Person:Mary Hitt (10)

Who were the parents of Mary Ann Hitt?

• Some say Family:John Hitt and Sarah Pace (1)
• Some say "Herman Hitt and Unknown" - which could be Family:Harmon Hitt and Mary Weaver (1)
• more work is needed ...

1.   McWhorter, Lucullus Virgil. The Border Settlers of Northwestern Virginia from 1768 to 1795: Embracing the Life of Jesse Hughes and Other Noted Scouts of the Great Woods of the Trans-Allegheny. (Hamilton, Ohio: Republican Publishing Co., 1915)
   pp 185, 189.

   In January 1796, Joseph Hall married Ann Strange, nee Hitt. Tragedy had twice widowed this woman. Her first husband, Joel Martin, a soldier of the Revolution, died at the siege of Yorktown, 1781. Her second husband, William Strange, was lost on a surveying expedition in the mountains and his skeleton only found a great many years afterwards. ...
   
   ... Mrs. Hall, nee Hitt, was an estimable woman, and her married life with Mr. Joseph Hall was ideal. She died in 1810 leaving two children by her last husband; Jonathan, born November 8, 1797, and David, born March 4, 1800. They inherited their father's estate on Skin Creek.
   
   A unique feature of Joseph Hall's residence was the stairway, which was carved in one piece from a large poplar tree. ...

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   http://www.eg.bucknell.edu/~hyde/hall/JosephHall.html#JosephHall2
   
   Ann Hitt's father was Herman Hitt. Her grandfather was Peter Hitt. She had a brother Rev. David Hitt, a Methodist preacher.