Witt-1762 appear to represent the same person because: dups with same spouse
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