Person:George Pitman (3)

Research Notes

• middle name = Washington is sourced in his father's will

1.   Mentioned, in Cambridge City Tribune. (Cambridge City, Indiana).

   24 Aug 1871, p - A letter was recieved at this post office on Monday last, from Shelbyville, IN, addressed to Geo. Pitman, with the request "if not called for in one year, return to Fritz Vanvonderblinkenstoffen, Tailhold City, State of Intoxication."
   
   4 Sep 1873, p3 - Mr. John McAnerny upset his wagon loaded with hay at the corner of Peelle's sash factory last Monday night, and left the hay with the wagon sadly mixed up with it in the road all night. A short time after the accident Geo. Pitman drove by with some ladies, and his horses frightened at the unseemly pile, wheeled across the Ft. Wayne & Muncie railroad track, upset the carriage and spilled them all out. One of the ladies was slightly injured and the whole party seriously frightened.
   
   7 Aug 1890 - George Pitman and Aaron Vestal painted the new iron bridge built by the Pan Handle over Martindale's creek, last week, and they painted it red.

2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Cambridge City Tribune. (Cambridge City, Indiana)
   3, 30 Nov 1893.

   George Pitman was born in Cambridge City, August 26, 1848, and after an illness of three days from a stroke of appoplexy, died November 26, 1893, aged 45 years and 8 months. He was married to Miss Sarah J Cooper, June 29, 1876, who with two daughters - Bessie and Jessie, aged 15 years - survive him. With the exception of a few years at Indianapolis, he has spent his life in Cambridge City. He was a private in Company H., 147 Indiana Volunteer Infantry. He was a painter and wall decorator by trade, and always an industrious worker. He was of a quiet unassuming disposition, avoided ostentation or display, would suffer inconvenience rather than offend, loved his home and family, ever faithful to them, and lived only for their comfort and happiness. While he was only a late professor of religion, he has been a regular attendant at the Sunday School and church services for many years. Funeral services were conducted at the Baptist church on Tuesday afternoon, by Rev. W.H. Sands, in the presence of a very large audience of friends. Cambridge Post, G.A.R., of which he was an esteemed and active member, acted as an escort and performed the ceremonies of the order at the grave.

3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 39721403 , in Find A Grave.
4. ↑ Wayne, Indiana, United States. 1850 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration Publication M432).

   Year: 1850; Census Place: Cambridge City, Wayne, Indiana; Roll: M432_180; Page: 18B; Image: 42.
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   Name: George W Pitman Age: 2 Birth Year: abt 1848 Birthplace: Indiana Home in 1850: Cambridge City, Wayne, Indiana Gender: Male Family Number: 257

   
5. ↑ Wayne, Indiana, United States. 1860 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration Publication M693).

   Year: 1860; Census Place: Cambridge City, Wayne, Indiana; Roll: M653_308; Page: 402; Image: 403; Family History Library Film: 803308.
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   Name: George Pitman Age in 1860: 13 Birth Year: abt 1847 Birthplace: Indiana Home in 1860: Cambridge City, Wayne, Indiana Gender: Male Post Office: Cambridge City

   
6. ↑ Wayne, Indiana, United States. 1870 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration Publication M593).

   Year: 1870; Census Place: Cambridge, Wayne, Indiana; Roll: M593_370; Page: 397A; Image: 319; Family History Library Film: 545869.
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   Name: George Pirman [George Pitman] Age in 1870: 21 Birth Year: abt 1849 Birthplace: Indiana Home in 1870: Cambridge, Wayne, Indiana Race: White Gender: Male Post Office: Cambridge City

   
7. ↑ Wayne, Indiana, United States. 1880 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration Publication T9).

   Year: 1880; Census Place: Jackson, Wayne, Indiana; Roll: 322; Family History Film: 1254322; Page: 165A; Enumeration District: 063; Image: 0093.
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   Year: 1880; Census Place: Jackson, Wayne, Indiana; Roll: 322; Family History Film: 1254322; Page: 165A; Enumeration District: 063; Image: 0093
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   Household Members:
   George Pittman 31 IN NC PA HOH Paper Hanger
   Sarah Pittman 25 IL OH OH wife Keeping House
   Bessie Pittman 1 IN IN IL dau
   Jessie Pittman 1 IN IN IL dau
   Hannah Pittman 76 PA PA PA widowed mother

8. ↑ Military Service, in Morrisson-Reeves Library, Civil War Database.

   George W. Pitman
   Record #: 2007
   Unit: Co. H, 147th Reg Ind Vol Inf
   Service Type: enlisted
   Start of Service: Jan 1865
   Parents: Hannah Pitman
   Residence: Cambridge City
   Additional Notes: yet in service, May 1865
   Citation: p. 362, D&SR 1865

9. ↑ Cambridge City Directory.

   1879 - Pitman Geo, laborer, res Pottawattomie
   1879 - Pitman Mrs. Hannah, widow, res Pottawattomie