Henry HittAge: 59 years1771–1830
- Name
- Henry Hitt
Birth | 1771 21 16 |
Marriage | Elizabeth Stephens Ball — View this family yes |
Birth of a brother | Jesse Hitt 1773 (Age 2 years) |
Birth of a sister | … Hitt 1775 (Age 4 years) |
Birth of a brother | John Hitt 1777 (Age 6 years) |
Birth of a sister | Sarah Anne Hitt 1779 (Age 8 years) |
Death of a maternal grandfather | Henry Martin 1780 (Age 9 years) |
Birth of a brother | Reuben Hitt 1781 (Age 10 years) |
Birth of a sister | daughter Hitt 1783 (Age 12 years) |
Birth of a brother | Benjamin B Hitt August 15, 1786 (Age 15 years) |
Death of a paternal grandfather | Joseph Hitt after 1790 (Age 19 years) |
Death of a paternal grandmother | Mary Cuntz after 1790 (Age 19 years) |
Birth of a son #1 | Jesse Hitt December 14, 1797 (Age 26 years) |
Residence | 1800 (Age 29 years) |
Birth of a daughter #2 | Elizabeth Hitt 1801 (Age 30 years) |
Birth of a son #3 | William Hitt about 1805 (Age 34 years) |
Birth of a son #4 | Martin Hitt about 1805 (Age 34 years) |
Birth of a son #5 | Henry Hitt about 1810 (Age 39 years) |
Birth of a son #6 | Benjamin Lewis Hitt about 1813 (Age 42 years) |
Birth of a half-sister | Evie Hitt 1814 (Age 43 years) |
Death of a brother | Jesse Hitt before 1823 (Age 52 years) |
Death of a sister | … Hitt before 1823 (Age 52 years) |
Death of a mother | Agnes Martin before 1823 (Age 52 years) |
Death of a father | Lazarus Hitt August 2, 1823 (Age 52 years) |
Death of a daughter | Elizabeth Hitt 1826 (Age 55 years) |
Death | August 28, 1830 (Age 59 years) |
Family with parents |
father |
Lazarus Hitt Birth: 1750 33 20 — South Carolina Death: August 2, 1823 — Laurens County, SC, USA |
mother |
Agnes Martin Birth: about 1755 35 — Fauquier, Virginia, USA Death: before 1823 |
himself |
Henry Hitt Birth: 1771 21 16 — VA, USA Death: August 28, 1830 — Laurens County, SC, USA |
3 years younger brother |
Jesse Hitt Birth: 1773 23 18 Death: before 1823 — SC, USA |
3 years younger sister |
… Hitt Birth: 1775 25 20 Death: before 1823 |
3 years younger brother |
John Hitt Birth: 1777 27 22 Death: August 6, 1846 |
3 years younger sister |
Sarah Anne Hitt Birth: 1779 29 24 — Fauquier, Virginia, USA Death: September 15, 1849 — Laurens County, SC, USA |
3 years younger brother |
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3 years younger sister |
daughter Hitt Birth: 1783 33 28 |
4 years younger brother |
Benjamin B Hitt Birth: August 15, 1786 36 31 — Laurens County, SC, USA Death: September 11, 1850 — Sumter County, AL, USA |
Father’s family with Elizabeth |
father |
Lazarus Hitt Birth: 1750 33 20 — South Carolina Death: August 2, 1823 — Laurens County, SC, USA |
step-mother |
Elizabeth Birth: February 25, 1779 Death: July 23, 1859 |
half-sister |
Evie Hitt Birth: 1814 64 34 |
Family with Elizabeth Stephens Ball |
himself |
Henry Hitt Birth: 1771 21 16 — VA, USA Death: August 28, 1830 — Laurens County, SC, USA |
wife |
Elizabeth Stephens Ball Birth: 1771 Death: 1844 |
Marriage: — |
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son |
Jesse Hitt Birth: December 14, 1797 26 26 — Laurens County, SC, USA Death: December 2, 1864 — Laurens County, SC, USA |
4 years daughter |
Elizabeth Hitt Birth: 1801 30 30 — Laurens County, SC, USA Death: 1826 — Laurens County, SC, USA |
5 years son |
William Hitt Birth: about 1805 34 34 — Laurens County, SC, USA Death: April 6, 1866 — , Montgomery, Ohio, USA |
1 year son |
Martin Hitt Birth: about 1805 34 34 — Laurens County, SC, USA Death: 1892 |
6 years son |
Henry Hitt Birth: about 1810 39 39 — Laurens County, SC, USA Death: |
4 years son |
Benjamin Lewis Hitt Birth: about 1813 42 42 — Laurens County, SC, USA Death: 1865 — Laurens County, SC, USA |
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Note | [Written by Lucile Hitt Hollingsworth around 1972, with minor editing by Leo Richard Hitt.] Henry Hitt was a Baptist minister. He was ordained in 1801 and pastored the Bethabara Paptist Church in Laurens County, SC until his death in 1830. He was the only son of Lazarus Hitt who remained i n South Carolina. He left his estate to his wife "during her natural life or widowhood consisting of Negroes, horses and other stock, household and kitchen furniture and plantation tools, land on which he lived, 390 acres, on north side of creek (Cain Creek) for her support if she does not marry until Benjamin becom es 21.'' (Sons Benjamin, Henry and Martin were under 21 when Henry wrote his will in 1828.) Elizabeth didn't marry again, and when she died followed Henry's instructions to the letter. I have trans cript of their wills - 12 pages including sale bill. The Negroes sold brought nearly $15,000. Most of them were bought by Henry's sons. As I have said before, it was customary to sell all the persona l property by public auction, giving the members of the family of the deceased preference in the bidding. Real property was allotted by will. Descendants of Henry Hitt still live on the original farms in Laurens County, Miss Juanita Hitt (daughter of Jesse, son of Ranier, son of Benjamin) has written that she has in her keeping a little cha ir that her great grandfather Benjamin held onto and pushed along to learn to walk - and so did her grandfather, her father and she. Her father told her an old, odd story of Ben Hitt. He was an exten sive slave owner during that period and at a sale of slaves he bought quite a robust Negro girl. It is said that he told her that after she had given birth to 20 Negro slaves he would set her free. Sh e gave birth to the 20 (in fact 21), but this 20th child was called "Free Jack." Free Jack later became the blacksmith for the community. The signs of this blacksmith shop are still in the front yar d of the home of H.E. Hitt (son of Henry Lewis, son of Benjamin). H.E. Hitt's widow , Bessie Hollingsworth Hitt, wrote Joel Reuben Hitt in 1937 that the old Hitt home was a simple log and frame struct ure and still standing in a field near her home near Cross Hill, S.C. |