U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitts, William Arthur (1853-1924) ------------------------------------------------------------------- The History of Barbour County, West Virginia, From its Earliest Exploration and Settlement to the Present Time by Hu Maxwell The Acme Publishing Company, Morgantown, W.Va., 1899 Page 440 William Arthur Pitts, born 1853 at Scottsville, Virginia, son of Charles and Cassandra (Thurman) Pitts, was married at Philippi, 1883, to Alberta, daughter of A. G. and Mary R. (Seay) Reger. Children, Alma Virginia, Mamie Reta and Thurman Reger. Mr. Pitt is a grandson of Elisha G. Thurman of Virginia, who was a brother of Hon. Allen G. Thurman of Ohio. He is a member of the M. E. Church, South, and in politics a Democrat. By occupation he is a real estate broker, residing at Kerens, Randolph County, and was educated at Stony Point College. Charles Pitts was born at Glasgow, Scotland, and came to America while young. In the Civil War he fought on the Confederate side under Fitzhugh Lee. Previous to the war he was a merchant, and since the war has been a farmer and stockraiser. W. A. Pitts was for a number of years a railroad contractor, first in Virginia and after 1881 in West Virginia, in the Kanawha Valley; then, in 1882, on the Weston & Buckhannon Railroad; in 1883 on the Grafton & Greenbrier; in 1887 was a contractor on the West Virginia Central, and the next year located at Kerens, where he has since remained in the employ of that company. ------------------------------------------------------------------- From Death Certificate, Barbour County, WV #5669 FULL-NAME: Wilum A. Pitts BIRTH-PLACE: Va DEATH-DATE: May 11, 1924 (at age 59y-11m-20d) DEATH-PLACE: Philippi, Barbour County, WV MARITAL-STATUS: Married FATHER: Charles Pitts (born in Va.) MOTHER: Carida Thurmand (born in Va.) CAUSE-OF-DEATH: Pneumonia INFORMANT: Alma Pitts (of Philippi) BURIAL: Philippi Cemetery ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Barbour County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/barbour/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------