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By Paula Pitts March 26, 2012 at 02:53:15

My husband, David, and I are looking for descendants of this family.William Pleasant Pitts is my husband's GG Uncle which means some of his children would be my husband's 2nd cousins.Attached are the details of this family.

Paula Pitts

Name:       William Pleasant Pitts
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Birth:       27 May 1849       Mississippi
Death:       27 Mar 1908       Montrose, Montrose County Colorado
Burial:       29 Mar 1908       Cedar Cemetery, Montrose, Montrose County Colorado
Father:       Benjamin Franklin Pitts (1816-1894)
Mother:       Sally Sarah Hazel (1813-1899)
Other spouses:       Georgia Ann Colvard

Misc. Notes
Pitts family book -> Pleas, as he was called, left the Booneville MS area for the west andArkansas, he was never heard from after leaving.

Cedar Cemetery is in the city of Montrose, Montrose county Colorado.
PITTS, William P. - Died March 28, 1908, age 59 years.City Records:
Bur Sec F, Block 64, Lot 8, NE 1/4.

Marriage:       abt 1880
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Spouse:       Columbia Jane Colvard
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Birth:       18 Mar 1859       Ft. Worth, Tarrant County Texas
Death:       6 Oct 1936       near Cimmaron, Montrose County Colorado
Burial:       8 Oct 1936       Cedar Cemetery, Montrose, Montrose County Colorado
Father:       Wade Hampton Colvard (~1812-1864)
Mother:       Letha Ann Gage (~1812-1863)
Other spouses:       Frank Salomon Green

Misc. Notes
Living in Cimarron, Montrose County Colorado in Nov. 1920
Buried next to William Pleasant Pitts in Cedar Cemetery in Montrose Colorado, but is buried under the name Green witha birthdate of 1859.
Other data indicate she was born in Arkansas, not Ft. Worth Texas.The
death certificate informant was Frank Green, her second husband

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Children
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1 F:       Cora Pitts
Birth:       abt 1875       Texas
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2 M:       Willie Pitts
Birth:       abt 1878       Texas
Spouse:       Ida Henderson
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3 M:       Edward Presley Pitts
Birth:       15 May 1880       Texas
Death:       7 Dec 1969       Hotchkiss, Delta County Colorado
Burial:       11 Dec 1969       Crawford Cemetery Crawford Delta County Colorado
Spouse:       Freda Swain b. Dec. 1880 England, d. 1915, burial Crawford Cemetery, Delta Co. CO

child: William Russell b. Feb 26, 1910 d. May 6, 1984, burial Crawford Cemetery Delta Co. Colorado
spouse of William Russell was Minnie Childress, b. Sept 24, 1911 Delta Co. CO, d Feb 10 1991 Delta Co. Colorado, burial Crawford Cemetery, Delta Co. Colorado
2nd wife of Edward Presley Pitts
Spouse:       Bertha Mae McLeod .July 12, 1892, White Pine CO, d. Nov 26, 1956 Delta Co. CO
Marriage:       Sep 1915       Crawford, Delta County, Colorado

children:Robert Ward Pitts b. Oct 27, 1918 Colorado, D. June 8, 1955 Korea, burial Crawford Cemetery, Delta County Colorado
Alene Gertrude Pitts, b. May 23, 1916 CO, d. Oct17, 1992, Delta Co. CO, burial Riverside Cemetery, Delta County CO
Alene married Harold C. Gellatly on March 13, 1946

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4 M:       Augustine (Gus) B. Pitts
Birth:       14 Jul 1886       Seattle, King County, Washington
Death:       7 Nov 1920       Montrose, Montrose County Colorado
Burial:       10 Nov 1920       Cedar Cemetery, Montrose, Montrose County Colorado
Spouse:       Hazel McIntyre

child: Burton (or Burlin) Russ (or Ross) Pitts
b. abt Jan 1920 Colorado
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5 F:       Nellie B. Pitts
Birth:       May 1894       Colorado
Spouse:       David W. Richardson b. abt 1889 Colorado

child: Clarence Richardson b. abt1916
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6 M:       Abner Pitts
Birth:       Sep 1895       Colorado

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