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m. 1826
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http://devere8.tripod.com/id30.htm The Witt Families WINDOW TO THE PAST by Peggy Smith Hake The Witt Families There were several Witt families enumerated in Amherst County, Virginia during tax lists taken in 1783 and 1785. The heads of households included Abner, David, Elijah, George, Lewis, Littleberry, John, and William. Some familiar family names found in Amherst County records were Luttrell, Whittle, Shelton, Patterson, Phillips, and Gilliam. By 1830, some of the Witt families had moved into East Tennessee and located in the counties of Rhea, Hamilton, Monroe, McMinn and Jefferson. Moving with them into East Tennessee were the Luttrells, Sheltons, Pattersons, and Gilliams. The Whittles went to central Kentucky. John and Arthur Witt, probably brothers, were born in East Tennessee. They were sons of Jesse and Ruth Witt. John was born c/1804 and Arthur about 1808. Both men came to Miller County in the early 1840s after a short stay in Sangamon County, Illinois. This was the typical migration pattern of early pioneers.....the wanderlust drove these families from the Blue Ridge mountains of western Virginia, into the Cumberland region of East Tennessee, then on north and west into Indiana and Illinois, and finally to Missouri. In Miller County’s 1850 census, the two Witt families were living in the same area of Glaize township. Back in Tennessee, Arthur Witt had married Mary Bilyeu and John Witt married Frances Coker. Both couples had large families. Some of the children were born in Illinois and some in Miller County. The children of John Witt and Frances Coker (daughter of George Coker) were: NANCY WITT m. _____Gum; RUTH WITT m. Gilbert Topping; SALENA WITT m. Benjamin Workman; ALTHA WITT m. Gainum Wyrick; JESSE MARION WITT m. Martha Ann Luttrell; CELIA FRANCES WITT m. Henry J. Luttrell; WILLIAM J. WITT m. (1) Ferby Nicholds (2) Sarah Jane Thornton; and GEORGE WITT m. _____. The children of Arthur Witt and Mary Bilyeu were: JOSEPH WITT m._____; MALINDA WITT m. Carroll Dobson; ELIZABETH WITT m. James A. Wyrick; WILLIAM WITT m. Frances Luttrell; ROSEANAH WITT m. John Kelly; ISAAC WITT m._____; REBECCA WITT m. Marcus Wyrick; and JOHN WITT m. Matilda______. Among their neighbors in Glaize township in 1850 were the families of Bilyeu, Golden, Wyrick, Russell, Gum, Long, Dobson, Beard, Nicholds, Williams, and Scott. In Jenkins’ History of Miller County is a paragraph, which states that near the close of the Civil War several families (mainly women and children) in the county were found destitute and near starvation due to their husbands being away at war or else casualties of that war. Among them was Mary A. Witt, a widow of a Civil War soldier. I do not know who she was.....the only record I have of a Civil War soldier named Witt was Jesse Marion Witt, son of John and Frances. He survived the war and lived until 1932. Most of the Witt families, who live in Miller County today, are descendants of Jesse Marion Witt (son of John Witt Sr.) and John Witt (son of Arthur Witt). The many daughters of these two families married into the families of Gum, Topping, Wyrick, Luttrell, Workman and Dobson. Their descendants are numerous and have scattered all over America. References
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