PARENTS: Married 08/02/1870
FATHER: Charles Wesley Hodge Pitts
b. 2/13/1849 in Arkansas
d.10/07/1883 Wylie, Collin County Texas.
MOTHER: Nannie Jane Bennett
b. 04/07/1851 Tuscaloosa, Alabama
d. 07/19/1925 Wylie, Texas
Charles' brother & Sisters (in order of birth)
Mary Ellen 'Minnie' Pitts Rucker
John Augustus Pitts
Amanda Pitts Campbell
Nissie Ann Pitts Kilgore
Nannie Jane Pitts Neilon
Willie J. Pitts Daniel
Married Mollie Cooper 12/22/1894 in Rockwell, TX
Was father to 8 children:
Wesley William
Lottie
Mattie Ruth
Nellie Lucille
Hazel Irene
John Butler
Eulala
Retta
Charles was a rural mail carrier for many years and in early years owned a livery barn and was a teamster in Wylie.
At this barn he owned a pair of large white draught horses that his daughter Hazel fondly remembered in her book The Pitts Family in America
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Paper: Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX)
Saturday, May 9, 1959
Section: 1 Page: 12
CHARLES C. PITTS
Staff Special to the News
GARLAND, Texas - Funeral services for Charles C. Pitts, 84, of 219 North Seventh, Garland, a retired rural mail carrier, will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday in First Baptist Church here with the Rev. Charles Cockrell officiating. Burial will be in Restland Memorial Park, Dallas.
Mr. Pitts died Thursday night in a Garland hospital after a short illness.
He was a mail carrier in Wylie, Collin County, for more than 30 years. A resident of Garland the past 20 years, Mr. Pitts served several years as a precinct election judge here. He was a member of the First Baptist Church, Modern Woodmen and Woodmen of the World.
Survivors are his wife; four daughters, Mrs. L. B. Gordon, Mrs. Eulala Bethel, Mrs. Rhea L. Edwards and Mrs. Jack E. Anderson, all of Dallas; one son John B. Pitts of Houston; six grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.
Obit above courtesy of Mindy
FATHER: Charles Wesley Hodge Pitts
b. 2/13/1849 in Arkansas
d.10/07/1883 Wylie, Collin County Texas.
MOTHER: Nannie Jane Bennett
b. 04/07/1851 Tuscaloosa, Alabama
d. 07/19/1925 Wylie, Texas
Charles' brother & Sisters (in order of birth)
Mary Ellen 'Minnie' Pitts Rucker
John Augustus Pitts
Amanda Pitts Campbell
Nissie Ann Pitts Kilgore
Nannie Jane Pitts Neilon
Willie J. Pitts Daniel
Married Mollie Cooper 12/22/1894 in Rockwell, TX
Was father to 8 children:
Wesley William
Lottie
Mattie Ruth
Nellie Lucille
Hazel Irene
John Butler
Eulala
Retta
Charles was a rural mail carrier for many years and in early years owned a livery barn and was a teamster in Wylie.
At this barn he owned a pair of large white draught horses that his daughter Hazel fondly remembered in her book The Pitts Family in America
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Paper: Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX)
Saturday, May 9, 1959
Section: 1 Page: 12
CHARLES C. PITTS
Staff Special to the News
GARLAND, Texas - Funeral services for Charles C. Pitts, 84, of 219 North Seventh, Garland, a retired rural mail carrier, will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday in First Baptist Church here with the Rev. Charles Cockrell officiating. Burial will be in Restland Memorial Park, Dallas.
Mr. Pitts died Thursday night in a Garland hospital after a short illness.
He was a mail carrier in Wylie, Collin County, for more than 30 years. A resident of Garland the past 20 years, Mr. Pitts served several years as a precinct election judge here. He was a member of the First Baptist Church, Modern Woodmen and Woodmen of the World.
Survivors are his wife; four daughters, Mrs. L. B. Gordon, Mrs. Eulala Bethel, Mrs. Rhea L. Edwards and Mrs. Jack E. Anderson, all of Dallas; one son John B. Pitts of Houston; six grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.
Obit above courtesy of Mindy
PARENTS: Married 08/02/1870
FATHER: Charles Wesley Hodge Pitts
b. 2/13/1849 in Arkansas
d.10/07/1883 Wylie, Collin County Texas.
MOTHER: Nannie Jane Bennett
b. 04/07/1851 Tuscaloosa, Alabama
d. 07/19/1925 Wylie, Texas
Charles' brother & Sisters (in order of birth)
Mary Ellen 'Minnie' Pitts Rucker
John Augustus Pitts
Amanda Pitts Campbell
Nissie Ann Pitts Kilgore
Nannie Jane Pitts Neilon
Willie J. Pitts Daniel
Married Mollie Cooper 12/22/1894 in Rockwell, TX
Was father to 8 children:
Wesley William
Lottie
Mattie Ruth
Nellie Lucille
Hazel Irene
John Butler
Eulala
Retta
Charles was a rural mail carrier for many years and in early years owned a livery barn and was a teamster in Wylie.
At this barn he owned a pair of large white draught horses that his daughter Hazel fondly remembered in her book The Pitts Family in America
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Paper: Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX)
Saturday, May 9, 1959
Section: 1 Page: 12
CHARLES C. PITTS
Staff Special to the News
GARLAND, Texas - Funeral services for Charles C. Pitts, 84, of 219 North Seventh, Garland, a retired rural mail carrier, will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday in First Baptist Church here with the Rev. Charles Cockrell officiating. Burial will be in Restland Memorial Park, Dallas.
Mr. Pitts died Thursday night in a Garland hospital after a short illness.
He was a mail carrier in Wylie, Collin County, for more than 30 years. A resident of Garland the past 20 years, Mr. Pitts served several years as a precinct election judge here. He was a member of the First Baptist Church, Modern Woodmen and Woodmen of the World.
Survivors are his wife; four daughters, Mrs. L. B. Gordon, Mrs. Eulala Bethel, Mrs. Rhea L. Edwards and Mrs. Jack E. Anderson, all of Dallas; one son John B. Pitts of Houston; six grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.
Obit above courtesy of Mindy
FATHER: Charles Wesley Hodge Pitts
b. 2/13/1849 in Arkansas
d.10/07/1883 Wylie, Collin County Texas.
MOTHER: Nannie Jane Bennett
b. 04/07/1851 Tuscaloosa, Alabama
d. 07/19/1925 Wylie, Texas
Charles' brother & Sisters (in order of birth)
Mary Ellen 'Minnie' Pitts Rucker
John Augustus Pitts
Amanda Pitts Campbell
Nissie Ann Pitts Kilgore
Nannie Jane Pitts Neilon
Willie J. Pitts Daniel
Married Mollie Cooper 12/22/1894 in Rockwell, TX
Was father to 8 children:
Wesley William
Lottie
Mattie Ruth
Nellie Lucille
Hazel Irene
John Butler
Eulala
Retta
Charles was a rural mail carrier for many years and in early years owned a livery barn and was a teamster in Wylie.
At this barn he owned a pair of large white draught horses that his daughter Hazel fondly remembered in her book The Pitts Family in America
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Paper: Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX)
Saturday, May 9, 1959
Section: 1 Page: 12
CHARLES C. PITTS
Staff Special to the News
GARLAND, Texas - Funeral services for Charles C. Pitts, 84, of 219 North Seventh, Garland, a retired rural mail carrier, will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday in First Baptist Church here with the Rev. Charles Cockrell officiating. Burial will be in Restland Memorial Park, Dallas.
Mr. Pitts died Thursday night in a Garland hospital after a short illness.
He was a mail carrier in Wylie, Collin County, for more than 30 years. A resident of Garland the past 20 years, Mr. Pitts served several years as a precinct election judge here. He was a member of the First Baptist Church, Modern Woodmen and Woodmen of the World.
Survivors are his wife; four daughters, Mrs. L. B. Gordon, Mrs. Eulala Bethel, Mrs. Rhea L. Edwards and Mrs. Jack E. Anderson, all of Dallas; one son John B. Pitts of Houston; six grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.
Obit above courtesy of Mindy
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