Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2018 with funding from Duke University Libraries https://archive.org/details/genealogyoffitts01fitt No. 41 GENEALOGY FITTS OR FITZ FAMILY IN AMERICA James Harris Fitts TUSCALOOSA, ALA. FORT ORANGE PRESS BRANDOW PRINTING COMPANY, ALBANY, N. Y. MDCCCXCVll ^ ^ >/(. ^7^ ~^'-- .j^jjLj K-^*~'*yM*-&~\}- e -- ^v.^WL- Oyly^^n Le_J*^ 'yu^ltauL- /> & »-''-v / lT *j ~~J v , 1 v- E>eMcate^ to flfcotber Tin loving ftemembrance “ Because I feel, that in the Heavens above, The angels whispering to one another, Can find among their burning terms of love, None so devotional as that of 1 Mother.’” * EXPLANATORY avoid the use of abbreviations and to give the records of each family in a concise manner, so that all the information in regard to any par¬ ticular individual can be readily found, a new system has been adopted which will require very little explanation. All the records of each family are given together, in a table, or tabulated form, commencing with Henry Fitts, of North Carolina, as being in the first generation, whom, it will be seen, was, in all probability, in the ninth generation from John Fitz of Fitzford, Devon County, England. The descendants of Henry Fitts are all numbered, in order, by the Arabic numerals on the left margin of the pages, when the name first occurs; and each individual is afterwards referred to by this number, which is here placed before the name. This number is placed in the center of the page, before the name, over the tabular form, if the individual is subsequently mentioned as the head of a family. The figures on the right margin of the tabular forms refer to the pages on which biographical sketches may be found. The index has three references in different columns. The figures in the first column refer to the pages where the birth, baptism, marriage, death and the present or last residence of the party or of any of the brothers and sisters may be found, with the names of the parents. The figures in the second column refer to the pages where the same information in regard to the children of the party is given. The figures in the third column refer to the pages of the biographical sketch of the party, if any is given. The different generations are denoted by exponent figures above and to the right of the surname “ Fitts,” and to the right and above the Christian name, when the surname is other than “ Fitts.” 2 & PREFACE J- HE main object of this publication is to preserve the records and history of the last six generations of the Fitts family, much of which is now fast passing beyond the memory of the living. A desire to know who were my ancestors and something of their history induced me to undertake this work. This same desire may animate the breast of some of my posterity, and I feel it to be a duty that I owe to them, to rescue from oblivion the information I have collected. The history of the Fitts family in England, which is herein presented, will be interesting to many, and may serve to assist or stimulate some one to trace out the connecting link between the American and English branches of the family with more certainty than has yet been done. Although the preparation of this volume has been a labor of love and without any prospect of pecuniary profit, the collec¬ tion of the dates and data, running through a period of six years, has required much patient toil and prolonged research. At no inconsiderable cost the records of the Government at Washington, and those of the States of North and South Carolina and Virginia have been searched; the libraries of Washington City, New York and Boston thoroughly examined; and the county records, parish registers, family Bibles and cemeteries have furnished information. An extended correspondence with numerous members of the family, and other persons, was neces¬ sary in carrying on the work. In making acknowledgments for assistance rendered, I must mention the Rev. James Hill Fitts, a member of the New England Historic-Genealogical Society of South Newmarket, N. IJ., the compiler of a genealogy of the “ Fitts or Fitz family,” as the one to whom I am most indebted for undertaking such a task. It was from my correspondence with him, endeavoring to trace the connecting link between the New England and the Virginia branches of the family, that he first gave me valuable suggestions in arranging genealogical data, and has assisted me cheerfully whenever requested. For the continuous and success¬ ful prosecution of the work, I am most indebted to my highly esteemed friend, William S. Wyman, A.M., LL.D., professor of Latin in the University of Alabama. He has been a constant and a willing assistant, furnishing books and references to books, and suggesting various means for obtaining information, and 8 Preface personally directed my researches in the Lenox and Astor libra¬ ries of New York, and in the public library of Boston. To Mrs. Willie Thrower Scoggin, of Oakville, N. C., I am especially indebted for much valuable information, given by letters, in a highly intelligent manner. My grateful acknowledgment for valuable assistance is hereby tendered to Miss Mary D. Fitts, of Ridgeway, N. C.; to John 0. Drake, Esq., of Warrenton, N. C.; to Mr. Francis M. Fitts, of Washington City; to Mr. Charles E. Fitz, of New Orleans, La.; to Capt. William A. Fitts, of Orlando, Fla., and to Prof. Jas. H. Fitts, of Blacksburg, Va. 0 * ORIGIN OF THE NAME * E names of some families may have been given from the dise 5186 with which some of its earliest members were afflicted, as some writers contend; but few scholars accept such a theory. One or two authors have placed the name of Fitz or Fitts as having originated in this manner, which is certainly an error. The name Fitz was doubtless derived from the French word “Fils,” Norman French “Fiz.” signifying a son. The use of the word “Fits” as a prefix is of ancient date. The Northmen had no family names, only individual names. In order to distinguish one man from another, bearing the same name, it was their custom to add to a man’s name the name of his father with the word “ son ” suffixed: thus John, the son of Richard, and John, the son of Robert, would be called respec¬ tively John Richardson and John Robertson. In the 10th century a colony of these people settled in France. Their descendants gave up their own language and took that of the French, but they retained their manner of giving names, with this difference, that they placed the word “Fitz,” the French equivalent of “ son,” before, instead of after, the father’s name, thus came Fitz-Osborn, Fitz-IIugh. Three generations after the conquest, the Normans in England and Ireland began to have family names. For this purpose various devices were employed: names of cities and vil¬ lages, official titles, patronymics with the prefix “Fitz,” thus came the Fitz-Adams, the Fitz-Hurberts, etc., in England, and the Fitz-Geralds and Fitz-Maurice, in Ireland. The origin of the prefix Fitz is given by Isaac Taylor in “Notes & Queries” No. 154, Eight Series, December, 1894, page 443. “ A question which might advantageously be discussed, in Notes & Queries, is the origin and history of the prefix Fitz in such surnames as Fitzwilliam or Fitzgerald. In translations of Latin documents, Fitz is constantly and wantonly used by some editors to replace films and its contractions, often without any warrant. Thus foedum Reginaldi filii Petri, is rendered 10 Fitts or Fitz Family “the fee of Reginald Fitzpeter,” and we are told that a man “holds lands of Henry Fitzconon,” when the Latin reads “tenet de Henrico filio Conani. And Mr. Freeman lias manufactured the curious designation, Henry Fitz-Empress, out of such entries as in tempore Henrici Regis filii Imperatricis, as if Fitz were the English for filius. Two explanations have been advanced, one philological, the other palaeographical. The philologist tells that the Norman French, z, was pronounced as Is, and that the form Fitz is due to an attempt to preserve this sound in the word filz or fiz, equivalent to the French fils from filius. But they have not explained why, if the sound was ts, we do not get fits instead of fitz, and they have not adduced any other word in which a Norman z has become ts in English, and finally they have not accounted for the fact that fitz does not appear in con¬ temporary documents during the reigns of the Norman Kings, but only at a much later time when the peculiarities of the Norman French phonology had disappeared in England. On the other hand the palaeographers assert the Fitz is a blunder of late date, arising from the misunderstanding of two well known abbreviations used in writing the word filius; the supposed t being really a barred l, representing li, as in lb for librae, and the z not being the letter, but the sign §, which was at one time the common abbreviation for the termination us and et, as in omnibg for omnibus, abbatib| for abbatibus, or vi^ for videlicet, this sign being afterwards used for a z, in order to avoid confusion with the r-rotunda, which z resembled. That such a blunder is possible in the case of surnames is plain from the use of ff in such surnames as ffrench or ffoulks. I have already shown in your columns (N. & Q., 8th s iii 24) that this ff as an initial, is a misreading of the capital F, which in the older set chancery hand, was so written as to resemble two small f’s for which it was mistaken. In like manner people finding in family documents the names of their ancestors written Fit §, the con¬ traction for filius, when the g signifies us and the t is really a barred l standing for li, might easily read and pronounce it as Fitz, just as the abbreviation for videlicet is sometimes viz by those who do not know that the final z is not a letter but merely a sign of contraction, or as the name Sarum is due to the mis¬ understanding of a contraction for Saris buriensis in the signa¬ ture of the Bishop. The question must be determined by the evidence as to the origin of Fitz, evidence which must be sought in some early MS., where the word is unmistakably written Fitz. To be decisive the last character must be written z and not §, which Fitts or Fitz Family 11 before the thirteenth century was not the letter z, but merely a sign of abbreviation for us, and the MS. must be earlier than the middle of the thirteenth century, when the vertical stroke of t began to rise so far above the cross bar as to resemble the barred l of earlier times. Such a decisive case I have been unable to find. In the “Hundred Rolls” which mostly date from the early years of Edward I (1273-1278) we have thousands of instances of films and its contractions. In some counties the scribes used the contraction fit, when the last letter is not t, but a barred l. Elsewhere as in Cambrigeshire, it is fits, where the t is a barred l, and the s is the last letter of filius. Thus in Vol. ii, pp. 421-9, we have scores of cases, such as Joh’fits Nick, Simo Fits Alan, Wall’s Carpenter, Regin’ fits Hawis, Richard’ fits Joh’, Hug’ fits Julian’, Rog’s fits Job’s, Rog’s fits Avic, Will’s fits Rog’i, Will’s fits Nich’i, Joh’ fits Rober’t, Joh’es fits Eustacli’, Ada’ fits Petr’. In all these cases fits is plainly the contraction of filius, the third letter being a barred l. Fitg, which might be taken for the Nor¬ man-French fiz, is another contraction for filius, a Walterus fi§, a cottager (PI. R. ii, p. 322), or Gilbertus fi l, also a cottager (H. R. ii, 426). In the H. R. for Suffolk, vol. ii, p. 162, we have Rog.’ le Fi^ Aubern, where the l is plainly the sign of contrac¬ tion, Jacob i for Jacobus, and quib§ for quibus appearing on the same page. On page 427 we have a Richard fitz Walt’, who holds eight acres in villanage, where the word that a careless reader might take for fitz is undoubtedly the contraction for filius, the last two characters being a barred l for li, and 3 the usual sign for us. This is the probable explanation of the only case in the printed volumes of the “Hundred Rolls” in which we appear to have the word fitz. This occurs in Essex, A. D., 1273 (H. R. i, 144), where we have a Will’em le fitz Wall, who complains that his horse has been wrongfully taken. Out of the many thousand cases in the “Hundred Rolls,” this is, I believe, the only one where the third character is printed as a t, and not as a barred l, and we are justified by analogy in supposing that this must be a misreading or a misprint, and that we have here merely the usual contraction for filius. The evidence of the Hundred Rolls is supported by that of another document of nearly the same date, Kirby’s “Inquest,” which was compiled in 1284, in which Fitz occurs plentifully in the Editor’s notes as an equivalent for filius, which is found more than three hundred times in the text, in which Fitz does not occur once. We may therefore conclude that fitz bad not been adopted at the end of the thirteenth century. In Kirby’s 12 Fitts or Fitz Family “Inquest” we have several mentions of the Fitzwilliams of Sprotborough, ancestors of the present Lord Fitzwilliam, who were among the first to use the prefix fitz, and hence, as they are frequently mentioned in early documents, we obtain an indica¬ tion of the period when it began to be adopted. The pedigree drawn up by Hugh Fitz-William in 1565 assumes that the name Fitz-William was borne long before surnames Avere used, even in the reign of Edward the Confessor, and also in several suc¬ ceeding centuries during which the name appears in records as films Willelmi. This pedigree is therefore worthless for our pur¬ pose. Passing over the Fitz-William who is said to have come OA r er with the Conqueror and to have fought at Hastings, we find that in 1117 a person in the pedigree is styled Sir William Fitz-William, calls himself in a grant to Byland Abbey, Willelmus filius Willelmi, which also is his style on his seal appended to the deed. One of his descendants, who appears in the pedigree as Sir William Fitz-William, eldest son of Sir Thomas Fitz- William, of Sprotborough, is not so called in the Hundred Rolls for 1275, but is styled, as might be expected, Willelmus filius Thomae Miles, or in the contracted form, Will’ fit Th.’ Miles, when fit is really fil with a barred l. In 1284, he is also styled in Kirby’s “Inquest,” Willelmus filius Thomae. In the “Knight’s Fee’s” in 1290, we find his son at Sprotborough styled Willelmus filius Wellelmi. He bears the same style in the aid to Edward I, granted in 1302, in which we have de Willelmo filio Willelmi, and in 1316, in the “ Normina Villarum,” he is likewise called Willelmus filius Willelmi. Sixty years later we arrive at last at Fitzwilliam as a true surname, the grandson of the Willelmus filius Willelmi of 1316 appearing in the poll tax returns of 1379 as Johannes fitz William. That fitz William was now a surname is proved by the fact that, the father of this John fitz William was named John, the son of this second John being also styled Willelmus fitz William in the poll tax. Hence it Avould appear that the introduction of fitz as a prefix in the surname only dates from about the middle of the fourteenth century, the earlier supposed cases being misunder¬ stood contractions for filius, whereas if the tz in fitz had repre¬ sented a Norman French z, we ought to have found traces of it early in the Norman period and not late in the Plantagenet period, when owing to the Angevin rule, other dialectic influ¬ ences had come into operation. The cases cited by Prof. Skeat from “Piers Plowman ” are inconclusive, as they cannot be older than the middle of the fourteenth century, when the use of the term Fitz was establishing itself, while they are apparently quoted Fitts or Fitz Family 13 from printed books, and not from MSS. themselves. Hence till some much earlier cases are cited from MSS., the palaeographical explanation holds the ground.” In opposition to the palaeographical explanation of the origin of the prefix “Fitz ” as given above by Isaac Taylor, we copy from “Notes & Queries,” 8th s. vii. Jan. 12, 1895, page 31, the following reply of A. L. Mayhew (Oxford) in support of the philological explanation. “Fitz” (8th s. vi. 443).—Philologists say that “Fitz” is only a more explicit mode of showing what is the pronunciation of 0. F. fiz Lat. filius. “ Palaeographers,” so says Dr. Isaac Taylor, “ assert that Fitz is a blunder of late date, arising from the mis¬ understanding of two well known abbreviations used in writing the word filius.” I think there can be no doubt that the Philo¬ logists are right on this point, and the palaeographers are wrong. In the first place, there is no doubt among old French scholars that O. F. fiz was pronounced fits, precisely (so far as the conso¬ nants are concerned) as we pronounce Fitz. In Schwan’s Old French Grammar, ed. 1893, §320, we are told that l Mouill6e(lj)+s becomes Its (written lz), so filius becomes filz (pronounced lilts) and later fiz (pronounced fits). Fitz is simply a contaminated spelling. Compare on this point Hornings Introduction, §148 in Bartsch and Plorning’s Langue et Literature Francaises. That the form of fitz is simply a varient of fiz is proved from the fact that they occur indiscriminately in the same Anglo-French texts. We will appeal first to Bozon’s Contes Moralise’s, edited by Miss T. Toulmin Smith and M. Paul Moyer. On page 177 I find “Purceo dit Thobie a sown fitz” (Therefore said Tobias to his son); on p. 25, si. vous avez fitz filios; on p. 149, “pur lourz fitz” (for their sons) also ses fiz (sui filii) and 5eauz filz (filius). I may also refer to some Anglo-French texts printed in Wright’s Politi¬ cal Songs (Camden Society No. 6). On p. 127 we read Priez touz mes amis douz, le fitz seinte Marie (the son of St. Mary); on page 235, “le fitz Marie” (the son of Mary); on p. 312, “par le fiz Marie” (by the son of Mary). With these passages before us it is absolutely impossible to hold that Fitz is due to the misreading of a MS. mode of writing the Latin filius. We are absolutely shut up to the conclusion that Fitz is a genuine Anglo-French form, equivalent to the con¬ tinental old French forms fiz and filz and the modern French fils. To this article of Mr. Mayhew, Isaac Taylor replied as fol¬ lows: “Fitz” (8th s. vi. 443; vii. 31, 77),—“I have to thank Mr. Mayhew for his citations from Anglo-Norman texts, which would, however, have been more serviceable if he had appended 3 14 Fitts or Fitz Family the dates of the MSS. from which they are taken. Probably we may conclude that there were two concurrent sources of Fitz, one Anglo Norman, growing by Phonetic law out of the Nonnan- French fiz, and the other the misreading of a conpendium for filius, used in records and other Latin documents. To the latter we may probably attribute the frequent misuse of Fitz by chron¬ iclers who wrote later than the fourteenth century, and hence we may star as anachronisms such names as Fitz Stephen, Fitz Alwin, Fitz Walter, or Fitz Gilbert, so freely bestowed on per¬ sonages who lived in the eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth cen¬ turies. I agree with Mr. Ellis that it would be most desirable to distinguish by some typographic device between the genuine patronymics in Fitz and those cases where it is a mere editorial compendium for filius.” In regard to z being pronounced as ts, Walter W. Skeat replies to Isaac Taylor as follows: “ Fitz (8tli s. vi. 443; vii. 31). It is worth notice that z is still sounded as ts in Italian and German. Its relationship to t appears in this, that where Ger¬ man has z, as in zeit, English has t, as in tide. And where Italian has z, as in zio, Spanish has t, as in tio. That z was ts in old French is obvious. There are hundreds of examples. Thus Lat. habetis became abet’s, then ’avet’s; and the latter was writ¬ ten avez. It is written so still, though the sound is lost. And so on, with every verb in the French language. So again, Lat. ad satis became 0. F. assez which is still phonetically spelt assets in modern English. I do not think a barred l is much like a t, nor do I know of any case where it is has been taken for it, in early times. Modern writing is quite a different affair. A great deal more might be added.” The orthography of the name has not been preserved either in England or America, for we find it now in both countries spelled differently; and it is almost certain that the Fitz, Fitts, Fitt, Fytz and Fytze families sprung from the same ancestor. In later days the prefix fitz was used as a mark of illegiti¬ macy, which use of the word originated in this manner. Llenry the 1st had an illegitimate son, Robert by name. Henry wished to marry this son to Mabel, daughter and heiress of Fitz-Hamon, earl of Gloucester. The lady objected on the ground that Robert had no surname. The King remedied the defect by giving him the surname of Fitz Roy. This example was followed by other English Kings and Princes of the blood. The Fitz-Roys (dukes of Grafton), the Fitz James (dukes of Berwick) and the Fitz Fitts or Fitz Family 15 Clarences (earls of Munster), are all of this origin, and many noble families of such an origin now include their royal pro¬ genitors in their genealogical tables. The family of Fitz is one of great antiquity, and according to the testimony of Mr. Charles Edwin Fitz, of New Orleans, La., the names of three or four of its members appear on the rolls of Battle Abbey. In the roll published in Thierry’s Nor¬ man Conquest, the name occurs several times as a prefix, as Fitz Robert and Fitz Walter; also Fitz John and others. The Battle Abbey was built in 1067, by William the Conqueror to com¬ memorate the battle of Hastings. FIRST GENERATION 1. “John Fitz 1 , Bencher of Lincoln’s Inn, was born at or near the town of Tavistock, Devonshire, England, famous for its pro¬ duction of so many eminent sages in the law (the profession also of this gentleman), the study whereof he sedulously followed in that illustrious hotel called Lincoln’s Inn; and he became so expert therein that he raised his family to great reputation, both for quality and estate, in which it continued divers generations after. He was undoubtedly one of the readers of that honora¬ ble society, Lincoln’s Inn which, happening before the date of the register mentioned by Sir William Dugdale doth begin, we can’t expect to find him there. But this can be no argument that he was not so. However, in the catalogue of governors of that society, which commenced forty years before that of the readers, as may be seen in that author (Dugdale) we find that John Fitz and John Speke, who was either born in or fetched his original from this county, Devonshire, were two of them, in the 6 th of Henry the VI, which was A. D. 1428. John Fitts, therefore, becoming so eminent for his great skill and profound judgment in law (a rare matter in that age wherein learning was at so low an ebb in the nation that it was thought much for a person to be able to read and write) had great practice, whereby he acquired a considerable fortune, which descended to his posterity. He settled his family at a pleasant seat lying in the parish about a quarter of a mile distant from the town of Tavistock aforesaid, at that time called “ Ford,” from the neighboring passable stream that glidcth along by it, unto which either he or some of his ancestors gave their additional name; from thence called Fitzford unto this day.” The above is an extract from “ The worthies of Devon,” page 301, and John Prince, the author, further says: “This Fitts or Fifz Family 16 family yieldeth not all gown men but at least one soldier, whose effigies, lively cut in stone, all clothed in armour, lyeth in Tavis¬ tock church aforesaid, the only monument they have there.” This monument is in the chancel, and on a flat stone in the pavement beneath may be distinguished the following words among others that are obliterated: “ Here lyeth John Fitz, of Fitzford, Esq.” date “ 1539 ” or “1559.” Beneath the canopy, which is supported by four columns, lies the figures of a knight with a lady by his side, the former resting his feet on a lion, the latter on a lamb. At the back of the monument, against the wall, a youth is represented kneeling, with a book before him on a desk. The arms of the family are also on the monument. They are—Argent, a cross, gules, guttee de sang. Arms: Flor., A.D. 1428 R. R. Hen. 6 (Two elephants’ proboscis erect.) The sons of John Fitz 1 were: 2 . i. John Fitz 2 , who inherited his father’s estate but, dying without issue, was succeeded by — 3. ii. Walter Fitz 2 , who married Mary Sampson. 4. iii. Roger Fitz 2 . SECOND GENERATION No. 3 Walter Fitz 2 (John Fitz’), supposed to have been born about the year 1450. He died in 1510. He married Mary Sampson, succeeded to his father’s estate by the death of his elder brother, John. They had two sons: 5. i. John Fitts 3 , m. dau. of Roger Grenvile. 6 . ii. Robert Fitz 3 , m. and had issue. Fitts or Fitz Family THIRD GENERATION No. 5 17 John Fitz 3 (Walter Fitts 2 , John Fitts'), was bom in the lat¬ ter part of the fifteenth century; he married Agnes, a daughter of Roger Grenville. Their children were: 7. i. John Fitz 4 , m. and succeeded his father in his estate. 8. ii. Edward Fitz 4 . 9. iii. George Fitz 4 . 10. iv. Grace Fitz 4 , m. John Eliot, Earl of St. Germain. 11. v. Hanor Fitz 4 , m. William Kanzese. 12. vi. Catherine Fitz 4 , m. Wm. Bond, of Earth. 13. vii. Margaret Fitz 4 , m. Richard Arscott. 14. viii. Francis Fitz 4 . No. 6 Robert Fitz 3 (Walter Fitz 2 , John Fitz'), was born in the latter part of the 15th century; he married and had issue: 15. i. Robert 4 , m.; died early, leaving a son. FOURTH GENERATION No. 7 John Fitz 4 (John Fitz", Walter Fitz 2 , John Fitz 1 ), married Mary, a daughter of Sir John Sydenham, of Brimpton, in Somerset¬ shire. He was an eminent lawyer and left a large volume in MSS.,called “Fitz, his reports.” Either he or his father built the conduct house at Fitzford. The name “John Fytz” appears written on a lease of a field, giving him liberty to convey water in pipes of timber, lead or otherwise to his mansion house at Fitzford, dated the 10th of Elizabeth. It is related of him, “ that while riding with his wife in Dartmoor they lost their way and were pixey led into a bog. After long wan¬ dering in the vain effort to find the right path, they felt so fatigued and thirsty that it was with extreme delight they dis¬ covered a spring of pure water, whose powers seemed to be miraculous, for no sooner had they satisfied their thirst than they were enabled to find their way through the moor toward home without the least difficulty. In gratitude for this deliverance and the benefit they had received from the water, John Fitz caused a stone memorial to be placed over the spring, bearing the date of the year, for the advantage of pixey-led travellers; 18 Fitts or Fitz Family the water is still considered to possess many virtues.” One who visited this spring as late as 1831 writes as follows: “Having many years since attempted to find Fitz’s Well by crossing the moor, when my horse on getting into a bog, so trembled in every limb that I gave up the search and from some circumstance or another never resumed it till now. This day I determined to begin my investigations. I directed my course to the house on the moor near Bundle Store, where a woman offered to guide us to the well. We proceeded in a northerly direction along the eastern bank of the leat that conveys the water to the prison. After we had gone about a half a mile we turned off at a right angle, following the direction of what appeared to be an old hedge or part of an enclosure, at no great distance to the left of which we reached the spring, which is nearly in the midst of a bog. It is situated on a gentle declivity near Blackabrook (over which a little lower down is an ancient foot bridge). The edifice about the well consisting of flat stones of granite, is about three feet in height and width. On the front edge of the stone is the inscription I. F. and the date is 1568.” He was very unfortunate in his issue, of which (says Prince p. 303) there is this remarkable story. Mr. Fitz 4 being a curious as well as a learned person had been prying into the secrets of astrology; his lady being with child, he would needs be enquir¬ ing into the future of her burthen, before she was delivered; who being just ready to fall in travail, he erected a scheme to calculate the matter, and as it often falls out in such unjustifia¬ ble curiosities, finding at that time a very unlucky position of the heavens, he desired the midwife, if possible, to hinder the birth but for one hour; which not being to be done, he declared that the child would come to an unlucky end and undo his family. And it fell out accordingly, for that birth proving a son, though afterwards knighted by the name of Sir John Fitz, of Fitzford, yet having first slain Mr. Nich. Slanning, of this County, and after that, one or two more; he fell upon his own sword and destroyed himself. The widow of John Fitz married Sir Henry Kuyvet, of Chattleton in Weltshire; but he dying, she married Sir Christopher Harris, of Radford. The only son of John Fitz and Mary Sydenham was: 16. i. John Fitz 5 , b.-m. dau. of Sir Wm. Courtnay; d. 1606. # Note.— See autobiography of Anna Eliza Bray, page 208, where she gives the facts upon which her romance, “ Fitz of Fitzford,” was founded; and also a review of her novel in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1830, part 1, page 156. 19 Fitts or Fitz Family No. isr Robert Fitz 1 (Robert Fitz 3 , Walter Fitz 2 , John Fitz'), b. Married; and died at the age of 29, leaving a son. 17. i. Walter Fitz 5 FIFTH GENERATION No. 16 John Fitz 5 (John Fitz 4 , John Fitz 3 Walter Fitz 2 , John Fitz 1 ), was born-created a Knight by Queen Elizabeth in- and married Gertrude, daughter of Sir William Courtnay, of Powderham Castle. Sir John Fitz 5 fought a duel at the gateway of the Fitz mansion in the year 1599, of which Prince, in bis “Worthies of Devon,” page 303, says: “Sir John Fitz having slain Mr. Nicholas Slanning, of this county, and after that, one or two more, he fell upon his own sword and destroyed himself.” In his account of the Slannings, Prince thus describes this duel and the other homicides. In writing of Mr. Nicholas Slanning he says (page 568): This gentleman the father of Sir Nicholas Slanning, came to an untimely end, being slain in a quarrel that happened between him and Sir John Fitz near Tavistock in this county. The matter, it seems, was likely to have been com¬ posed, hut the villian, Fitz’s man, twitting his master with “What! Play child’s play?” “Come to fight and now put up your sword?” made him draw again, and Slanning’s foot in stepping back (having his spurs on) hitching in the ground was there unfortunately and foully killed. Whereupon Sir John Fitz, by the interest of his friends, sued out his pardon soon after this happened, which was A. D. 1599. But although the Queen (Elizabeth) was pleased to forgive him, Slanning’s widow would not, hut brought her appeal and obtained a verdict against Sir John for damages. After this, as if one sin became (as often¬ times it doth) the punishment of another, Sir John was so unfortunate as to he guilty of a second murder; and therefore flying from his country, though not from his own guilty con¬ science, so far a Salisbury or there about, in his way to London to sue out a second pardon, hearing some body about his chamber door early in the morning, and fearing it had been officers come to apprehend him, by mistake, in the dark, he slew one of the house come to awake him as he desired, in order to resume his journey. When the lights came, that made him sensible of the horrid and atrocious fact, which he had afresh committed, overwhelmed with sorrow and despair, lie fell upon his sword and slew himself. The only child of Sir John Fitz 5 and Gertrude Courtnay was: 18. i. Mary Fitz 5 , horn about 1590; m. 4 times. Fitts or Fifz Fam ily No. 17 20 Walter Fitz° (Robert Fitz'', Robert Fitz 3 , Walter Fitz 2 , John Fitz 1 ), supposed to have been born about 1650. He was a cotemporary of Sir Francis Drake (who married a niece of Sir John Fitz’s mother), Sir Walter Raleigh and Sir Richard Gren¬ ville, and with the latter two, tradition says, he had business relations. He married and had a son, to wit: 19. i. Robert Fitz 0 , b. about 1600; m. 1st, Anne Barnes; 2d, Grace Lord. SIXTH GENERATION No. 18 Mary Fitz 0 (Sir John Fitz 0 , John Fitz 4 , John Fitz 3 , Walter Fitz 2 , John Fitz 1 ), was born about 1590. She grew up to be a woman of remarkable beauty, was sole heiress of Sir John Fitz’s 0 estate; possessed of strong and masculine powers of mind, she had attained more than the ordinary accomplishments of her sex and station. She had many suitors, and the first gentle¬ men in the land were anxious to win the beautiful and gifted heiress of Fitzford. She was married to Sir Allan Percy in 1608, and left a widow in 1613. Her next husband, Thomas Darc}q son of Lord Darcy, could not have lived very long, as she was still young and beautiful when her third husband, Sir Charles Howard killed himself. At that time it was said of her that she was “still in the pride of rank, fortune and beauty, one of the stateliest dames that frequented the Court of Queen Henrietta Maria.” Worth, in his “History of Devonshire,” says of her: “Lady Howard was on quite friendly terms with the famous George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, and he prevailed on her to Marry Sir Richard Grenville, her fourth husband; but she was so well alive to her own interests that she settled her estates beyond the power of Grenville to control. On the breaking out of the civil war, he naturally took the Royalist’s side, as his wife inclined to the parliament, and as a first reward of loyalty, had a sequestration of her estates.” In the notice of Sir Richard Grenville, in the “Dictionary of National Biography,” the date of his marriage with Lady Howard is Octr., 1629, and he was created baronet April 9th, 1630 (col. state papers, Dom. 1639-40, page 415), and his wife obtained a separation and alimony in 1631. Sir Richard Grenville was violent when he discovered that his wife had settled her estates beyond his power; and was accused of terming the Earl of Suffolk (brother of Mary’s last husband), a “bare Lord,” for refusing to pay him money due to Fitts or Fitz Family 21 Lady Grenville, for which he was sentenced by the Star Cham¬ ber to pay £4000 to the King and £4000 to the Earl. When he obtained a sequestration of her estates he had hung, as a spy, Francis Brabant, the lawyer who conducted the suit against him. She subsequently recovered her estates, and he died in poverty in 1658, while she, as Lady Howard, lived in wealth and splendor until 1672. ILer children by Sir Chas. Howard died before she did and her daughters by Sir Richard Grenville were left pennyless at her death, as she gave her property with Fitzford to her mother’s family, the Courtnays. If half of the stories told of Mary Fitz' 1 were true, she must have been a female “Blue Beard,” not less formidable in dispo¬ sition than commanding in person and manners. Many of the hobgoblins tales of Tavistock are connected with the name of this remarkable lady. The Courtnays sold Fitzford to the Duke of Bedford, who was the owner in 1887. The remains of the mansion have been turned into a stable and out-house; the gate¬ way, covered with ivy, is still standing. On a grave in a garden at Tavistock there is a stone to the memory of some Fytz, with this on it: “ Ye patriot race, fond favorites of renown, Yours was the warlike sword, the peaceful gown.” No. 19 Robert Fitts 6 (Walter Fitz 5 , Robert Fitz 4 , Robert Fitz 3 , Walter Fitz 2 , John Fitz 1 ), was born about 1600; married Ann Barnes. They came to America, he on the “George,” she after¬ wards on the “Abigaile.” The date or year of their arrival is not set opposite their names on the muster-rolls of these vessels, but the dates of all persons on these muster-rolls range from 1620 to 1624. See list of emigrants to America, 1600 to 1700, by John Camden Hotten, page 227. It is certain that both he and his wife were in Virginia, living in James~Island, February 16th, 1623, as their names are included in a list of names of “ those living in Virginia ” at that date, by the same author (Hot¬ ten), on page 178, and it is highly probable that he came in the latter part of 1622 and his wife early in the year 1623. He settled a plantation in Virginia as early as 1624, as he states in a petition, made by him and a widow, Alice Harris, to the Privy Council, in 1638, when on a visit to England, that they had been planters in Virginia 14 years. “ This petition, as published in the Calendar of State papers, Colonial Series, 1574-1660, Preserved in the State Department 4 22 Fitts or Fitz Family of her Majesty’s Public Record Office,” edited by W. Noel Stanbury, Esq., on page 91, is as follows: 1628? 54. Petition of Robert Fitt, Anne, his wife, and Alice Harris, a poor widow, to the Privy Council. Have been fourteen years planters in Virginia and lately brought over 16 hogshead of tobacco, for which they have not the means to pay custom. Pray for a Warrant for the free discharge of the tobacco, to enable them and their families to return to their plantations.” The correct date of this petition must have been 1638. The interrogation point (?) was placed after the date 1628, by the compiler (as it could not have been put there by the petitioners, in the original petition) on account of his inability to tell whether the figure standing in the ten’s place was a “3” or a “2”; if the figures were all legible, he used this mark to express doubt or disbelief. The true date of this petition must have been “1638” for the following reasons: 1st, no tobacco was cul¬ tivated in Virginia until 1614, and there were only 80 planta¬ tions in Virginia in 1622, the date of the massacre of 347 colonists by the Indians, and it is altogether incredible that he and his wife and Mrs. Harris had plantations in Virginia at that date. 2d, few, if any, females came to Virginia before 1620. 3d, both Robert and his wife Ann came to Virginia between the 1st of January, 1620 and the 16th of February, 1623. Their names could not have been on the muster rolls given by IJotten had they have come earlier than 1620, and they were living on “James iland,” Va., the 16th of February, 1623. They did not come at the same time; he came on the “George,” she on the “Abigaile.” If they had ever been in Virginia before this, they would have returned together, and it is a reasonable conclusion that Robert first came over in 1622, when many came to assist the colonists after the masacre of April of that year, and during which year the “Indians were given no quarter and were driven back into the wilderness,” and after all fear of the depredations of the Indians had subsided, he then made preparations for the comfort of his wife, and she came on the “Abigaile” the last of 1622 or the first of 1623. The colony in Virginia never began to increase in wealth and population until 1626, and from a population of less than 3,000 at that date, it grew to 20,000 in 1648. The planters were in much better condition to visit England in 1638 than they were in 1628. The Rev. James Hill Fitts, resident member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, published a pamphlet in 1869, of 91 pages, giving the “genealogy of the Fitts or Fitz Fitts or Filz Family 23 family in America,” and in this pamphlet he seems to have thought that this was the Robert Fitts, whom tradition says went to Ipswick in 1635, and was one of the original settlers of Salis¬ bury, Mass., in 1639, and that his only son was Abraham, whose descendants are the only ones given in his “genealogy,” and at that date (1869) they numbered 908, as therein recorded, and the records of many others could not be obtained. This Robert Fitts who was in Virginia in 1623, and had a plantation there for 14 years could not have bee n the Robert who was the original set¬ tler in Salisbury, which plantation was begun in 1639. On his return from England with his family, after his visit which we have shown was in 1638, he returned, as he states in his petition he desired to do, to his plantation in Virginia. It is incredible that he would have left the plantation where he and his family had resided 14 years, and upon which he had prospered suffi¬ ciently to revisit England with his family, to have gone to Salisbury to begin life anew in the woods. There is little doubt but that he remained in Virginia until his death, and that one of his sons was named after him and followed the vocation of his father and was living in St. James Parish in 1679, hut the records of James City County being destroyed, it cannot be proven. 20. Robert Fitts 7 . SEVENTH GENERATION No. 20 Robert Fitts 7 (Robert®, Walter 5 , Robert', Robert 3 , Walter 2 , John 1 ). Hotten on page 50, “Ann; Accot: of the land As Itt: stand- eth: In ye Church books: with the number of servants And Negroes With the names: of the owners thereof In the psh: of St. James: as was taken by the Church Wardens of the said Par¬ rish the 20th December 1679.” Under this caption the name of Robert Fitte is placed as owning “land F. 30 and 14 Neg’s.” The final letter “s” of the surname could easily have been mistaken by the compiler or printer for an “e,” and I have come to the conclusion that the Robert here mentioned is Robert 7 , and that he named one of his sons after Henry Teake, a wealthy friend and brother churchman. My belief as to the line of descent through Robert", Robert 7 , and his son Henry 8 , is founded on many little facts, but while it is not in my power to present absolute proof, I have, after diligent search, been unable to find 24 Fitts or Fitz Family any other connecting lines, and therefore give them as the most probable. If the records of James City County had not been destroyed, 1 feel sure that the proof would have been found in the deeds and wills of that county. 21. Henry Fitts 8 . EIGHTH GENERATION No. 21 Henry Fitts 8 (Robert 7 , Robert 6 , Walter 6 , Robert 1 , Robert 3 , Walter, John 1 ), was born in Virginia. Grants of land were made to him by patents issued by the Governor, W. Gooch, as appears on the “Virginia Land Registry,” in the State Land office as follows: “Henry Fitts, 400 acres in Prince George county on the head of Leadbekeis River, Feb. 9th 1737.” “Four hundred acres in Prince George Co. on Mammussun creek and adjoining the lands of Bolling & Fitzgerald, Sept. 5th 1749.” Two hundred and four acres in Prince George Co., on both sides of Mawhoponock creek, and adjoining the land of Edward Traylor, Dec. 15, 1749. It is believed he settled in Prince George county in 1737 or 1749, and that part of this county is now Dinwiddie county. He very likely had several children, and among them one son: 22. Henry Fitts 9 , born about 1730. As the records of both Prince George and Dinwiddie counties, Va., were destroyed during the confederate war, 1861-65, much information of Henry Fitts 8 and his family is forever lost. NINTH GENERATION No. 22 Henry Fitts 0 ( was born about 1730, and was brought by his father when quite young to Prince George county, Va., where he was raised on the farm, and received a limited educa¬ tion from the best schools of the county. He lived in that por¬ tion of the county out of which Dinwiddie county was formed, near the creek which is the boundary line between Amelia county and Dinwiddie. He married Susannah Studivant and removed to Warren county, N. C., about 1773, and settled near the present county seat, Warrenton, which at that date consti¬ tuted a part of Bute county. His history up to 40 years of age is little known, the records of Dinwiddie county being destroyed, Fitts or Fitz Family 25 which doubtless contained records of his father’s family. For his children, see family record, where he is designated as Henry Fitts', of whose descendants we have positive knowledge, while we have not absolute proof of the eight preceding generations, and for this reason we make the change from Henry Fitts" to Henry Fitts 1 in the tabulated record. DEED TO HENRY FITTS This indenture made this twenty third day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy three, and in the thirteenth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord, King George the third, Between Isaac Howell of the County of Dinwiddie of the one part, and Henry Fittz of said county of the other part, Witnesseth that for and in considera¬ tion of the sum of one hundred pouncts current money by the said Henry Fittz in hand paid to the said Isaac Howell at or upon the sealing and delivery of these presents, the reciept whereof he dotlie hereby acknowledge, he, said Isaac Howell hath bargained, sold, aliened enfeoffed and confirmed, and by these presents grant bargain, alien, sell, enfeoff and confirm unto the said Henry Fitts his heirs or assigns the following tract or parcel of land containing by estimation three hundred and twenty acres lying on both sides of Hawtree creek, being the upper part of a tract of land formerly belonging to John Haw¬ kins in the Province of North Carolina and county of Bute, granted by deed to Charles Poytheress of Dinwiddie County, adjoining Joshua Ellis; thence down to Traver’s Roe’s dividing line; thence across the creek to John Jones’ line formerly called Yung’s line, and thence up the said Jones line to Ellis’ line, and thence to the beginning, with all woods, underwoods, ways waters, water courses mines houses, gardens hereditaments and appurtenances thereto belonging or appertaining, and the revis¬ ion and revisions, remainder and remainders, rents issues and profits thereof, and also all the estate, right, title claim and demand of him the said Isaac Howell of in and to the same or any part thereof, together with all evidence and writing touch¬ ing or in anywise concerning the above tract or parcel of land and premises, with the appurtenances hereby bargained to the said Henry Fitts, his heirs and assigns, to the only use and behoof of him the said Henry Fitts, his heirs and assigns forever. And the said Isaac Howell for himself his heirs executors and Admr’s do covenant and grant to and with the said Henry Fitts his heirs and assigns that he the said Isaac Howell and his 26 Fitts or Fitz Family heirs all and singular the premises with the appurtenances unto the said Henry Fitts, his heirs and assigns against all and every person and persons whatsoever lawfully claiming the same, shall and will forever warrant and defend by these presents. In witnesseth whereof, he, the said Isaac Howell hath hereunto set his hand and seal the day and year above written. Signed sealed and delivered in the presence of Isaac Howell [seal] Hen. Studivant. his Travis x Rees mark Epraim Ellis William Ellis Bute County—August Court 1774. This deed was proven by the oath of Ephraim Ellis a witness thereto, and on motion the same is ordered to be registered. Test. Benj. McCullock C. C. The foregoing deed from Isaac Howell to Henry Fittz hav¬ ing been proved in Bute Inferior Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions: and ordered to be registered, the same is truly regis¬ tered this day, 8th of Sept. 1774. By James Johnson, Pub. Regr. North Carolina ] Office of Register of Deeds. Warren County j I, M. F. Thornton, Register of Deeds of said Warren County, do hereby certify, that the foregoing is a true and exact copy of a certain deed and its probate from Isaac Howell to Henry Fittz, and which is duly recorded in said Reg¬ ister’s Office in Book 5 page 27. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 17th day of April 1894. M. F. Thornton, Register. In 1779, he obtained a grant of land from the state of N. C., issued by Governor Richard Coswell. After this time, he seems to have bought and sold many tracts of land. Fitts or Fitz Family WILL OF HENRY FITTS 9 27 State of North Carolina, 1 Warren County. / In the name of God, Amen. I, Henry Fitts, Sr., being in perfect health and of sound and desposing mind and memory, do, this second day of Jan¬ uary, in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and two (1802), make and ordain this my last will and Testament in manner and form following: Viz; My will and desire is that my Executors hereafter named shall pay all my just debts out of such part of my personal Estate as they shall deem most proper. Item 1st. I give and bequeath unto my beloved wife Susannah the land and plantation whereon I do live containing two hundred and fifty acres, during her life, being the land I reserved during my life, and the life of my said beloved wife Susannah in a deed I made to my son Henry Fitts. Also I give and bequeath unto my beloved wife Susannah all the rest and residue of my Estate whatsoever, real or personal, during her life. Item 2. After the death of my beloved wife Susannah I give unto my son Oliver Fitts one negro girl Fannie, and all the increase she may have from this time till the time arrives when the said Oliver is to take her into his possession to him, his heirs and assigns forever. Item 3. After the death of my beloved wife Susannah 1 give and bequeath all the estate before willed to her, of whatso¬ ever nature or kind the same may be (except the aforesaid negro girl Fannie and her increase) to be equally divided among my four children. 0. Fitts, Sally Fussell, Nancy Brame and Henry Fitts jr to them, their heirs and assigns forever, share and share alike; and I do hereby appoint my two sons Oliver and Henry Fitts my Executors to this my last will and testament. And I do hereby disannul, revoke and make void all former wills and testaments by me heretofore made, allowing and hold¬ ing for good this and this alone to be my only true and last will and testament. Henry Fitts, Sr. [Seal] Signed sealed and published in the presence of Andrew Small, John Ellis, Hardredge Sliurin. 28 Fitts or Fitz Family Warren County, North Carolina, August Court, 1804. This last will and testament of Henry Fitts sr. was proved in open Court by the oaths of Andrew Small and John Ellis and ordered to be recorded. M. Duke Johnson C. C. N. 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He was a Lawyer of ability and prominence, and was Attorney General of the State of North Carolina from 1808 to 1810. He was a member of the House of Commons from the County of Warren in 1798-99. On the 17th of April, 1810, he was nomi¬ nated by James Madison, President of the United States, as Judge of the Mississippi Territory, and the nomination was con¬ firmed by the Senate next day. At this date, Alabama was included in the Territory of Mississippi, and the Federal Courts were held at Vicksburg, Miss., and St. Stephens, Ala. He set¬ tled at the latter place and removed his family from North Carolina. Late in life he married a widow (Mrs. Ashe?) who, after his death, was married to Gen. Buchanan. He continued to discharge the duties of Federal Judge until his death, which occurred at St. Stephens, Ala., in the year 1816. 64a Fitts or Fitz Family /fajJZ yv No. 4 Henry Fitts 2 (Henry Fitts 1 ) was born in the year 1778, and the place of his nativity in all probability was Warren county, N. C., where his parents settled in 1773. His educational advantages in early life seem to have been quite limited, and it has been said that he never attended school but six months. Of his youthful occupation very little can now be learned. It is known that he was once employed in a mercantile house in Petersburg, Va., and that at times he was inclined to lead a wild and dissipated life; but from his great success and influence in early manhood, and the fact that at the age of twenty he was married to Miss Sal lie Duke, a member of one of the wealthiest and most influential families of Warren county, renders it almost certain that much of his time was spent in self education and the acquisition of valuable and useful knowledge. After his marriage to Miss Duke, in 1798, he engaged in farming in Warren county, and connecting himself with the Methodist E. Church, soon became a local preacher. In 1809, at the age of 31, he was elected State Senator for Warren county. It is to be regretted that he had no love or taste for political life. Had he possessed aspirations for political fame, he doubtless would have taken a high rank in the councils of our State and General government. At the close of the war of 1812, he was left pennyless and his failure was caused as much, probably, by his neglect of his planting interests, for church and State affairs, as to the depreciation of values incident to the war. Such was the confidence of his fellow citizens in his honesty and ability that his credit was not {Effected by his failure. Left without means at the age of 34, with a wife and seven children to support, he was stimulated rather than ener¬ vated by the situation. He now bent all his energies to retrieve his fortune; and determined to farm on an extensive scale, if the arrangement to do so could be made. He soon effected the arrangement by purchasing of a Mr. Todd a large tract of land near the town of Warrenton, N. C., for $7,000, to be paid for in seven annual payments of $1,000 each. This tract is now owned by one of his grandsons, Major W. C. Drake. After the war of 1812, the article of tobacco brought highly remunerative prices to the farmer; making tobacco his market crop, his success was such that he was not only able to meet his first payment but all the expenses of his farm and family, and also to buy a stock of goods for a country store, with which he commenced business as a merchant. These two transactions laid the foundation for his HENRY FITTS 3 No. 4 Fitts or Fitz Family 65 fortune, for he continued to prosper, both as a planter and mer¬ chant, and at his death in 1847, he owned many valuable tracts of land and a large number of slaves. The most of his life was spent at his country home. He only lived in Warrenton a few years when educating his children, of whom he had thirteen; and he lived to see twelve of them married. His hospitable home was not only the headquarters for the ministers of the Methodist E. Church, but was also the rendezvous above all other places in the surrounding country where his children and their numerous friends loved to congregate for social pleasure. Here with a generous spirit he dispensed a liberal hospitality for many years, which continued until his death. He administered not alone to the social pleasures of his friends and the spiritual needs of his neighbors, but also to the relief of their bodily sufferings; for although he had never taken a regular course, he had read several medical works, and his successful practice on his farm and in his own family, had gained for him the reputation of being a fine physician. He always kept a supply of medicines, and when called to see the sick, he gave them, like his prescription and visitation, without remun¬ eration. On account of his excellent judgment and generous nature, he was looked up to by all his county friends for counsel, and he was ever ready to advise and assist them when in trouble. On his farm, eight miles north of Warrenton, he preferred to lead the quiet life of a country gentleman, and never sought for any position of honor or the emoluments of office. By the unsought solicitations and votes of his fellow citizens, he was a member of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for many years, and served as chairman of that honorable body for several years, being regarded as the leading spirit in all county affairs. He was a delegate to the National Democratic Convention, which met in the city of Baltimore in 1840. At the time of his death he was one of the trustees of Randolph Macon College, which position he had filled with honorable distinction for several years. When the announcement of his death was made to the Hon. Robert Jones, a distinguished lawyer of Warrenton, he remarked: “One of the greatest intellects of our time has passed away.” He was not alone in this opinion, for another of high attainments himself, was heard to say: “Mr. Fitts was one of the greatest men I ever knew. He was a splendid farmer, a successful merchant, a better lawyer than most of the licensed attorneys, a good physician and an excellent preacher.” By many in the State he was considered the intellectual peer of 10 66 Fitts or Fitz Family such men as Macon, W. N. Edwards, W. A. Graham and Thomas Bragg, who held the highest positions in the State. The death of his excellent and lovely wife cast a gloom over him from which he never recovered, and he survived her only a few years, dying in 1847 at his homestead, and was buried in the family graveyard which he had chosen and laid out for the last resting place of the members of his household. No. 5 James Harris (Oliver 2 , Henry 1 ) Fitts 3 , was born in War¬ ren county, N. C., on the 12th of March, 1796, where he was raised and educated. He obtained a fair education at the common country schools of his county. Before attaining his majority he married Rebecca Emily Alston, the daughter of Samuel Alston, son of Philip Alston. Her mother, the wife of Samuel Alston, was Elizabeth Faulcon, daughter of Nicholas and Lucy W. Faulcon, of Surry county, Va.; and her paternal grandmother, the wife of Philip Alston, was Winnefred Whit- mell. The Alston family in North Carolina were of high respectability, wealth and influence, and claimed descent from William Alston, of Stisted, in Essex, who lived in the reign of Edward I. The American ancestor of Rebecca Emily Alston was John Alston. (See line of descent and arms of the family at end of this sketch.) The marriage of James H. Fitts 3 and Rebecca Emily Alston took place on the 30th of June, 1814, in Warren county, N. C. As she was born Feb. 15th, 1797, she was under eighteen and he a little over the age of eighteen at the time of their marriage. They resided in N. C. only a short time, and removed to Alabama the last of 1815 or the first of 1816, and settled on Bassett’s creek in Washington county near Old St. Stephens, where they purchased a plantation. In 1821 he purchased a large tract of land from a Mr. Hatch, lying on the Tombigbee river near Jack- son in Clarke county, and moved there that year, his residence being situated about a quarter of a mile from Jackson. The next year he was a member of the legislature of Alabama from Clarke county and served as a representative in the lower house for 1822-23. While residing at Jackson, Mr. Fitts commenced the busi¬ ness of salt making near that place. He employed as a foreman a Mr. Black, who subsequently amassed a fortune and proved a valuable friend to his family after his death. On account of salt becoming such a cheap article, the works were abandoned, but many years after when salt rose in value during the Con- Fitts or Fitz Family 67 federate war, these salt works proved of great value to the State. When the canebrake lands in Marengo county began to be cleared, and proved so well adapted to cotton culture, Mr. Fitts bought a tract of some 1,200 acres, three miles from “ Wood- ville,” now Uniontown. He also purchased small tracts on each side of the village. A portion of these lands were opened for the cultivation of corn and cotton, and a plantation begun while he was also planting in Clarke county on a large scale. These lands in Marengo county became very valuable and served to enrich his children, by the good management of his oldest son. From 1823 until his death Mr. Fitts devoted his time and energy to his two plantations, one in Clarke and the other in Marengo. He had no aspirations for political honors, and his service in the State legislature seemed to have increased his dis¬ like to the life of the politician; for he declined being a candi¬ date for re-election, notwithstanding the earnest entreaties of his distinguished friend, Hon. Dixon H. Lewis, and the warmest solicitations of many of his fellow citizens. Under his judicious management his plantations proved profitable, and he added to his estate annually until his death, which occurred on the 16th day of July, 1832, on the plantation in Marengo county, Ala. He was assassinated by a discharged superintendent named Cabiness, who shot him through a window when he was sitting at the supper table. Before committing the murder, the mur¬ derer had made every preparation for a hasty flight, and although he was pursued by the sheriff with a posse and Judge John Fitts to Florida, he succeeded in making his escape and was never brought to justice. Mr. Fitts was buried at Wood- ville, now Uniontown, in the cemetery which he had, without consideration deeded to the town, and where his wife and several of his children were afterwards buried. Mr. Fitts was remarka¬ ble in stature and of commanding personal appearance. He was six feet and two inches in height, weighed a little over two hundred pounds, with a very symmetrical figure, and possessed great strength and activity. He was fond of wrestling and swimming, and either on land or in water he could easily man¬ age two ordinary men. Ilis mental endowments partook of the character and symmetry of his person, “ Mens sana in sano corpore.” With sound judgment and fearlessness, he was eminently con¬ servative in action, and in business transactions distinguished between enterprise and speculation. With great self possession in times of excitement, he united a rare benevolence that made him ever ready to relieve the distressed and afflicted. He was never influenced by fear or entertained malice. The following 08 Fitts or Fitz Family incident in his life will serve to illustrate his character: When a member of the Legislature he assisted in defeating a bill to legalize a divorce of one of his constituents, who being enraged made threats to kill him. He was informed of these threats by several friends and advised by them to shoot the party on sight. Believing the party had made the threats under excitement, and would not attempt to put them into execution, Mr. Fitts did not even arm himself with a weapon of defense. On his return to Jackson he was shot at by this party with a rifle, just as he turned a street corner, the ball passed above his head and through two planks of a store door in his rear. Rushing upon his assailant he disarmed him and gave him a very severe beat¬ ing. Immediately afterwards, while the assembled crowd were urging him to take the life of the would-be assassin who was still bleeding and sitting on the ground near by, Mr. Fitts turned to his family physician and directed him to dress the wounds of the man who had attempted to murder him a few minutes before. Subsequently with others he gave bond for his release from jail for this same offense, and the party fled the country leaving his bondsmen to pay the bond. It is worthy of mention that Mr. Fitts was a lover of thoroughbred horses which he bred. He owned a race-course at Jackson and attended the fall and spring races there with his horses and riders in livery, but was never known to wager a cent upon a race. By his will he left the greater portion of his estate to his wife, but she declined to have the will probated, preferring to share the estate equally with her children, nine in number, the oldest under 18 years of age, and the youngest born three months after the death of her husband. Rebecca Emily (Alston) Fitts, his wife, was the second daughter of Samuel Alston, who was the eighth child of Philip Alston of Bute County, N. C., where she was born Feb. 15th, 1797. Her mother was Elizabeth Faulcon, a daughter of Nicholas and Lucy Faulcon of Surry County, Va. Born of wealthy parentage, Rebecca Emily Alston was reared in affluence and refinement, and educated at home by the “ Family Tutor.” Although her father died at the age of 37 years, when she was only ten years of age, his gentle loving care and chivalrous nature so inspired the heart of his little daughter, with love and veneration, that she often spoke of him in her old age with the greatest admiration and warmest affec¬ tion. Early impressed with a love for the true, the beautiful and the good, she was a lovely representative of the illustrious family from whom she descended and exemplified in all the trying vicissitudes of her life that nobility of soul and those REBECCA EMILY (Alston) FITTS Wife of No. 5 Fitts or Fitz Family 69 exalted virtues which for many years had distinguished her paternal ancestors. The quiet and unostentatious manner in which she daily did deeds of love and charity, was excelled alone by the calm fortitude, with which she bore the severest afflictions of life. In the last part of the year 1832, Mrs. Fitts removed from Clarke County and settled on the plantation, in Marengo County near Uniontown, then called Woodville. She and her oldest son, Samuel, took charge of the estate, and although he was under age, his uncle, Judge William Crawford, soon secured his appointment as Administrator of the estate, and enabled him to give the requisite bond of $90,000 for its proper management. He continued to serve as Administrator for nineteen years, until the youngest child attained his majority. The estate was kept together without assignment of dower, and as each child married or became of age, received his or her part of the estate, being an equal share with the widow in accordance with her original determination. While residing on the plantation, she suffered a heavy loss and a painful bereavement in the death of her eldest daughter, Sarah Harris, who had just returned home from Mobile, where she had completed her education. The loss of such a daughter so lovely in person and character would have been a crushing sorrow to one of less fortitude. In August, 1836, she left the plantation, in Marengo, in charge of her son, and with the other children removed to Tuscaloosa, Ala., in order to be with them during the period of their education, and to enable her to educate them with more economy. She spent the rest of her life in Tuscaloosa, where she devoted her fortune and all the energy of her refined and cultivated nature to the moral and intellectual improvement of her family. During periods of financial depression, or when there was a failure of the crop on the plantation, she practiced the strictest economy in all household affairs in order to give her children the best advantage for education which the State afforded. She had a just conception of the duty and dignity of woman in training the dawning intellect and preparing the youthful mind with correct principles. Would that all mothers could fully appreciate the influence they exert for weal or woe, in the training of their children. There is nothing more potent in restraining the unruly passions or in stimulating the noble efforts of men in mature life and old age, than the recollections of the gentle teachings of a loving mother. With what earnest longings the heart, in after years, yearns for the continual guidance of a mother’s loving faith and care, amid the 70 Fitts or Fitz Family perplexities of business life is beautifully set forth in the follow¬ ing lines : “ Oh! could the faith in childhood's days, Oh! could the little hymns of praise, Oh! could its simple, joyous trust Be re-created from the dust That lies around a wasted life, The fruit of many a bitter strife; Oh, then at night in prayer I’d bend And call my God, my Father, Friend, And pray with child-like faith once more The prayer my mother taught of yore; Now I lay me down to sleep I pray the Lord my soul to keep,” Her daughters were educated at the Female Institute, in Tuscaloosa, under the management of Mrs. Hentz, Miss Moore and Mrs. Stafford; and her sons at the University of Alabama. After removing to Alabama, she had no opportunity for many years of attending the Episcopal church in which she had been baptized and raised. She usually attended the M. E. church, and became a member in 1842, and was a zealous and exemplary mem¬ ber till her death, which occurred in Tuscaloosa on the 29th of March, 1858. Her remains were carried to Uniontown, Ala., and buried by those of her husband. Her funeral sermon was preached by the Rev. J. J. Hutchinson, from the text: “ 0 death, where is thy sting; 0 grave, where is thy victory.” He attended her during her illness, and only a few moments before she breathed her last he commenced to sing: “ 0, sing to me of heaven, when I am called to die,” and she made repeated efforts to join in the song. The following extract from an extended notice of her death, which appeared in the city papers, will give some idea of the estimation in which she was held by the community in which she resided for more than twenty years: “With a strong and discriminating mind she sought the wisdom of our Savior to guide her, and few have ever made the pilgrimage of earth who conformed so strictly to His walk and conversation. She has reared a large family of children, whom she has impressed with her own elevated sentiments, and never was any one better prepared, or more resigned to obey the call of her Maker. Her biography is written by acts of love on many a heart, and her tomb is hallowed by grateful recollections of her excellence. Her life was an inspiration of Christian virtue, her death was a manifestation of Christian glory.” The indwelling spirit of Christ which manifested itself in outward acts was regarded by her as evidence of the Christian life, and she was tolerant of all creeds. She made a small contribution to the Roman Catholics Fitts or Fitz Family 71 for the erection of their church building, in the city of Tusca¬ loosa, at a time when many considered it wrong to aid that body of Christians in any manner. Four of her children preceded her to the grave—a son, Oliver, before she became a widow, two daughters, Sarah Harris and Rebecca Emily, one at 16 and the other at 15 years, and Dr. John H. Fitts at the age of 24. The six remaining children often assembled around the hearthstone of their mother for whom they bore an affection which increased with their years. “ My Mother’s Love! how sweet the name. What was that Mother’s Love ? The noblest, purest, tenderest flame, That kindles from above Within a heart of earthly mould, As much of Heaven as heart can hold Nor through eternity grows cold: That is my Mother’s Love.” Of all modern cliivalric expressions, “mother-love” is one of the purest and most honorable. Sir Walter Scott gives an illustration of this in a story of a toast once given at a feast in the crowded hall of a Baronial Castle. Each gallant Knight, in order, springs up and drains the brimming cup, and names his best loved lady. It is St. Leon’s turn — St. Leon, noblest of all the guests. As he pledges one whose love hath lasted longer, been more deeply felt than that of any lady yet named, each guest angrily upstarts and demands the name. St. Leon paused, as if he would Not breathe her name in careless mood, Thus lightly to another, Then bent his noble head, as though To give that word the reverence due, And gently said: “ My Mother.” Coat of Arms of the Alston Family. The American Ancestor of this branc of the Alston Family. 72 Fitts or Fitz Family d o d ,S -I w o o co d o -^> bJO d co 2 2 0 3 © , 0 £ CO j-d aa bB f-H d d 03 rH o d~ o 1 cq £ -0 Oh ' rd Ph d~ o ■+= o JS co -0 t- >-J 1—1 *H d rQ CD H 2 i- rd lO -t3 c3 rH > N c3 rH S o o' os' »*-h t— d £ ^ £> (H _o . r— iO tH CD t- t- d a o 0 .H d a c3 CO d o o 3 c3 ’a C3 <0 .a -o fH c3 0 d o ■+j CO I < <1 K0 > ‘l P -1 o3 O o cd d CD Ph (D - o3 S3 w ^ d d £ a . Williams. b. Feb. 15, 1797, m. Dr. Sol Williams, d. Unm. b. 1806, m. J. H. Fitts, June 30, 1814, d. s. p. m. Ruina T. Williams, d. March 29, 1858. SAMUEL ALSTON ELIZABETH (Faulcon) ALSTON / SUSAN B. FITTS 8 No. 6 Fitts or Fitz Family 73 No. 6 Susan Brown (Oliver 2 , Henry 1 ) Fitts 3 was born in Warren County, N. C., on the 9th of August, 1799, and came with her father to St. Stephens, Ala., in 1816. She was married to Danie l B. Ripl ey in the year 1818. He was a son of Gen. Ripley of Massachusetts. Her second husband was Mr. E. F. Comegys of Maryland. She had two children by each. Her first husband, Daniel B. Ripley, was a lawyer — a man of ability and learning, but lived only five years after marriage, dying in 1823, at St. Stephens, Ala. She spent the greater portion of her life in Tuscaloosa, Ala., where her second marriage took place in 1834. Among the refined and cultured people of the old Capital of the State, she was justly esteemed for her domestic virtues and social attrac¬ tions. She was of a gentle and generous disposition and par¬ ticularly fond of the young; overlooking their youthful foibles and indiscretions. Devoted to her children, her latter years were spent with them, and her time given to their interests and welfare. One of her children, Capt. E. F. Comegys, survives her, at whose home, in Denton, Texas, she died, on May 26,1887. Edward Freeman Comegys, the second husband of Susan Brown (Oliver 2 , Henry 1 ) Fitts 3 , was born in Kent County, Mary¬ land, April 13, 1797, and married in Tuscaloosa, Ala., in 1834. Mr. Comegys was for several years cashier of the Bank of the State of Alabama; and at one time was, by appointment of the Governor, Treasurer of the State. For many years he was a merchant at Tuscaloosa. He was above the medium height, of a commanding presence and scrupulously neat in his dress. His household was marked by elegance and refinement. He died in Courtland, Ala., on Jan. 10, 1875. Temperance Winnefred (Oliver 2 Henry 1 ) Fitts 3 was born in 1802. In the year 1820, at St. Stephens, Ala., she was married to William Crawford. She was a woman of rare accomplish¬ ments and queenly beauty, and with her distinguished husband exerted an influence for good, in the city of Mobile, which was felt for many years. She died in August, 1867. William Crawford, husband of Temperance Winnefred Fitts 3 (Oliver 2 , Henry 1 ), was born in 1784, and came from Louisa County, Va., to St. Stephens, Ala., as Federal District Attorney, in 1817. His ability at once placed him prominently before the public. He was elected president of the Bank of St. Stephens in 1818. He practiced law with the Hon. Henry Hitchcock, as a partner, until that gentleman was transferred to the Supreme u 74 Fitts or Fitz Family Bench. In 1822 he was a candidate, before the Legislature, for the Federal Senate, with three competitors, and on the first ballot ran ahead of Hon. Win. R. King, of Dallas County ; but the contest being narrowed to the two, Col. King was successful. He was a trustee of the University of Alabama from 1824 to 1828. In 1825 he was chosen to the State Senate from the district composed of Washington, Mobile and Baldwin Counties, but resigned the next year to accept the office of Federal District Judge, an office which he held for over twenty years, with much credit to himself and honor to the State. He was a man of strong antipathies austere bearing, but he was a thorough lawyer and a dignified magistrate. His decisions mark him as am eminent jurist; and he was universally regarded as a just and incorruptable judge. He removed to Mobile, Ala., in 1827, and retiring from politics, devoted himself exclusively to the dis¬ charge of his official duties, as Federal Judge of U. S. District Court, sitting at Huntsville, Ala., until his death, which occurred in Mobile, Ala., Feb. 27, 1849, where he was buried, and where a tombstone, erected by his family, marks his grave. No. 9 John (Oliver 2 , Henry 1 ) Fitts 3 was born in Warren County, N. C., in 1804. He was educated at the University of North Carolina, at Chapel Hill, during 1820-23; afterwards settled at St. Stephens, Ala. He was an active, enterprising planter, and soon acquired a considerable fortune. In 1830 he married Virginia Wilmonia Aylette, a daughter of Col. William Aylette, of Tuscaloosa, Ala. She was born April 23, 1813, and died at Mobile, Ala., Jan. 31st, 1850. Mr. Fitts was a member of the House of Representatives, from Washington County, in 1829. Subsequently he devoted himself to planting and merchandising. He owned a large body of land near Dayton, Marengo County, Ala., upon which he farmed extensively, growing corn and cotton, with the labor of his numerous slaves. His start in life was made by borrowing $10,000 from the Bank of St. Stephens, Ala., and investing the same in 24 negro slaves. He owned a store at Areola, on the Warrior River, about a mile above Demo- polis; also one at Woodville, now Uniontown, in Perry Co. (in 1833-4), and another at Prairie Bluff, on the Alabama River. By planting, merchandising and trading, he amassed a large fortune, which was lost before he attained the age of 65 years. He was at one time clerk of the U. S. District Court, sitting at Mobile, Ala., where he resided for many years. The remains of his wife are buried in that city, and the place of burial is TEMPERANCE W. FITTS 3 No. 8 Judge WILLIAM CRAWFORD Husband of No. K Fitts or Fitz Family 75 marked by a tombstone erected by her children, on which is appropriately inscribed: “ Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God.” He died in Clay County, Mississippi, at the residence of his son, Capt. Win. A. Fitts, on the 13th of December, 1882, being 78 years of age. Mr. Fitts was of a bold, frank and unsuspicious nature; too careless, perhaps, of his own affairs. Liberal to a fault, he often gave his aid and sympathy, which, if diligent regard for his own interests had been taken, would have been found misplaced. His latter years and old age were blessed with the comfort of seeing his children all established in life, and occupying posi¬ tions of honor and social distinction, that education, refinement and a worthy family pride, justified. No. 10 Oliver Harris (Oliver 2 , Henry') Fitts 3 was born in Warren County, N. C., about the year 1806, and carried, by his father, to St. Stephens, Ala., in 1816. By a severe attack of “white swelling ” he was made a cripple through life and limped badly when walking. He was a planter. In early life he was quite dissipated. He went to Texas and settled in Harrison County, where he married Nancy Moore. Their marriage proved to be an unhappy union, and they were divorced. He returned to Alabama, retaining the custody of the two living children, and settled in Clarke County. In 1872, on the 2d day of June, he was baptized by the Rev. Geo. H. Hunt, and confirmed the same day by the Rt. Rev. R. H. Wilmer, Bishop of the Diocese of Alabama, in Christ (Episcopal) Church, at Tuscaloosa, Ala. From that day he led an exemplary Christian life until his death, which occurred at the home of his niece, Mrs. E. F. Leach, in the city of Tuscaloosa, Ala., on the lltli day of February, 1881, and was buried in Greenwood cemetery. The place of his sepulture is marked by a neat tablet, erected by his nephew, Mr. J. H. Fitts. No. 20 Mary Pariiam (Henry 2 , Henry') Fitts 3 was born in Warren County, N. C., on the 31st of January, 1799. She was educated in Warrenton, N. C. She died March 1, 1856. Col. George Rogers was married to Mary Parham Fitts 3 (Henry 2 , Henry') on the 13th of March, 1823, in Warren County, N. C. He was born in Mechlenburg County, Va. 76 Fitts or Fitz Family No. 21 Susan Fitts 3 (Henry 3 , Henry') was born in Warren County, N. C., in 1800. John Eldrege Twitty married Susan Fitts 3 in 1822. He was born in Franklin County, N. C. No. 22 Winnefred (Henry 2 , Henry 1 ) Fitts 3 , generally called “Win¬ nie,” was born in Warren County, N. C., May 3, 1802. She was educated at Warrenton, N. C. She married Mathew Mann Drake on Nov. 23rd, 1825, and after forty years of happy wedded life, she died in her native county, in October, 1870. Possessing a strong mind and a pure heart, she did her life work well, and its influence will be felt for generations to come. Mathew Mann Drake was born June 6, 1797, and was the descendant of a family of antiquity and celebrity. His father, Caswell Drake, was a son of Edmond Drake, who was a brother of James Drake, who with his son Albretain, made a gallant defense, when his house was attacked by the Tories, in 1778, in Nash County, N. C. Two of his brothers were senators of North Carolina — Hon. Edwin Drake, in 1862, and Hon. Dr. Joseph A. Drake, in 1870. The family is descended from Richard Drake, a brother of Sir Francis Drake, the great Navigator, and have traced their origin back to John Drake, the grandfather of Sir Francis. A magnificent statue of Sir Francis Drake, by Bohem, now stands near the Mansion of the Fitz’s in Tavistock Devonshire, Eng., which spot is noted in local history as the scene of a duel between Sir John Fitz and Mr. Slanning, in 1599. Mathew Mann Drake was a man of vigorous mind and great force of character, and was for many years a prominent figure in Warren County. He died Jan. 11, 1865, in Warren County, N. C. No. 24 Caroline (Henry 2 , Henry 1 ) Fitts 3 married Horace Palmer, May 24, 1838. She was born in Warren County, N. C., Dec. 13, 1803, and was educated at Mordecai School, in Warrenton. She died in September, 1846. Horace Palmer, husband of Caroline Fitts 3 , was from Meck¬ lenburg, Va., and was born Oct. 12, 1801. Pie resided in War¬ ren County, N. C., and died May 9, 1882. He was a man of prominence. Fitts or Fitz Family No. 25 77 Elizabeth (Henry 2 , Henry 1 ) Fitts 3 was married to Nathan Milan, in Warren County, N. C., Sept. 4, 1827. She was born Nov. 23, 1805, and died Aug. 14, 1884. Nathan Milan, husband of Elizabeth Fitts 3 , was born Jan. 25, 1802. He was a planter and man of energy and liberality. He was a member of the M. E. Church, in which faith he died, Oct. 16, 1870. No. 26 Oliver Duke (Henry 2 , Henry 1 ) Fitts 3 was born Oct. 3, 1807, in the County of Warren, N. C. He was educated at Middleton Military Institute, Conn, and married April 15, 1828, to Harriet Elizabeth Ann Collins, daughter of Michael and Betsy (nee Drake) Collins of the same county and State. He was a member of the House of Commons of North Carolina in the year 1842. He died Feb. 28, 1854, aged 46. He was particularly fond of his home and family, and very indulgent to his children. Olivia, being his eldest daughter; was his pet and idol. She never had a wish ungratified while he lived, when made known to her father. Not long after finishing his education, at Middleton, Conn., he was married and settled on his plantation. He was very hospitable and popular. The poor for miles around came to him in their trouble, and were never sent empty handed away. His name is perpetuated among their children to this day. A daughter of his was passing a house in Warren County several years ago, and had occasion to stop there. A little boy ran into the room, and she asked his name. His mother said : “ My husband named him Franklin Fitts, for sense, and my grandfather put Oliver in for Mr. Fitts’ father.” He w r as very fond of politics, but was always of feeble health; and this w r as the reason why he was never much in public life. He served one term in the Legislature, in 1842. lie was very fond of reading, and had collected a fine library. No. 28 Eveline (Henry 2 , Henry 1 ) Fitts 3 was born in 1817, and was educated in the Plunket school at Warrenton, N. C., and died of yellow fever at New Orleans, La., in 1853. She was married to Thomas Turnbull Twitty, who was a wholesale tobacconist in the city of New Orleans for several years, and was highly esteemed for his honesty and generosity. He died at Farmville, Va., in the spring of 1889. 78 Fitts or Fitz Family No. 31 Ann (Henry 3 , Henry 1 ) Fitts 3 was born in Warren County, N. C., Feb. 3, 1820, and died June, 1844. She was married, in April, 1842, to James Lewis Scoggins. He was from Brunswick County, Va.; born March 23, 1810, and died May 29, 1876. No. 32 Harriet (Henry 2 , Henry 1 ) Fitts 3 was born May 6, 1823. She was married on the 6th of August, 1845, to William Edward Thrower. He was a merchant and a planter, and was from Brunswick County, Ya. Both were educated at Boydton, Va. He died Feb. 14, 1853. She died May 8, 1894, at Oakville, N. C. Malvern Hill Palmer beautifully and appropriately writes of her in an obituary notice, thus : “ The day of her death is said to have been a perfect one of a balmy spring, when budding trees and blossoming flowers and singing birds were emblems of the beautiful and tender life which she had lived. “ Her days were spent in the neighborhood in which she died ; where she was known by all, and to know her was to respect, honor, love and revere her. She was blessed with all the beautiful attributes which attract and hold the affections. Generous and true, her warm heart sympathized with want, dis¬ tress and suffering, and her willing hands relieved them. “ Possessed of a deep and earnest piety, she was a beautiful exemplar of the Christian religion, which she leaned upon and trusted while living, and which sustained and supported her when the last great summons came. Such a life and death should teach the most skeptical that her religion was a glorious reality. Beloved by all, she had no enemies, and it is no wonder that men, women and children, of all ages and sexes and colors, ‘ grappled her to their hearts with hooks of steel.’ “ Her noble life, and the beautiful example left, are the proudest eulogies that could be pronounced upon her. Her friends and relations, especially her children and grandchildren, were so strongly entwined in her affection, that to leave them was her only regret. “ She had fought a good fight and had kept the faith : ‘ Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord.’ ” No. 33 Samuel Alston (James Harris 3 , Oliver 2 , Henry 1 ) Fitts 1 was born in Warren County, N. C., May 15, 1815. He received a HARRIET (Fitts 8 ) THROWER No. 32 SAMUEL A. FITTS 4 No. 33 Fitts or Fitz Family 79 fair education from the best schools in North Alabama, having been brought in his infancy to this State by his parents, who settled at St. Stephens, Washington Co., and afterwards moved to Clarke County. On the 29th of November, 1838, he was married to Sarah Elizabeth Alston, a daughter of Col. William Williams Alston and Mary Haywood (Burges) Alston, of Clarke County, Ala., — both originally from North Carolina. Soon after their marriage, in 1838, they settled in Marengo County, Ala., near Uniontown, Perry Co., which was then called Woodville. Here they built their elegant home, “ Roseland,” where they resided the remainder of their lives, and raised a large family. At the age of eighteen, by the death of his father, Samuel A. Fitts was left in charge of his widowed mother and her eight young children. Such was the stability of his character, at this early age, that he was recommended by Judge William Craw¬ ford, and appointed administrator of his father’s estate by the Probate Court of Marengo, and was able to give the required bond of $90,000 for its proper management. He managed this large estate with such skill and fidelity for nineteen years, that he gained the lasting gratitude of all interested therein, and the highest encomiums of the courts of the county. His reports, made annually, from 1832 to 1851, to the Probate Court of Marengo County, as administrator of this estate, furnish the highest record evidence of his great carefulness, fine ability as a manager and unvarying fidelity to every trust. He was a very successful farmer, and accumulated a large estate for his family, consisting of lands, negroes and stocks. After his slaves were emancipated his estate w r as valued at $50,000. For many years previous to his death he was a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and a liberal sup¬ porter of that denomination. In all of his life’s varied relations he won the admiration of those who knew him. Pleasant and genial as a companion ; generous and sincere as a friend; kind and indulgent as a husband ; affectionate and devoted as a father, while as a son and a brother he stood almost without a peer. To his younger brothers and sisters he occupied the place of a father, when he himself was a mere boy; and as far as it was possible for a brother, discharged all the duties of a father for nineteen years, when the youngest child became of age. He died on the 2nd day of April, 1869. at his home, “ Rose- land,” in Marengo County, and was buried at Uniontown, Ala., with the services of his church, and with Masonic honors. His 80 Fitts or Fitz Family wife survived him a little more than ten years, and died on the 3rd of November, 1879. The children of Samuel Alston Fitts' and Sarah Elizabeth (Alston) Fitts, were three daughters and seven sons. No. 35 Sarah Harris (James Harris 3 , Oliver 2 , Henry') Fitts 4 was born Feb, 26, 1819, and died in Marengo County, Ala., the 7th of June, 1835. She had just finished her education in the city of Mobile and returned home. “ In a lovely form she united intelligence and a benignity of temper which secured a friend in every acquaintance.” She was thought to be strikingly beautiful, and as lovely in disposition as in person. No. 36 Elizabeth Faulcon (James Harris 3 , Oliver 2 , Henry') Fitts 4 was born at St. Stephens, Ala., Jan. 23, 1821, and was educated at Tuscaloosa, Ala., where she now resides. She was married to Sewall Jones Leach, on the 10th of October, 1839. Sewall Jones Leach was born on the 28th of November, 1812, in the city of New York, and was the oldest son of Ephriam Leach and Sophia (Jones) Leach. When he was eight years old his father moved to Owego, N. Y. His educational advantages were limited ; four months in the year being the longest period he attended school in any twelve months. Yet such was his energy and aptitude for learning that at the age of eighteen he had prepared himself as a teacher, and success¬ fully and satisfactorily conducted a school in the State of New York. At the age of thirteen he made a violin, a very nice instrument, which he kept for thirty years. Upon this instru¬ ment he learned to perform. At this early age he exhibted two predominant characteristics — love of mechanics and music. He studied dentistry at Utica, New York, and in 1837, having determined to locate in the South, he went to Mobile, Ala., where he engaged in the practice of his profession with Dr. Palmer, an eminent dentist who was practicing in that city. It is related of Dr. Leach, that he reached Mobile with nine dollars, and that he increased the amount to nine hundred within a year. In 1838 he removed to Tuscaloosa, Ala., and was for two or three years engaged in the jewelry business with his younger brother, Cyrus Sidney Leach. After his marriage he moved to Uniontown, Ala., where he practiced dentistry, and SARAH HARRIS FITTS 4 No. 35 Dk. sewall j. leach Husband of No. 36 Fitts or Fitz Family 81 supervised his plantation near there, in Marengo County. He returned to Tuscaloosa, in 1842, and resumed the practice of his profession, where he was the leading dentist for many years. In 1852, Dr. Leach established, on the banks of the Warrior River, within the corporate limits of the city of Tuscaloosa, an Iron and Plow Factory, under the name of Leach & Avery, which was subsequently changed to Leach, Avery & Co., and later, Leach & Co. This enterprise was for many years the leading industry of the city, and was carried on until 1878, when, on account of failing eye sight and declining health, Dr. Leach sold his interest and accepted a less arduous position of general superintendent and machinist of the Tuscaloosa Cotton Mills, into which the foundry was converted. In the foundry were made all kinds of hollow ware, gin segments, grates, mills for grinding sugar cane, and other farm¬ ing implements, in addition to plows; and during the war they manufactured wool hats on a large scale, and carried on a large grist and flouring mill. This foundry was totally destroyed by fire twice; once by a murderer to conceal the body of the watch¬ man, his victim ; and again at the close of the war by the Federal army, because cannon had been cast there for the Confederates. On account of his scientific attainments and practical knowledge of machinery, he was employed to purchase the outfit for the first cotton mill built in Tuscaloosa, in 1846, and remained several months in Philadelphia during its con¬ struction. He also purchased the machinery for the paper mill, and had it erected. Dr. Leach was a Mason, an Odd Fellow and a vestryman of Christ (Episcopal) Church from November, 1845, to 1874, when he declined to serve on account of feeble health. He was universally beloved and generally regarded as one of the most useful men of this section for many years. He was of uniform temperament and habitually cheerful, and a Christian gentleman of great humility ; wholly incorruptible and honest. Few men bear so blameless and so honorable a name among their fellows. He was a fine musician, and performed upon several instruments. He was also a devoted laborer, neglecting nothing that could insure satisfaction, and equally interested in his music after hours of labor. In both relations he exhibited the strongest and most marked characteristics, performing both, purely and simply, for the love of them. Lie could do nothing except in the most thorough and satisfactory manner, and his musical accomplishments attracted to his hospitable home many desciples of the “ divine art.” Among these were Dr. Barnard, 12 82 Fitts or Fitz Family afterwards President of Columbia College, New York, and Dr. L. C. Garland, late the venerable Chancellor of the Vanderbilt University, who was never so happy as when listening to or playing with his musical friend. For so strong a man, he was singularly gentle and winning in manner, attracting the young and old alike in the social circle; and among the cultivated young ladies of the city it was deemed a compliment to have him select one of them to play the piano accompaniment to his flute. Although of Northern birth, Dr. Leach was a man of strong Southern feeling, and an advocate of the Confederate cause. Two of his sons served with honor as Confederate soldiers. After more than a year of feeble health and partial blind¬ ness, during which time he was tenderly cared for by his wife, Dr. Leach died in the city of Tuscaloosa, Ala., on the 6th day of August, 1885, and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery. The children of Sewall Jones Leach and Elizabeth Faulcon (Fitts 1 ) Leach were six sons and five daughters. No. 37 Rebecca Emily (James Harris 3 , Oliver 2 , Henry 1 ) Fitts 4 was born in Clarke County, Ala., on Nov. 29th, 1822, and died in Tuscaloosa, Ala., Feb. 2, 1838. Lovely and gentle in disposition, she was much beloved by all who knew her, and her untimely death cast a deep gloom over all her acquaintances. No. 38 Caroline Medora (James Harris 3 , Oliver 2 , Henry 1 ) .Fitts 4 was married to Col. Josiah J. Pegues, March 2, 1854, in Tusca¬ loosa, Ala. She was born at Jackson, Clarke Co., Dec. 28, 1824, and brought by her mother to Tuscaloosa, Ala., in 1836, where she was educated. Col. Pegues and wife resided on their plantation, in Dallas, Ala., for two or three years, and then moved to the State of Mississippi, where he farmed for three years, and afterwards returned to Tuscaloosa, Ala., where they resided for many years. Col. Josiah J. Pegues was born in South Carolina, July 19, 1825, and came with his parents to Alabama in his infancy. CAROLINE MEDORA (Fitts 4 ) PEGUES No. 38 Col. JOSIAH JAMES PEGUES Husband of No. 38 Fitts or Filz Family 83 His father was wealthy, and the son inherited a large plantation and slaves to work the same. After his marriage he owned and managed one plantation in Dallas, and one in Marengo County. He was a successful planter, and being an ardent State’s Rights advocate, he was very active in resisting every encroachment upon the rights of the State by the Federal government. At the commencement of the political agitation which culminated in the civil war, he was an ardent advocate for Secession, and at the outbreak of the war he joined the “Warrier Guards,” which was the first company that left Tuscaloosa; and, as a private in the ranks, participated in the first battle of Manassas. He continued in the Confederate service during the four years of the war, and at the close of hostilities acted as an escort, with his regiment, to President Davis, on his retreat from Richmond, as far as Greensboro, N. C., being at that time the Lieutenant- Colonel of the 2nd Alabama Cavalry Regiment. He was a popular officer and gallant soldier. A typical Southern gentleman and slave-owner, whose generosity, humanity and high sense of justice, as a class went so far to elevate the negro from barbarism, and to adapt him to the Christian civili¬ zation. During the war he sold his lands, and as his slaves were emancipated as a result of the conflict, he was left at the close of the war almost without means, which condition he accepted without unmanly complaints or regrets, and cheerfully went to work to support his family. At the close of the war great lawlessness prevailed in the county of Tuscaloosa, the acting sheriff being unable to execute process or preserve order. The sheriff felt his inability, and expressed his willingness to resign, if any one could be found who was able to discharge the duties of the office. The position was one of grave responsibility and great danger. But when petitioned by many of the most influential citizens, Col. Pegues did not hesitate to accept the office ; and by his energy, coolness and courage, soon subdued the lawless and restored order. Col. Pegues was a zealous member of Christ Church, Tusca¬ loosa, a vestryman for many years, and senior warden in 1875. In March, 1882, Col. Pegues was appointed clerk of the Circuit Court of Tuscaloosa County by the Governor of the State, and in 1886 was elected to the same office by the people. The duties of this office he discharged with much satisfaction to the bench, bar and citizens of Tuscaloosa until August, 1892. The children of Col. Josiah J. Pegues and Caroline Medora (Fitts') Pegues, were two sons and one daughter. 84 Fitts or Fitz Family No. 39 John Henry (James Harris 3 , Oliver, Henry 1 ) Fitts 4 was born in Clarke County, Ala., Feb. 20, 1827. He was graduated at the University of Alabama, with the degree of A. B., in 1847, and the degree of A. M., in 1850. He read medicine in Tusca¬ loosa, Ala., under the celebrated Dr. Jas. Guild, and was gradu¬ ated at the Jefferson Medical College, of Philadelphia, Pa., with the degree of M. D., in 1849. He owned a plantation in Marengo County, Ala., and slaves to cultivate it, from the profits of which he derived a comfortable support; but preferred to practice his profession, and located in the State of Mississippi, at Shongalo, in Carroll County, in 1850, where he died, June 21, 1851. Dr. Fitts never married. When a student, at the University of Alabama, he joined the Methodist Episcopal Church, and was a consistent member at the date of his death. A polite and accomplished gentleman, of elevated senti¬ ments and nobleness of action, highly skilled in his profession, it was with a pardonable pride that his relatives inscribed upon his tomb: “Life was only wanting to his fame.” He was buried at Uniontown, Ala., in the cemetery which had been given to the town by his father, and in which his father, mother, two sisters and a brother are buried. No. 40 William Faulcon (James Harris 3 , Oliver 2 , Henry 1 ) Fitts 4 was born in Clarke County, Ala., near Jackson, Feb. 14, 1829. He was brought by his mother to Tuscaloosa, when he was seven years old, where he was educated, attending the University of Alabama two years. He read medicine under Dr. Jas. Guild in 1848-49, and in the winter of 1849-50 attended lectures at the Medical College at New Orleans. In 1851 he was graduated with the degree of M. D. by the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, Pa. In 1852 he settled in Marengo County, Ala., near his plantation, to practice his profession, and in a few years gained the reputation of being a skillful physician. He married Jersey Annie Foster, a daughter of Mr. Charles M. Foster, of Tuscaloosa, Ala., on the 13th of October, 1857. She was a highly esteemed and lovable woman. She died Nov. 30, 1894. Building a comfortable and nice residence on his plantation, Dr. Fitts continued the practice of his profession and the super¬ vising his planting interests until the second year of the war JOHN HENRY FITTS, 1 M. D. No. 39 WILLIAM FAULCON FITTS, 4 M, D. No. 40 JERSEY ANNIE (Foster) FITTS Wife of No. 40 Fitts or Fitz Family 85 between the States. In the spring of 1862, he realized that the South would need all her men to repel the threatened invasion of the Federal forces. Although surrounded hy all the comforts and elegancies of life, and with neither military ambition nor political aspirations, he left his loving wife and little children, and joined a company of cavalry which Capt. H. S. Whitfield was then forming in Northport, Ala., determining to surrender everything and to devote his entire energy, and life, if necessary, to achieve the independence of the South. This company was mustered into the service as Company G, 51st Regiment of Alabama Cavalry, and was placed under Col. John T. Morgan, now United States Senator from Alabama. Dr. Fitts was elected 2nd Lieutenant and was soon made 1st Lieutenant by the resig¬ nation of Captain Whitfield. In the heavy skirmishing which formed the prelude to the terrible battle between the forces of Gens. Bragg and Rose- crantz, at Murfreesboro, Tenn., Col. Morgan’s regiment was operating on the Jefferson Turnpike, near Smyrna. On the 27th of December, 1862, it became necessary to charge a force of the enemy in order to check their advance at Stewart’s Creek. In obedience to the order of Gen. Morgan, Lieut. Fitts led the charge down the turnpike to the bridge over Stewart’s Creek. Here he met the enemy in large force by which his company was checked, and afterwards driven back. Lieut. Fitts rallied his men and charged again, with the same result. Attempting to rally his men for the third time, being some distance in advance, waving his hat over his head and shouting : “ Forward Company G,” he was shot through the heart, and expired in a few moments. Thus fell as true and as gallant an officer as ever led a charge. “ Fame never descends to crown the memory of a subaltern ; but she will bestow her honors on none who have more beautifully exemplified the courage of the hero and the spirit of a martyr.” The major of the United States regiment who had ordered his men to fire upon Lieut. Fitts, saying, “ you can never drive them back until you kill that officer,” had him buried where he fell, and in commemoration of his gallantry carved his name and rank on a poplar board and placed it at the head of his grave. Mr. Berryman Ferguson, Mr. Alanson Cannon and Mr. J. Clement, who lived in the neighborhood, seeing the respect shown to his remains by the enemy, had the body of Lieut. Fitts disenterred and re-buried in' a nice walnut coffin in a country 86 Fitts or Fitz Family grave-yard, some five miles distant, and placed over his grave the board upon which the Federal major had carved his rank. In December, 1865, his remains were removed to Tuscaloosa, Ala., by his brother, James Harris, and buried in Evergreen Cemetery. Noble-hearted man, the tears of thy bereaved and mourning friends shall keep thy memory green ; and if the tributes of love which rise from their hearts may ascend and mingle with the “ parent stream,” they will hold communion with thy spirit forever. No. 41 James Harris (James Harris 3 , Oliver 2 , Henry 1 ) Fitts 4 was born Oct. 12, 1830, at Jackson, in Clarke County, Ala., and was carried to Marengo County in 1833, and to Tuscaloosa County in 1836, by his mother, where he has resided ever since. The degree of A. B. was conferred upon him in July, 1849, by the University of Alabama. He taught school at Foster’s Settlement, in Tuscaloosa County, in 1850-51, and in the city of Tuscaloosa in 1852, where he received the degree of A. M. from the State University. At the spring term of the Circuit Court of Tuscaloosa County, in 1853, Mr. Fitts was licensed to practice law, being the first person admitted to the bar in that county under the act requiring the applicant to be examined in open court. He commenced the practice in the city of Tuscaloosa in 1853; was elected city attorney in 1854, and a codification of the laws of the city were made by him that year. He was married on the 2nd day of May, 1855, to Mary Elizabeth Burges, daughter of JLovatt Burges and Fannie (Cox) Burges of Avoy¬ elles Parish, La., at their home on Bayou Huffpower, by a Baptist minister, Rev. Mr. Roberts, who used the marriage ceremony of the Episcopal church. His wife, Mary Elizabeth Burges, was born April 1, 1837, in Avoyelles Parish, La.; was educated in New Orleans and Tuscaloosa, Ala.; and baptized at the latter place, April 27,1867, in Christ Church. Mr. Fitts practiced law until 1861, and after the war until 1868, during which time he was a member of the following firms: Martin & Fitts, Whitfield & Fitts, and J. H. & P. A. Fitts. These partners were Col. Lucien Van Buren Martin, Hon. N. S. Whitfield and the Rev. P. A. Fitts, now an Episcopal minister. The firm of AVhitfield & Fitts were bank attorneys, JAMES HARRIS FITTS 4 MARY E. (Burges) FITTS Wife of No. 41 Fitts or Fitz Family 87 under Mr. John Whiting, Bank Commissioner, and assisted in winding up the affairs of the Bank of the State of Alabama. In connection with his practice in 1859-60, Mr. Fitts bought and sold exchange as agent of Walsh, Smith & Co., of Mobile, Ala., and did a large business. In the celebrated case of the State vs. Bryant and Dobbins, for murder, Mr. Fitts was leading counsel for the State. Dr. Bryant was convicted and sentenced to imprison¬ ment for life. The speeches made at the trial were published in a large pamphlet by a Mr. Wood, at that time a book¬ seller in the city of Tuscaloosa. The case had a wide-spread notoriety, growing out of the fact that the murderers burned the extensive iron factory of Leach & Avery to conceal the body of their victim, Butler, who was the watchman at the foundry. In 1863-64 Mr. Fitts was elected, by the Congress of the Con¬ federacy, the Confederate States Depositary, at Tuscaloosa, Ala. He was captured at the wedding of his niece, Emily Leach, on the 3rd of April, 1865, and his office, sacked by Federal soldiers, which contained $100,000 Confederate money and two millions of vouchers. While practicing law in 1865, he established the Banking House of J. Id. Fitts & Co. This was the first Bank established in the city of Tuscaloosa since the failure of the State bank, in 1837, and was the only bank in the city until 1872. The Bank is owned by him and his children, and is now (1897) doing its full share of business; with two National banks in the city. From 1865 to 1868 he was, by appointment of the Gover¬ nor, ratified by the Senate, a trustee of the University of Alabama. The close of the war left the University encumbered with a debt of $30,000; her libraries, cabinets and dormitories in ashes ; and such was the condition of the finances of the State, that the interest on the endowment fund could not be collected in current funds. Such was the condition of affairs when the Board of Trustees elected Mr. Fitts secretary of the board, fiscal agent of the University and a member of the building committee. When the radical Republican party came into power, the government of the University was transferred from the board of trustees to a board of regents. Before transferring their trust, the Board of Trustees passed the following resolution : Resolved, “ That the thanks of the board of trustees of the University of Alabama be and are hereby returned to Jas. H. Fitts, Esq., for the gratuitous services which he has with commendable public spirit, and with a praiseworthy devotion to the Alma Mater, of which 88 Fitts or Fitz Family he is an honored son, rendered in the rebuilding of the institu¬ tion.” Signed by all the trustees, to wit: R. M. Patton, Governor and ex-Officio, President of the Board, Hon. A. J. Walker, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Alabama, Hon. W. M. Byrd, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of Alabama, Hon. T. J. Judge, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of Alabama, Hon. Porter King, Judge of Circuit Court of Alabama, Hon. M. S. Mudd, Judge of Circuit Court of Alabama, Col. R. Jemison, Senator, Col. F. Bugbee, Hon. W. H. Crenshaw, Senator, Hon. F. Freeman, Hon. J. C. Meadors, Dr. Jno. T. Foster, Hon. Willis G. Clark, J. T. Murfee, Superintendent, Architect and Assistant Secretary (see minutes of the Board). “ In the History of Education in Alabama,” published by the United States Bureau of Education, in 1889, on page 97, Mr. Fitts’ services to the University are thus acknowledged. When the contract for the new building (Alva Wood’s Hall) was let in the latter part of 1886, there was not a dollar either in the treasury of the State or in that of the University. For the suc¬ cessful completion of that first structure, on the campus, after the war, the University and the people of the State owe a lasting debt of gratitude to two eminent citizens, one of whom has gone to his reward; the other still lives to honor the Alma Mater that nourished him. These are Robert M. Patton, who was then Governor, and James IP. Fitts, Escp, a banker of P’uscaloosa, who was at that time a member of the Board of Trustees, chair¬ man of the building committee and fiscal agent of the University. The Governor pledged his personal credit and the credit of the State that no contractor or other creditor of the University should lose by any default of the State to make due payment of all just claims against the University. Mr. Fitts, during the eighteen months in which the work was going on to completion, used all the resources of his bank to maintain, at par, in Tusca¬ loosa, the State certificate of indebtedness, then known as Patton certificates, by which the work of rebuilding was carried on. Fitts or Fitz Family 89 In the issue of the Montgomery Advertiser of Dec. 8, 1885, a newspaper published at the capital of the State, will be found the following notice of Mr. Fitts’ connection with the University: “ During the seventeen years he has served the University, he has been faithful, painstaking and skillful, and he has given his time, money and credit freely. Indeed it would not be over¬ stating the case to say the University owes more to him for its rebuilding, reorganization and financial prosperity than to any man living. Under the radical regime, Mr. Fitts declined to act as Treas¬ urer of the University, although he was urged to do so, and was offered a large salary, and gave as his reason for declining that he did not wish to be in a position to witness the profligate waste of the funds, when he was powerless to prevent it. When reorganized in 1873, he accepted the Treasuryship, and he is now, and has been for the last twenty-six years, with the excep¬ tions of the two years during the regency, the Treasurer of the University. At the first meeting of the alumni, after the war, the resident alumni of Tuscaloosa County gave them a banquet, in which Mr. Fitts took an active part. He also presided, as master of ceremonies, and delivered an address of welcome. In 1886 he delivered the alumni oration, in which he urged the enlargement of the educational fund, which is for the education of needy young men by loans for six years, at the rate of six per cent, interest. He was baptized in Christ (Protestant Episcopal) Church, in Tuscaloosa, Ala., April 19th, 1868, by Rev. John D. Easter, and confirmed on the same day by Rt. Rev. R. H. Wilmer, bishop of the diocese of Alabama. He was elected vestryman Sept. 30, 1868, by the vestry, and re-elected by the congregation March 29, 1869, and junior warden March 1, 1875, and senior warden, Easter Monday, 1876, and has filled that position con¬ tinuously up to the present time, 1897. For the last twenty years he has made an offering every Sunday, whether present or not, for the support of Christ’s Church. He contributed $500 to the purchase of the rectory, which cost $4,000 in 1873, and in 1882, when the church building was restored, or repaired and enlarged at a cost of $7,000, he paid one-tenth of the amount. He was elected Treasurer of the diocese of Alabama in May, 1862, and served until May, 1876. And upon his resignation the con¬ vention passed the following resolution : “ Resolved, that the thanks of the Convention are due, and are hereby tendered Mr. Jas. H. Fitts for the faithful and efficient 13 90 Fitts or Fitz Family manner in which, for five years, he has discharged the duties of Treasurer of the diocese.” (See Journal of Proceedings, page 23.) For many years, from 1871 to 1897, he was one of the lay delegates from Christ Church to the Council, and has served for many years as one of the three trustees of the Bishop’s Fund and is now a Trustee and the Treasurer of that fund. Mr. Fitts was a lay deputy to the general convention of the Episcopal church, which met in New York in 1874, and again to the one which assembled in Chicago in 1886, and in Minneapolis in 1895. From 1870 to 1890 Mr. Fitts’ principal vocation was banking, as president of the bank of J. H. Fitts & Co. During this period he was also connected with and assisted in organizing several important enterprises, the most prominent of which were the “ Warrior Insurance Co.,” of which he was secretary and treasurer; the plow factory of “Leach, Avery & Co.;” the tan yard and shoe factory of “Fitts, Maxwell & Jasper;” the Tus¬ caloosa Cotton Mills and the Tuscaloosa Street Car Line from the depot to Lake Lorraine. The Tuscaloosa Cotton Mills was a company organized under the laws of the State, with a capital of $40,000, the Presidency of which Mr. Fitts accepted in 1880, when its assets were only $33,000. For eight and a half years he, as President, devoted much of his time to the general management of this enterprise. During the eight and a half years Mr. Fitts was President, the Tuscaloosa Cotton Mills paid, as dividends, to its stock holders, $41,000, and expended in improvements and repairs $22,000. On the night of the 3d of March, 1897, the Tuscaloosa Cotton Mills were totally destroyed by fire, materially effecting the commercial interest of the city of Tuscaloosa and surround¬ ing country, and was a serious loss to some four hundred em¬ ployes and dependents. Shortly after the destruction of the mills by fire, the following letter was received by the manage¬ ment from Messrs. B. Lowenstein & Bros., of Memphis, Tenn., which illustrates very clearly the high esteem in which Mr. Fitts was held as a manufacturer, and his fidelity as a business man : Memphis, Tenn., March 5, 1897. Tuscaloosa Cotton Mills, Tuscaloosa, Ala. Gentlemen :— We have your telegram and letter stating that your mill has been entirely destroyed by fire. We wish to express our sincere regret that this thing should have happened, but we hope Fitts or Fitz Family 91 you were fully insured and will in the near future start up another and better mill. Our past relations with you and your senior, Mr. J. PI. Fitts, have been of an exceedingly pleasant nature. We have dealt with you for years, with an absolute reliance upon your integrity in carrying out every contract as made, and have not been disappointed. We regret that this is so seldom the case as to be worthy of comment, and it is peculiarly unfortunate that such dealers should be compelled, by force of circumstances, to retire from the trade. Again express¬ ing the hope that you have suffered no financial loss and that you will soon be in working order again, we are Yours truly, B. Lowenstein & Bros. The Alabama Banker’s Association was organized at Bir¬ mingham, Ala., in the year 1890, and Mr. Fitts took an active part in its organization. He was elected President, and at the first annual meeting, held at Monte Sano, June, 1890, in con¬ nection with his address, read a paper on the unjust usury law against bankers, advocating a change of the legal rate of interest of the State from 8% to 6%, and to allow a conventional rate as high as 12%. The address was well received and favorably commented upon by several papers of the State; and at the ses¬ sion of the legislature of 1892-93, the obnoxious usury law against bankers was repealed. The second annual convention of the Alabama Banker’s Association was held at Point Clear, Ala., in June, 1891, at which meeting Mr. Fitts read a paper on the “ History of the State Bank and its Branches.” In regard to this paper the Hon. J. L. M. Curry, minister to Spain, and one of the trustees of the Peabody fund, wrote Mr. Fitts: “You have done the State a good service by rescuing from oblivion the history of our absurd and mischievous banking system.” The Century magazine, in its issue for January, 1892, made copious extracts from this paper, and commented on them approvingly. Mr. Fitts read a paper on the “ Free Coinage of Silver,” at the third annual meeting of the Alabama Bankers Association, which was held at Montgomery in 1892, in which he strongly opposed free coinage until an international ratio between gold and silver could be established, England and France uniting with the United States. In the year 1860, the N. E. & S. W. Alabama II. R. Com¬ pany, to secure bonds to the amount of $4,300,000, deeded their road, extending from Miridian, Miss., to its junction with the 92 Fitts or Fitz Family Wills’ Vally road, near the town of Gadsden, Ala., to J. J. Ormond, J. H. Fitts and John Rob’n McDaniel, of Va., as trustees, to carry out the provisions of the deed. A short time after the execution of the deed, Judge Ormond passed away and Mr. Fitts, who was then a young man, was left the only resident surviving trustee of this vast sum. This great trust and respon¬ sibility was executed by him with signal ability and to the satis¬ faction of all concerned. In 1896 Mr. Fitts was elected by the Council of the Episcopal church the Treasurer of the Bishop’s Fund, and the able and faithful manner in which he discharged the responsible duties of the trust may be seen from his annual reports, pub¬ lished in the journals of the Council. In 1890 Mr. Fitts nominally retired from the active man¬ agement of his banking and manufacturing interests, more in behalf of his sons and sons-in-law, than from any lassitude or waning of energies that come with advancing years. Still in the possession of physical vigor, and with mental faculties unimpaired, he at present (1896), in addition to a general super¬ vision of the business now in charge of his children, has directed his thoughts to the welfare of the University of Alabama. To adjust its wrongs, to silence its defamers, to bring about a proper pride in the Institution, and a just appreciation among Ala¬ bamians of its grand possibilities, seemed to have revived that youthful zeal and energy which characterized the success of his early manhood. A nobler work never engaged the thoughts and energies of an intelligent mind. His ideas with regard to its great destinies and importance were ever in accord with the progress of the 19th century civilization. During the year 1896, the condition of the University excited unusual interest and unfavorable criticism. Its defamers and the discreditors of its usefulness were unreserved in their utterances and indiscrimi¬ nate in their abuse and fault-finding with everything connected with the institution. The situation was indeed alarming, and the gravest fears felt for its future. Under sanction of com¬ promise laws, enacted by the Legislature of the State, a sacred trust had been violated, and the University deprived of the princely endowment bequeathed it by the beneficence of the United States government. Its friends, from timidity, super¬ induced by political influence and want of accurate knowledge of its history, were unequal to the task of presenting and defending its rights before a predjudiced public. Being intimately associated with the University as student, Trustee and Treasurer for over thirty years, and possessed of a deep Fitts or Fitz Family 93 interest in its welfare, Mr. Fitts was peculiarly equipped as an advocate for an adjustment of its equitable claim against the State. At a meeting of the Society of Alumni of the Uni¬ versity of Alabama, in July, 1896, a resolution was passed appointing a committee of nineteen of their members, of which Mr. Fitts was chairman, to present this claim of the University to the Legislature of the State, with an earnest appeal for its adjustment. The board of trustees, co-operating with the Alumni, appointed a committee of five of their number for the same purpose. After great labor and painstaking research into the archives of the University, Mr. Fitts prepared this appeal, embodying a history of the University’s wrongs, and a strong and comprehensive presentation of the arguments in favor of the equity of the claim and its speedy adjustment. It was read by him before the General Assembly, session of 1896-97, with the following title : “ An appeal from the Alumni of the Uni¬ versity of Alabama to the Legislature of the State, for an equita¬ ble adjustment of the claim of their Alma Mater against the State of Alabama.” The society ordered two thousand copies of the “ appeal ” printed. It was well received and created an impression throughout the State, in the interest of the Uni¬ versity, that had not been experienced for years. As an imme¬ diate result, a joint committee of the Legislature was appointed to “ visit Tuscaloosa and investigate the University.” The following is quoted from the report of this committee, wherein Mr. Fitts’ “appeal” is highly complimented : “ That the State of Alabama has not been true to its trust with reference to this institution is a matter of painful history, and it is high time that its shortcomings in the administration of the most sacred obligation should be rectified by its citizens. The State has received the full benefit, at a time when probably it needed it, of funds and property which rightfully belonged to its ward, and common honesty as well as the dignity of our commonwealth alike demand that restitution be made. “This matter has been so forcefully presented by a distin¬ guished citizen of Tuscaloosa, and an alumnus of the University, Mr. J. H. Fitts, at the present session of the General Assembly, that the committee need say nothing further, except to indulge the hope that the bill now pending, which provides simply for restitution, shall receive the hearty support of every member of both branches of the Legislature, who loves his State and has a sincere regard for the welfare of its children, regardless of party predelection.” Mr. Fitts was the author of the bill here referred to and 94 Fitts or Fitz Family which was introduced by Hon. M. L. Stansel of Pickens County. It passed the House of Representatives by a fair majority, 51 to 39, but the State administration being very strongly opposed to the measure, succeeded in having the bill reconsidered and defeated. This hill provided for the adjustment of the claim of the university, by the State acknowledging an indebtedness of $2,000,000. The following is a copy : A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT: TO ADJUST THE CLAIM OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA UPON AN EQUITA¬ BLE BASIS, BY DECLARING THE ENDOWMENT; AND TO ENABLE DESERVING AND INDI¬ GENT STUDENTS IN THE SEVERAL COUNTIES OF THE STATE, TO OB¬ TAIN AN EDUCATION AT THAT INSTITUTION. Whereas, The University of Alabama lost $154,239.18 previous 2 to the year 1836 by the relief laws and re-sales and leases of 3 its lands ; and whereas, previous to 1846, $108,962.00 of the 4 profits of the State Bank were made by the use of University 5 funds, and retained by the State; and whereas, in 1859-60, 6 the institution was converted into a quasi-Military school and 7 the students made a part of the militia of the State, in conse- 8 quence of which $300,000.00 worth of University property 9 was destroyed in 1865 ; and, whereas, these several sums, 10 bearing interest at the rate of five per cent., together with 11 the present endowment, would exceed two million dollars. 12 Now, Therefore : Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Alabama , 2 That two million of dollars, be and the same is hereby recog- 3 nized and declared to be the amount of the University fund, 4 for the permanent security of which, and the punctual pay- 5 ment of the interest thereon, forever, semi-annually, at the 6 times and in the manner now provided by law, at the rate 7 of three per cent, per annum, the faith and credit of the 8 State of Alabama, are hereby solemnly pledged. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That one-third of the interest of 2 the endowment shall be annually used by the board of 3 trustees in furnishing board, books, tuition, fees and personal 4 expenses to one young man or woman from each county in 5 the State, who shall possess a good moral character, and be Fitts or Fitz Family 95 6 in such indigent circumstances, as to be unable to obtain a 7 collegiate education without assistance. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That no beneficiary of the fund 2 shall receive therefrom, more than $300.00 per annum, and 3 for the amount so received, each one shall execute their note 4 payable to the State of Alabama six years after date, with 5 interest at the rate of six per cent, per annum. Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That students desiring to pro- 2 cure the benefits of this Act, shall make application to the 3 trustee of the Congressional District in which they reside, 4 and furnish to said trustee satisfactory evidence of good, 5 moral character and inability otherwise to obtain a collegiate G education. Sec. 5. Be it further enacted, That each trustee shall give 2 public notice of the time and place in each county in his 3 district, when the applicants or candidates for the benefits 4 of this Act, will be examined, and shall give a like notice in 5 each and every said county whenever a vacancy occurs therein. Sec. G. Be it further enacted, That all examinations of 2 candidates for the benefits of the provisions of this Act shall 3 be conducted in writing on examination papers furnished 4 by the Faculty of the University, which shall be forwarded 5 to each trustee at his request. Sec. 7. Be it further enacted, That immediately after the 2 examination of the candidates, the trustees of the District 3 shall return to the faculty the examination papers with the 4 answers of the candidates without giving the names of the 5 candidates, so that the names of the candidates may not be 6 known to the faculty until after the award is made by said 7 faculty and the examination papers returned to the trustee. Sec. 8. Be it further enacted, That the faculty shall not 2 make the award to any candidate, who in his examination 3 makes less than the minimum percentage required for the 4 class he desires to enter; and in case of two or more appli- 5 cants from the same county the preference or award is, in all G cases, to be given to the one found best prepared, by the 7 faculty, as shown by the examination papers. Sec. 9. Be it further enacted, That section 1071 of the Code 2 he, and the same is, hereby repealed. The hill was defeated by the aid of a compromise measure, by which the funds of the University was increased from $24,000 per annum to $34,000 for the years 1898 and 1899. Another fruit of this labor was the passage of a law for three Commis- 96 Fitts or Fitz Family sioners to be appointed to enquire into and report upon the claim of the University against the State. No. 42 Susan Virginia (James Harris 3 , Oliver, Henry 1 ), Fitts' 1 was born Oct. 13, 1832, in Clark County, and was taken to Tuskaloosa, Ala., by her mother when she was four years old, where she was educated. She was baptized March 16, 1870, in Christ’s (Episcopal) Church and confirmed by Bishop Wilmer. She was married to Lucien Van Buren Martin Oct. 16, 1850. Col. L. V. B. Martin was born in Belleview, Franklin County, Ala., on March 31, 1829, and was the son of Judge Peter Martin, and a nephew of Governor J. L. Martin. When he was quite small he was brought by his parents to Tuscaloosa, Ala., where he was educated. The degree of A. B. was conferred upon him in 1849, and that of A.M. in 1852, by the University of Alabama. Fie read law in his father’s office, and was admit¬ ted to the bar in 1852. In 1856 he was elected solicitor of the third judicial district by the legislature of Alabama, which office he held until the commencement of the civil war. He was a planter, and supervised his cotton plantation when he was practicing law, both before and after the war. In 1867 President Johnson appointed Col. Martin U. S. District Attorney for the southern district of Alabama. In this office he had no opportunity to display his talents, because his appointment was against the wishes of the Presiding judge, Richard Busteed, who threw every obstacle in the way of his success, and upon all occasions treated him with great indignity Finally the conduct of Judge Busteed towards him was so over¬ bearing and insulting that he was attacked and shot down in the street at Mobile by Col. Martin. The wound, though serious, did not prove fatal, and on his recovery, Judge Busteed used every means in his power to have Col. Martin arrested and tried by a military commission for “Assault with intent to Murder,” which at that time (1863) was equivalent to “death without benefit of clergy.” The case was tried by the civil tribunal, and such were the mitigating circumstances that only a small fine was imposed upon Col. Martin. A Democratic political paper, “The Tuscaloosa Observer,” published in Tuscaloosa, Ala., was under the editorial manage¬ ment of Col. Martin, at the time he was practicing law, and he proved himself a fluent and forcible writer. He died in the city of Tuscaloosa, March 22, 1873, of con¬ sumption, and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery. SUSAN VIRGINIA FITTS 4 No. 42 Col. LUC 1EN V. B. MARTIN Husband of No. 42 a Fitts or Fitz Family 97 One of the city newspapers, politically inimical to him, in noticing his death took occasion to say: “ He drew about him a host of warm personal friends. He had his enemies too, otherwise we could not say of him: ‘ This was a man.’ ” No. 46 Edward Freeman 4 Comegys was born in Tuscaloosa, Ala., Jan. 13, 1841. After receiving his preparatory education he entered the State University in 1856, graduating from that institution in 1859 with the degree of A.B.. He taught school until the war broke out, when he entered as a private the first company that left Tuscaloosa, the “Warrior Guards.” He was in the service four years, during which time he was present in every engagement in which his regiment took part. He was promoted to the rank of captain in the 43d regiment of Alabama volunteers. As a testimonial to his gallantry and worth as a soldier we quote the following letter from his commanding officer to the father of Lieutenant Comegys: Eufaula, Ala., Sept. 27, 1863. E. F. Comegys, Esq., Tuscaloosa, Ala. Dear Sir :— I am very happy to be able to inform you that your gallant son came out safely through the terrible battle of Chicamauga. Our command went into the fight, Sunday evening, and we had the gratification of dislodging the enemy from his strongly fortified position in the center. I received a painful wound in the shoulder, before the fight terminated, and retired to the rear, leaving “ Ed ” to command the company. Allow me to assure you, sir, that his conspicuous bravery was observed by all, and I hope he will be spared to you and to his country, to enjoy the honor he has so nobly earned. The contest was very sanguinary, and he stood all the time in the midst of the hail-storm of death. Knowing his inconvenience of writing, and your anxiety about him, I availed myself of this, my first chance, to advise you of his safety. I am unable to give you any news from the enemy, later than you will have heard. Excuse inaccuracies and poor writing, as I am suffering quite severely with my wound. Very respectfully, J. A. Sylvester, Capt. Co. I, 43rd Ala. Reg’t. 14 98 Fitts or Fitz Family He was a dashing and gallant young officer of the “ Army of Northern Virginia,” and was in all the engagements of the campaign of 1864. The following is the order promoting him to captain of his company. Headquarters Gracie’s Brigade, July 9, 1864. II. 1st Lieut. E. F. Comegys, Co. I, 43rd Ala. Reg’t, is hereby promoted to the Captaincy of said company, to fill the vacancy occasioned by* the death of Capt. J. A. Sylvester, to take rank from July 1st, 1864. He will be obeyed and respected as such. By order of Brig. Gen’l. Gracie. H. E. Jones, A. A. G. After the war he again engaged in teaching as a professor in the “Blue College,” at Mobile, Ala. He remained there two years, when he removed to North Alabama, where he married Miss Susan Harris, July 15, 1868. From 1870 to 1872 he was one of the Regents of the Uni¬ versity of Alabama, and rendered valuable service in reorganiz¬ ing that institution. He located at Denton, Texas, in 1884, and remained there seven years, in charge of the public schools, going to Gainsville in 1891. He is now residing in Gainsville, Texas, and is super¬ intendent of the public schools, where he has made a high character as a teacher. Of his work here, the discipline and progress of the schools under his charge are the best testimony. From the “ Daily Hyperion,'” of Gainesville, Texas, of the 4th of May, 1894, we have the following notices of him. “ A Good Record ” “ The school board has again elected Prof. E. F. Comegys superintendent of public schools. The vote was unanimous. This is a record no one has ever before made in Gainsville. Four years in succession and no opposition speaks better for him than anything we could say. In this age it is certainly to any man’s credit to have such a record. If any one wants to find out the reason let him visit the schools and watch their workings and he will find it. Prof. Comegys has gained his popularity by attending closely to business instead of electioneering among the people. His work is here and we believe we have the best schools in the State.” I EDWARD FREEMAN 4 COMEGVS No. 46 SUSAN (Fitts 4 ) SAWYER No. 47 Fitts or Fitz Family 99 Another extract is headed: “Capt. E. F. Comegys, Super¬ intendent of Gainsville Public Schools,” and is as follows: “ The public schools are the pride of the city, and will compare favorably with any city of her size in the State. Thoroughness and discipline are maintained in every department. For the excellence of the public schools great credit is due the superin¬ tendent, Capt. E. F. Comegys, who has made education his life work and is enthusiastic in securing better public schools.” No. 49 Martha Aylette (John 3 , Oliver 3 , Henry 1 ) Fitts 4 , who was also called “ Pattie,” was married to Dr. La Fayette Guild in 1851, in the city of Mobile, where her father resided. She was born-1831. She survives her husband, and resides in Washington City, D. C., where she holds a position as clerk in one of the U. S. Government departments. The first ten years of her married life was spent in the U. S. Army, of which her husband was then an officer, oftentimes on the Western frontier, far removed from civilization. After the death of her husband in 1870, she was left almost alone with no one upon whom she was willing to depend for support. With a commendable resolution, not to be dependent, she sought employment at Washington City. Here, through the influence of the old army friends of her husband, she secured the situation which has enabled her to earn a living to the present time. She has held her clerkship through the vicissitudes of different administrations, when frequent changes were made. Dr. Lafayette Guild was the second son of Dr. James Guild, of Tuscaloosa, Ala., and was born in that city in 1825. He received a thorough academic education at the University of Alabama, graduating with the degree of A. B. in 1845, and with that of A. M. in 1848, in which year he also received the degree of M. D. from the Jefferson Medical College of Philadel¬ phia, Pa. In the spring of 1849 he entered the U. S. Army as assistant surgeon. Before entering the army he was for a time a private pupil of the celebrated Dr. Phil. Aylette, who was an uncle of his wife. After serving for a number of years at various posts, both on the frontier and within the States, on the 21st of May, 1861, he was promoted to the rank of Surgeon. At this time he was attached to the famous 2nd U. S. Cavalry, of which regiment Albert Sidney Johnston was colonel, Rob’t E. Lee the lieutenant- 100 Fitts or Fitz Family colonel, W. G. Hardee and Geo. H. Thomas the Majors. Earl Van Dorn and J. E. B. Stewart and Fitzhugh Lee and other officers who became renowned commanders in the Civil war, were also attached to this regiment. As to the position he attained in the “ Old Army,” the following letter from the War Department at Washington will show how highly he was appreciated : “War Department, Surgeon General’s Office, Washington, D. C., Dec. 3, 1870. Sir: — Referring to your communication of the 27th ult., I enclose a history of the services of Doctor La Fayette Guild, while a member of the Medical Staff of the army, as shown upon the record of this office. His standing in the corps, profession¬ ally and in other respects, was very high.” Very respectfully your obedient servant, By order of the Surgeon General. C. H. Crane, Ass’t Surgeon General, U. S. A. Upon the first demonstration of hostilities of the general government against his native State and the South, he resigned his commission and offered his services to the Confederate States. He was immediately appointed “inspector of hospitals.” He served in this important and responsible position until June, 1862. After the battle of “Seven Pines,” by request of Gen. Lee, the commanding general, he was appointed “ Medical Director and Chief Surgeon of the Army of Northern Virginia.” In fulfilling the responsibilities of that office, however, he con¬ tracted a disease which continued to develop its fatal features until death at last released him from his sufferings. As a staff officer he at once won the respect and confidence of his great commander; and how far this esteem and attachment was returned, the following farewell letter from Dr. Guild to General Lee will fully express : City Point, Va., May 5, 1865. “ General :—We sail to-morrow from Fort Monroe to Mobile, Ala., and before leaving Virginia (probably forever) I cannot withhold an expression of my warm and devoted attachment to you, both personally and officially. Under your guidance the true and good men of the Army of Northern Virginia were ever ready to follow, whether our march led to victory or defeat; so well assured were we all that virtue, honor and justice, with a Christian’s fear of an Almighty God, were the principles that Fitts or Fitz Family 101 actuated and inspired your conduct. To belong to General Lee’s defeated army is now the proudest boast of a Confederate soldier. “ Though overwhelmed by superior numbers and forced to surrender, we yet preserve our honor as men and soldiers. May the calamity which has befallen us be sanctified to the good of us all, and may the richest of blessings of heaven be vouchsafed to our noble commander-in-chief.” Your obedient servant, L. Guild, Medical Director, A. N. Va. The last letter ever written by Dr. Guild was in answer to an inquiry of the attending physician regarding the character of the disease under which General Lee was suffering. After the termination of the war, Dr. Guild established himself in Mobile, Ala., and resumed the practice of his profes¬ sion. Shortly after, the yellow fever made its appearance in the city, and spread so extensively that it became necessary to establish a quarentine or lazaretto, in order to intercept the pro¬ gress of the disease. To the charge of that institution he was at once elected, and at this, as at all other posts of duty, he labored with great assiduity and to the perfect satisfaction of all concerned. In 18^9 he removed to San Francisco, Cal., where his scientific abilities were immediately recognized and appreciated, and he was elected “ Visiting Surgeon of the city and county hospital,” which position he occupied at the time of his death. He died of rheumatism of the heart, in that city, on July 4, 1870. His remains were accompanied by his devoted wife, alone, from California to Tuscaloosa, Ala., where amid the scenes of his early life and with kindred ashes they now repose in Evergreen Cemetery. The following “ tribute” was paid to him by the board of health of the city of San Francisco: “To the Memory of Dr. La Fayette Guild, by the Board of Health of San Francisco:” Whereas, It has pleased Almighty God to remove from our midst, and a sphere of usefulness, Dr. La Fayette Guild, an amiable gentleman, accomplished physician and surgeon, and valuable citizen, and •* Whereas, It is highly right and proper that the board of health should, in fitting terms, express their high appreciation of his worth; therefore be it 102 Fitts or Fitz Family Resolved, That by the death of Dr. La Fayette Guild, the board of health are profoundly impressed with a loss to ourselves and to the community, of the services of one in every respect eminent and estimable. Resolved, That the heartfelt condolence of the board of health follow his afflicted family and friends to their far home in the south, where, well-known and beloved, his death will cause the deepest sorrow. Resolved, That this tribute to his memory, this sincerely felt, though inadequate commemoration of the many excellent qualities of his mind and heart, be spread on the minutes of the board, be published in the daily papers of San Francisco, and a copy of the same be forwarded to his family and friends in Alabama. Present—His Honor, Thomas H. Shelby, Mayor and ex-officio President of the Board of Health; Gustavus Holland, M.D., H. H. Hubbard, M.D., H. H. Toland, M.D., J. Campbell Shorb, M.D.; Attest: William V. Wells, Clerk, Board of Health. Dr. Newton, of Augusta, Ga., an old army friend and associate of Dr. Guild, ends a sketch of his life, published in the Banner of the South, in 1871, with the following words: “In the very brief sketch of the life and services of one so endeared to the officers and soldiers of the Army of Northern Virginia, I have given but feeble expression of my own high appreciation of the many excellent qualities of his noble character, No language could describe him to those who knew him not, while those who enjoyed his intimate acquaintance would be pained by the futility of the effort. You would have me pencil one who possessed all the elements of a chivalric manhood, all the tenderness of a sister of charity, all the sympathy of a brotherly love, all the affection of a devoted husband, all the virtues of the Christian gentleman.” No. 50 Oliver Henry (John 3 , Oliver 2 , Henry 1 ) Fitts 4 was born in the year 1834, near Uniontown, Ala. At the age of 18 he went to the State of Texas, which had been admitted into the Union a few years before, and to which many adventurous spirits were then attracted. He had many adventures in this wild country. As a member of the “ Texas Rangers ” he was with them, fight¬ ing the Indians for several years. Capt. WILLIAM A. FITTS 4 Fitts or Fitz Family 103 In 1861, at the commencement of the war between the States, he joined the 6th Cavalry Regiment of Texas, under Col. L. S. Ross, who was made brigadier-general in 1862. Mr. Fitts was in Ross’ brigade, under General Price, and was with him in his memorable campaign into Missouri. At the battle of Corinth, Mr. Fitts was severely wounded, and was afterwards promoted and sent to Enterprise, Miss., on post duty. After the surrender of the Confederates he went to Louisi¬ ana, and managed a large cotton plantation during two years for Col. Gardner. He removed to Tuscaloosa County, Ala., in 1867, and farmed near Northport for three years. In 1871, he was sheriff of Tuscaloosa County. He afterwards returned to his brother’s plantation, near Westpoint, Miss., where he farmed for several years. On account of his declining health, and with a view of setting out an orange grove, he went to Florida in 1883, where he remained on a small garden farm until the spring of 1890, when he returned to Alabama, entirely broken down in health, and died at the home of his brother, Capt. Wm. A. Fitts, in Birmingham, Ala., on the 30th of July, 1890. He never married. No. 51 William Aylette (John 3 , Oliver 3 , Henry 1 ) Fitts 4 was born near Uniontown, Ala., on Jan. 12, 1837. When about fifteen years of age he lost his mother, and at the age of sixteen he commenced work at a saw mill for the “ Shelby Lime Co,” and was soon placed in charge of the same. In about a year after he was sent to Selma, Ala., by this company and placed in charge of their ware-house and shipping business, where he remained for three years. While clerking here he saved some $1,200. Reserving $200 with which to pay his expenses, while attending medical lectures in New York, he generously sent the $1,000 to a younger brother with this remark: “ Take it Phil and use it to the best advantage, for yourself and our little sis¬ ters.” We do not find many such brothers now. It detracts nothing from the generosity of this act that only a portion of the money was used by the younger brother to assist in the sup¬ port of their sisters during the war, and the balance returned to Capt. Fitts. He was studying medicine at New York City, in the school of his uncle, Dr. Philip Aylette, in 1861, when the war began. Immediately after the fall of Fort Sumpter he returned to Selma and joined the “Jeff. Davis Artilery ” as a private. Five months afterwards the company was reorganized and enlarged 104 Fitts or Fitz Family and Mr. Fitts was elected 1st lieutenant. He served as lieuten¬ ant in this company for one year, and resigning he returned to Alabama and raised a company of which he was elected captain. Capt. Fitts’ company was mustered into service as Co. I of the 43d Reg’t of Ala. Volunteers, and was attached to Grade’s brigade, under Gen. Bragg. He served as captain of this com¬ pany through the western campaign and until a short time before the surrender, when on account of feeble health he was assigned to post duty in the commissary department at Colum¬ bus, Miss. Soon after the close of the war Capt. Fitts leased a planta¬ tion in Mississippi containing 1,500 acres, purchased the stock and tools on time, and commenced farming in 1866 on a large scale. This venture proved highly successful as he made large crops of cotton and corn and sold the cotton at a good price, making on his years’ work the amount of $15,000. He farmed in Tuscaloosa County, Ala., the next year and then returned to Mississippi. Here, at West Point, he again engaged in planting and in merchandising on a large scale which he continued with varying success for eighteen years. The firm of Shotwell & Fitts, of which he was the junior partner, made annual sales amounting to $100,000, and shipped some years as many as 8,000 bales of cotton to Mobile, Ala. Capt. Fitts was, during a portion of this time, a member of the firm of Allen, West & Co., a large commission house doing business in Mobile, Ala. The firm of Shotwell & Fitts did an extensive credit business, carrying many of their customers, who were mostly planters, from year to year until 1885, when from inability to make sufficient collections they were unable to meet their obligations, and had to turn over their entire assets to their creditors. In 1886 Capt. Fitts had to begin making his fortune again. He commenced by securing options on and trading in wild lands. At this he also proved a success, at one time purchasing from the State of Mississippi 48,000 acres, which he exchanged for property in the north and west. In 1887 he moved to Birmingham, Ala., where he dealt largely in real estate and working quarries until 1891, when he removed to Orlando, Fla., where he now resides, dealing in real estate and attending to two orange groves which he has pur¬ chased near the city. Captain Fitts married Eliza J. Watt, April 5, 1866. She was bom May 4, 1844, and was the daughter of Col. Thomas Watt, of South Carolina, who married Harriet Gandy, and died in Clay County, Miss., Jan. 18, 1880. Rev. PHILIP A. FITTS 1 No. 52 fiOVHlA HOLLAND (Cochrane) FITTS Wife of No. 52 105 Fitts or Fitz Family No. 52 Philip Augustus (John 3 , Oliver 2 , Henry') Fitts 4 was born April 19, 1839, in Tuscaloosa County, Ala. In the schools of his native city he secured a good elementary education, and was a student at the University of Alabama in 1856-57. Being anxious to support himself and render assistance to two younger sisters, he left the University before receiving a diploma and entered upon the study of law in the law office of Whitfield & Fitts in 1857. Possessing a bright intellect, and a mind well trained for one of his age, and being a diligent student, he acquired legal knowledge with great facility, and was well pre¬ pared for admission to the bar before he had attained his majority. Foreseeing his early preparation, his friends procured the passage of an act by the Legislature of Alabama, at the session of 1857-58, authorizing him to practice law in the courts of the State, notwithstanding his non-age, provided he should stand an approved examination before the Supreme Court. The following year, 1859, Mr. Fitts was admitted to the bar, having stood an examination before the Supreme Court, which was not only approved but highly complimented by all the judges. In the Circuit Court of Tuscaloosa County, at the spring term, 1860, he delivered his “ maiden speech ” at the bar. This was the opening speech for the prosecution, in the celebrated case of the “State vs. the Bryants and Dobbins,” for the murder of - Butler. This case was one which had excited general interest throughout Western Alabama, as Dr. Bryant, one of the accused, was a physician in fair standing, and the Foundry and Plow manufactory of Leach & Avery was destroyed by fire, on the night of the murder, as was supposed to conceal the murder by destroying the body of Butler, who was the night watchman at that large establishment. The most eminent lawyers of Tuscaloosa, Judge E. W. Peck, Judge W. Moody and the Hon. Wm. R. Smith, had been employed by the defendants, and they had, by virtue of a continuance of the case, a year’s time, in which to prepare their defence. The various circumstances rendered the case one of unusual interest, which caused a book¬ seller, then in Tuscaloosa, by the name of Woods, to take down the evidence and speeches in shorthand, and to publish the same in pamphlet form. Mr. P. A. Fitts was called into the case by the State solicitor, B. J. Wheeler, Esq., after the trial commenced, on account of the sudden illness of J. G. Harris, Esq., who was to have made the opening speech for the prosecution. Notwithstanding Mr. Fttts had to prepare his speech during the progress of the trial, and it was his first effort at the bar, it was 15 106 Fitts or Fitz Family listened to with marked attention by the court, jury and the large audience present, and was pronounced one of the ablest speeches delivered in this case. This speech placed him in the front rank of the rising young men at the Tuscaloosa bar, con¬ vinced the public of his ability as a speaker, and of his fine legal attainments, which at once assured his future success in the profession. He entered upon a good practice at the next term of the court, and continued at the Tuscaloosa bar for the next thirteen 3 T ears. During this time he was connected with two law firms ; the first was that of J. H. & P. A. Fitts, and the other was that of Hargrove & Fitts. His partner in this last firm was Col. A. C. Hargrove, for several years a State senator, and recently Presi¬ dent of the Senate. Both of these law firms did a good practice, and the latter was considered equal to any at the bar, which numbered among its members some of the most eminent lawyers of the State. As a lawyer, Mr. Fitts was both brilliant and profound. He prepared his cases with care, and was rarely ever surprised by the points made by his adversaries. He always presented his cases to the jury in a forcible and earnest manner, and possess¬ ing a bright intellect was often eloquent in their presentation. In person, Mr. Fitts was below the medium height and of a delicate constitution; never blessed with robust health. But notwithstanding this, he volunteered, as a private, in Lumsden’s Battery, and served two years in the Confederate war. His record was that of a good soldier, in the faithful discharge of every duty required of him. After the close of the war, he resumed the practice of his profession in the city of Tuscaloosa, Ala. Having joined the Protestant Episcopal Church, he was soon induced to become a Lay Reader, and was afterwards admitted to the Diaconate. In both capacities he served Christ Church, while still practicing law, and won the love and admiration of the entire congregation for the unselfish and self- sacrificing services he rendered without compensation. In 1873 Mr. Fitts was admitted to the Priesthood and abandoned the law as a profession. Soon after he was admitted to Priest’s Orders he was called to take charge of the Church of the Advent, at Birmingham, Ala., where he remained until November, 1875, and then removed to Clarksville, Tenn., in response to a call from Trinity Church of that city. He remained Rector at Clarksville, for the period of eleven years, and during this period the church increased in numbers and in spiritual life. While here, he succeeded by great personal sacrifice and much Rev. JOHN J. HARRIS Husband of No. 53 Fitts or Fitz Family 107 hard work, in finishing a beautiful and costly church edifice, the foundation of which had just been laid, when he was called to the Rectorship. He was a deputy to the General Convention from Tennessee in 1877-80, and from Kentucky in 1895. In 1886 Mr. Fitts accepted the pastoral charge of Grace Church, Anniston, Ala., where for several years he worked faithfully for the Master’s cause. The University of the South conferred upon him the degree of D. D. in 1893. Always earnest, generally forcible, and fre¬ quently eloquent as a preacher, gentle, kind and sympathizing as a pastor, Dr. Fitts never fails to win the love and admiration of his parish, wherever he goes. The following, “A Hearty Welcome to Rev. P. A. Fitts, former Rector of Trinity,” appeared in a paper of Clarksville, Tenn., some years ago : “ The friends of Rev. P. A. Fitts, members and non-members of Trinity Church, welcomed his visit to this, his former parish with a large and appreciative attendance, both at morning and evening service, Sunday, and were amply repaid in the morning by his admirable sermon on “ Christ and Him Crucified,” as the central point and fact of our religion. It was listened to with rapt attention, and was certainly an expression as is seldom heard. The sermon in the evening was not less forcible, on the idols of our heart and affection, which shape and make our future for weal or woe. The rendering of the service was also done with a felt fervor and devotion that carried it home to the hearts of all. The larger part of the audience in the morning stopped to give a hearty hand-shake and welcome to this, their former pastor and friend.” On the 10th of April, 1861, Dr. Fitts was married to Miss Sophia Holland Cochrane, daughter of the eminent lawyer, William Cochrane and Sophia L. (Perkins) Cochrane, of Tusca¬ loosa, Ala. No. 53 Margaret Louisa (John 3 , Oliver 3 , Henry 1 ) Fitts 3 was born May 1st, 1841. She was married to John James Harris Dec. 18, 1861. John James Harris was born June 10, 1837; baptized May 21, 1871. He was the son of Richard N. Harris and Amanda Banks Harris, of Tuscaloosa, Ala., in which city he was raised and educated. He was graduated at the University of Alabama, with the degree of A. B., in 1857, and in 1859 the degree of A. M. was conferred upon him by the same institution. He 108 Fitts or Fitz Family selected the law as his profession, and the degree of LL.B. was conferred upon him by the Cumberland University of Tennessee. In 1860 he was a Planter in Marengo County and an Attorney at law in Tuscaloosa. The following year, as orderly Sergeant, he went with the “ Warrior Guards ” for the defence of Fort Morgan, Ala., and then to Virginia as lieutenant of the same company. He was present at the first battle of Manassas, but his company did not participate in the engagement. In 1862 he was transferred to the Mining Bureau and placed in charge of the manufacturing of saltpetre for making gunpowder. After the close of the war Mr. Harris continued planting in Marengo and became a merchant in Tuscaloosa, and was editor and proprietor of a weekly newspaper called the “ Independent Monitor He was Mayor of the city of Tuscaloosa in 1874-75-76. He was appointed clerk of the Circuit Court of Tuscaloosa County by the Governor of the State in 1875, and was elected by the people to fill the same office in 1880. He resigned the office of clerk in March, 1882, and the following June was elected by the Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama, Quarter¬ master of that institution, which office he has held for the past seventeen years, discharging its duties in such a manner as to win the esteem of the faculty and cadets, and the approval of the Board of Trustees. In 1871 Mr. Harris joined the Episcopal Church and has been a zealous, consistent and useful member. Being well informed in Church history he was, in a few years, appointed a Lay Reader, and in February, 1885, he was admitted to the Diaconate. As a Deacon he has rendered much valuable and gratuitous service to the congregation of Christ Church, Tuscaloosa. Dur¬ ing two vacancies he had charge of the parish for several months each time; and for many months, during the illness of the Rev. James H. Stringfellow, he performed all the duties of rector as far as it was possible for a Deacon to do. Mr. Harris has endeared himself to the congregation and received the warmest thanks of the Vestry for his services. He justly deserves their lasting gratitude. No. 54 Tempe (John 3 , Oliver 2 , Henry 1 ) Fitts 1 was married to James E. Hawkins Nov. 14, 1872. James E. Hawkins was born in Jefferson County, Ala., April 10, 1851, and was educated at the University of the South, Fitts or Fitz Family 109 Sewanee, Tenn. Adopting the legal profession he located at Birmingham, Ala., and in 1882 was appointed Assistant Solicitor for the county. During this year he was elected as one of the representatives of Jefferson County to the legislature, and served in the session of 1882-83. The following year he was elected by the legislature, Solicitor of Jefferson County, which office he held nine years, resigning in 1892. He was made assistant U. S. district attorney in 1894. He died July 3, 1895, in Birmingham, Ala. The following notices from the City Papers will show in what estimation he was held by the citizens : “HE IS DYING Death Stands at the Bedside of Hon. James E. Hawkins Awaiting the end! There is a wave of sympathy going out to the devoted wife and family of Hon. James E. Hawkins, who is now dying at his residence on Eighth avenue. It is but a question of a few hours before one of Jefferson’s brightest minds and most generous souls will have been gathered to his fathers and sleep by the side of his ancestors in the soil whereon he was born and won the honors that have been accorded him in his forty-four years of life. As a practitioner at the bar and as Solicitor of Jefferson county, an office he held for six years, Mr. Hawkins ranked with his ablest confrers, while, in general popularity with his fellows of high and low degree alike, he was probably the most favored of all his companions. Two years ago Jefferson County chose him as her candidate for Congress and gave him her solid delegation. Loved by all that came within his reach, honored by the public beyond his years—there will be many eyes to moisten when the sad news shall have come. The last public office conferred on Mr. Hawkins was that of Assistant District Attorney, a position he has filled with honor to the present time. Hoping against hope, his friends still cling to the faintest glimmer of brightness that may possibly appear through the clouds.” “Fourth of July, 1895. At the hour of 4:20 yesterday afternoon Hon. .James E. Hawkins died at his residence on Elyton avenue. Calmly and peacefully he drew his last breath on earth; his noble heart ceased to beat, and his spirit winged its flight into the realms of eternity. He died surrounded by his wife and children and no Fitts or Fitz Family devoted friends, who have watched so patiently by his bedside during his long illness. For several days the doctors have despaired of his recovery, but his devoted wife and friends clung to the hope that he might be spared. Yesterday morning about 3 o’clock he awakened from the unconscious state in which he had been, and recognized his wife and friends around his bedside. But the moments of conscious¬ ness were such as frequently come to those who are upon the banks of the eternal river, and he soon relapsed into uncon¬ sciousness, from which he did not again rouse until death’s icy finger was upon him. In the death of Mr. Hawkins, Birmingham and Jefferson county sustain a loss which will be keenly felt and realized. He was born and reared here on Jefferson soil, and was one of her truest and most loyal sons. As a professional man he was one of the most brilliant at the State bar, and in his death the legal fraternity loses a brother well worthy of their admira¬ tion and love. At an early age Mr. Hawkins graduated in law and com¬ menced its practice here in Birmingham. Steadily he climbed the ladder until he soon ranked among the most prominent attorneys in Alabama. For six years Mr. Hawkins was solicitor of Jefferson county. Two years ago Jefferson made him her candidate for Congress from this district and gave him a solid delegation. As a worker in the ranks of Democracy he has ever been with the first and foremost, keeping always in view the interests of his county and his State. Mr. Hawkins was whole-souled and generous of heart, and was beloved by all who knew him. He leaves a host of friends who will mingle their tears with those of his wife and bereaved children in this the hour of their greatest sorrow .”—Birmingham State. Mr. Flawkins was a brother-in-law of Mrs. J. J. Harris of Tuscaloosa. He had many admiring friends in this city who will hear of his death with sorrow. No. 97 Thomas Henry 1 Rogers was born March 16, 1824; baptized by Rev. George Nolley of the M. E. Church. He was educated at Randolph Macon College, Boydton, Va., and the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pa., and died April 22, 1860, unmarried. WILLIAM CASWELL 4 DRAKE No. no Fitts or Fitz Family No. 98 111 George Oliver 4 Rogers was bom Oct. 15, 1826, and baptized by the Rev. George Nolley. He was educated at the Randolph Macon College, and the Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia, Pa. Pie married Mary Drake, of Warren County, N. C., on June the 4th, 1850. He died March 5, 1857. They had no children. No. 99 Emily Ann 4 Rogers was born Sept. 30, 1828; baptized by Rev. M. Deyer (M. E. Church). She was educated in Boyd ton, Va., and married Benjamin Drew of Southampton County, Va., on Nov. 6, 1850. No. 100 Adeline Fitts 4 Rogers was born Dec. 21, 1830; baptized by Rev. Wm. B. Rowgir. She married Prof. O. H. P. Corprew on July 5, 1854, and died Dec. 7, 1893. At the date of their marriage Mr. Corprew was Professor at Randolph Macon College, Va. He is now Professor at Central College, Fayette, Mo. T'hey had no children. Mrs. Emely Ann 4 (Rogers) Drew is now the only one of the Rogers family living. She and her youngest son, Benjamin C. Drew, with her two unmarried daughters live in Southampton County, Va. She has only one grandchild. No. 101 Henry Fitts 1 Twitty was born Oct. 2nd, 1823. He married Martha Foote of Warren County, N. C. He was a planter, and a soldier in the Civil war, and was twice wounded. He died September, 1887. His widow still survives him. No. 105 Sallie Fitts 4 Twitty was born about 1830. She was married to William Caswell Drake on the 18th of October, 1854. William Caswell Drake was born 31st of August, 1832, in Warren County, N. C. He received his primary education in the best schools of his county, and finished his course at Ran¬ dolph Macon College. After his marriage, being then 22 years of age, he settled on his plantation in Warren County, N. C., where he was engaged in farming until the commencement of hostilities 112 Fitts or Fitz Family between the States. Animated by a patriotic love for the South, and determined to maintain at all hazards what he believed to be the rights of his native State, Mr. Drake at once raised a companjr, of which he was elected captain, and enlisted in the Confederate army, leaving his loving wife, three little children and a happy home to strike for their liberty on the field of battle. Such men constituted the true heroes of the South, who fought not for personal aggrandizement, political preferment, nor for military glory, but for the independence of their beloved South. As commanding officer of his company Capt. Drake served the Confederacy until 11th of June, 1863, at which time the hardships of the tented field had made such inroads upon his constitution that he was compelled to resign his commission on account of ill health. In a few months Capt. Drake’s health being partially restored he accepted an appointment, from the Governor of the State, to the command of the 6tli Battalion of North Carolina troops, with the rank of major. In this command he served during the war, and when Gen. Lee surrendered, Major Drake was acting as Judge Advocate of a General Court Martial, by appointment from Gov. Vance. After the war closed Major Drake resumed farming and taught school in Warren County, N. C., for several years. Being a duly commissioned Magistrate, he was elected by the Board of Magistrates of Warren County, Judge of the Inferior Criminal Court. In 1885 he resigned the office of Judge of the Criminal Court, and was elected by the joint Boards of Magis¬ trates and County Commissioners of Education, to the office of Superintendent of Public Instruction for Warren County, N. C. He has filled this office to the satisfaction of the people, and holds it at the present time. Major William Caswell Drake was married to his second wife, Olivia Duke Fitts 4 , on the 29th of January, 1863. No. 110 Olivia Duke (Oliver D. 3 , Henry 2 , Henry 1 ) Fitts 4 was born May 10, 1837. She was married to Maj. William Caswell Drake (his second wife) on the 29th of January, 1863. Being the eldest surviving daughter she was the idol of her father, who humored her in every wish. His lavished affection and generous indulgence made her neither vain nor selfish, but served to educate her to generous deeds and acts of charity. Combined with these lovely traits of character she possessed an intellect of the highest order. In all the varied relations of life, SALL1E DUKE 4 (Drake) TWITTY No. xxi Fitts or Fitz Family 113 as daughter, sister, wife, mother and neighbor, she had few equals. Universally beloved, the entire community mourned her death, which occurred on the 26th of January. 1892. No. 108 Henry Fitts 4 Drake was born June 28, 1828. He was graduated from Randolph Macon College, at Mechlenburg, Va., in the class of 1852. He was, after his graduation, elected tutor of the College, and died June 24, 1852. No. 109 Mary Ann 4 Drake was born May 29, 1830. She was edu¬ cated at Boydton, Va., and married to Dr. George Oliver Rogers, in 1850. She died on the 14th of February, 1853. They left no issue. No. Ill Sallie Duke 4 Drake was born in July, 1835. She was educated at the Warrenton Female College, at Warrenton, N.C., when that institution was under the management of the renowned Educator, Rev. Dr. Turner. She married John Eldrege Twitty, Dec. 31, 1862, who was a gallant Confederate soldier. He was mortally wounded in a charge at Spottsylvania Court House, Va., on the 12th of May, 1864, and died a prisoner in Washington, D. C., May 21, 1864. He was buried at Arlington Heights, and in November, 1865, his remains were removed and placed in the family graveyard at the old Fitts homestead in Warren County, N. C. Few nobler lives were immolated on the altar of the “Lost Cause.” His widow still survives him, and is now engaged as lady Principal in the Luray Female Institute, in Page County, Va. No. 112 John Oliver 4 Drake was born Oct. 4, 1837, in Warren County, N. C. He was prepared for College in good schools near his father’s home, and matriculated at Trinity College, N. C.; but on account of his health, always feeble, he was enabled to remain only for a short time. Returning home, he spent some time on his father’s farm and then accepted a clerk¬ ship in a store at Warrenton, N. C. In June, 1861, Mr. Drake volunteered as a private in the Confederate army, joining the 12th N. C. Regiment, and served as a private in the ranks until July, 1863, participating in the bloody struggle at the battles of 16 114 Fitts or Fitz Family Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. Soon after this latter engage¬ ment he was assigned to duty as sergeant in the commissary department of the army of Gen. Lee, and was with it at the sur¬ render at Appomattox. After being paroled, he returned to Warren County, N. C., and for several years was engaged in mercantile pursuits. He was married to Miss Annie H. Finly, a daughter of Rev. Dr. Finly of the Virginia conference, and settled on a farm at Shocco Springs, which he and his sister had inherited from their uncle, Joseph A. Drake. She was a lady of rare loveliness of character, but lived to grace and bless his home only for a few years, dying on the 27tli of April, 1877. John Oliver' 1 Drake has been a Justice of the Peace for many years, and resides at present in Warrenton, N. C., holding the same office, honored and loved by all. No. 113 Sarah Fittshenry 4 Palmer was born Aug. 16, 1840, and baptized by Rev. Mr. Goodman. She was educated at Warren¬ ton, N. C. She married Robert Cheek Twitty, of Warren County, N. C., on May 30, 1860. He was educated at Trinity College, Randolph County, N. C. He was a Lieutenant in the 12th Regiment, N. C. Volunteers; afterwards joined the 1st N. C. Cavalry, Company “C.” No. 114 William Hendrick 4 Palmer was born Aug. 20, 1844. He was educated at Boydton, Va. He married Alice Fitts' Scoggin, Dec. 6, 1865. No. 128 Harriet Annie (Oliver D. 3 , Henry 2 , Henry’) Fitts 4 was married to Benjamin Ricks Arrington on the 26th of February 1868. He is a merchant, and was born in Halifax County, N. C., where he was raised. They live at Rocky Mount, N. C. No. 123 Henry (Oliver D. 3 , Henry 2 , Henry') Fitts 4 was born Oct. 27, 1832, in Warren County. Lie received a fair education in the Academies and High Schools of that county. At the age of 22 he lost his father, when he took charge of his estate and managed the plantation; taking care of his mother and the family until her death in 1858, when the prop¬ erty was divided. After his mother’s death he continued to JOHN OLIVER 4 DRAKE No. 112 9 FRANCIS MICHAEL FITTS 4 No. 126 Fitts or Filz Family 115 farm, keeping “ Batchelor’s Hall; ” and being a great lover of the chase, he kept a pack of hounds with which he and his friends frequently amused themselves, hunting foxes and deer. At the outbreak of the war in 1861, he volunteered in an infantry company, the “Warren Guards,” which was placed in the 12th Regiment of N. C. Volunteers. This company and one other from this county contained the best element of young men of the State, nine tenths of whom were killed or disabled during the war. He was wit?h his regiment at the battles of Hanover Court House and Seven Pines, and was slightly wounded in the battles around Richmond. He was on the field at the second battle of Manassas, and at Boonsboro and Sharps- burg, in Maryland. During the hard marches and exposure of this first Maryland campaign, he contracted typhoid fever, from which disease he died at Staunton, Va., in the fall of 1862, attended by his faithful servant, William, who carried his remains to his home. He was buried in the family cemetery at the home of his grandfather, Henry Fitts 2 . He was never married. No. 126 Francis Michael (Oliver D. 3 , Henry 2 , Henry 1 ) Fitts 1 mar¬ ried Ann Sterling Thrower (Harriet 3 , Henry 2 , Henry 1 ) Fitts 4 on Nov. 30, 1864. She was born in Warren County, N. C., Aug. 8th, 1846, and was baptized by the Rev. R. O. Burton, in the M. E. Church. She was educated at the Warrenton Female College. Francis Michael Fitts 4 was born May 8, 1841, in Warren County, N. C., on his father’s plantation, near the Roanoke River, and was baptized in 1846 by the Rev. Thomas S. Campbell of the North Carolina Conference, M. E. Church, South. He entered the Male Academy at Warrenton, N. C., when ten years of age, and subsequently went to the Male Academy at Raleigh, N. C., under Mr. J. M. Lovejoy. While attending this school, in February, 1854, his father died, and his mother then sent him to school at Olin, N. C., under the charge of her brother- in-law, Rev. Baxter Clegg. His mother was exceedingly anxious to give him a classical education, as, at the age of fifteen he was fully prepared to enter the State University. At this time an opportunity was presented to him of commencing life as a clerk in a merchantile house in Warren County, and like many other young men, he could not resist the temptation, though he was acting contrary to the wishes of his mother. When eighteen years of age he removed to Marion, Ala., and was a salesman in 116 Fitts or Fitz Family a drygoods house, in that place when the Civil war began. Rejoined the “Marion Rifles” under Capt. Young Royston, as a private, and went with that company to Fort Morgan, Ala., for its defence, in 1861. The company was ordered to return home after remaining at Fort Morgan one month. In April of the same year, he assisted in organizing the “ Marion Light Infantry,” of which Porter King was captain, W. M. Robbins first lieutenant, George D. Johnston (afterwards Brigadier General) second lieutenant, and J. S. Evans third lieutenant. On the 24th of April, 1861, Mr. Fitts left Marion with this company for Dalton, Ga., where it was mustered into service as a part of the celebrated Fourth Alabama Regiment, under Col. Egbert J. Jones And Lieut.-Col. E. M. Law, afterwards a Brigadier General. The 4th Alabama Regiment was sent to Harper’s Ferry, and served under Col. Jackson, afterwards the immortal “ Stone wall.” At the first battle of Mannassas the 4th Alabama Regi¬ ment was in Bee’s Brigade, and it was when that gallant officer was leading, this regiment, into the second action just before he fell, mortally wounded, that he exclaimed : “ Yonder stands Jackson like a stone wall.” Ever afterwards he was called “ Stone-wall Jackson.” Mr. Fitts heard Gen. Bee when he made the exclamation, which gave Gen. Jackson the nick-name, which is immortalized in history. He served in the 4th Alabama Regiment until the summer of 1862, when he was transferred, at his request, to the 30th North Carolina Regiment, under Col. Parker of Gen. Rodes’ division, Jackson’s Corps. He served in this regiment during the war, and surrendered with it at Appomattox. During all the vicissitudes of this protracted conflict he displayed the courage of a hero and the spirit of a martyr, exhibiting his devotion to the cause of the South by volunteering in her defence, when the first gun fired, and by continuing a faithful soldier in her army until the last hope for her freedom was extinguished. In 1864, at the battle of Cedar Creek, he was wounded, and for gallant services was, the same year, brevetted a Captain by Gen. Rodes. After the war he returned to his native State, and was engaged in farming and school teaching until the year 1881, when he was elected by the Democratic Board of Magistrates of Warren County, Superintendent of Public Instruction. He was elected to this office three times, and discharged its duties until June, 1885, when he resigned to take a position in the U. S. Railway Mail Service, having been highly recommended for the appointment by U. S. Senator W. W. Ransom of North Carolina. He resided in Washington City, holding the position as clerk of Fitts or Fitz Family 117 Class 5 in the Washington, D. C., and Charleston, S. C., railway post-office until the fall of 1896, when he returned to Macon, N. C., his present residence. No. 130 George Collins (Oliver D. 3 , Henry 3 , Henry 1 ) Fitts 1 was born in Warren County, N. C., on the 15th of October, 1849. He lost his father when he was four years old, and mother when nine years of age. Mathew M. Drake became his guardian, took him to his home, and sent him to school, from 1859 to the date of his death in 1863. In January, 1865, being then only 16 years of age, he joined his brother, Francis M., who had charge of a wagon train, on a foraging expedition, and went with him to Peters¬ burg, reaching that city a week or two before it was evacuated by the Confederates. He was with the army on its retreat to Appomattox, and was paroled at the surrender. With his brother he walked home, a distance of more than 100 miles, and arrived there April 14th, 1865. The next year he com¬ menced farming and continued this occupation until 1874, when he went to California and remained there two years, and then returned to Warren County. He resumed his farming, and, on the 29th of October, 1878, was married to Pattie Claiborne, who was born in that county, Aug. 25, 1855. He was elected Sheriff of Warren County in 1882, and again in 1884. When he went out of office he surrendered all his property to protect his sureties. He now rented lands formerly owned by him, and farmed from 1886 to 1891; but was unable to redeem his former pos¬ sessions. In 1891 he moved to Durham, N. C., where he now resides. No. 132 James Henry (Henry Green 3 , Henry 3 , Henry 1 ) Fitts 1 was born May 3, 1836, in Warren County, N. C. He married Francis Moylan Bird, a daughter of Henry D. Bird, of Peters¬ burg, Va., on the 14th of June, 1855. He early espoused the Southern cause, and was among the first to volunteer, joining the 12th N. C. Regiment, and died in the Confederate service at Petersburg, Va., on the anniversary of his wedding in 1861. No. 133 Sallie Duke 1 Twitty was born April 13, 1831. She was married to James Armstrong Duncan, A.M., D.D, on the 17th of 118 Fills or Fitz Family December, 1850. In a “Memorial Sketch of James Armstrong Duncan by Rev. Alex. G. Brown, D.D., appears the following- tribute to her worth: “In sketching the life of this illustrious man his early marriage must not be omitted. In his twentieth year he led to the bridal altar one of the fairest daughters of North Carolina, Miss Sallie Duke Twitty, oldest daughter of Thomas and Eveline Twitty (nee Fitts), who in the bloom and beauty of a refined and cultured womanhood, in her twentieth year, made him the princely gift of her hand and heart. Their marriage took place at Warrenton, North Carolina, December 17, 1850. To say that her loving companionship was his greatest earthly blessing, would be but to repeat his own estimate of her worth. How far his brilliant achievements in life may be due to her wise counsels, her helpful sympathy and her fervent prayer, it is not for us to know. Suffice it to say, in every place they lived, in every church they served, in every cause they espoused, in every cross they bore, in every pain they suffered, she was ever faithful, true and good; and in reviewing her life, alas! too short, it may be said of her as of Mary of Bethany: “ She hath done what she could.” After a lingering illness of many weeks she fell asleep in Jesus, Dec. 23, 1870. She was buried in Richmond’s most beautiful cemetery, Holly-wood, where, with her deceased children, she rests in the hope of a glorious resurrection. Four children survive her— two sons and two daughters, who fondly cherish her memory and perpetuate her influence. May they meet in heaven.” A Memorial Sketch of the Late Rev. James A. Duncan, A.M., D.D., Prepared by His Friend, Rev. Alex. G. Brown, D.D., of Ashland, Va. The Rev. James Armstrong Duncan, A.M., D.D., was born in the city of Norfolk, Va., April 14, 1830, and died at Ashland, Ya., the seat of Randolph Macon College, of which he was the gifted, popular and highly honored President, Sept. 24th, 1877. When he was a child, his father, Prof. David Duncan, A.M., an Irishman to the manor born, and an educator of rare scholarship and ability in his day, accepted the chair of Ancient Languages in Randolph Macon College, then located near Boydton, Mech- lenburg County, Va., and the family removed to that place and there resided for a number of years. Here Dr. Duncan was educated, converted to God and licensed to preach the Gospel. His first sermons composed and delivered in his eighteenth year, JAMES ARMSTRONG DUNCAN, A.M., D.D. Husband of No. 133 Fills or Fitz Family 119 while yet a student, are still remembered in Mecklenburg, and gave gratifying promise of his future greatness as a pulpit orator. In June, 1849, he graduated, and was appointed at once Pastor of the newly organized Southern Methodist Church in the city of Alexandria, Va. A great revival of religion crowned his ministry in this place, and there began his wonderful popu¬ larity and success as a preacher and Pastor, that waxed stronger and more lustrous, until the light of his resplendent genius was quenched by death. In November of this year he was admitted into the Itenerant Ministry at Petersburg, Va.; in 1851, at Alexandria, Va., he was elected to Deacon’s Orders, and ordained by Bishop James O. Andrews, D.D.; and in October, 1853, at Lynchburg, Va., he was elected to Elder’s Orders, and ordained by Bishop Robert Payne, D.D. The first nine years of his ministry was in Washington District, as it was then called, and our churches in Plampshire, Fairfax, Leesburg, Washington City, and again in Alexandria, were greatly edified and increased, both in numbers and influence, by his preaching, which was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demostrations of the spirit and of power; and his able and efficient ministry gave a mighty impulse to the cause he so faithfully and eloquently represented. The metropolis of the State was the next field of his labors, and here for nine years he stood abreast with the foremost pulpit orators of the land. The people of all classes, professions and denominations flocked to hear his matchless discourses, and his attractive manners in social life, his genial warm-heartedness, his uniform courtesy and kindness, his exquisite wit and humor, bound them to him with hooks of steel. Iiis first Richmond charge was old Trinity, on Franklin street, near the Exchange Hotel, to which he was assigned in November, 1857. The mother-church of Richmond Methodism was most unfortunately located. The tide of population and prosperity was rapidly flowing to the more attractive sections of the city, and Trinity, though a prominent and important station, was already somewhat weakened. Indeed, a crisis had been reached in the history of this church, and its environment made the prospect of success by no means encouraging. But rising above all discouragements, the young Pastor soon had this old and unsightly building crowded with eager and delighted con¬ gregations. A series of sermons to young men, and another to young women, gave him great popularity. 11 is thrilling appeals filled the city with his fame, and before the close of the first year of his Pastorate it was proposed that old Trinity should be 120 Fitts or Fitz Family divided, and that two new churches, both larger and more attractive, should be built on Broad street, the main boulevard of the city. Dr. Duncan was the life and leader of this great movement, and our beautiful Broad street church, standing on the corner of Broad and Twelfth streets, in the immediate vicinity of the State Capitol, the Governor’s Mansion and the elegant City Hall, was built the next year. The splendid and spacious edifice is an everlasting monu¬ ment to the genius of James A. Duncan, and to the liberality of his devoted and life-long friend, W. K. Watts. And on the corner of Broad and Twentieth streets stands another church, scarcely less costly and imposing, bearing the old name, Trinity, both the outcome directly and indirectly of Dr. Duncan’s won¬ derful success in Richmond. But the chief throne of his power was the pulpit of Broad Street Church, to which he was twice assigned, first in 1859 and again in 1863. The fact that at this time Richmond was the capital of the Confederate States and the grand headquarters of the Confederate army, gave it great prominence, and drew to it the President and Official Staff of the Southern Confederacy, and made it the favorite city of our Southland, and filled it with the flower of southern society, talent and wealth. In those eventful years Dr. Duncan’s preaching reached the highest pitch of his power, and was heard by multitudes, whose number eternity must reveal. Jefferson Davis, the honored President of the Confederacy, was a frequent visitor at his church, and when the gallant chief of the “ lost cause ” saw that he could no longer defend Rich¬ mond from the hosts of the advancing foe, Dr. Duncan was notified of that fact, and was invited to a seat in the car that bore Mr. Davis and his family from the scene of the burning city. After the surrender of the Southern armies, Dr. Duncan quietly returned to his pulpit and people, and amid the ashes and ruins of the fallen Capitol, his church was again filled with overflowing congregations, His faithful, spiritual and eloquent preaching, entranced, comforted and edified and impressed the listening thousands that flocked to hear him. His influence widened and deepened until the close of the Pastoral term in November, 1866, and no man in our day accomplished more for Methodism and for the cause of Christ in the capital of Virginia than James A. Duncan. From the fall of 1860 he was the editor-in-chief of the Rich¬ mond Christian Advocate, and though, when Richmond fell, his paper was suspended for awhile and the Episcopal Methodist was Fitts or Fitz Family 121 started in its place, he soon resumed its publication and drove that formidable competitor from the field. The readiness and versatility of his talents were admirably displayed in his editorial office, and he developed a marvelous genius for work, for while taxed and burdened with many ministerial and Pastoral duties, he not only wrote the editorials but much of the most popular and enjoyable correspondence that enriched the columns of the Advocate during these years. In the fall of 1866 he was assigned to the pulpit of Wash¬ ington street church, Petersburg, Va., and that appreciative people, among whom was the venerable D’Arcy Paul, of precious memory, never tired in telling of the rich spiritual feasts on which he fed his flocks. But in this city he was stricken down with a severe attack of malarial fever,which seriously shattered his nervous system, and from whose ill-effects he very slowly recovered. In the summer of his second year at Washington street the Providence of God called him to a wider sphere of usefulness. By a unanimous vote of the large and influential Board of Trustees of Randolph Macon College, he was elected President of his beloved Alma Mater, an office for which he possessed pre¬ eminent qualifications and in which he wrought for the cause of Christian education with ability, a zeal and a success that gave Randolph Macon a foremost place in the sisterhood of Southern colleges, secured to it the largest patronage it ever received, and filled its halls with the largest number of students that ever sought its advantages in all the long years of its history. His Presidency marks the most critical era in the life of our college. When after the fall of the Southern Confederacy this institution was opened at the old site near Boydton, the situation was very embarrassing. The ante-bellum endowment, though not entirely lost, was seriously impaired; the old loca¬ tion was neither central to the territory of the patronizing conferences nor accessible by rail from any direction. The attendance, therefore, was small, and the outlook was distress¬ ingly threatening. Dr. Duncan saw the peril, and plead for the removal of the College to its present and most eligible site at Ashland, Va. The Board of Trustees resolved to make the experiment. The President and Faculty, under whose adminis¬ tration the College struggled for existence a few years at the old site, resigned, and the session beginning September, 1868, was opened at Ashland under the popular Presidency of Dr. Duncan, who devoted to this institution the last nine years of his life. There was associated with him a Faculty, not inferior in learning and aptness in the art of teaching to that of any other 17 122 Fitts or Fitz Family college in the land; and with great ability, zeal, and self-denying devotion, they stood by their appreciative and sympathetic chief, and worked in happy accord with his efforts to elevate the grade of scholarship, to secure the most thorough instruction in every branch of study, and to give the most perfect and well-rounded culture to the young men intrusted to their care and training. And in addition to his Presidential duties, Dr. Duncan filled the chair of Moral Philosophy and Biblical Literature, preached twice every Sunday in the College Chapel, and often in the midst of the College session, he hurried off to preach in city or country at the call of the churches of the Virginia and Balti¬ more Conferences, and to raise money requisite to his College work. Nor did the summer vacation bring him rest, but inces¬ santly he traveled through the territory of the patronizing Con¬ ferences, talking with the preachers and people on the claims of the College and the cause of higher education—all in the name of Christ, and for the glory of God. In labors more abundant he spared not himself and was never reluctant to do any good work. Everywhere his services were sought, every¬ where his society was enjoyed, everywhere he found welcome to the hearts and homes of the people. He won many souls; many luke-warm and languishing Christians were revived through his preaching, and no man of his generation so strongly impressed the religious character of our churches and institutions of learning as did he. His personal influence with the members of the Faculty and the students of the College was almost boundless. On this, more than on rules and regulations, he relied for the maintenance of a wise paternal government; and the best behavior was the result, with rare exceptions. His power to uplift the fallen, to strengthen the weak, to encourage the despondent, to sympathize with the afflicted, and to make men see what he saw and feel what he felt made him an accomplished expert in the difficult and delicate art of character building; and thousands whom he converted from the error of their ways, whom he led to Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, whom he guided by judi¬ cious counsel, whom he cheered, comforted and gladdened, shall rise up at the last day and call him blessed. His brethren of the Virginia Conference, who knew him best and loved him most of all, delighted to honor this princely man and minister. By their votes he was elected to the General Conference of 1866, of 1870, and of 1874. In that of 1870 which, his duties at the College prevented him from attending, he would undoubtedly have been elected a Bishop had he Fitts or Fitz Family 123 been present. Even in his absence he would have been chosen to that highest office in the gift of the church if some of his Virginia brethren had not withheld their votes, because, as they affirmed, his services were regarded to be absolutely essential to the success of Randolph Macon College. But notwithstanding that, he lacked only a few votes of being selected. The conduct of the Virginia delegates who defeated his election was not altogether free from criticism, but the reason alleged by them was highly complimentary to Dr. Duncan, to whom the mind of the whole church was directed as one most worthy and well qualified for the Episcopal office. In 1876 he was a Fraternal messenger from the Methodist Episcopal Church, south, to the General Conference of the M. E. Church, at Baltimore, Md.; and the address he delivered before that august body of representative laymen and ministers of the Gospel was regarded by many to be the grandest and most thrilling eloquence that ever fell from the lips of our golden mouthed orator. His second wife was Miss Elizabeth Wade, a daughter of Dr. William A. Wade, a minister of the Baltimore Conference, who with her only child, a lovely daughter, mourns his untimely death. In the summer of 1876, exhausted by ceaseless toil of trav¬ eling and preaching and exposure to a deadly malarial atmos¬ phere, while attending a series of meetings in the valley of the south branch of Potomac River, he was seized by a fever, with typhoid tendencies, and he lay for weeks at the point of death. For one year he was scarcely fit for any work, and though he rallied and resumed his course of untiring labor, the seeds of disease lurked in his system, and often developed in spells of painful illness. Yet he worked on cheerfully, energetically, with self consuming zeal. The summer of 1877, he traveled and spoke and preached with an ardor, power and success fully equal to his happiest efforts in the years of his most vigorous manhood. Sunday, Sept. 9th, 1877, he preached the sermon at the re-opening of of Trinity Church, Baltimore City. That, his last sermon, was delivered in pain, but not without the power of effective elo¬ quence. On returning to his Ashland home his sufferings increased. He sat up, however, a part of each day, and seemed not to suspect that his end was so near. Monday morning, Sept. 24th, in the midst of his family and loved ones he quietly breathed his last. His venerable father, then in his eightieth year, was present. The Angels were in the room. The Saints 124 Fitts or Fitz Family in Heaven gave him welcome to our Father’s House. Oh, the surprise, the grief, the severe loss, the shock, the feeling of deso¬ lation, his death produced! Crowds attended his funeral at Broad Street Church, Richmond, which by a marble tablet near the pulpit acknowledges him as its founder. Bishop David S. Doggett, D.D., conducted the solemn and impressive services. Memorial meetings were held in Rich¬ mond, Petersburg and Baltimore Cities, and eloquent eulogies were pronounced, and resolutions in high praise were adopted by Quarterly Conferences and by Faculties of Colleges and Universities. The secular and religious press honored his memory with heartfelt tributes. But neither tongue nor pen could express the reverence and love with which his name is cherished in thousands of hearts and homes to-day. Loving hands laid his body to rest in Hollywood Cemetery with his loved ones, and an imposing monument of Virginia granite, whose polished dies bear appropriate inscriptions, was erected by his brethren to mark the spot where lies his sacred dust, and to transmit to posterity their high appreciation of him whom they loved most dearly. “ There be thy rest, till He bid thee arise To hail Him in triumph descending the skies.” Ashland, Va., March 7th, 1894. Copy of inscription on the tablet to Dr. Duncan in Broad Street M. E. Church, South, Richmond, Va.: “Sacred to the memory of Rev. James A. Duncan, D.D. Born at Norfolk, Va., April 14, 1830. Died at Ashland, Va., Sept. 24, 1877. The Founder and First Pastor of this Church.” Copy of inscription on the monument erected over his grave in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Va. On one side of shaft: “Rev. Jas. A. Duncan, A.M., D.D. Born in Norfolk, Va., April 14, 1830. Died in Ashland, Va., September 24, 1877.” At the Base: “Duncan.” On another side of shaft: “A Minister of the M. E. Church, South, and President of Randolph Macon College.” On another side: “He died universally beloved and lamented.” On another side: “His genius, eloquence, zeal and and piety, made him a burning and a shining light.” No. 139 James Fitts 4 Twitty was born May 4, 1848, and baptized by Rev. R. 0. Burton, of the M. E. Church. When only five years old his mother died in New Orleans of yellow fever, and he was cared for in his youth by a kind WILLIE FITTS 4 (Thrower) Scoggin No. 150 Fitts or Fitz Family 125 uncle, Mr. Nathan Milan, of Warren Co., N. C., as a calamitous financial reverse of forture had rendered his father unable to provide for his six children. At an early age he joined the M. E. Church at old Mt. Hebron. His consistent Christian con¬ duct, bright intellect and his earnest desire to obtain an educa¬ tion attracted the attention of another generous uncle of ample means, Mr. Horace Palmer, who took him to his home with the intention of giving him a classical education. The loss of his property by the result of the war made it impossible for Mr. Palmer to carry out his praiseworthy resolution; so at the age of seventeen, James remained with his uncle doing farm work. De¬ termined to educate himself he devoted his spare time to study and reading. A brother-in-law, the Rev. James A. Duncan, was in full sympathy with young Twitty in his heaven reaching aspirations to be wise and good, and took him, as a member of his family, in his home at Petersburg, Va., where the facilities for self education were greater. He prepared himself for the ministry, and in a few years was a member of the Virginia Con¬ ference. By constant study and faithful devotion to his Pastoral duties, he became one of the prominent Ministers of the M. E. Church, in the State. After filling many of the most important stations he was assigned to duty as Presiding Elder of the Peters¬ burg District, which position he resigned on account of ill health, about twelve months prior to his death, which occurred in Petersburg on the 12tli of July, 1892. Having married Annie Bea¬ man, of Murfreesboro, N. C., he leaves a widow with six children. No. 150 Mary Fitts William 4 Thrower, the youngest grandchild of Henry Fitts 2 , was born in Warren County, N. C., May 24, 1853; baptized in infancy by Rev. T. B. Reeks, of the M. E. Church, and was educated by Turner M. Jones, D.D., at the Female College, Louisburg, in Franklin County, N. C. She was married Dec. 13th, 1871, to George Rogers Scoggin, of Virginia, by the Rev. R. A. Willis. She furnished the com¬ piler of these genealogical tables with most of the data in reference to the North Carolina branch of the Fitts family, and many of them are indebted solely to her that their family record is given. For her cheerful and intelligent assis¬ tance the author makes his acknowledgment in his “preface.” No. 151 Mary Emily (Samuel Alston 4 , James Harris 3 , Oliver, Henry') Fitts 6 was born Feb. 28, 1840, and baptized June 5, 1845, by 126 Fitts or Fitz Family the Rev. N. A. Cravens. She was educated at the Methodist Female College in Tuscaloosa, Ala., and was confirmed by Rt. Rev. William M. Green, Bishop of Mississippi, in 1861. She kept up her studies and music after graduation, and rendered great service to her parents, in teaching her younger sister and brothers. She resides at Roseland, and counsels with her wisdom and guides with her love the members of the family, all of whom, like herself, have remained single except a sister. No. 154 James Oliver (Samuel Alston', James Harris 3 , Oliver 2 , Henry 1 ) Fitts 6 was born in Marengo County, Ala., near Uniontown, at the family home, Roseland, on the 19th of December, 1846, and was baptized June 13, 1848, by the Rev. W. H. McDaniel, of the M. E. Church. At the age of seventeen he entered the State University, but remained there only one year before he left to join the Confederate Army, feeling that it was his duty to aid in the defense of the South, then struggling hard for her freedom. He was attached to Gen. Loring’s division, and in the latter part of 1864 was selected by him as one of his couriers, in which capacity he served during the remainder of the war. After the overthrow of the Confederacy, he finished his education at the Washington Lee University, Va. (the University of Alabama having suspended operations on account of the destruction of its buildings by the Federal forces), where he remained two years. On his return home he began the study of law in 1868, at Tuscaloosa, Ala., but the death of his father the following year placed in his hands the management of the estate, which occupied his entire attention for the next fourteen years. He managed the large estate during these years, keep¬ ing up the plantation and making annual crops of corn and cotton, until the youngest child could manage his interest, virtually without compensation. In acting and doing for his brothers and sisters he followed the noble example of his father. His reports and final settlement as administrator of the estate, on record in the Probate Court of Marengo County, give unmis¬ takable evidence of his energj^, ability and fidelity. For this unselfish and self-sacrificing labor, in their behalf, he richly deserved the thanks and gratitude of his brothers and sisters. The experience gained in the management of his father’s large estate, rendered him both an excellent farmer and a splendid manager of free negro labor. Instead of returning to the law, he accepted a position offered him by the Calhoun Company, as manager of several of their plantations, on the Mississippi River, Fitts or Fitz Family 127 near Sunnyside, Arkansas. He continued in the service of the Calhoun Company for seven or eight years, making annually, on the plantations under his charge, from 1,200 to 1,500 bales of cotton. In addition to paying him a large salary, the Cal¬ houn Company made him annually a handsome and costly present, thus showing their appreciation of his ability and fidelity. While in the employ of this company he saved, as the result of his own individual labor, some $10,000, which he invested in bonds and bank stocks. With a view of establishing himself in some business more congenial to his tastes, Mr. Fitts, in 1891, took a full course in book-keeping at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and made himself highly proficient in this department of business. In December of this year he determined to concentrate his capital, amounting now to some $15,000, and embark in some enterprise or business. For this purpose he visited Birmingham, Ala., and other places, and while thus traveling around he contracted a violent cold, which terminated in a severe attack of rheumatism. He returned to Roseland, where he received the best medical treatment and kindest attention of loving brothers and devoted sisters, but after a week’s illness the disease attacked his heart, and he died sud¬ denly on the 25th of February, 1892, in the same room in which he was born. He was never married. He was buried at Union- town, Ala., in the family enclosure, where rests the remains of a sister, three brothers, a father and a mother. No. 155 Edward Alston (Samuel Alston", James Harris 3 , Oliver' 3 , Henry 1 ) Fitts 6 was born Aug. 29, 1849, and baptized March 31, 1850. He was confirmed by Co-Adjutor Bishop Jackson, April, 1892. He is a successful planter, and resides in Merango County, Ala., near Faunsdale. No. 156 John Henry (Samuel Alston", James Harris 3 , Oliver 3 , Henry') Fitts 6 was born Oct. 5, 1852, at “ Roseland,” in Marengo County, Ala., and was baptized June 3, 1853, by Rev. John D. Fisher of the M. E. Church. He was graduated at the Uni¬ versity of Alabama., with the degree of A. M., in the class of 1874. It would be difficult to find one who was more exem¬ plary in his college life. Studious in his habits and circumspect in action, he gained the confidence and respect of the Faculty. Modest in spirit, gentle in manners, in duty firm, in danger 128 Fitts or Fitz Family “ calm and even,” he won the admiration and love of his fellow- students. After graduation he returned to the old homestead, and for several years assisted his brother in the management of his father’s estate. He never made choice of a profession, and during his leisure devoted himself to general reading. The favorite of the household he was appealed to as an umpire by both old and young, and the kind and considerate manner in which he presented his reasons to sustain any decision, rarely ever failed to give satisfaction to both parties. When twenty-seven years of age his dying mother summoned her sons to her bedside to receive her last advice and farewell bless¬ ing, and as he knelt beside her bed she gave him no advice, but blessed him in these words : “ My good, peaceful boy, who has never given me any trouble.” The noblest son could ask no higher endorsement than such an unqualified approval of a dying- mother. He never married, and died on the 23d day of August, 1883, and was buried in the family enclosure, in the cemetery at Uniontown, Ala. No. 157 Cornelia (Samuel Alston 4 , James Harris 3 , Oliver 2 , Henry 1 ) Fitts 6 was born in Marengo County, Ala., at “Roseland,” the parental home, on Dec. 24, 1854, and was baptized in the Episcopal Church, Sept. 27, 1857, by the Rev. W. P. Harrison. She married Frank Wharton Gaines, at Roseland, on Dec. 29, 1885. Mr. Gaines was a hardware merchant of Nashville, Tenn. They now reside in Selma, Ala. They have one child, Frank Wharton Gaines, Jr. No. 159 Waverly (Samuel Alston 4 , James Harris 3 , Oliver 2 , Henry 1 ) Fitts 6 was born Feb. 15, 1861, and baptized May 10, 1863, by the Rev. J. J. Hutchinson. He is a successful planter and lives near Faunsdale, Ala. No. 163 Sidney Fitts 6 Leach was born Nov. 14, 1841. He was educated at the University of Alabama, and was made one of the cadet Captains when the military feature was attached to the Institution. He was graduated with the degree of A.B. in 1860. Elizabeth F. (Fitts) 4 Leach Emily Alston 5 (Leach) Carpenter Lizzie Leach g (Carpenter) James Edith Whitaker 7 James Emilie Carpenter 7 James No. 36 No. 436 No. 610 No. 164 No. 609 Fitts or Fitz Family 129 He entered the Confederate Army at the breaking out of the Civil War, and was made Ordnance Sergeant of Fowler’s Battery, which was attached to the “Army of Tennessee.” He served with this company during the war. He was confirmed in Christ Church, by Bishop Wilmer, on April 28, 1867. He was married to Mary Lee Peck, daughter of Judge E. W. Peck, on Nov. 14, 1869. She died Nov. 21, 1883. He at present is a merchant. No. 164 Emily Alston 6 Leach was born Dec. 1, 1843, and baptized April 28, 1844. She was married to James Slaughter Carpenter, of Louis¬ ville, Ky., on April 3, 1865. He was a Captain at that time in the Confederate Army, and was captured in Tuscaloosa, April 3, 1865, soon after the marriage ceremony was performed, and paroled by a Federal Major. James Slaughter Carpenter, of Louisville, Ky., was born in Bardstown, Ky., January 23, 1840, and was educated at St. Joseph’s College, Bardstown, and at Bethany College, Va. At the outbreak of the Civil War, when barely of age, he joined the Confederate Army as a private, 9th Kentucky Infantry, and was appointed a Captain in the Commissary Department. He married, April 3d, 1865, Miss Emily Alston Leach, daughter of Dr. Sewell J. and Elizabeth Fitts Leach, of Tuscaloosa, Ala., and was captured the evening of his marriage by General Crox- ton, of the Federal Army (who was making a raid through that section a few days before the close of the war), but was paroled. Mr. Carpenter was the youngest child of the Hon. Samuel and Margaret Bowie Carpenter, nee Slaughter. His father was an Attorney at Law, Kentucky State Senator, and Circuit Judge. His mother’s father was Hon. Robert Slaughter, of Nelson County, Ky., son of Col. James Slaughter, of Culpeper County, Va., who commanded a regiment of militia at the battle of the Great Bridge, the first battle of the Revolution fought on Vir¬ ginia soil. Robert’s oldest brother, Capt. Phillip Slaughter, joined the Revolutionary Army before he was 17 years old, and served until the war terminated. Mr. Carpenter’s grandmother’s father was Col. James Pendleton, Revolutionary Army, who married a daughter of Gov. Robert Bowie, of Maryland, a Cap¬ tain in the Revolutionary Army. This James Pendleton was a son of James Pendleton, the oldest of five sons of Henry and Mary (Taylor) Pendleton, their youngest son being Judge 18 130 Fitts or Fitz Family Edmund Pendleton, of Richmond, Va., formerly of Carolina County, Va. Mr. Carpenter has been for thirty-two years General Agent of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company, of Hart¬ ford, Conn., for Tennessee and Kentucky, and has always been noted for his promptness and dispatch. He is a deacon of the First Christian Church, at Louisville, and a member of the Louisville Commandery of K. T. No. 165 Samuel Thomas 6 Leach was born July 1, 1846, and bap¬ tized May 10, 1847. He joined “Fowler’s Battery,” during the Civil War, as a private, at the age of 16. Was Color Bearer of that company at the close of the war, and proved a faithful soldier. He is a clerk and book-keeper in Tuscaloosa, Ala. No. 173 Joe Evans 6 Pegues was born Dec. 13, 1854, and baptized by Rev. R. D. Nevius. Mr. Pegues commenced work for him¬ self when quite young. In 1871 he was made Agent of the Southern Express Co., at Tuscaloosa, Ala., and continued in this capacity until 1874, when he resigned in order to attend a course of study at Eastman’s Business College, at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. After finishing his studies at Poughkeepsie he accepted a position with the Southern Express Co. again, as messenger on the U. S. & T. R. R. In 1880 he accepted a situation with the U. S. Government as Paymaster in its work on the Coosa River, Ala., and continued in this position until 1883. He then resigned to accept a similar position with the U. S. Government in its work on the Mississippi River. In 1886 he resigned his position with the U. S. Government and returned to the Southern Express Co., at Tuscaloosa, Ala., in which city he is their agent at the present time. Mr. Pegues was married to Rosa Rowen, daughter of Richard Rowen, Esq., on Dec. 13, 1881. They have five children. In all the positions held, he has sustained the char¬ acter of an efficient and diligent business man. No. 174 Samuel Fitts 6 Pegues was born Dec. 8,1858 ; baptized May 21, 1860. He was educated at the University of Alabama, leaving there in 1876, one year before graduating. Fie then entered Fitts or Fitz Family 131 the services of Berry & Son, of Rome, Ga., as bookkeeper. After¬ wards he accepted services in the Civil Engineering Depart¬ ment of the U. S. Government, where he has remained, except during the four years when he was Assistant Circuit Clerk of Tuscaloosa County, Ala. He gave up the position of Clerk in 1892 and returned to the Engineering Department of the Gov¬ ernment, and has been located since in Chicago, Ill. In all the relations of life, Mr. Pegues has ever borne the character of a diligent, efficient and faithful business man, and that of an amiable, high-toned gentleman. In 1883 he married Mattie Alexander, of Rome, Ga. They have two children. No. 175 Ida 6 Pegues was born Oct. 2, 1860. She was educated in Tuscaloosa, Ala. She was married to Eugene G. Eaton, on Jan. 4,1883. He is a man of energy and intellect and is engaged in the Iron and Lime business. They have three children and reside at Rock Springs, Ala. No. 176 Charles (William Faulcon 4 , James Harris 3 , Oliver 2 , Henry') Fitts 6 was born July 2, 1858, and baptized Aug. 2, 1858, in Christ Church (Episcopal), at Tuscaloosa, Ala. He was educated in that city, spending three years at the University of Alabama. On the 5th of January, 1887, he was married to Flora Darner, a half-sister to Mrs. White Spunner, who is at this time engaged making a botanical collection of the Flora of Ireland. Mr. Fitts is the proprietor of the principal book-store at Tuscaloosa, Ala., where he resides. They have one child. No. 177 Lizzie Faulcon (William Faulcon 4 , James Harris 3 , Oliver 2 , Henry 1 ) Fitts 6 , born Nov. 21, 1860, in Tuscaloosa, Ala., was married to Benjamin F. Flinn on the 25th of January, 1881, in the city of Tuscaloosa, Ala., where she was educated, and con¬ firmed in Christ (Episcopal) Church, June 14, 1874. Mr. B. F. Flinn was born in Montgomery County, Ala., in 1857. He entered the University of Alabama in 1876, and was graduated with the degree of A. B. in the class of 1880. Selecting the law as his profession, he entered the Law School of the University and received the degree of L. B. B. in 1881. 132 Fitts or Fitz Family He lived in Tuscaloosa, Ala., for several years, and was one of the Projectors and Incorporators of the Tuscaloosa Cotton Seed Oil Mill. In 1885 he removed to Montgomery, Ala., and the following year was one of the Representatives of Montgomery County in the Legislature, serving in the session of 1886-87. Mr. and Mrs. FI inn now reside in Montgomery, Ala. They have five children, two daughters and three sons. No. 178 William Faulcon (William Faulcon 4 , James Harris 3 , Oli¬ ver, Henry 1 ) Fitts 6 was born March 12, 1863, and was baptized May 15, 1863, in Christ Church, Tuscaloosa, Ala., the city in which he was educated. He went to the University of Alabama for two years, 1878-79. He was graduated in general book-keeping at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., in 1882. He was married to Helen Wallace McEachin, a daughter to Col. A. B. McEachin, of Tuscaloosa, Ala., on the 6th of February, 1884. They reside in Tuscaloosa, Ala., and have no children. No. 179 William Faulcon (James Harris 4 , James Harris 3 , Oliver 2 , Henry 1 ) Fitts 6 was born in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on Feb. 18, 1856 ; baptized in Christ Church (Episcopal) of the same city, by the Rector, Rev. John D. Easter, on May 30, 1867. He was pre¬ sented for confirmation by the Rector, Rev. George H. Hunt, and confirmed by Rt. Rev. R. H. Wilmer, Bishop of the Diocese of Alabama, on the 21st of May, 1871. He was prepared to enter upon a collegiate course in the best schools of Tuscaloosa, and was sent by his parents to the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn., as the University of Alabama had not been properly organized, after the destruction of its buildings by the Federal Army during the war. He remained at the University of the South during the session of 1872-73, and returned to the University of his native State in 1874, where he was graduated in the class of 1875. After finishing his education he entered the Banking House of J. H. Fitts & Co. as a clerk and book-keeper, in which position he had some experience, and in 1877 was made cashier. On the 13th of September, 1876, being then under twenty-one years of age, he was married to Annie Spiller, a daughter of Mr. James D. Spiller, who was for many years a prominent merchant of Annie (Spiller) Fitts Frank Fitts 15 William F. Fitts 5 Wife of No. 179 No. 472 No. 179 Mary Emily Fitts 0 Fitts or Fitz Family 133 Tuscaloosa, the marriage ceremony being performed by Rev. George H. Hunt. She was born May 18, 1857, baptized March 9, 1877, and confirmed by Bishop Wilrner, in Christ Church. Being an accomplished musician, and having a highly cultivated voice, she soon became a member of the choir, and for the past twelve years she has rarely missed a service unless detained by sickness. One incident in the early life of Mr. Fitts is worthy of being recorded. During his boyhood he was considered thoughtless, and in some things wanting in stability of purpose. In one essential matter, however, he exhibited wonderful forethought and remarkable stability of purpose. When about ten years of age he said to his father: “ There are some things I never intend to do. I never intend to smoke, chew or drink.” His father replied: “ My son, I do not propose to pay you for keeping that promise, but if acting upon principle, you do abstain from smoking, chewing and drinking, until you are twenty-one years old, I will make you a present of $1,000 in gold.” He faithfully observed this self-imposed obligation, and after thanking his father, when the amount was presented to him, he remarked: “ I certainly made this money very easy. Would like to do it again. I do not intend to smoke, chew or drink for the next ten years.” Although he was offered no additional present to abstain he is now nearly thirty-eight years of age, and has never used tobacco in any form, nor taken a drink of any kind of intoxicating liquors. As stated, Mr. Fitts became Cashier in the Banking House of J. H. Fitts & Co., in 1877, his father having given him an interest in the Bank, and he has held that office continuously to this date. By his energy and zeal he has largely contributed to the success of the Bank of which he is now a member. He has frequently had entire control of the Bank for weeks at a time, during his father’s absence in the interest of the “ Tuscaloosa Cotton Mills,” or on extended visits to the North. Mr. Fitts had, at all times, the entire control of the Insur¬ ance Department, consisting of several agencies, both life and fire, held by the Bank. He has managed this department with energy, ability and success. After the death of his brother, Festus Fitts 6 , he was made President of the Tuscaloosa Cotton Mills, which position he held till its destruction by fire in 1897. No. 181 Festus (James Harris 4 , James Harris 3 , Oliver, Henry 1 ) Fitts 6 was born in the city of Tuscaloosa, Ala., Feb. 15, 1859 ; 134 Fitts or Fitz Family baptized in Christ Church, May 30, 1867, by the Rev. John D. Easter; presented for confirmation by the Rev. George H. Hunt, and confirmed by the Rt. Rev. R. H. Wilmer, on the first of June, 1873. He was prepared for college in the schools of the city, entered the University of Alabama in September, 1874, and was appointed Adjutant of the Corps of Cadets that year by Col. T. C. McCorvey, then Commandant, who desired him to discharge the duties of that office the succeeding year, but this he declined to do, accepting the alternative presented of being returned to ranks. Although he was thus reduced to ranks at the commence¬ ment of his second collegiate year, his promotion subsequently was rapid. When he was graduated, in 1878, with the degree of A.M., he held the highest office in the Corps—Captain of Company A. After being graduated in the Academic Department of the University of Alabama, his father was very anxious for him to take the Law Course in that Institution, and enter the legal profession, and used, every argument to persuade him to do so, but he persistently refused, preferring to take the position as book-keeper in the Bank of J. H. Fitts & Co. He held this position until the fall of 1879, when the “Tuscaloosa Cotton Mills” was organized with a capital of $40,000, with Mr. Leroy A. Douglas as President and Festus Fitts, Secretary and Treasurer; his father giving him $5,000 stock in the company as a part of his patrimony. Mr. Douglas had been a book-keeper in Mobile for many years, and was a very skillful and accomplished accountant; but he was not suc¬ cessful as a manufacturer, and after the first year resigned the Presidency. During this year he instructed Mr. Fitts in book¬ keeping, which rendered him very expert, and subsequently proved of great value, both to him and the company. Mr. Fes¬ tus Fitts was Secretary and Treasurer of “ The Tuscaloosa Cot¬ ton Mills ” from its organization to the date of his death, and much of the splendid success of that company, during the administration of his father, as President, was due to his ability as a business man and his superior qualifications as an accountant. In 1880 he was elected Captain of the Warrior Guards of Tuscaloosa, Ala., a military company of great renown, and as Captain of this company rendered valuable service to the State in quelling the mob at Birmingham, Ala., in 1883. During this year he was appointed by the Governor of the State, one of his COL. FESTUS FITTS No. i S x ANNALEE (Taylor) FITTS Wife of No. [Si Fitts or Fitz Family 135 Staff Officers, with the rank of Colonel. The following year he resigned both of the military positions on account of increasing business cares and the earnest desire of his wife. On the 18th of October, 1883, he was married to Annalee Taylor (generally called “Nannie”) in Christ Church, Tusca¬ loosa, by the Rev. J. H. Stringfellow. She was born in Mobile, Ala., May 23, 1864; baptized in infancy by Rev. John Massey, in Trinity Church, Mobile, Ala., and confirmed by the Rt. Rev. R. H. Wilmer, Bishop of the Diocese of Alabama, April 16th, 1884, in Christ Church, at Tuscaloosa, Ala. She was the young¬ est daughter of Mr. John T. Taylor, an eminent lawyer of Mobile, Ala., and Nancy (Curry) Taylor, a daughter of Mr. David Curry, who was Sheriff of Marengo County, Ala., for many years. Mr. John T. Taylor’s rapid elevation is a striking illustra¬ tion of the achievement of a detei'mined energy and brilliant intellect. At the age of sixteen he was a poor office boy in a commission house in Mobile, and when he reached the age of sixty he had represented Mobile County twice in the State Leg¬ islature, and had twice refused to give up his lucrative law practice to accept an appointment on the Bench of the Supreme Court of Alabama. In sketching the public men of Alabama, Col. Brewer says of him: “He was a forcible speaker, a profound lawyer, and a gentleman of many virtues and lofty traits of character.” He met a singular death. While out horse back riding in Mobile, in 1880, his horse stumbled and fell, and Mr. Taylor falling on his head had his neck broken. Col. Festus Fitts became a partner in the Banking House of J. H. Fitts & Co., in 1887, and was soon after made Assistant Cashier. In 1890 he was elected one of the six Aldermen of the city of Tuscaloosa, receiving more votes than any other candidate. His untimely death was no less a shock to his devoted family than to the whole community of Tuscaloosa, where he was so highly esteemed. He died of Typhoid Fever, at Tusca¬ loosa, Ala., on Aug. 6, 1896. The following are some of the tributes of respect paid to his memory. Speech of Capt. W. W. Brandon, of Tuscaloosa, Ala., upon the occasion of the Memorial Service by the Knights of Pythias: “ Ladies and Gentlemen and Brother Knights: There has always been a disposition among men to honor their dead, to linger with mournful pleasure upon the recollec- 136 Fitts or Fitz Family tions of their virtues and to speak of their merits in tenderest terms of commendation. The sentiment is coeval with our race, and will continue to the end of time. It is peculiar to no clime ; it is confined to no class ; it is limited to no condition of life ; it is common to humanity everywhere; it is mate with every mem¬ ber of our species who is capable of the slightest feeling of respect for his fellowmen. It works itself upon expression in the simple ceremonies that attend the unobtrusive sepultures of the peasant and the solemn pomp that awaits the imposing obsequies of the King. Its memorials are seen alike in the fading wreath that exhales its dying fragrance upon the obscure grave of humble poverty and the sculptured column that lifts its head above tire mouldering dust of departed grandeur. It has brought us here to-day to offer with one accord the tributes of affectionate admiration to the memory of one who is endeared to us by the strongest ties of friendship and fraternity, and to all by the magnanimity and generosity of his nature. He is not absent who is not forgotten. In this sense Festus Fitts is with us to-day ; though he has crossed the dark murky waters of death, his sweet spirit lingers with us here. This man whose loss we mourn and to whom these weak tributes of love and esteem are being paid, was born in our midst. Tuscaloosa was his native town, and from his advent to his departure his form and face were familiar to all. In boyhood he played over the same hills that in manhood he hunted over. Along the banks of the Warrior his boyish laughter could have been heard where in after years the spindles of a great factory should be controlled by his mind. His venerable father gave to him a good educa¬ tion, and it may be truly said of him, for the emulation of his aspiring young countrymen, that every fibre and tissue of his soul was inspired by that golden truth : ‘ That in the Lexicon of youth, which fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word as fail.’ He realized that labor was the only talisman of success; he ate no idle bread; he flung away no priceless moment. While he was alive to all boyish sports, he was also awake to the necessary faculties for making a man. As a boy he was loved by his playmates and respected by his tutors. Next he appears before us as a young man, popular and gentle; ready to do a good deed and equally as quick to frown upon an evil one. He was chosen by the young men of that famous military company, the Warrior Guards, as their Captain, and to this good ARTHUR LEONARD FITTS 15 No. 474 Fitts or Fitz Family 137 hour the older men of this command speak with peculiar pride of their former Captain Fitts. He was deservedly popular and loved by all young men, and in the Warrior Guards he felt a deep and abiding interest. In sunshine and in storm, in and out of ranks he was their constant friend, their companion — most devoted and true. After all, whether as youth or young man, the dearest memory to those of us who knew him best, who had felt the presure of his hand, and seen the sunlight of face, is the man himself. When he laid down, for awhile, the heavy burden of his business, and left his books in his counting room and turned away from the intricate problems of the day, to seek companion¬ ship of friends, the man himself was seen as he came from the plastic hand of God; just as the flower imprisoned in the folded calyx is seen when it uncovers its blushing beauty to the wooing of the sun. How genial and companionable he was, how full of life, of the glad joy of life, he sometimes seemed to be a very boy except in years, scattering sunshine and gladness along the way. Though his nature was eminently manly and every trace of effeminancy was foreign to it, yet in his mental and moral make-up he was as finely fibred as a woman. The possessor of a clear judgment and a strong will, yet he was impressible. All the sweet and mystic influences of nature reached, moved him, and like an instrument of music he was responsive to the slight¬ est touch of fancy or of feeling. But it was not all these things, however, that most endeared him to those who knew and loved hi m most. It was the milder glow of those gentler virtues that lit up his private character with the lambient purity of the stars. The incarna¬ tion of personal honor, the very soul of sincerity, constantly overflowing with the milk of human kindness, free from envy, hatred, malice and all uncharitableness. His social relations were of the purest, gentlest, loveliest type, constantly illustrated by the most generous self-abnegation and unremitting thoughtfulness of others. No tender plea for the sake of sweet Charity ever fell upon his ear, whether from the humble beggar upon the street, or from the promoter of some laudable work of public benefaction, but that his purse was instantly open and his most active sympathies immediately enlisted. He loved the beautiful and good, the tints of flowers, the exquisite shading of a bush, the golden glory of an autumnal sunset, the swelling symphony of the sea, the glee and merry prattle of childhood. Such things as these touched his soul as with the magic wand of sweet enchantment. 19 138 Fitts or Fitz Family Such was the man we loved, and we loved him all the more because we knew that behind all this native gentleness, behind all this charming companionableness, was the strong, masculine man, who was not slothful in business. Such was the man we loved, such was the man we lament. He goes away into the mystic summerland, taking with him the blessings of his friends, and leaving behind him a good name. In his death our town lost one of its best citizens. Alive, alert and active, always to the front in every move, looking to the upbuilding of our town, and ready at all times to lend his aid and influence in the development of our resources and bring commerce and trade into our midst. But he never “ crooked the supple hinges of the knee that thrift might follow fawning.” He bowed to no behest, but the imperious dictates of his own honest and enlightened judgment. As a man and a citizen, I could speak of the deserved merits of our departed brother for hours. But for what Tuscaloosa has lost in Festus Fitts, as a promoter of public interests, I have but to point to yonder circling column of smoke that wends it way heavenward, or bid you list to the machinery under yonder hill, which are but fitting memorials to his worth as a citizen. Ah, yes ; go where you will and learn from the lips of our people that Tuscaloosa has buried one of its best beloved citizens. But above all this worth as a citizen shines the great¬ ness of his heart. The poor have lost a friend, the rich have lost a counselor, and even the sweet children of our town have lost, in him, a companion, who listened to their childish laughter with a heart full of love and tender sympathy. He loved to please the little folks, and how often have we seen him gather them to him, showing the tenderness of his great arm and pulsing heart. He will always be remembered for the best portion of a good man’s life, for his little nameless, unnumbered acts of kindness and of love. True all this has been said of him as a man and as a citizen. What of him as a Knight of Pythias ? Representing, as I do this noble body of men, who have for their motto the betterment of mankind, I would be unfaithful to my trust did I not mention our departed brother, as a member of our order. He was true to himself, true to his order, true to his church, and true to his God. He practiced among his brethern, inside and out of the lodge-room, that friendship that bound Damon to Pythias. And then again how tender was he where sorrow folded her sombre wings and broods about the homes and hearts of those he loved. In his presence sadness seemed less sad, and a softer ANNALEE L. FITTS No. 475 Fills or Fitz Family 139 light crept in among the shadows. For whatever he said or did there was something so like the melting music of woman’s voice, and the delicate touch of woman’s hand. Ah, my brethren, we have indeed lost one whom we loved and confided in. ’Tis sad to think the silver cord is loosed, the golden bowl is broken. But let us emulate the example of our worthy repre¬ sentative who but precedes us to the Great Castle Hall above. It has been said : “ Wise were the kings who never chose a friend until they had unmasked his soul and seen the bottom of his deepest thoughts.” As a Knight of Pythias we knew our departed brother; we had seen into his inmost soul, and found there all the requisites for a true Knight abundant in him. Brave, he was a lover of the right; the foe forever of the wrong ; ready to do all and dare all for truth. Only stainless garments befit a Knight of Pythias. He lived up to the lessons taught by our order, and words of counsel and of cheer fell from his lips like rays of light from a Heaven of peace. For him there is no death. Immortal, he lives forever. “ There is no death, but angel forms Walk o’er the earth with silent tread. They bear our best loved things away And then we call them dead. “ But ever near us, though unseen, The dear immortal spirits tread. For all the boundless Universe, Is life — there are no dead.” Resolutions adopted by Tuscaloosa Lodge, No. 38, Knights of Pythias, on the death of Mr. Festus Fitts : There is a missing link in the chain of our Pythian Knighthood, Festus Fitts, that noble and chivalric Knight, upon whose shield was inscribed as his life’s motto, in bright letters of truth, honesty and uprightness, has been transferred to the Castle Hall above, where only the pure in heart are sum¬ moned for enlistment, where the battle axe is at rest, where the pearly gates open into eternal streets of glittering gold. It is hard to realize that one whose familiar face upon the streets and in the counting-room has brightened our lives continually, has passed away from our midst forever. He will be missed from the factory, under the hill, where for nearly twenty years he served faithfully as its Secretary and Treasurer. Its every employe, during that entire time, knew him but to love him, in return for the consideration and high respect he held toward even its youngest employe. He will be 140 Fitts or Fitz Family missed from the Bank, where for twenty years he was the efficient assistant cashier. Looking back upon the many transactions in which he has figured during his past business life; transactions that tried and tested him fully, he has proved himself at all times and under all circumstances to have been the very soul of honor. Of him it can be said, that he was faithful to every trust. His name will be sadly missed from our Pythian roll. On the day of his death, if we had been called upon to select from among our number one whose life for the past few years has been conspicu¬ ous for its gentleness, loveliness and purity—one whom we delighted to meet as a Pythian Knight—we would all, doubt¬ less, have agreed upon the pure and unsullied name of Festus Fitts, which towers to a mountainous height among his fellow men, for faithfulness in everything, for sterling worth and the highest integrity. From the immediate home circle which knew him far better than we, where he lived so affectionately, so devotedly as brother, son, husband and father, he will be missed indeed. Festus Fitts triumphantly departed this life on the 6th day of August, 1896. He had faithfully filled many positions of honor and trust. He was graduated from the University of Alabama as Senior Captain in 1878, with high honors. For several years he was the gallant Captain of the Warrior Guards. He had served the city as one of the first trustees of its present public school. In testimony of the great esteem in which the character of our deceased brother was held by the members of the Lodge, Resolved, 1st, That we feel that the death of our distin¬ guished brother is a public calamity. 2d, That in his death this Lodge has lost a noble son, whose virtues we will ever remember with peculiar pride, whose exam¬ ple we would imitate, and whose memory we would keep fra¬ grant with pleasant remembrances of a life so charitable and so beautiful. 3d, That we extend to the grief stricken family of our late brother our most heartfelt sympathy in this sad hour, and that a copy of these resolutions be sent them. 4th, That these resolutions be published in the Tuscaloosa Times, Tuscaloosa Gazette, and the West Alabama Breeze. 5th, That the usual badge of mourning be worn by our members for thirty days. 6th, That a separate page in the minute record of this JAMES HARRIS FITTS' 1 No. 476 Fitts or Fitz Family 141 Lodge be set apart in memory of our late brother, and these resolutions recorded thereon. “ One of Our Best Men Gone ” From the Tuscaloosa Gazette One of the purest and best citizens that Tuscaloosa ever proudly claimed, passed away yesterday evening when the soul of Festus Fitts ceased its struggles in an unequal conflict and calmly went into rest. The news came as a shock to the com¬ munity by all of whom he was so greatly esteemed. The sor¬ row at his untimely death is universal, for Tuscaloosa had no more popular son than he. Mr. Fitts was only thirty-seven years old, but he had already established among business men and the people at large a most enviable reputation for sagacity and wisdom. He was a wonderful man when it came to work. It was frequently said that Festus Fitts did more work than any other person in Tus¬ caloosa. He had been Cashier of the Banking House of J. H. Fitts & Co. for several years, and to the work devolving upon him in the Bank, he added the arduous duties of Secretary and Treasurer and General Manager of The Tuscaloosa Cotton Mills. The success of this latter institution is largely due to his skillful management. With all his business capacity he combined man¬ ners so genial and pleasant that everybody who knew him liked him. The factory hands, business men, all people of high or low degree esteemed him, and it was deserved esteem, for he was just to a fault, yet generous in his dealing with everyone. He was charitable and kind, and a man whom the world knew could always be relied upon to do the right and maintain it. While in public life he was honored and esteemed, it was his home life he loved the best, and he was truly an ideal man in his family circle. He was married to Miss Annalee Taylor in 1883. Three children bless this union: Arthur Leonard, Annalee and James Harris. At the bedside when the end came were his devoted wife and children; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Fitts; his brother, Mr. W. F. Fitts, and his two sisters, Mrs. S. F. Alston and Mrs. Walton Hill. These near and dear ones have, in their affliction, the deepest sympathy of the whole city. His death is a public loss, for his life was noble, unselfish 142 Fitts or Fitz Family and useful to an extent we will realize only the more deeply as we miss him more and more from those places where we have been accustomed to see him. God grant that His infinite-love will bring peace to all hearts crushed by this blow. “ A Lamentable Death.” From the Tuscaloosa Times. Universal sorrow hovered over the city of Tuscaloosa and community at large, when the death of Mr. Festus Fitts was announced last Thursday evening. On all sides men were pro¬ claiming : “ They had lost their best friend.” Although cut down in the very prime of life, Mr. Fitts had made a record and reputation of which any man should feel proud. Deceased was only thirty-seven years old. He held the position of Cashier of the Bank of J. H. Fitts & Co., and was also Secretary and Gen¬ eral Manager of the Tuscaloosa Cotton Mills. He was a universal favorite with both rich and poor. No one could say ought against him. Obliging, accurate, con¬ scientious and gentle in his every act. He was an honor man of the University, a former Captain of the Warrior Guards and a prominent Pythian Knight. Of a truth his life was of good deeds. His soul rests in peace. To the sorely afflicted family we extend our heart-felt sympathy. Why a merciful Savior inflicted such a severe blow on this happy family is difficult for mortal man to understand; but He never makes a mistake, and it will all be made plain to us some day. Let us submit to His holy will without a murmur. The funeral of Mr. Fitts yesterday morning was one of the most imposing and one of the saddest that has occurred in Tuscaloosa in a long while. The services were at nine o’clock at Christ Church, of which deceased was a consistent member. The business houses of the city were all closed during the hours of the funeral, and the concourse of sorrowing friends at the church filled the house to its utmost capacity, many being unable to find seats. The Knights of Pythias, to which order Mr. Fitts belonged, attended in a body. The impressive services were conducted by Rev. W. C. Whitaker, as Chaplain of Knights of Pythias. The interment was in Evergreen Cemetery, and the carriages of the procession extended for blocks. After the prescribed services of the church were concluded at the grave, Rev. Mr. Whitaker, as Chaplain of the Knights, read the impressive ceremony of the order. Fitts or Fitz Family 143 The grave was sealed with marble slabs, which were almost entirely hid from view by the multitude of beautiful flowers, laid as tributes at the last resting place of the universally esteemed citizen. The following gentlemen officiated as pall bearers : Honor¬ ary — Gen. R. C. Jones, Dr. Jas. T. Searcy, Prof. W. A. Palmer, Prof. W. A. Parker, Messrs. F. S. Moody and Robert Wilson. Active — Messrs. A. S. Vande Graaf, W. C. Harris, W. D. Seed, H. A. Jones, A. F. Prince, H. F. Hill, Geo. A. Searcy and Dr. Jno. Little. “ Dust to Dust.” From the Tuscaloosa Times. The mortal remains of the late Festus Fitts, Esq., were con¬ signed to their eternal rest in Evergreen Cemetery this morning in the presence of an immense concourse of deeply sorrowing friends and relatives. The funeral occurred from Christ Church at nine o’clock, and the solemn services were conducted with much impressiveness by the Rector, Rev. W. C. Whitaker. In addition to the funeral chant, the choir sang the three hymns, “Jesus Lover of My Soul,” “ I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say,” and “ Thy Will Be Done.” The funeral was attended by an enormous concourse of people, many being unable to gain admission to the sacred edifice. During the progress of the funeral, business in the city was entirely suspended, out of respect to the honored dead. Among the mourners were the members of the local lodge Knights of Pythias, who turned out in a body. The funeral procession was one of the longest ever seen in Tuscaloosa, evidencing how great in life had been the popularity of the deceased. After the religious services at the grave, the burial rites of the Knights of Pythias were spoken over the remains and con¬ cluded the impressive ceremonies. The following expressions of sympathy and condolence in this great bereavement, with testimonials of esteem for departed worth, were among those received by the father of the deceased, Mr. J. II. Fitts of Tuscaloosa, Ala. From Col. H. Harding, U. S. Engineer in charge of Govern¬ ment works on Warrior River, at Tuscaloosa, Ala. Birmingham, Aug. G, 1896. Mr. J. H. Fitts, My Dear Sir : I was much grieved to notice the death of Festus. I esteemed him greatly, and cannot but regard his death as a 144 Fitts or Fitz Family loss — not to his family and friends only, but to the community generally. Accept the heart-felt sympathy and condolence of your sincere and sorrowing friend, H. Harding. From Rt. Rev. R. H. Wilmer, D.D., LL.D., Bishop of Alabama Capon Springs, West Va., Aug. 20, 1896. Alas! dear friend, how unavailing are all human words and sympathy in such a case as yours. I only write these few lines to assure you — which assurance I feel sure you do not need—that my heart and mind are with you all, and that my prayers are daily offered in your behalf. The knowledge of the dear boy’s excellencies of character, while it must mingle gratitude with your tears, yet, at the same time, deepens the sense of your loss. “Our Father ” be gracious unto you, his brothers and sisters; comfort you with the light of His countenance, and help you to say from the heart, “ Even so, Father, for so it seemeth good in Thy sight.” Oh! if we could see all as it is seen in “our Father’s sight,” what comfort unspeakable might we not see in our deepest afflictions. “ Sometime, when all life’s lessons have been learned, And sun and stars forevermore have set, The things which our weak judgments here have spurned. The things o’er which we grieved with lashes wet, Will flash before us out of life’s dark night, As stars shine most in deepest tints of blue; And we shall see how all God’s plans were right, And how what seemed reproof was love most true. And we shall see how, while we frown and sigh, God’s plans go on as best for you and me; How, when we called, he heeded not our cry, Because his wisdom to the end could see. And e’en as fondest parents disallow Too much of sweet to craving babyhood, So God, perhaps is keeping from us now Life’s sweetest things because it seemeth good. And if sometimes commingled with life’s wine, We find the wormwood, and rebel and shrink, Be sure a wiser hand than yours or mine Pours out the portion for our lips to drink. And if some friend we love is lying low, Where human kisses cannot reach his face, Oh, do not blame the loving Father so, But bear your sorrow with obedient grace! Fitts or Fitz Family 145 And you shall shortly know that lengthened breath Is not the sweetest gift God lends his friends, And that, sometimes, the sable pall of death Conceals the fairest boon his love can send. If we could push ajar the gates of life, And stand within, and all God’s working see, We could interpret all this doubt and strife, And for each mystery could find a key. But not to-day; then be content, poor heart; God’s plans like lilies pure and white unfold. We must not tear the close shut leaves apart— Time will reveal the calyxes of gold. And if, through patient toil, we reach the land Where tired feet, with sandals loosed, may rest, When we shall know and clearly understand, I think that we shall say that ‘God knows best.’ ” It is the Father’s hand, and not His rod, that is laid upon you, my brother. “ What son is he whom the Father chasteneth not?” Yours with affection and deepest sympathy for the mother and wife and all. Richard H. Wilmer. Mr. Jas. H. Fitts. The Second Infantry of Alabama National Guards held their annual encampment at Tuscaloosa in 1897, and the follow¬ ing order was issued, and read by Capt. Cater: Headquarters 2nd Infantry Alabama National Guard Orders No. 1 July 5th, 1897. Soldiers have always cherished the memory of brave and chivalrous leaders, and on every fitting occasion it has been their custom to erect some memorial to perpetuate the influences of the noble, generous deeds that have characterized the lives of their comrades. Fresh and dear to all our hearts is the name of a gallant Tuscaloosian, enthusiastic in military affairs, honored by, and an honor to, the National Guard, who, less than a year ago, was called to lay down his armor and rest on the eternal camping ground. In recognition of the fidelity of Col. Festus Fitts to every trust, as a citizen and a soldier, it is ordered that this camp be known as “Camp Festus Fitts.” 20 146 Fitts or Fitz Faviily No. 182 Fannie (James Harris 1 , James Harris 3 , Oliver 2 , Henry 1 ) Fitts 5 was born in Tuscaloosa, Ala., Aug. 10,1860, and baptized May 30, 1867. She was confirmed June 1, 1873, by the Rt. Rev. R. H. Wilmer, in Christ Church, Tuscaloosa, Ala. She was graduated at the Tuscaloosa Female College, under the Presidency of Prof. Alonzo Hill, in 1878. She was married to Samuel Fitts Alston, Aug. 2, 1883, in Christ Church, Tuscaloosa. Samuel Fitts Alston was born in Selma, Ala., Jan. 6, 1859. His father, Joseph J. Alston, was the son of William Williams Alston and Mary Elizabeth (Burges) Alston, both from North Carolina, and his mother, Louisa Josephine (Jones) Alston, was the daughter of Charles B. and Caroline M. Jones of Virginia. He was baptized, in infancy, in St. Paul’s (Episcopal) Church, in Selma, and confirmed, April 29, 1883, in Tusca¬ loosa, Ala. His parents moved to New Orleans in 1865, where they resided for several years and then lived two years in New York; and in 1872 removed to Paris, Texas, where at the age of sixteen he was employed as a Deputy Clerk in the District Court, and for several years before his majority contributed largely, by his individual labor, to the support of the family. Samuel Fitts Alston removed from Paris, Texas, with his father’s family in 1879, and settled in Tuscaloosa, Ala., where he soon secured a position as Clerk in the Express Company, and within two years thereafter had control of the office as Express Agent. In 1881, Mr. Alston with Mr. Charles Fitts as partner, purchased the Book Store of Mr. George A. Searcy, in Tusca¬ loosa, and for several years carried on the business very success¬ fully under the firm name of Alston & Fitts. He sold out his interest in the Book Store in 1885, and with Mr. C. N. Maxwell, purchased the Jewelry Establishment of Mr. Black. This busi¬ ness he conducted with much success under the firm name of Alston & Maxwell until the spring of 1887, when he sold his interest to a brother. During this year he became a member of the Banking House of J. H. Fitts & Co., and was one of the Incorporators of the Tuscaloosa and Castle Hill Real Estate and Manufacturing Company, of which latter company he was elected Secretary and Treasurer, and subsequently was made General Manager. The city of Tuscaloosa had this year (1887) what was called a “ Big Boom,” in consequence of the organiza¬ tion of “ The Tuscaloosa Coal, Iron and Land Company,” claim- SAMUEL FITTS ALSTON Husband of No. 182 FANNIE (Fitts s ) ALSTON No. 182 JAMES FITTS 11 ALSTON No. 477 MAR I LOU 11 ALSTON No. 478 Fitts or Fitz Family 147 ing to have a capital of $1,000,000, which consisted of suburban lands that had been put in the company by the incorporators at prices far above their market value. The stock of this company was at one time above par, and a considerable amount of it was bought by the citizens of Chicago, New York, Birmingham and New Orleans. The Tuscaloosa Coal, Iron and Land Company purchased 30,000 acres of mineral lands, projected the building of an Iron Furnace, and many other enterprises, which caused real estate in and around the city to enhance greatly in value, and the population to increase some 1,500 that year. Partaking of the general belief that Tuscaloosa would soon be a large city, the Directors of the Tuscaloosa and Castle Hill Real Estate and Manufacturing Company purchased the Street Car Line, then running from the city to the depot, and extended it over two miles to the foot of Castle Hill. This was built to enable the company to sell its lots, at East End, and with the view ultimately of bringing into market its lands at Castle Hill for residences. To lend an additional attraction to Castle Hill as a place for suburban residences, and also with the view of pro¬ viding a pleasure resort for the future large city, this company made a beautiful artificial lake at the foot of Castle Hill, called “ Lake Lorraine,” which with the various surrounding improve¬ ments, cost over $12,000. As General manager of this company, Mr. S. F. Alston projected and supervised the making of these improvements, and extended the Street Railway to the lake, and also the management of the Street Car Railway after con¬ struction. Lie displayed great energy and ability in superin¬ tending this railway, running at one time as many as eight cars regularly, on a schedule of ten minutes between the cars on the line from the depot to Lake Lorraine, a distance over four miles. The income from this Street Car Line in 1888 and 1889 was over $15,000, and the expense about the same, and it would have been upon a paying basis had the population of the city continued to increase. Owing to a collapse of the “ Big Boom ” the population of Tuscaloosa decreased almost as much in 1889 and 1890 as it had gained in 1887 and 1888. The decrease in population was caused by a loss of confidence in The Tuscaloosa Coal, Iron and Land Company, in consequence of its purchase of $300,000 worth of mineral lands, mostly from its own stockholders, and its failure to construct the Iron Furnace. Its stock fell below fifty cents on the dollar, and faith in the immediate growth of Tuscaloosa was lost by all intelligent observers. Mr. S. F. 148 Fitts or Fitz Family Alston continues, as Secretary and Treasurer of The Tuscaloosa and Castle Hill Real Estate and Manufacturing Companjq to manage the affairs of the company, which owns several hundred acres of land in and around the city of Tuscaloosa, in addition to the Lake and Street Car Line, while at the same time he is engaged in various individual enterprises. He possesses great energy and a wonderful versatility of business talent; and while his principal occupation is lending money, he is ready at any time to make any trade, or go into any enterprise which promises a good return. Pushing, suc¬ cessful business men frequently neglect their families; not so with Mr. Alston. He is an affectionate husband and very fond of and devoted to his children. Mr. Samuel Fitts Alston and Fannie Fitts Alston have, since their marriage, lived with the parents of the latter, as one family, and have two children, James Fitts Alston and Marilou Alston. Both these children were born in the Old State Bank building in Tuscaloosa, Ala., and both baptized in Christ Church by the Rev. J. H. Stringfellow. No. 183 Arthur (James Harris 4 , James Harris 5 , Oliver 2 , Henry 1 ) Fitts 5 was born Oct. 8, 1862; baptized May 30, 1867, and con¬ firmed May 17, 1878, by Bishop Wilmer, in Christ (Episcopal) Church, Tuscaloosa, Ala. He was prepared for entrance into the University by the best teachers in Tuscaloosa, but he remained at College only two years, 1878 and 1879. Being anxious to commence work for himself he, by persistent effort prevailed upon his father to permit him to go to work in a Cotton Factory, of which his father was a large stockholder and President. 4 His father hoped and believed he would soon become tired of the work, and return to the University. But he soon acquired a fondness for the work and a great love for machinery; and made such pro¬ gress that he was able to earn good wages within less than one year, and in two years, before he was of age, he was appointed Superintendent of “ The Tuscaloosa Cotton Mills.” As soon as he took charge of the mill its production was largely increased, and he managed it with great ability, making the stock pay a handsome dividend. He became the largest stockholder, and one of the Directors of the Tuscaloosa Cotton Mills. He never married. In October, 1888, the mills were closed for repairs, because of the low price of goods. The Directors ARTHUR FITTS No. 183 ►J CO £ z o £ 6 £ «-w O TD C oj X) c/} P £ J -J ffi H H O co Alice (Fitts 5 ) Hill Walton Harris 6 Hill Fitts or Fitz Family 149 decided not to start up until the price of goods improved. Although he was not in any sense an habitual drinker, while the mill was idle he occasionally drank to excess, and on the 29th of July he was killed by a pistol in his own hands. It was generally believed he did it by design, being keenly sensative to the reproaches of conscience for having drank too much on a previous occasion. He was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, at Tuscaloosa, Ala. No. 184 Alice (James Harris 4 , James Harris 3 , Oliver 3 , Henry') Fitts 6 was born March 2, 1865, at Castle Hill, in Tuscaloosa County, Ala.; baptized May 30, 1867, by Rev. John D. Easter, and con¬ firmed by Rt. Rev. R. H. Wilmer, Bishop of the Diocese of Alabama, on the 17th of March, 1878. When Alice Fitts was one month and one day old she was captured with her parents by the Federal forces. To witness the marriage of their niece, Emily Leach, to Capt. James Car¬ penter, on the 3rd of April, 1865, her parents went from their country home, Castle Hill, into the city of Tuscaloosa, and as they expected to remain several hours, they took their infant with them. The marriage ceremony was performed at eight o’clock that evening, and an elegant marriage feast served at eleven o’clock that night. The guests had barely finished their supper when it was rumored that the “ Yankees ” were at the bridge, and in a few minutes the residence was surrounded with Federal Cavalry. The city was thus captured completely by surprise, and the next day was sacked by 1,200 Federal soldiers. After being held as prisoners for twenty-four hours, Alice and her parents were released and she was taken back to their home, at Castle Hill, in the arms of her parents on foot, their carriage and horses having been taken by the Federal soldiers. She was married to Walton W. Hill, Jan. 6, 1885, by the Rev. J. H. Stringfellow, at Christ Church, Tuscaloosa, Ala. He was the youngest child of Rev. Luther Leonidas Hill and Mary Heleener (Walton) Hill, who had six children, five of whom died in infancy. Rev. L. L. Hill was born July 23, 1823, married July 13, 1848, and died May 30, 1893. Mary Heleener (Walton) Hill was born May 2, 1825, and died Jan. 11, 1856, over whom a beautiful monument, costing $7,000, was erected in the Cemetery at Montgomery, Ala. Walton W. Hill was educated at the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn. He read law and was graduated with 150 Fitts or Fitz Family the degree of LL. B. at the Virginia University, under Dr. John B. Minor. In 1889 he was one of the Representatives of Montgomery County in the State Legislature, was re-elected in 1892 and again in 1894. He is a planter, owning several plantations, and a lawyer, practicing in the city of Montgomery, where they reside. They have two sons. No. 185 Alston (James Harris 4 , James Harris 3 , Oliver 3 , Henry') Fitts 5 was born March 10, 1867; baptized May 30, 1867; and confirmed May 8, 1881, in Christ (Episcopal) Church in Tusca¬ loosa, Ala., the city of his nativity. He was graduated at the University of Alabama, with the degree of A.B., in 1886, and with that of LL.B., in 1887. With the view of perfecting himself in Modern Languages, to become a teacher, he went to the University of Liepsic, Ger¬ many, in 1887, and from that institution he received a certificate of proficiency in the German language in 1888. His plan of studying French in Paris was broken up by the death of his sister, Mary, which caused him to return home. He subse¬ quently made a tour of Europe. In 1889 and 1890 he held the position of Exchange Clerk in the Bank of J. H. Fitts & Co., and although he proved himself a highly proficient and a much valued Clerk, he did not like the confinement nor the monotony of the business, and the following year (1891) commenced the study of medicine, under Dr. James L. Williamson, in the city of Tuscaloosa, Ala. In October, 1892, he entered the Medical Department of Columbia College, New York, “ The School of Physicians and Surgeons.” He was graduated in 1895, and is now practicing his profession in New York City. No. 186 Mary (James Harris 4 , James Harris 3 , Oliver 2 , Henry 1 ) Fitts" was born April 29, 1871; baptized May 28, 1871, and died Jan. 26, 1888. From childhood she was attached to the church, and was always punctual at Sunday School, with lessons well prepared, and at all times was respectful and obedient to her teachers. She was baptized by the Rev. George H. Hunt, and confirmed by Rt. Rev. R. H. Wilmer, on the 22d of February, 1885. In honor to her memory a meeting of the teachers and pupils of the Tuscaloosa Female College was held in the College ALSTON FITTS, 5 A B, LL.B., M.D. No. 185 MARY FITTS B No. 186 Fitts or Fitz Family 151 Chapel, on Monday, Jan. 30, 1888, at which the following pre¬ amble and resolutions were adopted : “Whereas, It hath pleased a wise and inscrutable Provi¬ dence to sever the golden cord that bound one of our late mem¬ bers to this life, and removed her to the higher and better life, beyond the veil; therefore Resolved, That while we bow in meek submission to the will of the All-Wise Father, we rejoice that her triumphant departure took away the sting of death, and left an example worthy of the emulation of her youthful companions. Resolved, That we feel impelled to bear our testimony to her beautiful school life, her unvarying amiability, her purity and innocency of character, her gentle and lovable manners and hex- consistent Christian life. Resolved, That as she spent so much of her brief life in our midst, and as nowhere else could she be so thoroughly known, or her many lovely qualities so highly appreciated, we feel eminently qualified to extend our profound sympathy to the bei-eaved family. Resolved, That a committee of three, consisting of Mrs. W. C. Richardson, Mary Cochrane and Annie Roquemore, be appointed to take this imperfect tribute to the worth of our loved friend to the house of her parents, and to send a copy of the same to the city papers for publication.” She was buried in Evergreen Cemetery of Tuscaloosa, Ala., and her grave is marked by a little Gothic (marble) Church expressive of her devotion to Christ Church, Tuscaloosa, Ala., in which her parents have in loving remembrance of her, placed a Memorial Window, representing our Savior restoring to life the daughter of Jarius. No. 187 George Wolsey Van IIoose, is a lawyer of prominence, and has been for many years Register of the Chancery Court. He is gifted with great mechanical skill, and has displayed high inventive powers. Oixe of the best non-explosive lamps was invented by him, and a steaixi war ship patented by him has l-eceived the highest approval from competent judges. lie is a man of uniform habits and exemplary life, and is highly esteemed by the people of Tuscaloosa, where he has resided all of his life. 152 Fitts or Fitz Family No. 218 William Cochrane (Phillip Augustus 4 , John 3 , Oliver 2 , Henry 1 ) Fitts 6 was bom January 29, 1866, in Tuscaloosa, Ala. When he was about ten years of age his parents moved to Clarksville, Tenn., in which State he was educated, spending one year at the University of the South, and was graduated in 1884, at the South Western Presbyterian University at Clarksville. At this institution he was awarded the Prize Medal for the best Oration, composition and delivery both being considered. His subject was Westminster Abby. He was selected by his class¬ mates to represent the Institution in the prize contest between the Colleges of the State for the best Orator. The contest took place in the City of Nashville, in the presence of a large assembly of interested people. Though he was the youngest of the several contestants, only one was thought superior to him in declamation. After being graduated he accepted a position as clerk in the National Bank of Clarksville, but soon commenced the study of Law in the office of Hon. Polk Johnson, of that city. He afterwards entered the Law Class of the University of Alabama, and subsequently attended a Summer Course of Law given at the University of Virginia by Professor John B. Minor. He was admitted to the Bar in May, 1886, by the Chancery Court of Birmingham, and to practice in the Supreme Court of the State of Alabama, the following January. He commenced the practice of Law in the City of Tusca¬ loosa in the fall of 1886, and in a short time his uncle, the Hon. W. G. Cochrane, formed a co-partnership in law with him, and the firm of Cochrane & Fitts continued for four years, doing a good business. This Law Firm were the Attorneys for the Tus¬ caloosa Coal, Iron and Land Company, and assisted in organiz¬ ing the same. Subsequently he practiced a short time with Ormond Somerville, Esq., as partner, under the firm name of Fitts & Somerville, and afterwards began the practice alone, which he still continues. He is doing a fine practice for one of his age, and is generally employed on one side or the other in all criminal cases of importance. He has ability, energy and application, and bids fair to be, not only a successful practitioner, but a lawyer of prominence in the State. He was elected Attorney-General of the State of Alabama on the Democratic ticket in 1894, and re-elected in 1896. G. WOOLSEY VAN HOOSE Husband of No. 187 EMILY LEE 5 (Martin) VAN HOOSE No. 187 Fitts or Fitz Family 153 Mr. Fitts was married, in Birmingham, Ala., April 23d, 1890, by the Rev. P. A. Fitts, his father, at the Church of the Advent, to Eleanor Hewett, a daughter of Col. G. W. Hewett, a prominent lawyer, and for several years a member of Congress from the Tuscaloosa District. They have one child. No. 312 Mary Fitts 6 Drew was born Dec. 17, 1855, and baptized by Rev. Mr. Payne. She married Thomas F. Nicholson, of Sussex County, Va., Jan. 10, 1883. They have one son, John Benjamin Nicholson, born June 21, 1884. No. 313 George Rogers 6 Drew was born April 25, 1860, and baptized by Rev. Mr. Boggs of the M. E. Church. He was educated at Randolph Macon College, and Bryant & Stratton Business College, Baltimore, Md. He married Ida Mary Hollman of Surry County, Virginia. No. 324 Susan Fitts 6 Drake was born Aug. 8 , 1855, and baptized by the Rev. Mr. Weaver of the M. E. Church, and was married to Joseph A. House, of Halifax County, N. C., on the 9th of October, 1878. He was born Sept. 26, 1857, and baptized by Rev. J. 0. Andrews. She lives in Plalifax County, N. C., and is a noble specimen of Christian womanhood. They have eight children. She was educated at Warrenton Female College. No. 325 Mary Ann 6 Drake was born June 27, 1857, and baptized by Rev. T. G. Lowe. She was educated in Warren County, N. C. She is engaged in teaching in her native county, N. C. No. 327 Henry Fitts 6 Drake was born Oct. 24th, 1863 ; baptized by Rev. L. Shell in the M. E. Church. He married Lula Allen, Dec. 15, 1886. They resided for some time in Raleigh, and are now in Durham, N. C. He is engaged in the Railroad business. They have no children. 21 154 Fitts or Fitz Family No. 328 Harriet Thrower Drake was born Dec. 23, 1865, and baptized by the Rev. L. Hendren, in the M. E. Church. She is unmarried. She devotes her life to the care of her brothers and widowed father, and teaches school in Warren, her native county. No. 330 William Caswell Drake 6 was born Sept. 18, 1871; bap¬ tized by Rev. R. A. Willis, of the M. E. Church. He was in business in Wilmington, N. C., at the time of his mother’s death, and to relieve his father’s cares, he returned home and took charge of the farm. He was drowned June 11th, 1892, in attempting to swim across the Roanoke River, when in bathing with some friends. No. 363 Malvern Hill Palmer 6 was born Feb. 17, 1865; married Jeese Key Arrington on Dec. 23, 1891, and died Sept. 4, 1895, at Asheville, N. C. He was the son of Horace Palmer and his first wife Sallie Milan 4 Palmer. Memorial Tribute, by Judge Walter A. Montgomery, a Former Law Partner of Mr. M. H. Palmer “ In the death of Mr. Malvern Hill Palmer, which occurred at Asheville on the 4th inst., while on a visit to that city, the State has sustained the loss of a useful citizen, and society that of a cultured gentleman. With the exception of having been appointed State Bank Examiner by the present Treasurer, he never sought or held a public position. He had a most laudable ambition, was a born leader, and had the gift to draw men, everywhere, to him. He was honest, brave, brilliant and amiable. Mr. Palmer was born on the 17th of February, 1865, on the plantation of his father, in Warren County, N. C., where he lived until he entered the University of North Carolina, in January, 1885. Pie was graduated at that Institution in the class of 1888, and during the year succeeding, was engaged in teaching. After that time he commenced the study of law, was licensed to practice by the Supreme Court of his native State, in September, 1890, and settled at Warrenton, N. C. WILLIAM THROWER 5 TWITTY, M. D. No. 335 Fitts or Fitz Family 155 In December, 1892, Mr. Palmer formed a law partnership with Mr. W. A. Montgomery, which lasted until the latter gen¬ tleman was elected to the Supreme Court of North Carolina. On the 23d of December, 1891, he married Jesse Key Arrington, daughter of Samuel P. Arrington, of the last named place. At the time of his death there was probably not a better equipped lawyer in the State of his age. He was well grounded in the principles of the law and had studied carefully the decis¬ ions of the Supreme Court. As an advocate he was honest and able, his style earnest, his reasoning incisive, and his speech fluent; and while guard¬ ing well his own position he was quick to see the weak points of his opponent’s case. He never badgered a witness, was always respectful to the court and its officers, and polite to his brethren of the bar. To these qualities was added courage, both physical and moral; of the highest order, and he had the strictest sense of justice, honor and fair dealing. In all his home relations he was exemplary, a devoted husband, affectionate father, dutiful son. In social life he was most highly esteemed for his amiability, his engaging manners, his pleasing address and the purity and sincerity of his thoughts, and their expression; and his friends and acquaintances will not soon forget his talents and his virtues, his gifts and his graces. The death of this estimable gentleman in the prime of life, with a most brilliant future just before him, has stirred in the hearts of the people of his county the deepest emotions of sorrow and regret. He left a most numerous family connection and an affectionate wife and two children, both boys, to deplore their loss. He was to the last hopeful of recovery, in the full posses¬ sion of his powers. He went gently to his long sleep. Two days after his death, and at the same hour of the day, just at sundown, his nlortal part was committed to the grave in the family burial ground, ‘earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust,’ amid the tears and sorrowings of friends and relatives, and in the presence of a large concourse of neighbors and acquaintances, who were there to testify their love and respect.” No. 369 Susan Russell 6 Palmer, daughter of Horace Palmer, Sr., and Harriet 0. Palmer, was born in Warren County, N. C., on the 8th day of November, 1875, and died in Greensboro, N. C. on the 21st day of May, 1894. Fitts or Fitz Family 15(i In 1887 she joined the M. E. Church at Hebron, on the War- renton Circuit. From a “ Tribute ” by her Pastor, Rev. A. McCullen, the following extracts are taken: “ In form and feature she was beautiful. Nature with a bountiful hand, lavished rich gifts upon this lovely young woman. Her mind was clear and bright, and was being enriched with the treasures of knowledge when death cut her down. She was modest and winning in her manners, affectionate in disposi¬ tion, pure and lofty in her aspirations. She endeared herself to all who entered the sacred circle of her friendship. In the bosom of the home circle she was a special favorite. As daughter, sister and friend, she was obedient, tender and gentle. Her enraptured soul photographed its joys in a smile upon the sweet face we saw resting so quietly in the casket. She is not dead; she sleeps to awake in the likeness of the Lord of Glory. In the fullness of faith, in the promise of God, we say good-bye until we meet in heaven.” No. 373 William Thrower (Francis Michael 4 , Oliver D. 3 , Henry 2 , Henry 1 ) Fitts 6 was born in Warren County, N. C., on the 24th of February, 1866, and was baptized by the Rev. James A. Duncan, in the M. E. Church, when quite young. He married Harriet Thrower 6 Twitty, a daughter of Robert Cheek Twitty, of Warren County, N. C., on the 9th of November, 1887. He is a clerk in a drug store in Washington City, D. C., where they reside, and have three little girls. No. 227 John James 5 (Margaret Louisa Fitts 4 , John Fitts 3 , Oliver Fitts 2 , Henry Fitts 1 ) Harris was born Nov. 3, 1864; married in 1892 to Miss Lallie Purifoy. Dr. John James Harris was the second son of Rev. John James Harris of Tuscaloosa, Ala., where he was born and reared. At an early age he evinced a ready aptitude for learning and was considered one of the bright boys of his classes. He was educated in the schools of Tuscaloosa, and at the University of Alabama. Entering the University in 1882, he was graduated with the degree of A.B. in 1886, with high honors, and among the first in a class of forty members. Fitts or Fitz Family 157 Choosing medicine as his profession, the degree of M.D. was conferred upon him in 1889, by the University of the City of New York, where he again won distinction as a student, and was graduated fourth in a class of over one hundred and fifty. He entered upon the practice of his profession first at Brookwood, Ala., then at Tuscaloosa, and finally, in 1891, he located at Furman, Wilcox County, Ala. He soon built up a good practice and was highly respected and esteemed by all classes. As a physician he was skilled, learned and devoted to his work; as a man he was kind hearted, cheerful and social. In January, 1892, he was married to Miss Lillie Purifoy, daughter of Mr. E. H. Purifoy and niece of Hon. John Purifoy, ex-Auditor of Alabama. His death was sudden and particularly sad. On the 25th of May, 1897, he was called, professionally, to the bedside of a sick relative, Mrs. Robbins, his wife’s sister, and while noting her'pulsations, he suddenly sank to the floor and expired almost immediately. It is supposed that he died of rheumatism of the heart. He was laid to rest at Marion, Perry County, Ala. in the family burying ground of the Purifoys. Dr. Harris’ career, though short, was very successful. Just entering upon the prime of a manly life, with bright hopes and lofty aspirations; chivalrous, and, with all, ever true to the instincts of a noble character, he was cut down in the midst of his usefulness, and when new and higher honors seemed but awaiting him. No. 398 Henry Bird (James Henry 4 , Henry Green 3 , Henry 2 , Henry 1 ) Fitts 6 was born Sept. 19, 1858, in Petersburg, Va. Before he was three months old his father died in the Con¬ federate service, at the age of twenty-five, leaving a widow and three small children. Fortunately for the children, their mother was determined that they should have an education, and she used every means in her power to accomplish this object. Henry Bird Fitts was sent to the University of Virginia, where he was graduated with the degree of M.D. in 1880. He was commissioned Assistant Surgeon in the U. S. Navy in 1882, and has been on duty in different places, at one time in Alaska. On the 13th of January, 1886, he was married to Alice Bugbee, a daughter of Rev. George Bugbee, of Philadelphia, Pa., who recently removed to Los Angeles, Cal. 158 Fitts or Fitz Family Henry Bird Fitts is now Past Assistant Surgeon, and is on duty at the A. and N. Hospital at Hot Springs, Ark. (1894). In 1895, when on naval service on U. S. Steamer Essex, he visited Fitzford, Devon, Eng., to see the old Fitz Mansion, the home of his ancestors. No. 399 James Henry (James Henry 4 , Henry Green 3 , Henry 2 , Henry 1 ) Fitts 6 was born in Petersburg, Va., Jan. 27, 1861. His early childhood was spent in the city. His father died in the Confederate service before he was six months old, and his training and education was given him by a loving mother. He was for some time a student at the Uni¬ versity of the South, Sewanee, Tenn., and afterwards received the appointment to the U. S. Naval Academy, at Annapolis, where he graduated with honor, and was commissioned to service in the U. S. Navy as Assistant Engineer in 1882. On the 7th of June, 1883, he married Miss Mayo Blair, a daughter of Mr. John Blair, of Richmond, Va. He resigned his position as Ensign in the U. S. Navy in 1885, and the following year was elected Professor of Mechanical Engineering in the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical Col¬ lege, at Blacksburg, Va. He was a Professor in this institution for seven years, up to the time of his death, and filled the posi¬ tion with profit to his pupils, credit to himself and honor to the institution. He was a zealous and consistent Episcopalian, and con¬ tributed freely for the support of the church. Prof. Fitts’ death, at the age of thirty-two, was indeed a sad one. He was killed in a railroad accident, August 24, 1893. He had prepared a paper on “ Evaporative Condensers,” describ¬ ing the working of a design of his own, which had been patented, and he expected to read this paper before the International Con¬ gress of Engineers, which convened at Chicago in August, 1893, during the Columbian Exposition. He had also made arrange¬ ments with Dr. Fitts, his brother, of Hot Springs, Ark., to meet him in Chicago and visit the International Exposition together. Bright with the prospect of his growing fame, and happy in the hope of visiting the “ World’s Fair ” with his much beloved and only brother, Prof. Fitts left the Christianburg depot on the night of the 24th of August, 1893, on his way to Chicago, and in a few hours after his departure met his death in a terrible accident, on the Ironton Division of the A. & W. Prof. JAMES HENRY FITTS 5 No. 399 Fitts or Fitz Family 159 Railroad, near Welch, W. Va., in which thirteen persons lost their lives. The train upon which he had taken passage was compelled to stop to remedy some defect in the air-brakes; before the brakes could be repaired, a freight train loaded with coke was heard coming around the curve, running at full speed. Hearing the rapid approach of the freight train, and knowing a collision was inevitable, Prof. Fitts jumped from his car, and when attempting to climb the embankment, fell back just as the freight train struck the sleeper with such force as to drive it through three passenger cars in front. He was caught under the wreck and killed instantly. His body was taken to Columbus, Ohio, embalmed, and then returned to Blacksburg by the railroad company, where the funeral services were had, and the remains, accompanied by an escort of students from the College, were carried to Petersburg for burial. Dr. IP. B. Fitts arrived in Chicago at the appointed time and, instead of meeting his brother, received a dispatch announcing his death. From an obituary notice of Prof. Fitts, published in the city papers, the following extract is taken: “ His sad and sudden death is a heavy blow to all who knew him. The wisdom of his counsel and the benefit of his labors will be sadly missed in the College. To his brother professors is the pang peculiarly bitter, since they had learned to respect and love him. His place in their affections, as well as in the College work, will be hard to fill. But it was in his home life that the softest beauty and the gentlest tenderness of his charac¬ ter shone forth. No one was ever happier in his home or made his home brighter than did Prof. Fitts. He was indeed Nature’s gentle¬ man; the generous acts of his daily life were but the promptings of his noble heart.” No. 402 Theela Epia 5 Duncan was born Oct. 29, 1855. She was married to Robert Emory Blackwell on Aug. 28, 1877. He is now a Professor in Randolph Macon College. They have onty the one child, Epia Duncan Blackwell, born Jan. 18, 1879. Rev. JAMES FITTS 3 PLUMMER No. 423 ERRATA J- On page 10, ninth line from the bottom, for “ viz,” read “ vi i .” On page 19, tenth line from bottom, for “a,” read “as.” On page 27, fifth line, for “ desposing,” read “disposing.” On page 29, page to sketch of Henry Fitts 2 , is 64, should be 64a. On page 30, seventh line from bottom, for “Lesch,” read “ Leach.” On page 32, third line from bottom, for “ Faedrick,” read “ Frederick.” On this page, and in several other places, the exponent figure, showing the generation, is omitted, which can readily be found by referring to the name where it first appears in the book. On page 33, second line from the bottom, for “Emilly,” read “ Emily.” On page 34, the page to sketch of No. 107, should be 113. On page 35, No. 128 should be “ Hariet Annie Fitts 4 .” On page 35, page to sketch of No. 125, should be 112. On page 36, seventh line, “ Hariet Fitts 4 ,” should be “ Hariet Fitts 0 .” On page 36, page to sketch of No. 145, should be 114. On page 36, page to sketch of No. 147, should be 115. On page 37, seventh line, for “ May 10, 1846,” read “ May 10, 1847.” On page 37, eighth line, for “ Earnest,” read “ Ernest.” On page 37, bottom line, for “ Helen McEachin,” read “ Helen Wallace McEachin.” On page 39, twelfth line, for “ Willie,” read “ William.” On page 40, seventh line from bottom, for “ James Hawkins,” read “ James E. Hawkins.” On page 41, sixth line from bottom, for “ Ann,” read “ Anna.” On page 44, tenth line, for “Centenial,” read “Centennial.” On page 44, fourteenth line, for “Stevin,” read “ Steavin.” On page 78, first line, for “Ann,” read “Ann Eliza.” On page 78, third line, for “ Scoggins,” read “Scoggin.” On page 80, twentieth line, for “Ephriam,” read “Ephraim.” On page 82, .third line, for “ was,” read “ were.” On page 82, fourth line, for “ his,” read “ their.” 22 I (32 Errata On page 91, bottom line, for “ Miridian,” read “ Meridian.” On page 93, second line from bottom, for “ predelection,” read “ predilection.” On page 101, twentieth line from bottom, for “ 1859,” read “ 1869.” On page 109, twenty-fourth line, for “confrers,” read “con¬ freres.” On page 111, eighteenth line, for “ Emely,” read “Emily.” On page 114, seventh line, for “ Finly,” read “ Finlay.” On page 115, first line, for “Batchelor’s,” read “Bachelors.” On page 115, twenty-first line, for “ Ann Sterling Thrower Fitts 4 ,” read “ Ann Sterling" Thrower Fitts.” On page 119, tenth line, for “Itenerant,” read “ Itinerant.” On page 119, twentieth line, for “ demostrations,” read “ demonstrations.” On page 128, first line, for “ calm and even,” read “ calm as even.” On page 125, second line, for “ forture,” read “ fortune.” On page 129, eleventh line from bottom, for “Culpeper,” read “Culpepper.” On page 137, eighth line, for “ presure,” read “ pressure.” On page 137, eighth line, after “of” add “his.” On page 137, sixteenth line from bottom, for “lambient,” read “ lambent.” On page 142, eighteenth line, for “ ought,” read “ aught.” On page 151, tenth line from bottom, for “ Jarius,” read “ Jairus.” On page 153, fifth line, for “ one,” read “two.” On page 157, thirteenth line from the bottom, for “ months,” read “ years.” INDEX Parents Brothers Sisters Chil¬ dren Sketch Albea. Charles Brame 6 . .... 56 E. P. 56 Eleanor Pauline 6 . .. .... 56 Eugene Norman 6 ... .... 56 Alexander. Mattie. .... 37 52 4 3 i Allen. Hattie M. .... 44 59 Lula. 153 Alston. James Fitts 6 . 53 Marilou 6 . 53 1 VJ.CII 11 UU “. Rebecca Emily. 29 30 V 66 l 68 Samuel Fitts. ■ 38 53 146 Sarah Elizabeth. ■ 3 ° 36 79 Arrington. Benjamin Ricks.. • 35 48 114 Benjamin Whitehead 5 .. • 48 Edward William 5 . . 48 Emma 5 . • 48 Henry Fitts 5 .. • 48 Jesse Key.. ■ 47 6l 154 Lillie 6 . 48 62 Mary Olivia. 48 Ashe. Mrs. 29 Askew. E. A. 32 Aylette. Virginia Wilmonia.... .. 29 3i 74 Baker. Benjamin F. • • 39 54 Rebecca. • • 33 William Samuel 6 . • • 54 Barnes. Cruse . Bealle. Fannie. Frederick. Beaman. Annie M. Bird. Frances Moylan Blackwell. Epia Duncan®\ . Robert Emory.. Blair. Mary Mayo. Blanch. Ezekiel. Jennie 4 . Bobbitt. Alice 5 . Bettie G. 6 . Brame 5 . Edward F. 39 32 32 35 49 125 35 49 117 63 49 63 159 49 63 158 30 36 36 42 57 42 32 57 42 Parents Brothers Chil- Slsters dren Bobbitt— Continued . Edward Fletcher 5 . 42 57 Edward Fletcher 6 . 57 Edward G. 6 . 55 Ella Alexander 6 . 57 Fletcher 5 . 42 58 Fletcher Embra 6 . 57 . . Henry Coleman 6 . 57 Joshua Branch 6 . 57 Lovie M. 6 . 58 Nora 6 . 57 Richard G. 41 55 Whitmel H. 5 . 42 57 Whitmel Hilliard 6 . 57 Borrough. Pattie. 45 59 Brack. Ervin 6 . 58 Joseph. 43 58 Lena 6 . 58 Max 6 . 58 Pinkie^. 58 William^. 58 Zulah 6 . 58 Bracy. Eva B. 42 58 Brame. Anderson F. 8 . 29 32 Anderson F. B . 41 55 Anne Elizabeth 4 . 32 41 Augustus Foster 5 . 44 Aurelia 6 . 41 Bettie A 5 . 41 55 Carrie A. 6 . 55 Cassandria 6 . 42 56 Cicily 4 . 33 Emily 4 . 32 42 Emma 4 . 32 Florence 5 . 41 56 Fronie 6 . 58 George Centennial 5 . 44 Harris 6 . 59 Henry 3 . 29 32 Henry 4 . 33 Henry Davis 5 . 44 58 Henry Robert 4 . 32 Indiana Frances 4 . 32 42 Isabella 4 . 32 43 James 8 . 29 James 4 . 33 . . Jefferson Davis 5 . 44 John D. 5 . 42 John M. 4 . 32 John M. 4 . 32 41 John William 6 . 58 Leah 4 . 33 Leonidas 4 . 33 Marcus 3 . 29 32 Marcus George 4 . 32 Martha 4 . 32 42 Martha Ann 4 . 32 43 164 Index Parents Brothers Chil- Sisters dren Sketch Brame— Continued. Marj' Ann 4 . . .. 32 Mary Ella 4 . ... 32 Mary Isabella 5 . ... 44 59 Maurice M . 5 . .. . 42 Nancy 3 . ... 29 33 Oliver 3 . ... 29 33 Ottis Franklin 3 . • • • 59 Paralee 4 . . . . 32 Paralee Amelia 5 .... .. . 44 Patrick Plenry 4 . . .. 32 Peter J. 5 . . .. 42 Rebecca Dorothy 4 ... .. . 32 43 Robert M. 5 . Rosa Rebecca 5 . .. . 42 ...-j 41 ( 47 55 61 Rubie Pearle 6 . • • • 59 Ruth 6 . .. 58 Sallie 4 . • 32 44 Sally 3 . . .. 29 33 Susan 3 . . . . 29 Thomas Ouitman 5 ... ... 44 59 Thomas Ethel 6 . • • ■ 59 Virginia 4 . ... 32 Walter Acker 5 . .. . 44 59 William. ... 29 2 9 William 3 . .. . 29 William 4 . • • • 33 William Anderson 4 .. ... 32 42 William A. 6 . ... 42 William Henry 4 . ... 32 William Milan 4 . . .. 32 44 William Milan 5 . . . . 44 Brown. Samuel Thompson... ... 31 39 Bugbee. Alice. .. . 49 62 157 Burges. Mary Elizabeth. .. . 30 38 86 Burney. Elizabeth 5 . .. . 47 62 Ella Lee 5 . ... • 47 John R. • •• 34 47 Cabiness. Mary Ann. .. . 29 33 Campbell. William A. • • • 43 58 William A. 6 . ... 58 Nannette 6 . .. • 58 Carpenter. Emily Alston 6 . • • 5i James Slaughter. • • 37 5i 129 James Slaughter 6 .... • • 5i John Darwin 6 . .. . 51 Lizzie Leach 6 . • • 5i f>3 Norma Snow 6 . • ■ 5i Samuel Sidney 6 . • • 5i Carroll. Sidney J . ■ • 39 54 Carter. Ella F. .. 46 Claiborne. Pattie. • ■ 35 48 117 Claris. Amelia M. .. 46 Cochrane. Sophia Holland. • • 3i 40 107 Parents Brothers Sisters Chil¬ dren Sketch Coleman. Sarah A. 42 57 Collins. Harriet Elizabeth Ann. . 30 35 77 Comegys. Cornelius George 5 . 39 Edward Freeman. 29 31 73 Edward Freeman 4 . 31 39 97 Edward Freeman 5 . 39 Lena 5 . 39 Lillie 5 . 39 Louisa Ripley 5 . 39 Susie 5 . 39 54 William Crawford 4 . 31 Cooke. Ellen. 43 Corprew. Prof. O. H. P. 33 III Cousson. George W. 40 55 Mary Clift 6 . 55 Crawford. Caroline Medora 4 . 31 39 Susan 4 . 3 i 39 William. 29 31 73 Dalton. Brame 5 . 44 Thomas Bradley. 32 44 Damer. Flora. 37 52 151 Davis. Ann. 30 35 Carrie J. 4 i 55 Emma H. 42 Dickinson. James Clarence 6 . 54 James Crawford 6 . 54 Leila 6 . 54 Richard Charles. 39 54 Dickson. Eliza Ann. 29 32 Drake. Francis Marvin 5 . 45 Henry Fitts 4 . 34 113 Henry Fitts 5 . 45 153 Harriet Thrower 5 . 45 154 John Oliver 4 . 34 113 John Oliver 5 . 45 Mary Ann 4 . 33 34 113 Mary Ann 5 . 45 153 Matthew Mann. 30 34 76 Matthew Mann 5 . 45 Matthew Mann 5 . 45 Sallie Duke 4 . 34 113 Sallie Duke 5 .. 45 Susan Fitts 5 . 45 60 153 William Caswell 4 . 34 35 45 45 \ 47 s hi William Caswell 5 . 154 Winnefred Fitts 5 . 45 Drew. Adeline A . 5 . 44 Benjamin. 33 44 hi Benjamin C . 5 . 44 Emily Rogers 5 . 44 George Rogers 6 . 44 153 Index 165 Parents Brothers Sisters Chil¬ dren Sketch Drew — Continued. Laura L . 6 . ... 44 Mary Fitts 5 . ... 44 59 153 Duke. Sallie. ... 29 30 Duncan. David Twitty 5 . .. . 49 Elizabeth Watts 5 .... ... 63 Eveline Fitts 5 . . .. 49 James Armstrong.... ... 35 49 117 James Armstrong 5 ... • .. 49 63 Lizzie. • ■ • 49 63 Mary Elizabeth 5 . • • • 49 Nannie 5 . • • • 49 Sallie Duke 6 . . . . 63 Theela Epia 5 . • • • 49 63 159 William Wallace 5 . .. • •• 49 Eaton. Eugene Fitz 6 . . . . 52 Eugene G. ... 37 52 131 Josiah Pegues 6 . . .. 52 Mary 6 . ... 52 Egerston. Mrs. Columbia. ... 42 57 Erwin. James Wiiliam. ... 38 Finlay. Annie H. • •• 34 114 Fitts. 3 Adeline. . . • 30 5 Alice. 38 53 149 5 Alice Olivia. ... 48 5 Alston. ... 38 150 3 Ann Eliza. .. . 30 36 78 6 Ann Sterling. .. 48 6 Ann Thrower. 6 Annalee Leslie .. • • 53 5 Annie Eliza. ... 48 5 Arthur. ... 38 148 6 Arthur Leonard. • • ■ 53 5 Aylette. ... 40 4 Betsy. • • • 35 3 Caroline. .. . 30 34 76 5 Caroline Mary. .. 48 4 Caroline Medora .... • • 3 ° 37 82 5 Caroline Patterson... ... 50 5 Charles. • ■ 37 52 131 5 Charles Henry. ... 50 6 Charles Middleton ... ... 52 5 Cornelia. . . . 36 51 128 5 Cornelia. ■ • • 39 5 Della Kate. ... 50 5 Edward Alston. . .. 3 b 127 5 Edward Plummer.... ... 50 5 Elise. . . •.. 39 3 Elizabeth. . . 30 34 77 4 Elizabeth Faulcon ... . .. 30 37 80 3 Emily. ... 30 3 b 5 Ethel Lee. ... 48 3 Eveline. .. 30 35 77 6 Fairfax. ... 40 5 Fannie. ... 38 53 146 5 Festus. ... 38 53 133 4 Francis Michael. . . \ 35 48 ) 50 i 115 5 Francis Michael. f 36 ... 48 6 Francis Michael. 6 Francis Moylan. ... 63 Parents Brothers Sisters Chil¬ dren Sketch Fitts — Continued. 0 Frank. •.. 53 6 Frank Michael. ... 48 6 George Bugbee. . . 62 4 George Collins. • • 35 48 117 5 George Collins. .. 48 5 Harden Holland. .. 40 3 Harriet. .. 30 36 78 4 Harriet Annie. • • 35 48 114 5 Harriet Collins. .. 48 6 Harriet Earle. • • 54 6 Harriet Thrower. 5 Haywood. .. 36 6 Helen Russell. 1 Henry. • • 24 29 24 2 Henry. .. 29 30 64a 3 Henry... 4 Henry. 114 5 Henry. .. 48 6 Henry Bird. • • 49 62 157 6 Henry Bird. 3 Henry Green. .. 30 35 5 Henry John. .. 40 5 Herbert. ■ ■ 36 3 James. .. 30 35 3 James Harris. .. 29 30 66 4 fames Harris . .. 30 38 86 5 James Harris. .. 38 6 James Harris. .. 53 6 James Harris. • ■ 53 4 James Henry. • • 35 49 117 5 James Henry. .. 49 63 158 4 James Monroe. • • 35 50 5 James Oliver. .. 36 126 3 John . .. 29 31 74 0 John Blair. .. 63 4 John Henry. .. 30 84 4 John Henry. • • 31 5 John Henry. • • 3b 127 0 Lalla Duke. .. 50 5 Lalla Plummer. • ■ 50 5 Lizzie Faulcon. . • 37 53 I3i 5 Louise. . . 40 5 Maggie. • ■ 39 4 Margaret Louisa. • • 31 40 X07 6 Margaret Woodhull.. . . 62 4 Martha Aylette. • • 31 99 0 Mary. .. 38 150 4 Mary Duke. • • 35 5 Mary Emily. .. 36 125 6 Mary Emily. . • 53 3 Mary Parham. .. 30 33 75 5 Mary Twitty. .. 48 5 Mary William. .. 48 6 Nadine. 62 2 Nancy. .. 29 29 5 Olive. . • • 39 2 Oliver. .. 29 29 64 5 Oliver. .. 48 3 Oliver Duke . .. 30 35 77 4 Oliver Duke. • • 35 5 Oliver Duke. .. 48 62 3 Oliver Harris. .. 29 31 75 4 Oliver Henry. .. 30 4 Oliver Henry. .. 3i 102 4 Olivia Duke. . . -j 34 45) ( 35 47 J 112 5 Philip Alston. • • 39 4 Philip Augustus. 40 105 5 Philip Augustus. • ■ 40 1(56 Index Parents Brothers Sisters Chil¬ dren Sketch Fitts— Continued. 4 Rebecca Emily. 30 82 6 Robert N. 48 4 Rosa. 35 4 Sallie. 31 4 Sallie D. 35 50 4 Sallie Duke. 35 s Sally. 29 4 Samuel Alston. 30 36 78 5 Samuel Thomas. 36 4 Sarah Ann. 3 i 4 Sarah Harris. 30 80 6 Sarah Olivia. 36 6 Sarah Palmer. 48 6 Sarah Twitty. 60 6 Sophia. 40 6 Sophia Holland. 54 3 Susan . 30 34 76 3 Susan Brown. 29 31 73 4 Susan Virginia. 30 38 96 4 Tempe. 3 i 40 108 4 Tempe. 35 .... 3 Tempe Louise. 48 4 Temperance. 3 i 41 3 Temperance Winnefred 29 31 73 B Virginia Aylette. 40 6 Walter Emmet. 36 6 Waverly. 36 128 4 William Aylette. 3 i 39 103 6 William Aylette. 39 6 William Cochrane. 40 54 152 4 William Faulcon. 30 37 84 6 William Faulcon. 37 132 6 William Faulcon. 38 53 132 5 William Hunter. 50 6 William Jones. 49 60) 62 f 6 William Thrower. J 46 1 48 156 6 William Thrower. 60 3 Winefred. 30 34 76 Flinn. Annie Fitts 0 . 53 B. F. 37 53 131 Charles Foster 0 . 53 Frank 6 . 53 Lulu Glaze 6 . 53 William Faulcon 6 . 53 Foote. Martha. 34 45 III Nancy. 29 32 Foster. Jersey Annie. 30 37 84 Paralee Amelia 6 . 43 58 Sidney J . 5 . 43 Skiles Augustus. 32 43 Skiles Henry 6 . 43 Fussell. J ames. 29 Gaines. Frank Wharton. 36 51 128 Frank Wharton 6 . 5 i Gaskins. Nellie. 49 .... Gough. F. C. 32 Mary. 29 . . . Guilo. Dr. La Fayette. 3 i 99 Parents Brothers Sisters Chil¬ dren Sketch Gunnison. Louisa . . • • 31 38 Hagan. Edward Sheppard.... ... 49 Haile. Willie. ... 38 Harris. Amanda Banks 6 . ... 40 Anderson F. 6 . Anna 4 . • • • 33 Boy a W . 5 . ... 44 Ceily E . 6 . ... 44 Cornelia 5 . ... 40 George M . 4 . ... 33 Henry B . 6 . ... 44 Henry Brame 4 . • •• 33 49 James A . 4 . • • • 33 John. ■ • • 33 John James. ... 31 40 107 John James 6 . ... 40 156 Joshua. ... 29 33 Leonidas Y . 6 . ... 44 Lucy Perine 6 . ... 40 Marcus S. 5 . ... 44 Margaret Gardner 6 .. ... 40 Mary 4 . • 33 Nancy C. 4 . . • • 33 Nathaniel J. 4 . ■ • • 33 Rebecca L . 6 . .. 44 Richard Norfleet 6 . , .. ... 40 Ridley F. 4 . Sarah . ... 29 29 Sarah 4 . • •• 33 Sherwood . ... 29 33 Susan . ... 31 39 98 Virginia Aylette 6 .... .. 40 55 William 4 . • ■ 33 William 4 . • • • 33 William Fitts 6 . Hawkins. James E . ... 31 40 108 James Fitts 6 . Julian Edward 5 . ... 40 Maggie Wei ton 5 . 40 Richard Nathaniel 6 .. .. 40 Roberta 6 . ... 40 Sarah 5 . Hewett. Eleanor . ... 40 54 153 Hickox. Milton Haynes. .. 38 Hill. James Fitts 6 . ... 53 Walton Harris 6 . • • ■ 53 Walton W. ... 38 53 149 Hollman. Ida May . ... 44 153 House. Arthur Caswell 6 . Earnest Nadal 0 . Fannie Roberts 6 . Henry 6 . John Drake 6 . Joseph A . ... 45 60 T 53 Joseph Anderson 6 ... Robert Burton 6 . Sallie Twitty 6 . . . . . Index 167 Parents Brothers Sisters Chil¬ dren Sketch Hudson. Edith. 38 Hunter. Bettie Tunstall. 35 50 Knox. 41 55 Lillian K . 6 . 55 Lizzie J . 6 . 55 Manly R . 6 . 55 William K . 6 . 55 Hyde. Eric Hascal 6 . 59 Walter M. 44 59 James. Edith Whitaker 7 . 63 Emilie Carpenter 7 . 63 George Roosa. 51 63 Johnson. Amelia Elizabeth 5 . 41 Emily 5 . 41 George Washington 6 .... 41 Hannah Jane 5 . 41 Joseph. 31 41 Robert 5 . 41 Sallie 5 . 41 Tempe Susan 6 . 41 Johnston Berge 6 . 62 Connie Winnie 15 . 62 Edward. 47 62 Ella Lee 6 . 62 John Russell 6 . 62 Joseph 6 . 62 Tones. Columbia. 42 57 Lucy B. P. 41 55 Minerva Temperance ... 30 35 Joyner. E. O. 32 41 Kelly. Augustus Foster 6 . 43 George Peter. 32 43 George Peter 5 . 43 John Henry 5 .. 43 Lizzie L . 5 . 43 Sallie 6 . 43 William 6 . 43 Kirkham. Edward Ernest.. . 37 51 Edward Ernest 6 . 51 Elizabeth Faulcon Fitts 6 5 i Leach. Bessie Warren 6 . 52 Carolyn Medora 6 . 37 51 Ernest Kirkham 6 . 52 Edward Faulcon 5 . 37 Edward Faulcon 6 . 52 Emily Alston 6 . 37 51 I29 Emily Carpenter 6 . 52 James Harris 5 . 37 John Warren 6 . 52 Lelia 5 . 37 Norma Lela 6 . 37 51 Samuel Thomas 6 . 37 130 Sewall Jones. 30 37 80 Sewall Jones 6 . 37 52 Sewall Sidney 6 . 52 Sidney Fitts 6 . 37 51 128 Parents Brothers Ohil- Sisters dren Sketch Leach— Continued. Sidney Peck 6 . • 5 i Susan Virginia 5 . • 37 William Fitts 6 . ■ 37 Willie Warren 6 . • 52 Loftin. John H.. Jr. . 48 Long. , . Alice 6 . j 42 50 i 43 58 Benjamin F. • 32 43 Benjamin F. 6 . 43 Levi A. 6 . • 43 Nannie 6 . 58 Russell 5 . • 43 Lynch. May Christine. ■ 48 Martin. Emily Lee 5 . • 38 54 Fredreka Alston 6 . • 54 Gideon Frederick. • 38 54 Harriette 5 . • 38 Harry Peques 6 . • 38 Lallie Bell Burnley 6 .... . 54 Lucia 5 . • 38 Lucien Van Buren. • 30 38 Narcissa Pillow 6 . • 54 Sallie Bell 6 . • 33 54 Susan Fitts 5 . • 33 Susie Fitts 6 . • 54 Mayfield. James Jefferson. • 54 McEachin. Helen Wallace... . • 37 Milan. Alice. 32 Corday Savage 5 . . 46 Elizabeth 4 . • 34 Emily Brame 6 . • 57 Hariet Oliver 4 . . 34 47 Henry Duke 4 . • 34 46 Henry Duke 6 . . 57 Henry Duke 6 . James Henry 5 . • 46 Jessie 4 . . 34 John 4 . . 34 John 6 . • 57 John F. J. . 42 57 John Felix Jefferson 5 . . . 46 6l John Felix Jefferson 6 . . . 6l Maggie Perry 6 . . 46 Martha. • 29 32 Mary Winnefred 5 . . 46 Nannie Twitty 6 . . 46 Nathan. • 30 34 Nathan 5 . . 46 Nathan Young 6 . . 46 Ruby 6 . . 46 Sallie Elizabeth 5 . . 46 Sarah Emily 4 . • 34 47 Sophia Perry 5 . . 46 Winnefred 4 . ■ 34 47 Minor. Fannie. . 50 Moore. Nancy. • 29 3i Morgan. Vicy Ann. • 32 44 168 Index Newell. Beniamin L. 6 . 56 Carleton S. 6 . 56 Ethel 6 . 56 Frank B. 6 . 42 Frank B. 6 .... 57 John Clay 6 . 56 John D. 32 John D. B . 42 John David 6 . 57 Mary Pete 5 .| ^ Will R. 6 . 56 William A. 5 . \ I 43 Nicholson. John Benjamin 6 . 59 Thomas F. 44 Palmer. Parents Brothers Chil- Sisters dren Sketch Horace 5 . 57 42 57 / 6 : j- ■56) 58 f 59 61 47 34 47 60 61 61 61 62 49 46 153 Annie Fitts 5 . 46 Caroline Horace 6 . 60 Fitts Henry 5 . 47 Hattie Duke 6 . 60 Helen R. 47 Henry Milan 5 . 47 Henry Milan 6 . 61 Horace. 34 Horace . 30 Horace. 34 (46 "147 Horace 6 . 55 Horace William 5 . 46 Jacob Michaeux 5 . 47 James Lee 6 . 46 James Russell 6 . 47 Jefferson Davis 5 . 47 John Brame 6 . 55 John Twitty 5 . 46 Lalla Fitts 6 . 60 Lucy Russell 6 . 60 Malvern Hill 5 . 47 Malvern Hill 6 . 61 Mary Anna. 48 Nannie Russell 5 . 49 Nathan Milan 5 .j ^ ^ j- Nathan Milan 0 . 55 Norville Finlay 6 ....... 61 Oliver Fitts 5 . 47 Oliver Fitts 6 . 60 Paul. 35 Paul 5 . 49 Robert Rodwell 6 . 55 Robert Twitty 6 . 60 Sallie Elizabeth 6 ....... 61 Sallie Fitts 6 . 55 Sallie Milan 5 .. 47 Samuel Arrington 6 . 61 Sarah Fittshenry 4 . 34 Sophi a George 6 . 61 Sue Horace 6 . 60 Susan Russell 5 . 47 Thomas Twitty 5 . 49 William Hendrick 4 .-j ^ ^ j- j 46 60 ) ’ " I 47 61 ) 76 54 4 155 114 William Howard 5 Parents Brothers Sisters Panlett. Epia 5 . 50 Hattie Williamson 5 . 50 Henry Clark. 35 Mary Twitty 5 . 50 Richard Landon 5 . 50 Pardue. W. M. Parker. India Lillian. 44 Lessie A. 44 Peck. Mary Lee. 37 Pegram. John R. 44 Pegues. Annie Rowan 6 . 52 Carolyn Medora 6 . 52 Harry Harrington 6 . 52 Hooper Alexander 6 . 52 Ida 5 . 37 Ida Eaton 6 . 52 Joe Evans 5 . 37 Josiah James. 30 Josiah James 6 . 52 Rosa Rowan 6 . 52 Samuel Fitts 6 . 37 Perry. Ann Elizabeth 6 . 56 Fannie McKerrall 6 . 56 John Brame 6 . 56 Mark P. 41 Mark Petway 6 . 56 Rosa Govan 6 . 56 Sallie 6 . 56 Peyton. Randolph. 39 Plummer. Charles 5 . 50 Edward Hall. 35 Ethel 6 . 50 James Fitts 5 . 50 Lucy M. 6 . 50 William Turner 5 . 50 Powell. Edward Henry 6 . 62 Rev. J. W. 48 Willie B. 6 . 62 PURIFOY. Lillie. 40 Reeks. Alice R. 5 . 41 Ella M. 5 . 41 Josephine Speed 6 . 55 Lizzie 5 . 41 Lucy M. 6 . 41 Pauline 6 . 41 Samuel Soule 5 . 41 Samuel Soule 6 . 55 Rev. T. B. 32 Thomas A. 5 . 41 Tullia B. 6 . 41 Chil- dren Sketch 50 .... 58 .... 59 51 129 52 131 52 130 37 82 52 130 '56 50 62 .... 157 55 .... 55 .... 41 .... Index 169 Parents Brothers Chil- Sisters dren Sketch Ripley. Daniel 5 . ... 38 Daniel B. ... 29 31 73 Fannie 6 . ... 38 Fitz Edward 5 . ... 38 Fitz Henry 4 . ... 31 38 Fitz Henry 5 . ... 38 Hannah 5 . ... 38 Henry 5 . ... 38 Sarah 4 . ... 31 Rodwell. Anna Elizabeth. ... 32 4 i Roe. Emma. .. 42 56 Rogers. Adeline Fitts 4 . ... 33 III Emily Ann 4 . • •. 33 44 III George. ... 30 33 75 George Oliver 4 . j 33 "' 7 34 in ) 113 J Thomas Henry 4 . ... 33 no Rolston. Hugh. ... 38 Rowan. Rosa. ... 37 52 130 Saddler. Charles. ... 33 Savage. Martha Ann. 34 46 Sawyer. Caroline Medora 6 .... ... 39 54 Francis Lee 5 . • ■. 39 Imogen Baron 6 . ... 39 54 Julian E . ... 31 39 Julian E. 5 . ... 39 William Crawford 5 ... • 39 SCOGGIN. Alice Fitts 4 . i 34 ''' \ 36 46) 5 ° f 114 Charles Blackwell,... ... 42 57 ’ Charles Blackwell 6 ... Fannie 6 . ... 57 George Rogers. ... 36 125 James Henry 4 . ... 36 James Lewis. ... 30 36 78 Smith. Susan C . ... 42 57 Snow. Charles B. 6 . ... 51 John.. ... 37 5 i John Adams 6 . ... 51 Lizzie Fitts 6 . ... 51 Virginia Penn 6 . ... 51 Sfiller. Annie. ... 38 53 132 Stallings. Alice M . 6 . ... 42 Eugene 5 . 56 Lizzie 5 . ... 42 56 Mattie 5 . Peter M . 5 . Theophilus. ... 32 42 Steavin. Dolly. Studivant. Susannah. Taylor. Annalee. Temple. Emma J. Thomas. Norwood. Elizabeth Christine 6 Thrower. Mary Fitts William 4 . Twitty. Ann 5 Caroline Sterling 5 , Harriet Thrower 6 . John 4 Parents Brothers Chil- Sisters dren Sketch • 33 44 . 24 29 . 38 53 135 • 36 • 42 56 . 56 j 35 48 ) 115 • 1 36 50 J . 36 . 36 125 . 30 36 78 • 36 . 46 . 49 . 35 49 • 34 . 46 (46 60 i ' 1 47 611 50 • 49 U6 '} 48 60) 62) 156 . 34 45 III . 45 • 49 . 35 49 124 . 46 . 35 . 3 ° 34 76 . 34 113 . 45 • 45 59 . 49 . 56 • 34 34 j 46 60) ■ i 47 611 . 45 . 35 . 49 . 34 46 114 . 46 . 49 . 35 49 117 . 34 45 III • 59 . 45 . 35 . 30 35 77 . 34 . 35 . 45 . 46 . 49 . 46 154 170 Index Van Hoose. Parents Brothers Sisters Chil¬ dren Sketch Watson. Parents Brothers Sisters Chil¬ dren Sketch George Wolsey. George Wolsey 6 .... Lucia 6 . .... 38 .... 54 .... 54 54 151 Mary Z. W ATT. . 42 Vann. Eliza J . . 31 39 104 Macon E. Walker. William. .... 42 •••• 33 Winslett. Anna Watts. . 40 Warren. WORTTAM. Kate Brantley. .. • • 37 52 .... Ned. . 33 V »