Garrett Thomson Hitt
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth Date: 17 Feb 1807 - Culpeper Co., Virginia Christening: Death: 26 Oct 1889 - Williams Co., Ohio Burial: in Old Pulaski Cemetery, Williams Co., Ohio 1 Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: William Hitt (1774-Abt 1852) Mother: Liddy ( -Bef 1829)
Spouses and Children
1. *Anzelana Gladstone (22 Jul 1804 - 26 Jan 1884) Marriage: 9 Mar 1833 - Fauquier Co., Virginia 2 3 Children: 1. William Arthur Hitt (1836-1889) 2. James Alexander Hitt (1840-1908)
Notes
General:
CENSUS:
<pre>1840 Williams Co., Ohio, Pulaski Township
Garrett T. Hitt 200001 -- 000001; 2 in agriculture
male female
2 < 5
5-10
10-15
15-20
20-30
1 30-40 1
40-50
50-60 </pre>
<pre>1850 Williams Co., Ohio, Dist 152 Pulaski Township; Sept 13; pg 169
255/262
Garret T. Hitt 40 M Va $300 Farmer
Ann " 40 F Va
William " 14 M Oh
James A. " 10 M Oh </pre>
The facsimile copy of Garrett Hitt's page in the 1860 census for Williams Co. is illegible. However, ancestry.com says that it reads as follows:
<pre>1860 Williams Co., Ohio, Pulaski, p.o. Bryan
801
Garnet F. Hitt 50 M Va
Ann " 50 F Va
Wm " 24 M Oh
James " 19 M Oh </pre>
<pre>1870 Williams Co., Ohio, Pulaski Township, p.o. Bryan; Aug 17; pg 19
143/143
Garret F. Hitt 63 MW Va $--/$100 Farmer
Ann " 65 FW Va Keeping house </pre>
His son James A. Hitt (30, Oh, school teacher) lives at 142/142.
<pre>1880 Williams Co., Ohio, Village of Pulaski, ED 11; June 1,2; pg 3
25/30
Garrette F. Hitt 73 Va Va Va Farm laborer
Ann " 74 wife Va Va Va Keeping house </pre>
OBITUARY:
The following obituaries are from http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/williams/obits/hitt.txt
The Bryan Press, Oct. 31, 1889:
HITT - At the residence of his son, James HITT, in Pulaski township, Oct. 26th, 1889, of paralysis, Garret T. HITT, in the 83rd year of his age. The deceased was born in Culpepper county, VA. in 1807, and was married to Miss Anzelana GLADSTONE in 1833. Thence he came to Seneca county, O., in 1838 (he came to Williams county, Ohio), where he resided continuously for nearly 51 years. He endured the vicissitudes of pioneer life, and mourned the loss of eight children, and the companion of his earthly pilgrimage, with the latter of whom he walked in tenderness and affection for over 50 years. Father HITT was a loving husband and a kind father, and firmly attached to his convictions, always preferring duty to favor. And at the advanced age of 82 years, 8 months and 9 days "He laid down his rude staff like one that is weary, and calmly reposes forever." - J. A. H.
J. A. HITT and family take this method of kindly thanking the friends who so generously assisted at the preparation, funeral and burial of their dear father.
The Bryan Democrat, October 31, 1889:
Garrett T. HITT, one of the old citizens of this township, died Saturday night at the residence of his son, Jas. A. HITT. He had been in feeble health for some time but was not seriously ill until within a day of two of his death. He was eighty-three years of age.
BURIAL:
http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/williams/cemeteries/old-pulaski.txt
Old Pulaski Cemetery near Beaver Creek, in Pulaski, Williams County, Ohio
Reading south to north from eastern-most row.
This is one of the oldest cemeteries in the area. Many of the stones are in bad shape and are very difficult to read.
ROW 1:
HITT, "Father", (Garret T.), 1807-1889.
"Mother", (Anzelana), 1804-1884.
William, 1836-1889.
WHO WAS HIS FATHER?
According to the census and his obituary Garrett T. Hitt was born in Virginia. Some researchers, including Earl J. Hitt, assert that his father was the Rev. Benjamin Hitt. That assertion is not plausible. In 1807, the year in which Garrett was born, Rev. Benjamin Hitt was in South Carolina. In the 1810 census he is in Laurens Co., South Carolina. His eldest son David, born in 1800, says 4 times that he was born in South Carolina. His next son Marshall, born about 1801, says three times that he was born in South Carolina, and the next son Charles, born in 1808, says twice that he was born in South Carolina.
People are leaving Virginia to move westward and southward. Once they leave, they don't return. Benjamin was a child when his father, uncle and grandfather left Fauquier Co., Virginia and settled in Laurens Co., South Carolina. Benjamin later moved on to Alabama. The idea that Benjamin's wife left South Carolina to return to Virginia to have children is not plausible, and even if she had done that, she would have returned to South Carolina with them and they would have associated their childhood with South Carolina and they would have married there or in Alabama.
The will of William Hitt who died in Seneca Co., Ohio probably in January 1853 makes it clear that Garrett Thomson Hitt was his son.
1 "Find-a-Grave," Memorial # 12103094.
2 "Fauquier County Virginia Marriage Bonds and Returns," microfilm, Vol 5, pgs 14, 40. Repository: Clayton Library, Houston, Texas.
3
"Familysearch.org," "Virginia Marriages, 1785-1940", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XR8Z-93N : 6 August 2020), Garrott T. Hitt, 1833.
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