Re: Seaborne and Catherine Pitts family, Pickens, SC 1849

E-mail me and I will send what I have on William and Francis.
Shirley
shirleyb@cimtel.net

Civil War:
Pitts, Seaborne - 2nd Rifles Co. C - died of disease in VA during the Civil War

Pitts, William - Palmetto Sharp shooters Co. B- Private, enlisted April14, 1861 in Pickens Co., mortally wounded May 5, 1862 in the battle of Williamsburg and DIP.
Information is taken from: “Roll of the Dead"; South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Book "Broken Fortunes" by; Randolph W. Kirkland, JR and The book “The Struck Eagle”, by “Baldwin.
Film Number M381 roll 25; National Archives and Records Administration.
Indian War:

Pitts, Lemuel V.: Indian War Pension Application Dated 1917 Georgia.
Ind. Sur. App. #11227, Cert#6709, IND.Wid.App.#14220. Served in Company H, U.S. Infantry, 1874-1879. Remarks: I.D.#1181458, Soldier Died 17, August 1918 in Dalton, Georgia, Widow: Martha Pitts.

Court Records:
Aug 1882
State of South Carolina, County of Oconee– In the Court of Pleas.
Summons for Relief – Lemuel V. Pitts, as administrator of the personal Estate of William Pitts, deceased, and heir-at-law of said dec’d, David Pitts, Daniel Pitts, Reuben Pitts, Hariett Pitts, Sarah Herring nee Pitts, Amanda Pitts, Idella Pitts and Melinda Pitts, Plaintiffs, against Emily Pitts, Hariett Pitts, Matilda Christian nee Pitts, Nancy Liles nee Pitts, Keith Price, Garvin S. Price, Turner Crenshaw, Fannie German nee Crenshaw, Alice Harrington nee Crenshaw, Rinley nee Davis, Ellen Sawyer nee Davis,
Alice Cain nee Davis, Warren R. Davis, Charles J. Davis, Ida Davis and H. D. A. Bieman, Defendants. Sale of the real estate of William Pitts. Dec’d.


William’s Children Are listed:

Lemuel V. Pitts = William’s Son
David Pitts= William’s Son
Daniel Pitts = William’s Son
Reuben Pitts = Seaborn’s son - William’s Grandson
Hariett Pitts = William’s Granddaughter (Seaborn)
Sarah Herring nee Pitts = Granddaughter (Seaborn) - S.J. age 16 in the 1870 census
Amanda Pitts = William’s Granddaughter (Seaborn)
Idella Pitts = William’s Granddaughter (Seaborn)
Melinda Pitts = William’s Daughter
Emily Pitts = William’s Daughter
Hariett Pitts = William’s Daughter
Matilda Christian nee Pitts = William’s Daughter
Nancy Liles nee Pitts = William’s Daughter


William’s Children Not Listed:
Seaborn Pitts = Died in war = His children listed above
Mary J. Pitts = Listed in 1850
Larkin Pitts = Listed in 1850 census
William Pitts = Died in war = listed in both 1850/60 Census