Notes for John Washington Bittick
John Washington Bittick was born in Billstown, Pike Co, Arkansas per Cloid Bittick of Washington, Arkansas. Billstown is located in Section 8, Township 9, south of Range 24W per David Kelley.
1850 unable to locate
1860 Red Land Twp, Hempstead Co, Arkansas no date 1860, p735:
#337/337 Robert Bittick 72 m w NC farmer $1280/925
Cynthia 48 f Mo
John W. 33 m Ar
William 31 m Ar
Columbus 16 m Ar
Francis 12 m Ar
Mary 18 f Tn - [wife of John W.]
Note: none of the pages for Red Land Township have dates.
[Mary Elizabeth is with her husband, Calvin Harrison in Monroe Co, Arkansas]
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Land Records:
Arkansas Land Records:
John W. Bittick
Land Office: Washington
Document Number: 13027
Signature: Yes
Canceled Document: No
Issue Date: April 02, 1860
Mineral Right Reserved: No
Metes and Bounds: No
Statutory Reference: 3 Stat. 566
Multiple Warrantee Names: No
Act or Treaty: April 24, 1820
Multiple Patentee Names: No
Entry Classification: Sale - Cash Entries
Land Description: 1 E1/2NW, 5th PM, No, 10S, 24W, 14
April 02, 1860 Hempstead Co, Arkansas Federal Land Records
John W. Bittick
Section #7, Town , 9S Range 23, 41.93 acres
7 November 1860
Hempstead Co, Arkansas
Know all men by these presents that in consideration of one hundred dollars to me in hand paid. The Receipt whereof is hereby acknowledge that I John W. Bittick have this day bargained and Sold unto Christopher C. Bittick and Francis M. Bittick a certain track (sic) or parcel of Land (crease in paper. Illegible) as follows the East half of the North West quarter of Section Fourteen in Township ten South of Range twenty four west Containing eighty Acres acording to the plants of the Surveyor general to have and to hold together with all the Rights and priviliges therto belonging in fee Simple forever and I John W. Bittick for myself, my heirs executors and Administrators Shall warrant and defend the Same unto Christopher C. Bittick and Francis M. Bittick against the lawful claims of all persons whomsoever and I Mary A. Bittick wife of Said John W. Bittick in the consideration above mentioned and for divers other considerations do hereby Release and quit claim unto Christopher C. Bittick and Francis M. Bittick all of my claim on possibility of dower in or out of the above named tract or parcel of Land in testimony whereof we the Said John W. Bittick and Mary A. Bittick have herunto Set our hands and Seal this November the 7th 1860.
(Signed) John W. Bittick (Seal)
State of Arkansas
County of Hempstead S.S.
Be it remembered that on this 8th day of November 1860 before me Aaron Burlison an acting and duly commissioned justice of the peace for said county in the Township of Redlans personally appeared John W. Bittick grantor of the within D (-------------) subject that he had assigned the within Deed for the uses and purposes therein expressed and desired the same to be certified and on the same day and at the same place came Mary A. Bittick wife of the said John W. Bittick who then being examined by me in the absence of her said husband and the contents of the within deed being by me fully explained to her she declared that she had of her own free will executed the same without compulsion or undue influence of her said husband and desired the same to be certified.
Given under my hand this 8th day of November 1860. Aaron Burlison
[Southwest Arkansas Regional Archives, courtesy of Dorothy Miller]
Military Records:
Confederate States of America
20th Regiment, Arkansas Infantry
Company E
Hempstead Plough Boys
Bittick, John W., Private
Enlisted at Washington, Arkansas on March 1, 1862.
Died in camp near Priceville, Mississippi on July 21, 1862
20th Regiment Arkansas Infantry, Company E. “Hempstead Plough Boys”
Blevins, Andrew Jackson: Private - Enlisted at Washington, Arkansas, March 1, 1862; deserted near Grenada, Mississippi, December 1862. [his brother-in-law]
Bittick, John W: Private - Enlisted at Washington, Arkansas, March 1, 1862; died in camp near Priceville, Mississippi, July 21, 1862.
Cause of Death: dropsy
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[see Other Documents: Military Records]
John Washinton Bittick Military Records Timeline Summary
1 Mar 1862, at Washington, Arkansas, John W. Bittick enlisted in Company I, King's Regiment, Arkansas Infantry by Captain C. B. Owsley, for a period of 12 months. [Item 2] enlisted by Jeff Cottingham [Item 3]
1 Mar to 2 May 1862, J. W. Bittick, Private, Co. I, King's Regiment/20 Regiment Arkansas Infantry, appeared on Company Muster Roll, marked Present. [Item 2]
1 Mar to 30 June 1862, J. W. Betticks (sic), Private, Co. E, 20 Regiment Arkansas Infantry, appeared on Company Muster Roll, marked Absent sick. [Item 3]
July & Aug 1862, J. W. Bittick, Private, Co. E, 20 Regiment Arkansas Infantry, appeared on Company Muster Roll, died 21 July in camp near Priceville; unpaid [Item 4]
21 July 1862, J. W. Bittick died in camp near Priceville [Item 4, 5]; appeared on a Register of Officers and Soldiers who were killed in battle, or died of wounds or disease; no effects or money left [Item 5]
27 Nov 1862, Hempstead Co, Arkansas, in affidavit sworn before Aaron Burlison, Justice of the Peace, Mary R. Bittick stated that her husband was John W. Bittick, volunteered for and was a Private in Captain Jefferson Cottingham's Company which was part of the Regiment Commanded by Col. King, afterward by Col. Henry W. Johnson; that John W. Bittick died in service on 21 July 1862. [Item 6]
27 Nov 1862, Hempstead Co, Arkansas, in affidavit sworn before Aaron Burlison, J. P., Samuel T. Spragins stated that Private John W. Bittick served with him in the company of Volunteers commanded by Captain Cottingham, then Captain L. A. Black, then Col. H. W. Johnson. Spragins stated that he knew John W. Bittick & served with him in the same company. Spragins also stated that John W. Bittick died in the service on 21 July 1862 and that he was the husband of Mary R. Bittick. [Item 6] Aaron Burlison certified that Samuel T. Spragins was a man of credibility. [Item 7]
29 Nov 1862, Hempstead Co, Arkansas, L. T. Sanders, Clerk of the Circuit & County courts for Hempstead County, verified that Aaron Burlison was at the time a Justice of the Peace for Hempstead County. [Item 7]
20 Jan 1863, requests from Treasury Department, Second Auditor's Office, C. S. A. & Ch. Div. Deaceased Soldiers to the Adjutant and Inspector General & Quartermaster General for information on the term of enlistment, service, death, bounty, last payment, clothing of John W. Bittick [Items 8, 9]
21 Jan 1863, Quartermaster General's Office stated that there were no returns for Johnson's Arkansas Regiment [Item 10]
after 21 Jan 1863, J. W. Bittic (sic) Co I, G & E, 20 Arkansas Troops, enlisted March 1, 1862 for one year; unpaid, no clothes or commutation received; died July 21, 1862 at Priceville Camp of Dropsy. [Item 11]
24 Aug to 4 Sep 1863, To Mary R. Bettick (sic), widow of John W. Bettick (sic) late private of Captain Cottingham's Co. I, Johnson's 20/22d Regiment Arkansas Volunteers: for pay of said deceased from March 1, 1862, the date of enlistment, to July 21, 1862, the date of death, inclusive 4 months & 21 days at $11 = $51.70; plus commutation for clothing = $25; Total due = $76.70; Treasury Department, Second Auditor's Office, CSA dated 24 Aug 1863; Comptroller's Office CSA dated 4 Sep 1863 [Item 12]
after 4 Sep 1863, John W. Bittick, Private Cottingham's Company, King's Regiment, appeared on a Register of Claims of Deceased Officers and Soldiers from Arkansas and Florida which were filed for settlement in the Office of the Confederate States Auditor for the War Department. Claim presented by G. D. Royston, Attorney, filed 20 Jan 1863, reported to 24 Aug 1863, returned 4 Sept 1863, certificate #8274, $76.70 due to widow. [Item 14]
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Genforum; Bittick Family Genealogy Forum
Robert Bittick, message 74, August 12, 2003
Michael Hyden to Barb Selletti
says in part... I was looking back in some notes from my second cousin and she says: John Washington b. 1827, Sat down by a tree while serving in the Civil War and died on 21 July 1862. [not confirmed!]
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