Minerva Pittman was born 1860 in Tarboro, Edgecombe Co, NC, the youngest of 2 known daughters born to Dr. N. J. Pittman and his (1st) wife, Mary Ann Streeter Pittman.
She is the paternal granddaughter of John Pittman & Catherine Jones of Halifax County; and the maternal granddaughter of Reddin Pittman & Martha Bryant/Bryan of Edgecombe. She is a direct descendant (on both sides of her family tree) to the Pittman family patriarch, Thomas Pittman Sr. of Monmuthshire, England who arrived in the Virginia Colonies around 1630.
Her mother died when she was just 1 year old, and her father married six years later to Mary Eliza Battle, the 38-year old widow of wealthy Tarborean, William Francis Dancy. The widow became stepmother to Minerva and her older sister Kate Pittman (b. 1859), and the girls were raised with their stepbrother, Frank Battle Dancy. Her father and stepmother would have two more children, Elizabeth Battle Dancy (b. 1868) and Cornelia Bradford Dancy (b. 1874) and all would live in the doctor's expansive home built on Main Street Tarboro (now destroyed).
When she was 13 years old, her older sister Kate died at age 14. Minerva never married and remained in her father's household until his death in 1893, when she was 33 years old. Her stepmother passed 12 years later in 1905, and Minerva moved in with her half sister, Cornelia Bradford Pittman, now married to Tarboro merchant John W. B. Battle.
Minerva Pittman died in September 1940, at age 80.
She is the paternal granddaughter of John Pittman & Catherine Jones of Halifax County; and the maternal granddaughter of Reddin Pittman & Martha Bryant/Bryan of Edgecombe. She is a direct descendant (on both sides of her family tree) to the Pittman family patriarch, Thomas Pittman Sr. of Monmuthshire, England who arrived in the Virginia Colonies around 1630.
Her mother died when she was just 1 year old, and her father married six years later to Mary Eliza Battle, the 38-year old widow of wealthy Tarborean, William Francis Dancy. The widow became stepmother to Minerva and her older sister Kate Pittman (b. 1859), and the girls were raised with their stepbrother, Frank Battle Dancy. Her father and stepmother would have two more children, Elizabeth Battle Dancy (b. 1868) and Cornelia Bradford Dancy (b. 1874) and all would live in the doctor's expansive home built on Main Street Tarboro (now destroyed).
When she was 13 years old, her older sister Kate died at age 14. Minerva never married and remained in her father's household until his death in 1893, when she was 33 years old. Her stepmother passed 12 years later in 1905, and Minerva moved in with her half sister, Cornelia Bradford Pittman, now married to Tarboro merchant John W. B. Battle.
Minerva Pittman died in September 1940, at age 80.
Minerva Pittman was born 1860 in Tarboro, Edgecombe Co, NC, the youngest of 2 known daughters born to Dr. N. J. Pittman and his (1st) wife, Mary Ann Streeter Pittman.
She is the paternal granddaughter of John Pittman & Catherine Jones of Halifax County; and the maternal granddaughter of Reddin Pittman & Martha Bryant/Bryan of Edgecombe. She is a direct descendant (on both sides of her family tree) to the Pittman family patriarch, Thomas Pittman Sr. of Monmuthshire, England who arrived in the Virginia Colonies around 1630.
Her mother died when she was just 1 year old, and her father married six years later to Mary Eliza Battle, the 38-year old widow of wealthy Tarborean, William Francis Dancy. The widow became stepmother to Minerva and her older sister Kate Pittman (b. 1859), and the girls were raised with their stepbrother, Frank Battle Dancy. Her father and stepmother would have two more children, Elizabeth Battle Dancy (b. 1868) and Cornelia Bradford Dancy (b. 1874) and all would live in the doctor's expansive home built on Main Street Tarboro (now destroyed).
When she was 13 years old, her older sister Kate died at age 14. Minerva never married and remained in her father's household until his death in 1893, when she was 33 years old. Her stepmother passed 12 years later in 1905, and Minerva moved in with her half sister, Cornelia Bradford Pittman, now married to Tarboro merchant John W. B. Battle.
Minerva Pittman died in September 1940, at age 80.
She is the paternal granddaughter of John Pittman & Catherine Jones of Halifax County; and the maternal granddaughter of Reddin Pittman & Martha Bryant/Bryan of Edgecombe. She is a direct descendant (on both sides of her family tree) to the Pittman family patriarch, Thomas Pittman Sr. of Monmuthshire, England who arrived in the Virginia Colonies around 1630.
Her mother died when she was just 1 year old, and her father married six years later to Mary Eliza Battle, the 38-year old widow of wealthy Tarborean, William Francis Dancy. The widow became stepmother to Minerva and her older sister Kate Pittman (b. 1859), and the girls were raised with their stepbrother, Frank Battle Dancy. Her father and stepmother would have two more children, Elizabeth Battle Dancy (b. 1868) and Cornelia Bradford Dancy (b. 1874) and all would live in the doctor's expansive home built on Main Street Tarboro (now destroyed).
When she was 13 years old, her older sister Kate died at age 14. Minerva never married and remained in her father's household until his death in 1893, when she was 33 years old. Her stepmother passed 12 years later in 1905, and Minerva moved in with her half sister, Cornelia Bradford Pittman, now married to Tarboro merchant John W. B. Battle.
Minerva Pittman died in September 1940, at age 80.
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