Reuben Martin HittAge: 83 years1849–1932
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- Reuben Martin Hitt
Ruben Martin Hitt
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Ruben Martin Hitt
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- Ruben Martin Hitt
Reuben M Hell
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Ruben M Hitt
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- Ruben M Hitt
Reuben M Hitt
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- Reuben M Hitt
Reuben Hitt
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- Reuben Hitt
Birth | April 16, 1849 68 27 |
Birth | 1849 68 27 |
Birth | 1849 68 27 |
Birth | about 1849 68 27 |
Birth | about 1850 69 28 |
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Residence | Age: 1 1850 (Age 8 months) |
Birth of a sister | Nancy Ann Hitt February 9, 1851 (Age 21 months) |
Birth of a brother | George Washington Hitt December 16, 1853 (Age 4 years) |
Death of a father | Reuben Hitt 1855 (Age 5 years) |
Birth of a brother | George Washington Hitt about 1856 (Age 6 years) |
Death of a half-brother | Lazarus Hitt October 20, 1859 (Age 10 years) |
Residence | 1860 (Age 10 years) |
Residence | 1860 (Age 10 years) |
Residence | Age: 20Census Post Office: Bellefontaine 1870 (Age 20 years) |
Residence | Age: 20Census Post Office: Bellefontaine 1870 (Age 20 years) |
Marriage | Mary Emma Hughes — View this family 1872 (Age 22 years) |
Birth of a son #1 | Joel Reuben Hitt October 24, 1874 (Age 25 years) |
Birth of a son #2 | Martin Hughes Hitt February 23, 1876 (Age 26 years) |
Birth of a daughter #3 | Alice Irene Hitt August 17, 1878 (Age 29 years) |
Birth of a daughter #4 | Edgeworth Shyves Hitt December 30, 1880 (Age 31 years) |
Residence | January 30, 1883 (Age 33 years) |
Birth of a son #5 | James Washington Hitt June 16, 1883 (Age 34 years) |
Birth of a daughter #6 | Elizabeth Jane Hitt November 1884 (Age 35 years) |
Birth of a daughter #7 | Elizabeth Jane Hitt November 30, 1885 (Age 36 years) |
Birth of a daughter #8 | Elizabeth Jane Hitt about 1887 (Age 37 years) |
Birth of a daughter #9 | Winna Folsie Hitt May 16, 1887 (Age 38 years) |
Birth of a daughter #10 | Winna Folsie Hitt May 16, 1888 (Age 39 years) |
Birth of a daughter #11 | Winna Folsie Hitt June 1888 (Age 39 years) |
Birth of a daughter #12 | Alice Irene Hitt about 1889 (Age 39 years) |
Death of a half-brother | James Hitt August 12, 1889 (Age 40 years) |
Birth of a daughter #13 | Carrie Fletcher Hitt May 16, 1892 (Age 43 years) |
Birth of a daughter #14 | Carrie Fletcher Hitt about 1893 (Age 43 years) |
Death of a mother | Nancy Hitt 1895 (Age 45 years) |
Residence | Age: 51Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head 1900 (Age 50 years) |
Death of a wife | Mary Emma Hughes February 3, 1901 (Age 51 years) |
Death of a wife | Mary Emma Hughes February 3, 1901 (Age 51 years) |
Burial of a wife | Mary Emma Hughes February 4, 1901 (Age 51 years) |
Marriage of a child | Joel Reuben Hitt — Elizabeth Margania Robertson — View this family December 25, 1904 (Age 55 years) |
Residence | Age: 61Marital Status: Widowed; Relation to Head of House: Head 1910 (Age 60 years) |
Residence | Age: 61Marital Status: Widowed; Relation to Head of House: Head 1910 (Age 60 years) |
Marriage of a child | Hollis Irl Ellzey — Carrie Fletcher Hitt — View this family November 1, 1914 (Age 65 years) |
Death of a sister | Sarah (Sally) Hitt May 31, 1918 (Age 69 years) |
Death of a sister | Nancy Ann Hitt April 10, 1919 (Age 69 years) |
Residence | 1920 (Age 70 years) |
Death of a brother | George Washington Hitt May 25, 1927 (Age 78 years) |
Residence | Age: 80Marital Status: Widowed; Relation to Head of House: Father 1930 (Age 80 years) |
Death of a brother | Henry Hitt January 7, 1931 (Age 81 years) |
Race | White |
Death | September 13, 1932 (Age 83 years) |
Death | Age: 83 1932 (Age 82 years) |
Death | Age: 83 1932 (Age 82 years) |
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Nancy Hitt Birth: 1822 32 Death: 1895 |
elder sister |
Sarah (Sally) Hitt Birth: February 22, 1844 63 22 — Laurens County, SC, USA Death: Age: 74 — May 31, 1918 — Winnoa, Montgomery, Mississippi, United States |
3 years elder brother |
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Birth: April 16, 1849 68 27 — Bellefontaine, Webster, Mississippi, USA Death: September 13, 1932 — Goss, Marion County, MS, USA |
22 months younger sister |
Nancy Ann Hitt Birth: February 9, 1851 70 29 — Bellefontaine, Webster, Mississippi, USA Death: April 10, 1919 |
3 years younger brother |
George Washington Hitt Birth: December 16, 1853 72 31 — Bellefontaine, Webster, Mississippi, USA Death: May 25, 1927 — Goss, Marion County, MS, USA |
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Martha Hamilton Death: before 1817 |
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Birth: January 23, 1810 29 — SC, USA Death: Age: 79 — August 12, 1889 — Greensboro, Choctaw, Mississippi, United States |
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William Hitt Death: |
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Birth: April 16, 1849 68 27 — Bellefontaine, Webster, Mississippi, USA Death: September 13, 1932 — Goss, Marion County, MS, USA |
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Birth: September 20, 1855 25 22 Death: ruptured appendix (according to Lucile Hitt Hollingsworth) — February 3, 1901 — Goss, Marion County, MS, USA |
Marriage: 1872 — |
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3 years son |
Birth: October 24, 1874 25 19 — Bellefontaine, Webster, Mississippi, USA Death: July 22, 1967 — Clinton, Hinds, Mississippi, USA |
16 months son |
Martin Hughes Hitt Birth: February 23, 1876 26 20 — Bellefontaine, Webster, Mississippi, USA Death: 1966 |
3 years daughter |
Alice Irene Hitt Birth: August 17, 1878 29 22 — Bellefontaine, Webster, Mississippi, USA Death: April 30, 1951 |
2 years daughter |
Edgeworth Shyves Hitt Birth: December 30, 1880 31 25 — Bellefontaine, Webster, Mississippi, USA Death: October 27, 1936 |
3 years son |
Birth: June 16, 1883 34 27 — Bellefontaine, Webster, Mississippi, USA Death: December 17, 1962 |
18 months daughter |
Elizabeth Jane Hitt Birth: November 30, 1885 36 30 — Bellefontaine, Webster, Mississippi, USA Death: October 14, 1956 |
3 years daughter |
Birth: May 16, 1888 39 32 — Bellefontaine, Webster, Mississippi, USA Death: June 1972 |
5 years daughter |
Carrie Fletcher Hitt Birth: May 16, 1892 43 36 — Belena, Calhoun County, MS, USA Death: December 5, 1977 — New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA, USA |
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Note | ‎‎‎[written by Lucile Hitt Hollingsworth around 1972]‎‎‎ Reuben Martin Hitt was born April 16, 1849 when his father, Reuben, was 68 years old and his mother, Nancy, was 27 years old. Old Reuben died when Martin was a small boy just 6 years old. But his mo ther was young and strong and kept the family to gether and managed to raise them with the help from good neighbors and from her stepchildren. Lazarus, Reuben's oldest son, was 21 years older than hi s stepmother Nancy, and died just a few years later. But James, the other son, lived on to 1889. On 24 December 1872, Martin married 17-year-old Mary Emma Hughes. During the next twenty years, they had eight children. Mary Emma's mother, Elizabeth Gary Hughes, lived with them. Her husband, Joe l Hughes, had been killed in the Battle of Shiloh during the Civil War. Martin Hitt was a planter and a teacher. He build a school house and conducted classes for all the children in the community. By the time his oldest son, Joel Reuben, was twelve years old, he was helping by teaching the younger children and hearing the classes of the others when Martin had to go to the fields. In 1897, Reuben Martin decided to take his family to Texas. He had heard that they had fine schools and churches there and the opportunities were great. However, when winter came, they found the col d almost unbearable. The children were sick all winter, and during the second winter, grandmother Hughes ‎‎‎‎‎(Elizabeth Gary Hughes)â€Žâ€Žâ€Žâ€Žâ€ Ž died. That was the final straw! Martin packed up and came back to Mississippi. Soon after returning to Mississippi, Martin's wife, Mary Emma, became ill and died on 3 February 1901. At this tim e none of Martin's children were married although several were grown. His youngest was only nine years old at the time. Martin Hitt was the only grandparent I ‎‎‎‎‎(Lucile Hitt Hollingsworth, daughter of Joel Reuben Hitt)‎‎‎‎‎ really knew -- the others havin g died before I was born or so soon thereafter that I didn't remember them. I remember Grandpa well. He was a tall, slender, small-boned man with twinkling blue eyes. He was very erect even when a n old man, and had a peculiar gait -- a loose-kneed way of walking with the legs swung from the hips and the knees swinging outward slightly while the body seemed to glide along on wheels. This gai t was so pronounced in my father and my four brothers that when any one of them approached, it was impossible to tell which one it was until he came close enough for you to see the features of his fac e. I never lived near enough to spend much time with Grandpa, seeing him only on visits, family reunions, etc., but I was always so happy to be at his house. He always had a bunch of little childre n around him and could entertain them for hours ‎‎‎‎‎(his grandchildren)‎‎‎‎‎. Also, he had a wonderful orchard and grape arbor. And alway s he had a tobacco patch. No one else could grow tobacco there. I guess Grandpa had a green thumb. He could put up with anything from the children but just don't bother his tobacco patch. He rolle d the tobacco into cigars and smoked it in his pipe. When he died, those of his grandsons who bore his body to the grave were very proud. I found an old letter in my father's papers from a man Grandpa had taught in Webster County. There's no envelope. Perhaps Mr. Golden attended Grandpa's funeral and handed the pages to my father. Dear Joel, Here are some verses in memory of your sainted father. Glad I saw you today. You are a great man. I thank God for your life of usefulness. Webster County has produced some great men. Yo u are one of them. May God bless you and those you love. Your old boyhood friend, William M. Golden ‎ ‎ In loving memory of my dear old teacher Prof. R. M. Hitt by William M. Golden ‎ My dear old teacher is at rest, From sorrow he is free; He's gone on home to be with God, Throughout Eternity.‎ He lived a life above reproach, His heart was true and kind; He left this earth of sin and woe, A better home to find.‎ He taught me in my childhood days,
Always to be a man;
He taught me not to say And I accepted what he said, A long long time ago; He taught me that The Son of God, Would make me white as snow.‎ And I thank God for his dear life, For all that he taught me; And praise the Lord we'll meet again When I put out to sea. ‎ |
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