Notes for Eliza Thomas: Obituary: Cannon Courier. Published in Woodbury TN. January 1937.
Funeral services for Mrs. Eliza Thomas Pitts, 58, who died January 3rd after an extended illness of 2 and a half years, were conducted January 5th at Elkins Funeral Home. Mrs. Pitts was a life long resident of Cannon County and was the daughter of the late Bill Thomas. She was an active member of the Church of Christ. Surviving are her husband (James B. Pitts), four sons, Shelah, Charley and John of Cannon County; and Hallie of Vermillion Illinois, two daughters, Miss Hesta Pitts and Mrs. Marcia Lance, two brothers, John R. Thomas of Anna, Illinois, and Jess Thomas of Grandcane, Louisiana, three sisters, Mrs. Josie Ann Manus, Mrs. Della Thomas Pitts of Anna, Illinois and Mrs. Thankful Saddler of Grandcane, Louisiana.
More About Eliza Thomas: Date born 2: February 13, 1877
More About Eliza Thomas and James B. Pitts: Marriage: April 10, 1895, Union Co. Il.. Marriage license: April 10, 1895, License: 4561.
Children of Eliza Thomas and James B. Pitts are:
+Hallie Pitts, b. March 12, 1896, Cannon Co. Tennessee (Woodbury), d., Vermillion Illinois.
+Shelah Pitts, b. February 23, 1898, Union Co. Il.(Anna), d. October 28, 1981, Cannon Co. Tennessee (Woodbury).
+Lemuel Haskel Pitts, b. 1902, Cannon Co. Tennessee (Woodbury), d. 1929, Trenton Texas.
John R. Pitts, b. June 21, 1908, Cannon Co. Tennessee (Woodbury), d. October 14, 1954, Cannon Co. Tennessee (Woodbury).
Marcia Douglas Pitts, b. March 21, 1911, Cannon Co. Tennessee (Woodbury), d. January 21, 1992, Nashville Tennessee.
Hesta Lee Pitts, b. June 21, 1913, Cannon Co. Tennessee (Woodbury), d. August 12, 1953, Cannon Co. Tennessee (Woodbury).
+Charlie Pitts, b. April 17, 1905, Cannon Co. Tennessee (Woodbury), d. January 08, 1995, Cannon Co. Tennessee (Woodbury).
Eliza Thomas (b. February 13, 1877, d. January 03, 1937)
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