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- Parents supporter of Abraham Lincoln & driven out of Alabama because of their antislavery stance. Moved to Illinois then Missouri until after the Civil War & then to Arkansas.
Twenty-five years in Pyote, Texas:
. 1870 Texas Co., MO., Upton Twp., page 486B. (SITTEN)
. 1850 Nov 15 Census, Walker Co., Alabama, Twp. 12, p308:
James Sutton, 22, 1850 Alabama, Farmer
Sarah R Sutton, 22, 1828 Georgia
George W Sutton, 2, 1848 Alabama
CiceroS Sutton, 2 months, Alabama.
Census 1860 - Winston Co., AL. Twp. 12, Range 9, page 1223B.
Census 1870 - Plum Valley, Texas Co., Upton Missouri: Sitten
. 1880 Census Arkansas, Searcy District 175 St. Joe
G W Sitton, 32y. / b 1848 Alabama, father b. Alabama, Mother Geo. Rozene Sitton 34, wife, Sarah Sitton 13, Willis M Sitton 10, N B R Sitton 8, M M J Sitton 5, C H Sitton 2.
Census 1910 - Ward, Texas, 2 J-PCT, Cicero F Sitton1850 Alabama White Male
Census 1920, Pyote, Texas
Cicero S Sitton, 68y, Alabama, father b Georgia, mother b Georgia, labour, on steam railroad;
Caroline Sitton, 65y b. Canada, parents b England;
Noah G Sitton, 39y, b Arkansas Blacksmith, Own shop.
Fitzhugh L Sitton, 21y, b , Oklahoma Chauffeur, United Mail Service.
Cicero S Sitton was a member of the Mason. (Blacksmith)
. 1899 Jun 29 - A postoffice has been established at Crowe, Roger Mills County, OK. with Cicero S Sitton as postmaster.
Ref: Minor Capital News, Dallas Texas.
. 1902 Jan 18 - Coriscana, Texas - the building occupied by Sitton 's grocery store, on North Beaton Street caught fire early Friday morning & Mark Lane was suffocated by the smoke which filled the second floor. The fire was caused by the explosion of a lamp.
Ref: Waxahachie Daily Light Newspaper, Texas.
. 1907 Cicero S. Sitton & his sons opened a store, a 3 day barbecue was held, & most of the town lots were sold. A school petition was circulated at the barbecue, & later a one-room school building was constructed.
The Sitton Mercantile safe may be found in the Pyote Museum. (2006).
Pyote began as a siding & telegraph station constructed when the Texas & Pacific Railway Co. laid rails from Fort Worth westward toward El Paso in 1881. Even with access to a steam railway, the site initially known as Pyote Tank did not develop economically for a quarter century.
Then in 1906 local ranch owners sold 200 Acres alongside the railroad to Pyote Town Development Co. The next year, Cicero Silas Sitton, came to the proposed new town & opened its first store. In the meantime the town site Co. hosted a 3 day barbecue, during which time it began selling town lots to prospective residents & businessmen. In time Pyote grew into a local ranch supply center with a hotel, restaurant, lumber yard, barbershop, school, & post office...In 2000 town possessed only one building still standing amid the ruins & foundations of dozens of others.
Ref: More Ghost Towns of Texas, By T. Lindsay Baker.
. 1910 Nov 21 - Kermit, Taxas will soon have telephone connection with the T & P Railroad at Pyote; the line now owned by Sitton Mercantile company, of that place & some citizens of Duval, is to be extended to Kermit. It is said that the Sitton Mercantile company of Pyote, will soon begin the erection of a large business house at Kermit.
Ref: El Pasco Herald Newspaper, Texas.
Census 1930 Pyote Texas.
- Cicero Sitton, Head aged 79, /b 1851, married age 20, Blacksmith.
Caroline P Sitton, 76y, B. Canada, married age 17, Landed 1860 [correct date: 1856]
G Noah Sitton, 50y, single, b Arkansa. - - -
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1850 - 1932 (81 years)