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Notes for Absolem B. Bitticks

Absolom was born in Giles Co, Tennessee then moved to Mississippi where three of his children were born, then Monroe and Prairie Counties, Arkansas where the youngest child, Walter was born. Absolom died in Rock Roe Township, Prairie County, Arkansas and is buried in the Rock Rose Cemetery at Ulm.

No one seems to know anything about the middle name of B.? Ida (Bitticks) Hill says her grandfather, Absolom, added an 's' to the surname making it Bitticks.
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Marriage day and month from Allan and Ida Hill's records to Dorothy Miller. Year not included but assumed to be 1841.
No record of marriage found in Giles Co, TN
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Census Enumerations:

1850 The Northern Division, DeSoto Co, Mississippi 17 September 1850, p384a:
#241/241 Biddox A.B. 26 m Tn - Absolom
E. 24 f Tn - Eliza
H. 8 m Tn - Harriet (enumerated as male)
B. 6 m Ms - John R.
S. 1 m Ms - Samuel

1860 Rock Roe Township, Aberdeen PO, Monroe Co, Arkansas 21 June 1860, p472b:
#128/128 Beddix Absalom 35 m w farmer $/700 Tn
Eliza 35 f w Tn
Harriet 16 f w Tn
John 14 m w Ms
Saml 12 m w Ms
Cynthia 8 f w Ms
Robert 4 m w Ms
Woodson 2 m w Ms

1870 Rock Roe, Aberdeen PO, Prairie Co, Arkansas 05 September 1870, p472b:
#11/11 Bitticks A.B. 48 m w Tn farmer $1600/400 Tn - citizen
Eliza 46 f w housekeeper Tn
J.R. 24 m w farm labor Tn - citizen
Samuel 19 m w Ms
Josephine 16 f w Ms - attended school
Newton 12 m w Ms - attended school
Walter 9 m w Ar
Dogan James 18 m w farm labor Ms

1880 Rock Roe, Prairie Co, Arkansas 05 June 1880, p225b:
#51/56 Bitticks Absolam B. 58 w m md farmer Tn Ga Ga
Eliza 56 w f md wife keeping house Tn Ga NC
Sam L. 28 w m son single Ms Tn Tn
Woodson 21 w m son single Ms Tn Tn
Josephine 20 w f dau single Ms Tn Tn
Walter 18 w m son single Ar Tn Tn
[Note: Absolem's father, John R. Bittick, was likely born in North Carolina not Georgia. His mother, Cynthia, was born in North Carolina not Virginia.]
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[need to double check this transcript to actual letter - mbg 2/19/03]
July 11, 1980

Dear Mrs Goodwin,

I hope I'm not to late with this information. I still have a lot of letters & phone calls out hoping to complete & verify information. I guess you well know it's a discouraging process. I believe the information on our close families is accurate - as far as we have it. I'm sending some that is quite incomplete. I hope you will have a more complete family for John R. Bittick. I'm sure he had a son "Green" - & there was time for others before Absolem B.

The information I have on other Absolem B. children is very sketchy - & from grandmother's memory (with a few Bible dates). Elizabeth Graham Ross was her sister. I hope you will have this information from other sources.
I & many of our cousins are anxious to see the finished product - you sure have taken on a big project--just my part of it has been a big job.

We called the other Bittick families in El Paso - & they assured us they would send you their information. If they haven't don it any better than ours did, they are still putting it off. I think I have all ours from this area. I have all the names. A lot of dates are missing.

I wonder if you have ever had any break through's in connecting your lines & ours up. I'm sure there is a connection somewhere. Good luck! If (or when) I get further information on the ..... Bitticks family (I know there are other grandchildren. I'll send it along & Hope I can catch you.

Best Regards
Ida Hill

Families of other Children of Absolem B. Bitticks (not including Wood Newton)
(This information from the memory of Mary Grace Ross)

Harriet Bitticks m Wm Gregory had 1 son
1. Charles Gregory m Rose Strong

John Bitticks m. 3 times
(1.) Molly Kirksey
1. Fred b. 1877 in Prairie Co, Ark d. 2 Feb 1899
2. Minnie died young 3. Rose
4. Alice twins Abt 1888 Alice d. Aug 1891 5.
Willie twins Abt 1888
John Bitticks

(2) Leona Duncan - no children
1. John Bitticks

(3) Lilly Walls had 1 dau.
1. Mamie about 1897

Josephine Bitticks m George Kirksey & had
1. Ola Kirksey
2. Edd
3. Obbie
4. Tommy
5. Oscar

Walter Bitticks
(1) Elizabeth Graham Ross July 13, 1887 (b. 13 May 1865 d. 22 Nov 1901)
1. Eugene b. 5 July 1888 d. Sept 1888
2. Ella 27 Aug 1889 July 1890
3. Robert 25 Dec 1890
4. Alice 27 Jan 1893 m Guy Longnecker
5. Maude 5 Dec 1895 Abt 1898
6. Vera 13 June 1894 m ..... no children, 1 child wa ?
7. Wade twin 8 Mar 1899 8. Winnie twin 8 Mar 1899 Abt 1904
9. James Hervey 22 Nov 1901 Abt Feb 1902 Walter Bitticks

(2) Willie had dau.
1. Fonzine Walter Bitticks

(3) had a son
1. ..... raised by his sister Vera bur, Rock Rose at Ulm Prairie Co, Arkansas
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Buried: Rock Rose Cemetery, Ulm, Prairie Co, Arkansas
[Unable to find this cemetery]
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