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- James Fitz is the son of Mary POLLY Blythe (1Aug1790 South Carolina) & Philip Sitton.III (23 Dec 1790 Buncombe, North Carolina.)
. 1860 Census Twp. 12, Range 9, Winston Co., Alabama
James Sitton, Age 32, /1828, B Alabama
Sarah R, 32, 1828, b Georgia
George W 12, 1848, Alabama
Cicero S Sitton, 10, 1850, Alabama
Nancy A, 8 y, 1852, Alabama
William Sitton, 3, 1857 b Alabama.
Note: James Sitton & Burgess family had their farms side by side in Alabama.
. 1860 Sep 1. Alabama Homestead & Cash Entry Patents
James Sitton, 120.28 Acres 1 NW Huntsville & 119.97 Acres, 1 E SW Huntsville.
. 1870 Census Licking, Upton Twp., Texas Co, Missouri
G W Sitton, 1838, Alabama, Rosine, Sarah, Willis Sitton, b 1869 Missouri.
. James Sitton was born in Walker County, Alabama, where his parents, Philip & Polly Blythe Sitton, settled after they left the Mills River Valley of Henderson County, N. C.
James was a staunch supporter of the policies of Abraham Lincoln, & was forced to leave Alabama with his family. After a short time in Illinois, he went to Missouri where he remained until after the Civil War. Going from there to Arkansas, he was a resident of Saint Joe, Searcy County, until his death in 1890. He was a man of pronounced view, & fearless in the manner of expressing them. He served as Justice of the Peace in Alabama, Missouri, & Arkansas, as office for which he was amply qualified.
James was a farmer, iron worker, & he preached on the side, being a faith-healer. It was reported that people came to him & he traveled many miles on horseback to pray & "lay hands" on the sick. He married Sarah J. Wilson, Daughter of Thomas Wilson, who moved from South Carolina to Georgia in pioneer days. She died in Searcy County 1n 1917 at age 90.
. James & Sarah R Sitton, The Former a representative of an old & influential family of the South, where his father & grandfather were prominently identified with the iron industry at Birmingham, Alabama.
James Sitton removed from Alabama to Missouri at the time of the Civil war, & later he removed with his family to Northern Arkansas. His wife is a native of Georgia. Her maiden name was Wilson & she is a descendant of the early settlers of Virginia.
Of the children of James & Sarah R Sitton Henry W. was the youngest in order of birth; George W. is a farmer in the vicinity St. Joe, Arkansas; Cicero is engaged in the mercantile business at Pyote, Texas; William is a successful farmer & stock grower in Stephens County, Oklahoma, & resides near Comanche; James P. is a farmer in Okfuskee County, this state; Mrs. Nancy McClain resides near Calico Rock, Arkansas, her husband being a farmer by vocation; & Mrs. Mary Russell is the wife of a prosperous farmer residing near St. Joe, Arkansas.
Ref: A Standard History of Oklahoma, Vol 5, Joseph Bradfield Thorburn. - - -
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