HI Bill, Sure would like to talk with you about your Pruitt line. Please e mail me at carollee@inreach.com. Hope to hear. Many Thanks, Carol Texasdog@aol.com wrote: > > In a message dated 10/21/99 11:21:26 PM Central Daylight Time, > juliab@flash.net writes: > > << Please tell me about your Pruitt line. My gg-grandmother was Sarah Susan > Pruitt > married to Alfred Cargill and they lived in Alexander. > Her father was William V. Pruitt. > Julia >> > > Thomas William PRUITT (1825-1912) was born in Oldham County, KY but > was in KS at the time of the Civil War and served as bugler/musician > in the Union army. He married Lavinia POTTS about 1859 probably in > Bourbon Co., KS----divorced her in 1865. They were parents of two: > Andrew and William (b. 1862) who was living in Johnson Co., TX in 1880. > He is one that I don' t have a clear trail afterwards. > T.W. PRUITT married 2nd to Margaret Elra "Maggie"NEWTON (1850-1938). > She was brother to William Ray Newton, the father of 14, who lived at > McGirk. Traditionally he gave his children three first names all of the > same letter of the alphabet----thus N.N.N. Newton, O.O.O., J.J.J., E.E.E., > I.I.I.---even the daughters Z.Z.Z. as in Zoie Zephry Zenoba "Zia" Newton, > who married William Crawford. > > Thomas William Pruitt had nine children by the second wife: Thomas > Franklin, Cashus F., Benjamin Newton, Lovie L., Louisa Elizabeth "Betty", > John Isaac, Addie Bell, Maggie Elra, and Beulah Mae. Addie Bell Pruitt, > married first John Elias McCarty, later divorced and married Elon Holley. > Travis Holley of Hico is a son of 2nd marriage. Maggie Elra married John > Davis and is GGM of my DIL. If your William was born in KS, then he > is likely a son of Thomas William Pruitt. T.W. Pruitt's Union army pension > application of 1898 lists nine children living but omits the 2 children by > his first wife. Andrew, the oldest, is known to have been living in Frio > County at the time. His wife, Alice Newton, was the younger sister of > his step-mother, Maggie Newton. If you desire more, NEWTON or PRUITT > info, let me know and we can exchange off list. > > Bill McCarty Odessa,Texas > > http://members.tripod.com/cindyradway/Erath/erath.html > http://members.aol.com/texastag/mccarty.html > > ==== TXERATH Mailing List ==== > --- Author Retains Copyright --- > -- Copyright 1999 Author -- All Rights Reserved > Post to List: TXERATH-L@rootsweb.com http://www.selfroots.com > Unsubscribe request To: TXERATH-L-request@rootsweb.com