Notes for Charles Greene Bittick
Death Certificate gives his date of birth as November 26, 1872
It appears that Charles and Ella Flowers were married about 1892 and separated/divorced about 1901. No marriage record has been located.
Sometime between 1902 and 1908, Charles is said to have married in Oklahoma the daughter of Choctaw Indian Chief
Dick Durant. On 05 July 2002, a volunteer at the Bartlesville Oklahoma Historical Society Library, told Lee Bittick Hendricks that Chief Dick Durant was married several times and had numerous children. There is a book about the family. Confirmation of this marriage has not been found.
Note: Chief Dick is Alexander 'Alex' Richard Durant - his only known daughter is Etna Rae born 24 June 1899 in Oklahoma. Considering her age she could not have married Charles Greene Bittick.
C.G. Bittick and Bess F. Ison were married on 16 November 1908 in Lyon Co, Kansas.
[www.lyoncountyks.org
Flint Hills Genealogical Society Marriage Index, Lyon Co, Kansas]
1900 Gates Village, 12 Civil Division, Lauderdale Co, Tennessee 27 June 1900, ed94, p306a:
Biddicks C.C. head rents w m Nov 1870 29 md 8 yrs mfr (chairs) Tn Tn Tn
Ella wife w f ___ 1874 25 md 8 yrs 0 born/0 living Tn Tn Tn
1910 Paris City, Precinct 1, Ward 3, Lamar Co, Texas 20 April 1910, ed81, p215a:
821 West Cherry Street
#126/135 Bittick Charles head m w 39 md2 1 yr no occupation Mo Ar Ar
Bessie wife f w 21 md1 1 yrs 0 born/0 living Ks Mo Ar
Durant Westley boarder m w? [Ind?] 39 single lumber yard foreman, crate factory Ok Ok Ok
Internment Record for C. G. Bittick
b. 28 Nov 1870
d. 8 Apr 1918
Buried: Evergreen Cemetery
Location: 01-15-04
'The Paris Scrapbook' donated by Skipper Steely. Unnamed newspaper obituary:
April 9, 1918
C.G. Bittick died at 8 o'clock yesterday morning at the Aikin hospital, where he had been a patient the past six weeks and where he was operated on last Friday for gallstones. He was forty-six years old and was born in Tennessee. He had been making his home in Paris the past ten years and was engaged in the lumber business. At different times he was foreman at the box factory and at the crate factory. His last employment was as a traveling man for a Beaumont lumber company, and he was engaged in buying timer and selling lumber. He was considered among the best posted men in that line of business. He is survived by a wife and two little children, a girl eight years old and a boy three years old. The funeral service will be held at 10 o'clock this morning at the home of his sister, Mrs. W. H. Stallings, on West Cherry street, conducted by Rev. W. B. Kendall.
Note: Sexton records of Evergreen Cemetery has G.G. Bittick as his name. [Lamar Co, Texas website]
From Dorothy L. Miller:
Here is my transcription of the news article which Emily B. Walker sent to me. Dottie
1901: Trenton Herald-Democrat, Vol. 17
Trenton, Gibson County, Tenn
Aug. 9, 1901 Number 26 (Page 4, bottom of column 2 and top of column 3)
(Emily B. Walker transcribed the article because the copy was too poor to read)
One of the most atrocious crimes ever committed in Gibson County occurred last Thursday afternoon when Charles Bittick, about 30 years of age, murdered Mr. Fayette Flowers, an aged and respected citizen of the Neboville neighborhood, in the 8th district of this county. Mr. Flowers died two days after the terrible beating and there has been considerable excitement in that vicinity because of the unfortunate affair and threats of lynching have been indulged in. Bittick was a son-in-law of Flowers, but had been separated from his wife for some time, and she was making her home with her father. Bittick had spent several years in Arkansas, but has been making his home in Dyer County for the past year or two. A day or two before the murder he had returned to the neighborhood of his crime. His wife heard of the presence in the neighborhood and, fearing him, had left home. The man went to the Flowers home and demanded to know where his wife was. This information being refused him, he assaulted Mr. Flowers with the above result. Not satisfied with this, he also assaulted Mrs. Flowers and a boy with a buggy whip. The boy ran to avoid the beating and Bittick shot at him as he ran. Bittick then fled to Dyer County and was arrested in Dyersburg. The constable who had him in charge, fearing that his friends would attempt to release him, telephoned Sheriff Morgan, and as that official was out of town, officers Jim Hall and Obe Green went to the constable's rescue and assisted in landing him in jail. Bittick's brother was also arrested and lodged in jail on the charge of carrying a pistol, but he was later released on bond. Bittick is said to have murdered a man in Arkansas, but by some means escaped punishment for the crime, after having been twice sentenced to the penitentiary.
(Note: This issue of newspaper was published on a Friday. If Mr. Flowers had been beaten "Last Thursday afternoon" (August 1st) and "Died two days" later, he would have died on Saturday, August 3rd, 1901) [courtesy of Dorothy Miller]
1902: Paragould, Greene Co, Arkansas
The Daily Soliphone
April 4, 1902
Goes to the Pen
"The jury in the Charles Bittick murder case, tried at Trenton, after 48 hours deliberation, brought in a verdict of manslaughter and fixing punishment at three years in the penitentiary. The light verdict is a surprise. Much interest was manifested in the trial, for Bittick was charged with killing his father-in-law and trying to kill his wife. - Ripley (Tenn.,) News."
Charles Bittick is the man who killed a man in Clay county [Arkansas] several years ago, moved his trial to this county and after remaining in the courts for two or three terms was finally acquitted. - Joneboro Times.
[http://.usgennet.org/usa/ar/county/greene/charlesbittick1902te07.htm] Note: have scan of newspaper article.
Tennessee Department of Corrections
Division of Administrative Services
Certification Documentation
State of Tennessee
County of Davidson
I, Joe Stroud, hereby certify: That I am the Clerk II / Institutional Inmate Records of the Tennessee Department of Correction situated in the County and State aforesaid; that in my legal custody as such officer are the original files and records of persons hereto committed to the Tennessee Department of Corrections. The attached hereto are copies of the original records of: Charlie Bittick, #902, a person heretofore committed to the Tennessee Department of Correction and who served a term of imprisonment therein; that I have compared the foregoing and attached copies with their respective originals now on file in my office and each thereof contains, and is, a full true and correct transcript and copy from its said original.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this 30th day of July, 2002.
Joe Stroud, Clerk III / Institutional Inmate Records
State of Tennessee
County of Davidson
Sworn and subscribed to before me this 30th day of July, 2002. My Commission Expires 3-24-06. Betty Delk, Notary Public
p284:
No.: 902
Name: Charlie Bittick
Color: W
County: Gibson
Court: Circuit
Crime: Murder 1 deg
When Received: Apr. 4, 1902
Date of Sentence: Mch. 21, 1902
Term Years: 3
Age Years: 32
Height: 5 feet 8 1/2 inches
Weight: 125? lbs.
Color of Eyes: Blue
Color of Hair: Blk
Complexion: Fair
Marks: scar on R. Cheek; scar on L. groin; Mole on L. side belly; Scar on buttox
Stalton? of Life: M
Where Born: Tenn
Trade: None
Education: C.S.
Religion: None
Remarks: Hold for Sheriff of Gibson Co.
To be turned over to sheriff of Gibson Co.
Address Wife
Mrs. M.A. Bittick, Kenton, Tenn
Discharged: Oct. 4, 1902?
[courtesy of Dorothy Miller, from the records of Leigh Bittick Hendricks]
State of Tennessee
Department of Correction
4th Floor Rachel Jackson Bldg.
320 Sixth Avenue North
Nashville, Tennessee 37243-0465
July 30, 2002
Ms. Leigh Hendricks
619 Spruce St. NE
Albuquerque, NM 87106
Re: Charlie Bittick, #902
Dear Ms. Hendricks:
Upon receipt of your telephone request, which was received in this office July 8, 2002, we extensively checked our institutional records for information on the above named offender. Attached is the complete institutional record, which is everything we have on file in Central Office on Charlie Bittick.
These are the best possible photocopies that could be reproduced.
Should this office be of any further assistance, please feel free to contact us again.
Sincerely,
Joe Stroud, Clerk III
Operational Support Services
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Texas Deaths, 1890-1976
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Bureau of Vital Statistics
Certificate #17431
Name: C. G. Bittick
County: Lamar
City: Paris
Male white married
Date of birth: Nov 26, 1872
Age: 45 years 4 months 12 days
Occupation: Timber dealer
Birthplace: Tenn
Father: Green Bittick born Tenn
Mother: Margaret Mae[?] born Tenn
Informant: E. Goodsby[?] 149 N. 27, Paris
Filed 4-9-1918 P. Pinson, Registrar
Date of death: 4-8-1918; 7:50 am
Physician attended from about April _, 1917 to April 8, 1918; last seen alive April 8, 1918
Cause: Gall stones & neuritis, 3 years duration
Signed: E. Goodsby, M.D. April 8, 1918; 149 N. 27 St, Paris
Length of residence at place of death: 18 years
In state 10 years
Burial: Evergreen; 4-9-1918
Undertaker: J. R. Council, Paris
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