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Jennie Mildred <I>Carr</I> Pittman

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Jennie Mildred Carr Pittman

Birth
Fredonia, Chambers County, Alabama, USA
Death
6 Nov 1938 (aged 81)
Prescott, Nevada County, Arkansas, USA
Burial
Prescott, Nevada County, Arkansas, USA Add to Map
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PRESCOTT, Ark. — Mrs. Jennie Carr Pittman, 82, died at her home here Sunday. She is survived by two sons, Dan, president of the Prescott Chamber of Commerce, and Charles F. Pittman, and five daughters, Mrs. S. R. Crawford, Mrs. Sam O. Logan. Mrs. Thomas C. McRac, Jr., Mrs. Duncan L. McRae and Mrs. Martin Guthrie of Prescott.

Mrs. Pittman was born at Fredonia, Ala., but moved to what is now Nevada county near Falcon when a child. She married John M. Pittman, December 26, 1875, and moved to Prescott in March, 1876, when the town was only two years old. Mr. Pittman was county and probate judge of Nevada county two terms and was a state leader in the Universalist church. He died in 1919.

Mrs. Pittman became a member of the Prescott Women's Christian Temperance Union in 1892, served as its secretary and president several years; was elected recording secreary [sic] of the State Union in 1899, later serving as its corresponding secretary, and as state president from 1924 to 1928. She served as editor of the Union's state paper, The Arkansas White Ribboner, from 1917 until recently, and for many years was a delegate to the National Union conventions.

Funeral services will be held at the First Methodist church rere [sic] at 3 p. m. Monday by the Rev. A. J. Christie.
PRESCOTT, Ark. — Mrs. Jennie Carr Pittman, 82, died at her home here Sunday. She is survived by two sons, Dan, president of the Prescott Chamber of Commerce, and Charles F. Pittman, and five daughters, Mrs. S. R. Crawford, Mrs. Sam O. Logan. Mrs. Thomas C. McRac, Jr., Mrs. Duncan L. McRae and Mrs. Martin Guthrie of Prescott.

Mrs. Pittman was born at Fredonia, Ala., but moved to what is now Nevada county near Falcon when a child. She married John M. Pittman, December 26, 1875, and moved to Prescott in March, 1876, when the town was only two years old. Mr. Pittman was county and probate judge of Nevada county two terms and was a state leader in the Universalist church. He died in 1919.

Mrs. Pittman became a member of the Prescott Women's Christian Temperance Union in 1892, served as its secretary and president several years; was elected recording secreary [sic] of the State Union in 1899, later serving as its corresponding secretary, and as state president from 1924 to 1928. She served as editor of the Union's state paper, The Arkansas White Ribboner, from 1917 until recently, and for many years was a delegate to the National Union conventions.

Funeral services will be held at the First Methodist church rere [sic] at 3 p. m. Monday by the Rev. A. J. Christie.


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