The Pittman Patriarchs: In Ohio, Indiana, and Missouri (Part 1)

Elias Obediah Pittman (1765-1839) was born in Fulton County, Pennsylvania, down along the Maryland border, at a place called Licking Creek. He was my 4th great grandfather. Sometime shortly after the end of the War of 1812 he moved his family to Ohio, as did many other of his siblings and Pittman relatives. He died in Richland County, in the north central part of the state. Many Pittmans also lived in nearby Morrow County, at a place called Mt. Gilead. 

Elias was married to Sarah Truex (1762-1839). They had at least seven children together. Of these seven, two would eventually move to Nodaway County, Missouri, three to Elkhart, Indiana, and two more would stay on in nearby Morrow County, Ohio.

Elias' oldest son was William Elias Pittman (1784-1861), my 3rd great grandfather. He would have been in his early 30s at the time of the move to Ohio. I'm not sure how long he stayed, but by the time of the 1840 census he was living in Nodaway County, in the far northwest corner of Missouri. Wikipedia tells us that the area was first settled by white homesteaders in the 1830s, so perhaps William and his family were among the early settlers there.

William was married to Katherine Clark (1786-1860). The two of them had six children. Of these six at least two traveled to Missouri with him, while one wound up in Louisburg, Kansas (about a hundred miles south of Nodaway County), and the other in Fort Bend, Texas. But one of them moved to Brown County, Indiana.

That was my 2nd great grandfather, Thomas Pittman (1809-1895). For whatever reason, he did not move to Missouri along with his father and two of his siblings, but stayed on in Ohio for some time. As early as 1832 he is in Monroe County (southeast Ohio, on the West Virginia border), where his first son, Isaac, was born. In the 1850 census he is listed as a farmer in Monroe County. His wife, Anna Rebecca Clark (1808-1850), had recently passed away, and Thomas is listed along with his eight children.

Shortly thereafter Thomas would marry his second wife, Elizabeth Moore (1824-1881), by whom he would be the father of eight more children. And not long after that wedding, Thomas and Elizabeth and the family would move from Monroe County, Ohio, to rural Brown County, Indiana.

It is this man, Thomas Pittman, the patriarch of the Brown County Pittmans, who I want to focus on in the next installment here at Family Notes.

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