David Hitt and Jane Meek
Husband David Hitt 1
Born: Abt 1776 Christened: Died: 5 Aug 1857 - Greene Co., Alabama Buried:
Father: Peter Hitt (Bef 1755-Abt 1806) Mother: Mary ( - )
Marriage: 14 Mar 1803 - Laurens Co., South Carolina 2
Wife Jane Meek 1
Born: 9 Jan 1783 Christened: Died: 5 Jul 1848 - Greene Co., Alabama Buried:
Father: John Meek ( - ) Mother: Elleanor ( - )
Children
1 F Nancy A. Hitt
Born: Abt 1804 - South Carolina (Laurens Co.) Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Alfred Doss ( -1844) Marr: Abt 1825 - (Greene Co., Alabama)
2 F Edna Hitt
Born: Abt 1807 - South Carolina (Laurens Co.) Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Benjamin Williams (Abt 1797- ) Marr: 7 Feb 1827 - Greene Co., Alabama 3 4
3 F Celia Ann Hitt
Born: Abt 1809 - South Carolina (Laurens Co.) Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: George S. Gaines ( - ) Marr: 6 Feb 1826 - Greene Co., Alabama 5 6Spouse: Nazareth Thorn (Abt 1811- ) Marr: 5 Oct 1837 - Greene Co., Alabama 7 8
4 M Solomon J. Hitt
Born: 2 Jun 1811 - Laurens Co., South Carolina Christened: Died: 3 Feb 1892 - (Rankin Co., Mississippi) 9 Buried: - Concord Baptist Church Cemetery, Rankin Co., Mississippi 10Spouse: Eliza Strother Everett (Abt 1820-1868) Marr: 10 Nov 1836 - Greene Co., Alabama 11 12Spouse: Malvina McLehany (Abt 1832- ) Marr: 12 Jul 1869 - (Rankin Co., Mississippi)
5 M John M. Hitt
Born: 2 Aug 1813 - Laurens Co., South Carolina Christened: Died: 29 May 1887 - Lauderdale Co., Mississippi 13 Buried: - Lauderdale, Lauderdale Co., MississippiSpouse: Elizabeth M. Pearson (Abt 1811-Bef 1856) Marr: 2 Apr 1835 - Greene Co., Alabama 11 14Spouse: Mary A. E. Trueman (Abt 1836- ) Marr: 10 Mar 1856 - Sumter Co., Alabama 15 16
6 M Samuel Hitt
Born: Abt 1815 - Laurens Co., South Carolina Christened: Died: Buried:
7 M Larkin H. Hitt
Born: 15 Aug 1817 - South Carolina (Laurens Co.) Christened: Died: 17 Jan 1888 17 Buried: - Mt. Moriah Cem., Rosston, Nevada Co., ArkansasSpouse: Martha E. McGraw (1818-1886) Marr: 24 Jan 1839 - Monroe Co., Mississippi 18 19
8 F Eleanor Elizabeth Hitt 1
Born: 20 Jun 1820 - Alabama (Greene Co.) Christened: Died: 21 Jun 1885 20 Buried: - Mesopotamia Cem., Eutaw, Greene Co., AlabamaSpouse: James D. Duncan (1813-1885) Marr: 7 Mar 1841 - Greene Co., Alabama 21 22
9 F Eliza Jane Hitt 23
Born: 1822 - Alabama (Greene Co.) Christened: Died: 1906 - (Smith Co., Mississippi) 24 Buried: - Old Polkviille Cem., Smith Co., MississippiSpouse: James Taylor Gaines Everett (1814-1863) 23 Marr: 23 Jan 1845 - Greene Co., Alabama 25 26
10 F Frances A. Hitt
Born: Abt 1825 - Alabama (Greene Co.) Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Harris Samuels (Abt 1812- ) Marr: 6 Aug 1846 - Greene Co., Alabama 27 28
General Notes: Husband - David Hitt
CENSUS:
<pre>1810 Laurens Co., South Carolina
David Hitt 11010 -- 03100; 1 slave
male female
1 <10
1 10-15 3
16-25 1
1 26-44
>45 </pre>
He is in the sequence Curtis Cearnal, Larkin Hitt, x, Benja Hitt Sen'r, 5x, David Hitt, Henry Hitt, x, Lewis Ball. The ages of the children are not consistent with other information.
<pre>1830 Greene Co., Alabama; pg 45
David Hitt 10221001 -- 1300101; 6 slaves
male female
1 < 5 1
5-10 3
2 10-15
2 15-20
1 20-30 1
30-40
40-50 1
1 50-60 </pre>
He is in the sequence Mary Doss, David Hitt, 3x, Benjamin Hitt, Marshall Hitt, 2x, Benj'n Williams. Benjamin is David's first cousin Benjamin B. Hitt. Benj'n Williams is David's son-in-law.
<pre>1840 Greene Co., Alabama; pg 30
David Hitt 000000001 -- 00030001; 10 in agriculture; 17 slaves
male female
< 5
5-10
10-15
15-20 3
20-30
30-40
40-50
50-60 1
1 60-70 </pre>
He lives next to his son-in-law Benj'n Williams and 7 entries away from his son John Hitt.
<pre>1850 Greene Co., Alabama; Dec 18
1005/1005
David Hitt 74 M Va $2900 Farmer </pre>
In the Slave Schedule (Cox's Store Beat; Nov 20) he owns 8 slaves. His son Solomon J. Hitt lives at 1000/1000, and three sons-in-law, Benjamin Williams, James Everet and Harris Samuels, live at 1010/1010, 1002/1002 and 1006/1006, respectively.
CENSUS COMPARISON:
<pre>
1830 1840
male:
<5 (1) Joel Doss, born 1829
10<15 (13) Larkin, born 1817
10<15 (15) Samuel, born 1815
15-20 (17) John M., born 1813
15-20 (19) Solomon J., born 1811
20-30 Alfred Doss, 30-40 in 1840
50-60 (54) 60-70 (64) David, born 1776
female:
<5 (3) Edna C. Doss, born 1827
5-10 (5) 15-20 (15) Francis A., born 1825
5-10 (8) 15-20 (18) Eliza Jane, born 1822
5-10 (10) 15-20 (20) Eleanor Elizabeth, born 1820
20-30 (26) Nancy Ann Doss, born 1804
40-50 (47) 50-60 (57) Jame, born 1783
</pre>
ARRIVAL IN ALABAMA:
Snedecor's Directory of Greene County for 1855-1856 (1963 reprint) has the following entry for David Hitt:
Hitt, David, planter, Pleasant Ridge, Hopewell -- 1818
Pleasant Ridge is his precinct of residence and Hopewell in his post office. 1818 is the year in which he settled in Greene Co.
1818 is consistent with the fact that the census consistently says that his daughter Eleanor Elizabeth was born about 1820 in Alabama, whereas it says once that the previous child (Larkin born August 15, 1817) was born in South Carolina and once that he was born in Alabama.
On page 79 in "A Goodly Heritage, Memories of Greene County" (Greene County Historical Society, 1977) we find that "The two earliest settlers in Pleasant Ridge were James H. Archibald and David Hitt in 1819".
LAND:
On January 29, 1803 James Smith of Laurens District, South Carolina sells to David Hitt of the same place for $200 50 acres out of a tract originally granted to William Robertson on Cain Creek. Witnesses: Jas. Griffin, Benjamin Cason, Moses Curnal. (Laurens Co. Deed Records H/6)
On March 24, 1817 David Hitt sells to Robert Cunningham for $500 a tract of 150 acres more or less in Laurens District on the waters of Saluda River where David Hitt now resides. Included in the sale are several Negroes. If David Hitt pays $2000 to Cunningham by January 1, 1819, then the conveyance is null and void. (K/173)
The following tracts in Greene Co. were patented to David Hitt:
<pre>
W1/2SE section 1 T21N R1W 79.25 acres 4/16/1824
E1/2SE section 1 T21N R1W 79.25 acres 4/16/1824
E1/2SW section 6 T21N R1E 79.92 acres 4/20/1824
W1/2SW section 6 T21N R1E 79.92 acres 4/20/1824
W1/2NE section 7 T21N R1E 79.96 acres 5/25/1825
W1/2SE section 6 T21N R1E 79.92 acres 5/30/1833
E1/2SW section 31 T22N R1E 80.1 acres 5/30/1833
W1/2SE section 31 T22N R1E 80.1 acres 5/30/1833
</pre>
The first 6 tracts are contiguous and are about 1/2 mile from the last 2, which are also contiguous. They are about 3 miles from the Tombigbee River, which is the boundary between Greene County to the east and Sumter Countiy to the west. In 1826 he sold 130 of the 160 acres that he owned in S1 T21N R1W to his first cousin Benjamin B. Hitt (I/657). Then in 1837 he sold his 160 acres in S31 T22N R1E to his son John M. Hitt (H/315). In March 1839 he sold all his remaining land in Greene Co (I/558). A few weeks later in May he bought 240 acres about 2 miles to the north in S18 T22N R1E (I/830), but in August he sold it (K/26). Then in November he bought 200 acres in S31 T22N R1E from his son John M. Hitt including the 160 acres that David had sold to his son in 1837 (K/382). In November 1853 David again sold all his land in Greene Co (S/490). In September 1855 he bought 80 acres in S33 T23N R1W near his son-in-law James D. Duncan and about 6 miles north of where he had previously lived (T/360). He was living there when he died in 1857. See also H/519, I/281, I/280, S/124.
When David Hitt sold 130 acres to his cousin Benjamin B. Hitt in 1826 he kept 30 acres in the SE corner of the quarter section that he owned, though which passed the road from Eutaw to Trussell's Ferry. There subsequently occurred a complicated series of transactions involving those 30 acres. John M. Hitt lived there for a while and there was a store on the road. See I/281, I/280, H/519, I/916, K/936, N/752.
PROBATE:
David Hitt died intestate but his estate was probated. See the following pages in Volume R of the Greene Co. Probate Court Records: 78-81, 84, 180, 213-14, 424-430.
On September 15, 1857 letters of administration on the estate of David Hitt, deceased, were issued to John M. Hitt. On that date he states to the court that David Hitt, late of Greene Co., died intestate and that he died seized and possessed of the following lands and Negroes:
W 1/2 of SW 1/4 of Section 33 T23 R1W in Greene Co., consisting of 80 acres
Nathem, male, 60 years of age
Jack, male, 50
George, male, 36
Lewis, male, about 28
Ginny, female, 50
Rachel, female, 44
He also states that the lawful heirs are:
Nancy A. Doss,
Benj. Williams and Edna Williams, his wife,
John M. Hitt,
Jas. D. Duncan and Elizabeth E. Duncan, his wife,
all of Sumter Co., Alabama,
Solomon J. Hitt,
Nazareth Thorn and his wife, Celia A. Thorn,
Jas. T. G. Everett and Eliza J. Everett, his wife,
Harris Samuel and his wife, F. A. Samuel,
all of whom reside near Polkville, Mississippi, and
L. H. Hitt, who resides near Summerville, Mississippi, Gholem being his post office.
All of them are of lawful age. John M. Hitt states that no fair, beneficial and equitable division can be made among the heirs without a sale of the above described lands and Negroes. He asks for authority to sell the property, and it is granted.
Three appraisers appointed by Franklin P. Snedcor, J.P., had submitted on September 5 an inventory of the estate and had estimated the total value to be $6004.25. They included the slaves but not the land. On September 16 John M. Hitt submitted a list of notes payable to his father and stated that cash on hand was $878.10. The total value of the notes is $3332. Some are rather strange. The amount of the note on Solomon J. Hitt, dated October 21, 1856 and due one day after date, is $1384. On Saturday, December 19, 1857, a sale took place on the 80 acre tract where the deceased resided. On pages 424-429 there is a list of items sold. Most were bought by David Hitt's children, and the total value of the sale was $6484.64. The major items were
80 acres of land, $804, Robt. Johnson
Nathan, $315, J. T. G. Everett
Jiney, $255, John M. Hitt
Jack and his wife Rachel, $1050, Harris Samuels
George, $1450, Benj. Williams
Louis, $1363, James D. Duncan
A few other items were
1 family Bible -- Mrs. N. Doss -- $.50
2 chamber pots -- Benj. Williams -- .85
1 rifle gun -- J. T. G. Everett -- 8.00
1 table cloth -- J. T. G. Everett -- 1.25
1 large clock -- J. T. G. Everett -- 8.00
8 glass tumblers -- J. D. Duncan -- 1.30
35 lbs. sugar @ .12 -- J. D. Duncan -- 4.20
2 grub hoes -- Benj. Williams -- 1.00
1 grub hoe -- J. M. Hitt -- .94
1 man's saddle -- J. M. Hitt -- 1.10
1 sorrel mare -- Mrs. N. Doss -- 20
1 blk herse -- Nazareth Thorn -- 114.50
1 grey herse -- Benj. Williams -- 50
General Notes: Wife - Jane Meek
EARL J. HITT:
The following was copied from the database of Earl J. Hitt in WorldConnect (no longer existent):
Obituary (Southern Christian Advocate, V. 1, Brent Holcomb, 14 September 1848):
"Departed this life on the 5th day of July at her residence in Green Co. Ala., sister Jane Hitt, daughter of John and Elleanor Meek, well known old fashioned Methodist in Laurens dist., S.C. married David Hitt 14 March 1803, moved to Tuscaloosa Co., Ala., in 1818, thence to Green Co., Ala. . . . left husband and children."
1 Earl J. Hitt, "http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com db: hitthaynie."
2 South Carolina, Compiled Marriage Index 1641-- 1965, Repository: http://www.ancestry.com.
3 Pauline Jones Gandrud, "Marriage Records of Greene County, Alabama 1823--1860," 1969, pg 155. Repository: Clayton Library, Houston, Texas.
4 "Familysearch.org," "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKZ3-H9HT), Benjamin Williams and Edna Hitt, 07 Feb 1827; citing Greene, Alabama; FHL microfilm 1,290,852.
5 Pauline Jones Gandrud, "Marriage Records of Greene County, Alabama 1823--1860," 1969, pg 52. Repository: Clayton Library, Houston, Texas.
6 "Familysearch.org," "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKZ3-H9WV), George S. Gaines and Celia Ann Hitt, 06 Feb 1826; citing Greene, Alabama; FHL microfilm 1,290,852.
7 Pauline Jones Gandrud, "Marriage Records of Greene County, Alabama 1823--1860," 1969, pg 145. Repository: Clayton Library, Houston, Texas.
8 "Familysearch.org," "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKZ3-H3PQ), Nazareth Thorn and Celia Ann Gaines, 05 Oct 1837; citing Greene, Alabama; FHL microfilm 1,290,852.
9 "Find-a-Grave," Memorial # 108055837.
10 Jim Presgraves, Editor, Smyth County Families and Histories, 1974, Vol 2, pgs 170-71. Repository: Clayton Library, Houston, Texas, Call Number: GEN 975.5 P933.
11 Pauline Jones Gandrud, "Marriage Records of Greene County, Alabama 1823--1860," 1969, pg 69. Repository: Clayton Library, Houston, Texas.
12 "Familysearch.org," "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKZ3-HQJB), Solomon J. Hitt and Eliza S. Everett, 10 Nov 1836; citing Greene, Alabama; FHL microfilm 1,290,852.
13 "Find-a-Grave," Memorial # 108701007.
14 "Familysearch.org," "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKZ3-H33W), John M. Hitt and Elizabeth M. Pearson, 02 Apr 1835; citing Greene, Alabama; FHL microfilm 1,290,852.
15 "Sumter County, Alabama Marriage Records," LDS microfilm 1293884, 885, Vol 2, pg 306.
16 "Familysearch.org," "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG17-HQ27), John M Hitt and Mary E Triseman, 8 Mar 1856; citing Sumter, Alabama; FHL microfilm.
17 "Find-a-Grave," Memorial # 119845225.
18 Elizabeth C. Jones, Monroe County, Mississippi Marriages 1821-1850, Repository: Clayton Library, Houston, Texas.
19 "Familysearch.org," "Mississippi, County Marriages, 1858-1979," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Z2TS-PXW2), Martha E. McGraw in entry for Larkin W. Witt, 24 Jan 1839; citing Marriage, Monroe, Mississippi.
20 "Find-a-Grave," Memorial # 80977678.
21 Pauline Jones Gandrud, "Marriage Records of Greene County, Alabama 1823--1860," 1969, pg 43. Repository: Clayton Library, Houston, Texas.
22 "Familysearch.org," "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKZ3-H7FX), James D. Duncan and Eleanor Elizabeth Hitt, 03 Feb 1841; citing Greene, Alabama; FHL microfilm 1,290,852.
23 Smith County Genealogical Society, "Smith County Mississippi and its Families," 2003 Vol 1; 2006 Vol 2, Vol 2, pgs 170-71. Repository: Clayton Library, Houston, Texas.
24 "Find-a-Grave," Memorial # 31775813.
25 Pauline Jones Gandrud, "Marriage Records of Greene County, Alabama 1823--1860," 1969, pg 47. Repository: Clayton Library, Houston, Texas.
26 "Familysearch.org," "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKZ3-H7WR), James T. G. Everett and Eliza Jane Hitt, 23 Jan 1845; citing Greene, Alabama; FHL microfilm 1,290,852.
27 Pauline Jones Gandrud, "Marriage Records of Greene County, Alabama 1823--1860," 1969, pg 127. Repository: Clayton Library, Houston, Texas.
28
"Familysearch.org," "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKZ3-HWNG), Harris Samuel and Frances A. Hitt, 06 Aug 1846; citing Greene, Alabama; FHL microfilm 1,290,852.
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