Person:Newitt Pittman Jr. (1)

Legend is that the forefathers of this Pittman clan came from Newburn, N. C. and before the Revolutionary War moved to Lumberton, Roberson Co., N.C. from where their ancestors served in the Revolution. A will found in the Archive in Raleigh, N. C. dated 1832, reveals the division of a large tract of land between the heirs of Newell Pittman. N. W. left Lumberton, N.C., in 1832 and settled in Hempstead Co., AK. About two miles from Bluff City, ca.1840. During the Civil War, the Pittman home was not far from the site of the battle of Poison Springs. The father had gone to war leaving his wife and children to tend the farm. The sound of battle and flash of cannon could be heard and seen by Mrs. Pittman and the children. The farm had two springs and ten acres of fruit trees with many different kinds of apples planted so that they ripened at different times. In 1872, Mr. Pittman and his family moved from Bluff City via Prescott, to Malvern, to Hot Springs and from town, out to the Thornton Ferry and crossed the Ouachita River and about three miles up the old Dallas Road, they forded the Big Mazarn near the Orrell Farm and crossed over the mountain to the new farm.

Quoted from THE RECORD, Hot Springs-Garland County Historical Society, 1972, Vol. XIII

1.   May have been called Newell.