| Submitter: | Mike Pruitt | |||
| Husband: | John PRUITT (name on Pension filed as PREWITT) | |||
| Born: | 1811 | Place: | SC | |
| Married: | July 1836 | Place: | Carrollton, Pickens, AL | |
| Died: | Jan 30, 1867 | Place: | Cotton Gin, Freestone Co. | |
| Cemetery: | ? | Place: | ||
| Father: | ? | |||
| Mother: | ? | |||
| Other Spouses: | ? | |||
| Wife: | Artemessia "May" HENDON | |||
| Born: | Nov 3, 1817 | Place: | GA | |
| Died: | July 3, 1904 | Place: | Freestone, TX | |
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| Father: | ? | |||
| Mother: | ? | |||
| Other Spouses: | ? | |||
| Children: | ||||
| 1 Name: | F | Rebecca "Beckey" A. PRUITT | ||
| Born: | abt 1838 | Place: | AL | |
| Died: | between 1897-1899 | Place: | ? | |
| Cemetery: | ? | Place: | ||
| Spouse 1: | Mr. DUNBAR | |||
| Married: | Place: | |||
| Spouse 2: | Thomas HEAYNS, age 60, preacher from 1870 census Eutaw Post Offace | |||
| Spouse 3: | George WHITMAN. b. Sept 20, 1829 Marion, Perry Co., AL, d Aug 14, 1906 Ft. Chadbourne, Coke Co., TX | |||
| 2 Name: | M | Franics Marion PRUITT * | ||
| Born: | abt 1842 | Place: | AL | |
| Died: | ? | Place: | ? | |
| Cemetery: | Lindley | Place: | Between Mexia & Wortham | |
| Spouse 1: | ? | |||
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| 3 Name: | M | John Henry PRUITT * | ||
| Born: | abt 1844 | Place: | AL | |
| Died: | Aug 15, 1862 | Place: | Little Rock, Pulaski Co., AR | |
| Cemetery: | ? | Place: | ? | |
| Spouse 1: | According to Civil War records, he was never married | |||
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| 4 Name: | F | Louisa J. PRUITT | ||
| Born: | March 20, 1846 | Place: | AL | |
| Died: | 1833 | Place: | Limestone Co., TX | |
| Cemetery: | Lindley Cemetery | Place: | between Mexia & Wortham | |
| Spouse 1: | William Ira WARE (b. Sept 6, 1848, TX; d. Jan 1, 1892 Limestone Co., TX) | |||
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| 5 Name: | M | Robert James PRUITT * | ||
| Born: | March 5, 1849 | Place: | Hancock Co., MS | |
| Died: | January 9, 1911 | Place: | Birdville, Tarrant Co., TX | |
| Cemetery: | Balch Cemetery | Place: | Alvarado, Johnson Co., TX | |
| Spouse 1: | Martha Elizabeth BLACK (b. Nov 24, 1853 Cherokee Co., TX; d. Dec 28, 1930 Alvarado, Johnson Co., TX. Buried next to her husband | |||
| Married: | Nov 20, 1868 | Place: | Cherokee Co., TX | |
| 6 Name: | M | Milton Ebenezer PRUITT | ||
| Born: | November 11, 1853 | Place: | Hancock Co., TX | |
| Died: | August 1, 1910 | Place: | Near Wortham, Freestone Co., TX | |
| Cemetery: | Tehuacana Valley Cemetery | Place: | Wortham, Freestone Co., TX | |
| Spouse 1: | Priscilla Leeanna "Tude" BLACK (b. Jan 11, 1859 TX; d. Oct 14, 1938 Waco, McLennan Co., TX. She is also buried at Tehuacana Valley Cemetery) | |||
| Married: | January 7, 1877 | Place: | TX | |
| 7 Name: | M | Benjamin Franklin PRUITT | ||
| Born: | April 17, 1858 | Place: | MS | |
| Died: | December 16, 1913 | Place: | Richmond, Contra Costa Co., CA | |
| Cemetery: | Sunset View Cemetery | Place: | Contra Costa Co., PA | |
| Spouse 1: | Ida JOHNSON (b. Sept 23, 1861 Palo Pinto Co., TX; d Sept 24, 1952, Los Angeles, CA) | |||
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| 8 Name: | M | William L A PRUITT | ||
| Born: | abt 1859 | Place: | MS | |
| Died: | unknown | Place: | ||
| Cemetery: | unknown | Place: | ||
| Spouse 1: | unknown | |||
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| 9 Name: | M | James PRUITT * | ||
| Born: | abt 1861 | Place: | TX | |
| Died: | unknown | Place: | ||
| Cemetery: | unknown | Place: | ||
| Spouse 1: | unknown | |||
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| NOTES: 1850 Census shows John Pruitt to be a Mill Wright John & Artemessia "May" Pruitt were in Hancock Co., MS in 1850 census, then in 1860 they were in Freestone Co., TX near Cotton Gin Post Office and in 1870 in Limestone Co., TX with May Pruitt as head of household and unknown what happened to John Pruitt, thought to have died from 1864 to 1870. * Confederate records indicate Frances Marion Pruitt was in Co D 10th Nelson's Regiment Texas Infantry in Civil War. He enlisted at Ft. Herbert, TX on Jan 10, 1862. Was in CSA General Hospital Shreveport, LA from Apr 16, 1864 to May 3, 1864 for Vulnuo Scolpitiema * John Henry Pruitt was enlisted April 27, 1862 with Capt Kennedy Co D 10th Nelson's Regiment Texas Infantry in Fairfield, Freestone Co., TX. With the Confederate States on april 7, 1862 and died in Little Rock, AR hospital on August 15, 1862 of Typhoid fever. On June 19, 1863 and affidavit in Freestone Co., TX attesting to John H. Pruitt as the son of John Pruitt, signed by John Prewit (exactly like he signed it) for the purpose of obtaining whatever is due from Confederate States Government after the death of his son during the Civil War in which he died in Little Rock, AR in a hospital. John H. never had a wife or children as his father, John Pruitt, stated in an affidavit. * Robert James Pruitt worked for the Railroad. Robert and Martha Pruitt had 14 children and the last born was Dee Roy Pruitt. Dee Roy and Jennie Mae Pruitt had Stanley Dee Pruitt who was my father. * James Pruitt -- Family stories report that he rode away to pay taxes and never returned at an unknown age. |
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| SOURCES: 1850 MS census records 1860 Freestone Co., TX census records 1870 Limestone Co., TX census records Limestone Co. Courthouse records Confederate Pension records from Civil War Bible records Personal history. |
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