Re: Wm. Landrum m Nancy Gilmore 1825 AL
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Re: Wm. Landrum m Nancy Gilmore 1825 AL
jimmy pitts 2/25/04
Dear Jimmy:
I remember getting the information from an e-mail correspondant, but a search on this computer of my archived e-mails didn't reveal the message [but this is my third computer in 10 years, and I don't know how to transper e-mail archives],
This is all I have gathered on Silas:
Silas appeared on the records in Pendleton Co. 2 May 1812, in a Deed of Gift [Rebecca's part of 200 acres on the Tugaloo River] from James Barnett, father of Rebecca.
Silas was sued, in Anderson Co., Pendleton Dist. of South Carolina by James Hanna who "complaineth that where the said Silas on the 10th day of Oct 1813 at Pendleton Courthouse --- offered to sell to the said James a certain bright sorrel horse --- Silas promised that the said horse was sound, said James did purchase said horse for $100 --- the said horse was afflicted --- with glanders.--- adjudge for the plaintiff $60 with costs."The horse had died 26 Dec 1813, just two and a half months after the sale.
On 21 Oct 1813, Silas bought from James Hannah, for $200, 80 acres of land in Anderson Co., Pendleton Dist., joining Jacob Holland, James Barnett, and Jacob Gary, lying on the south side of a branch of Beaverdam Creek [DB M, p180].Silas sold this land, for $200, to George Henry Cosper on 24 Feb 1816.His daughter, Emily Eliza, stated that she was born in Tallapoosa Co. Alabama 10 Feb 1816.
Silas was on the 1816 Monroe Co. Mississippi Terr. (Alabama) Resident's List [near Horseshoe Bend in Tallapoosa Co.], the 1830 Pike Co. Alabama Census [p16], the 1840 Shelby Co. Alabama Census [p69], the 1850 Shelby Co. Alabama Census [p248], and the 1860 Mortality Schedule, where he was listed as a farmer, who died in October of Pneumonia.
The Jackson family Book says Silas came to Pike Co. in 1818, and lived in the Orion, Prospect Ridge area next to Alexander Jackson.His daughter, Emily Eliza, married Alexander's son, Abner Mitchel Jackson.
Silas purchased from the Cahaba Land Office, St. Stewphens base line:
1 Dec 1831, 89 acres, Township 11N, Range 20E, Section 4.
3 Jun 1833, 82 acres, Township 10N, Range 20E, Section 5.
16Sep 1833, 90 acres, Township 11N, Range 20E, Section 5.
Silas purchases from the Tuscaloosa Land Office, Huntsville base line:
2 Sep 1850, 39 acres, Township 20S, Range 1E, Section 34.
2 Sep 1850, 39 acres, Township 20S, Range 1E, Section 33.
1 Aug 1853, 39 acres, Township 20S, Range 1E, Section 34.
1 Jun 1856, 351 acres, Township 20S, Range 1E, Section 14.
Silas sold his land in Pike County in 1835.It is likely that Rebecca had died, possibly in 1833.In 1836 Silas served as a Comissioner in Pike Co.He was in Shelby Co. in 1840, then again in 1850, with another wife, Nancy Ellison, and two more children.
There was a Silas L. Pitts who married a Parmelia Ann Taylor 7 Aug 1859 in Lowndes Co. Alabama.
Re: C. Warren Pitts:
Warren purchased, at the Cahaba Land Office, on 20 May 1837 (about a month after he married Mary Ann), 40 acres in Township 11N, Range 20E, Section 34.He was listed on the Pike Co. 1840 Census [p393].He probably died about 1847, as Mary Ann was widowed by 1850, living with her two youngest children, while the two oldest were living with her brother.