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John Pittman

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John Pittman
birth: Bet. 1762-1765 in Frederick County, Virginia to Johann Niclaus Bittmann
death: May 1839 in Harrison County, Indiana
burial: Not verified, but likely Hottel (Conrad) Cemetery, Harrison County, Indiana

marriage: 7 May 1787 in Shenandoah County, Virginia
Elizabeth Mauck
birth: ca. 1769 in Frederick County, Virginia to John Peter Mauck & Anna Ottilia Zumwalt
death: ca. 1810 in Harrison County, Indiana
burial: Not verified, but likely Hottel (Conrad) Cemetery, Harrison County, Indiana

Children of Elizabeth Mauck and John Pittman:

  • Lawrence Pittman, born bet. 1787-1797, died aft. 1860, married (1) Catherine Lopp, (2) Rebecca (Muck) Keller.
  • Sarah “Sally” Pittman, born bet. 1792-1794, died aft. 1870, married Jonas Fleshman.
  • John Pittman, Jr., 1792-1850, married Susannah Oatman (daughter of father’s second wife Christiana Pope Oatman).
  • Catharine Pittman, 1797-1855, never married.
  • Mary Magdalena Pittman, 1799-1872, married John Lopp.
  • Isaac Noah Pittman, born bet. 1802-1804, died aft. 1880, married Mary Elizabeth Grant.
  • Philip Peter Pittman, 1803-1835, married Mahala Grant.
  • David Pittman, 1806-1881, married (1) Catherine Eddleman, (2) Mary E. Young.

Ancestor here lived in:

1. Shenandoah (technically Frederick County at time of John’s birth) County, Virginia from birth until ~ 1808-1809.
2. Harrison County, Indiana from 1808-09 until his death in 1839.

Other Information:

John was raised in Shenandoah County, Virginia. Sometime 1808-1809, he and his family moved to Harrison County in the Indiana Territory along with his sister Catherine and her husband John Snider. They lived and farmed in Scott Township on the property that today includes the Hottel (Conrad) Cemetery on Feller Rd. I suspect, without proof, that John’s first wife wife Elizabeth may have been the first buried in that cemetery ca. 1810, as well as John himself in 1839. John’s second wife, Christiana Oatman neé Pope died 1843 in Knox Co. IL, likely at the home of her step-son John Pittman Jr. and is buried in Rice-Blue Cemetery in Henderson Twp., Knox Co, IL.

After Elizabeth’s death ca. 1810, John married widow Christiana (Pope) Oatman in 1814. No children from this marriage.

Submitted by:
Robert Nielsen
Email: cornguy.rln@gmail.com

Zara Judson Wisner

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Zara Judson Wisner
b. 7 February 1825
d. 27 November 1902, Iola, Allen County, Kansas

m. 24 February 1850, Rush County, Indiana
Nancy “Mary Ann” Davis
b. 5 August 1831, Rush County, Indiana, to William S. and Nancy Jane (Zumwalt) Davis
d. 18 November 1913, Allen County, Kansas

Children with Nancy Davis:

  • Cynthia Drusilla (1850-1926) married John Wright
  • Judson Eugene (1851-1869)
  • Alice Mornelva (1852-1939) married Lewis Edmundson
  • Kansas Lilly (b. 1862) married Charles Denny
  • Ruby Ordelia (b. 1870) married Will Green
  • Carl Angelo (1874-1935) married Bertha Knopp

Zara, a schoolteacher in Rush County, Indiana, in 1850, and Nancy emigrated in 1854 to Webster County, Iowa. At the request of her children in 1900, Nancy (Davis) Wisner wrote the following narrative concerning her family’s emigration from Indiana:

“…Then we struck out for the state of Iowa. We wanted to go to Kansas but were afraid it would be a slave state, so we started to far-off Iowa, which seemed further away than California does now. One of our horses, unfortunately for us, died, and the other one became lame, so we had to trade her off for another one. All this happened while we were not more than one hundred miles from home.”

“We crossed the Wabash River near Terre Haute, crossed the Illinois River at Beardstown, then passed through Springfield, Illinois, then crossed the Mississippi at Keokuk, Iowa, and then reached our destination in about three weeks from the time we started. We bought land on the Skunk River, five miles north of Des Moines, in Webster County.”

“We then had three young children, the youngest being about one year old. There was no house on the land, but there was a crop of sod corn on part of it and plenty of vegetables. We sold $25 worth of sod corn. There was an old stable, in which horses had been kept all summer. We cleaned it out pretty thoroughly and dug it out with a hoe. It was just logs laid up and had a roof on it. We put poles across the logs, and that was our bedstead. We cooked outdoors.”

The narrative continues in a most interesting and informative manner.

Submitted by:
Jean W. Cobb
Lynchburg VA

Isaac William Bond

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ISAAC WILLIAM BOND
b. 19 December 1827, Virginia, to Joseph and Mary (Ashelman) Bond
d. 22 May 1915, Eugene, Lane County, Oregon

m. 9 October 1851, Knox County, Indiana
Hester “Hettie” McClure
b. 19 August 1835, Knox County, Indiana, to Vincent Scott and Sarah “Sally” (Bruce) McClure
d. 14 April 1901, Eugene, Lane County, Oregon

Children with Hester McClure:

  • Vincent Scott (b. ca. 1854) married Etta McConnell
  • Joseph Wolfe (b. ca. 1855) married Mattie Zumwalt
  • Louisa Elizabeth (b. ca. 1856) married Rufus Robertson
  • William Loretta (b. ca. 1859)
  • Allen Watson (b. ca. 1861) married Rachel Gross
  • Mary Ann “Mollie” (b. ca. 1863) married Charley Withrow
  • Emma Jane (b. ca. 1866) married William Wheeler
  • Eliza Catherine (b. ca. 1868) married Halvor Wheeler
  • Hetty Amanda (b. ca. 1870) married John Parker
  • Robert Bruce (b. ca. 1873) married Belle Gibson

Isaac came to Knox County, Indiana, in 1837. He and his family left for Oregon from Oaktown, Knox County, on 21 March 1853 with a wagon and ox team. Several relatives also were part of this wagon train. This group became lost and wandered around for two weeks before coming to a place they had been before. They were “The Lost Wagon Train of 1853,” which rescuers were sent out to find.

Most of the land used for the Eugene Maholn Sweet Airport originally belonged to the Bonds. Isaac was a charter member of Pleasant Hill Grange and Irving Grange. He was Deacon of the Christian Church for many years. He served on the school board for twenty years, and he was a member of the board of supervisors for roads for three terms.

Submitted by:
Christie Hill Russell
Paris IL