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Elias Hitch
(1783-1845)
Nancy Kerrick
(1790-)
Alexander O. George
(1804-)
Elizabeth Paul
(1801-)
Stephen Kerrick Hitch
(1829-1912)
Charlotte Adeline Louisa George
(1828-1889)
James Kerrick Hitch
(1855-1921)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Mary Frances Westmoreland

2. Josephine Brown

James Kerrick Hitch

  • Born: 15 Feb 1855, Maryville, Blount Co., TN 1 3 4 5 6 7
  • Marriage (1): Mary Frances Westmoreland on 06 Mar 1879 in Springfield, Greene Co., MO 1
  • Marriage (2): Josephine Brown on 18 Dec 1899 in Texas Co., OK 2
  • Died: 17 May 1921, Kansas City, Wyandotte Co., KS 1 2
  • Buried: Abt 20 May 1921, Guymon Cemetery, Guymon, Texas Co., OK 1
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bullet  Notes:

Moved to Springfield, MO in 1875 and on to Coldwater, OK by 1885. By the time he died in 1921, he owned 30,223 acres of land (12,080 in Texas Co., OK; 9,440 in Seward Co., KS: and 8,703 in Hansford Co., TX).


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James married Mary Frances Westmoreland, daughter of Henry Westmoreland and Zilpha Clark, on 06 Mar 1879 in Springfield, Greene Co., MO.1 (Mary Frances Westmoreland was born in 1857 in MO,8 died on 22 May 1891 in Coldwater, Texas Co., OK 1 and was buried about 25 May 1891 in Hitch Ranch, Coldwater, Texas Co., OK 2.)


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James next married Josephine Brown on 18 Dec 1899 in Texas Co., OK.2 (Josephine Brown was born in Oct 1871 in MO 1 9 10 11 and died after 1940 in KS.)


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Sources


1 Correspondence from Debra Hitch Chase; 890 Redwood Blvd; Redding, CA 96003; dated April 12, 1995.

2 "Panhandle Pioneer", Donald E. Green, 1979 (University of Oklahoma Press).

3 1880 MO Census, Listed as age 25 in the 1880 Greene Co., MO Census, born in TN.

4 1870 TN Census, Listed as age 16 in the 1870 Blount Co., TN Census, born in TN.

5 1860 TN Census, Listed as age 5 in the 1860 Blount Co., TN Census, born in TN.

6 1920 OK Census, Listed as age 64 in the 1920 Guymon, Texas Co., OK Census, born in TN.

7 1900 OK Census, Listed as J.K. Hitch, born in February 1854 in TN, in the 1900 Hardesty Township, Beaver Co., OK Census.

8 1880 MO Census, Listed as age 23 in the 1880 Greene Co., MO Census, born in MO.

9 1920 OK Census, Listed as age 48 in the 1920 Guymon, Texas Co., OK Census, born in MO.

10 1900 OK Census, Listed as born in October 1871 in MO in the 1900 Beaver Co., OK Census.

11 1940 KS Census, Listed as age 68 in Liberal, Seward Co., KS.


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