Pitts Ancestry

Some information contained herein is not 100% verified. Information comes from records and research from other family members as well as my own research. Any and/or all information found here or at any other source should be researched and proved or disproved by weight of evidence by the researcher.

David Pitts (? - abt. 1783) married Janee Cruikshank (? - ?)

children of David Pitts and Janee Cruikshank Pitts:

(1) Lunsford Pitts (1751 - 6/26/1813) (Essex Co., VA; died Sumner County, TN) married Elizabeth Crutcher (abt. 1746 - ?)

children of Lunsford and Elizabeth Crutcher Pitts:

* Burton H. Pitts (? - ?) married Martha J. Lester (? - ?) on 10/15/1850 in Houston Co., GA

* Henry Pitts (? - ?)

* Lunsford C. Pitts (? - ?) married (1) Ruth Page (? - ?) on 2/20/1818 in Laurens Co., GA; (2) Sarah Holt on 11/5/1827 in Houston Co., GA

* Frances "Fanny" Pitts (abt. 1770 - ?) married (1) ? Sanders of Sumner County; (2) Samuel P. Black

* Elizabeth "Betsy" Pitts (abt. 1774 - ?) married Wilson Yandell, M.D. (12/17/1774- 10/1/1827) and lived in Smith Co., TN and Rutherford Co., TN

+Judith Pitts (bef. 1781 - ?) married John Yandell (3/19/1784 - died 1/1/1866).

* Lucy Pitts (3/28/1775 - 12/21/1853) married Charles Featherstone (11/6/1771 - 12/25/1852) on 1/24/1795 in Virginia

(2)   Hannah Pitts married Walter Stallard
(3)   Thomas Pitts
(4)   Sarah Pitts
(5)   Tabitha Pitts
(6)   John Pitts
(7)   David Pitts married Sarah Johnson
(8)   Joseph Pitts
(9)   Elizabeth Pitts
(10) Susannah Pitts
(11) Mary Pitts

Lunsford Pitts lived during the Revolutionary War in Essex County, Virginia. He later lived in Dixon Springs, Tennessee (first county seat of Smith County) and finally in Sumner County, Tennessee, where he died. He was a patriot during the American Revolution when he furnished beef to the troops. (Public Source Claim, Essex Co., Va., court booklet, page 6, court minutes, 15 April 1782.)

The will of Lunsford Pitts will be found in Sumner County, Tenn., Will Book 1, page 172, date 26 June 1813. It mentions son Burton H., son Henry, son Lunsford C.; children of Burton, nameley [sic], Lunsford, George Gaines, and Rebecca Pitts . . . mentions having paid Henry Fetherson, Sr . . . daughter Lucy Fetherston . . . daughter Fanny Black . . . daughter Betsy Yandell . . . daughter Judith Yandell . . . grandson Lunsford Pitts Yandell . . . his executors were Samuel P. Black, Charles Fetherston, Wilson Yandell, and John Yandell. Witnesses to the will were M.D.S.F. Sharp, William Craven, and Samuel Wooton.

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