--=======12AF3B7D======= Content-Type: text/plain; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-63E44F86; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit At 09:04 AM 2/24/02 -0800, you wrote: >Isn't Putnam Mountain, near Scottsville, in Jackson >County? There is a Putman Mountain just north west of Scottsboro AL near the Madison/Jackson Co. Line. My great-grandfather William A. Rice wrote a letter in >1908 saying he "was going to look at that land that >was opening up in Alabama...." to his brother-in-law, >John Denton Brown of McMinnville, Warren County, TN, >and would stop by their house to stay on the way down >there and on the way back. I believe that my Pittman line would have been in Jackson around 1830-1842 or so. They had children born in AL but I've never been able to narrow down a county. While exploring a lead about 2 Pittman girls who married Dunham Brothers I came across the Dunham Family in Jackson Co. AL and remembered that there had been a David Pittman listed as head of household there in the 1840 Census....I believe that this Pittman was actually Daniel Pittman. The Uncle of one of the Dunhams of Jackson Co. AL is living next to Daniel & Comfort in the 1850 Census. I'm trying to figure out whether the two Pittman girls that married the Dunham Bros. may have been children of Daniel & Comfort. > So, a great many families apparently moved down >there from the Upper Cumberland, and not just from >DeKalb County. I had some of my family from Van Buren Co TN that moved to Madison Co. Al to work in the Cotton Mills. >I'm wondering if the Thomas Pittman >family moved to Alabama between 1850 and 1860 or if >they moved to Texas? They lived in Cannon County, >where their son Thomas Pitman Jr. married Martha G. >LaFevers in 1852. They're gone by 1850. >Will There is an Pittman living in Bledsoe Co. TN in 1850 Census if I haven't already told you that. His name was John Pitman (age 74 in 1850 census). Also there was a Nancy Pitman living with him who was 26 yrs old. Some of the Dekalb Co. TN Pittmans went on to Texas in Bowie Red River and Lamar counties. --Marie --=======12AF3B7D=======-- _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com