PITTMAN  CEMETERY

 

Indexed by Don Austin

 

Located near Lake Shelby (or Old Haysland) on private property, off of County Road 207, just east of Irons Bayou.   In 1970 there were five markers still there, but one was already past reading.

 

 

Pittman,  Henry F.    (no marker)

Oct 1848 in TN – Dec 22, 1905

 

NOTES:  Obit in The Panola Watchman, Jan 3, 1906, stated that he had died of pneumonia and was buried at Haysland.  Henry F. Pittman married Anna Farrow on Oct 19, 1871 (Vol C-143).  Per Anna’s obit in The Panola Watchman, Apr 8, 1913, she was buried in Old Camp Ground Cemetery.

 

Pittman,  R.S.

August 29, 1853 – November 4, 1905

 

NOTES:  Obit in The Panola Watchman, Nov 8, 1905, stated that Robert S. Pittman was born in Cannon Co TN and that he died of Black Jaundice

 

Pittman,  S.E.

Wife of R.S.

January 24, 1855 – February 17, 1907

 

NOTES:  Robert S. Pittman married Sarah C. Craig Jan 14, 1874 (Vol D, p 28)

Obit in The Panola Watchman, Feb 20, 1907 stated that she died of pneumonia while in Shamrock TX, but was brought back to Panola County and buried in the family cemetery.

Per census records, their children included Emma L. b ca 1877, Thomas A. b Sep 1878, Martha A. b Oct 1883, Anna J. b Apr 1886, Henry N. born Oct 1891 and Willie L. born Aug 1895.  The 1900 Census reported that Sarah “Sallie” had given birth to 9 children, but only 7 were still living at that time.

 

Pittman,  Thomas N.

February 13, 1894 – March 1, 1895

 

White,  Geneva May

Daughter of W.W. & E.L. White

October 10, 1894 – Oct 10, 1894