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William "Carroll" Pitts (Posey County, IN, farmer; stepfather of Seraphine Pentecost)

b. 1814?

Posey County, Indiana, farmer. Tennessee native. Married to Jane Brown Pitts. Father of Jeddie Pitts, Edward Alvis Pitts, Maria Esther Pitts, Warren Pitts, Carroll Pitts, and Alvin Pitts. Stepfather of Seraphina Brown Pentecost. Farmer in Posey County in 1850. Farmer in Posey County in 1860. Employed John Pharr, Lewis Kiniman, John Murrey, Michael McGrudy, and John McDonald as laborers in Posey County in 1860. Owned seven enslaved persons in Henderson County, Kentucky, in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Indiana, Posey County, Lynn, p. 226B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Indiana, Posey County, Lynn, p. 857.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, Division 1, p. 150A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Indiana, Posey County, Lynn, p. 361A.

Find A Grave, “William Carroll Pitts (1814-1884)," Memorial # 6732891, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6732891/william_carroll-pitts (accessed March 11, 2021).

Citation

Pitts, William "Carroll". Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32213412 (November 12, 2026).

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