The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, August 04, 1906, Page 7, Image 7
Reads Like a Romance.
Remarkable History of Anderson
Pitman, a Confederate
Soldier.?-Thought
Dead for Forty Years.
Atlanta Constitution.
In 1862 Anderson Pittman, a
sturdy citizen of Habersham
county, Georgia, enlisted a* a
private in the company organized
by Captain Ezekial Fuller to
go to the front in defense of the
southland. lie was a brave soldier,
an intrepid fighter, and no
mm did his part more nobly
?\ AiA -
miaii uiu mis mumy son of the
mountains. His wife and home
were left behind with many loreborlings
of the future, but this
did not deter the north Georgian
from doing his utmost to repel
i the attacks of the invaders.
Krom time to time after Pittman
left tor the trout, his wife
received messages from him.
Th at last one came just before
fine battle ot Ohickamanga. Inasmuch
as he was not heard trom
sitter this engagement, it was
presumed that Pittman was kill a/ad
his faithful wife mourn
e?X nun as (lead. Many days 9he
waited patiently for Rome jmes.
from her husband, but
none came. What little information
that 9he could gain after
this fearful encounter was from
friends from thi9 section, and
their belief was that* Pittman
was dead from a Yankee bullet.
Some years after the conflict
between the north and the south
was ended, Mrs. Pittman's heart
ami hand were sought, by a man
named Benton Whitecofton, of
j Hall county. She yeilded to his
w ooeng.aiulbecame Whiteeotton's
wife They lived happily for several
years, when Whitecotton was
slaju by a mm named Bryant
for tne alleged reporting of an
illicit dihllery, and she was loft
a vidow, as 9he thought, for the
second time.
Instead of being killed at
Chiekatnauga Pitt man was captured
by the federal soldiers and
Tvassent to a northern prison,
where he was confined until after
the close of the civil war.
When releaser!, L'ittman became
involved in a difficulty with a
man at the prison and killed
h;iu. l'ittman was imtnedi itely
arrested and thrown into prison
for this crime.
Subsequently, IMtnian was
put on trial for ki11 in_r this man.
lie was convicted a id was given
a sentence of forty years in the
oenileilliarv. Havinir no nienns
with which to clear himself of
^ t he charge or show a justification
of same, he was son' to the penitentiary
ami served his term.
COMES ItOMK SKKkfNO WiFK.
^ The first part of the past week
/ *here appeared an old man in the
hills of llahersh tm inquiring for
Awoinan I)v the name of I'ltts*an,
whose husband went to the
war in Captain Ezokiel Ful'er's
company. The people were as
bounded wli<?n this man told
^ 'hem that he was none other than
^ Anderson PiMmin, and that he
whh t-eoking his wife and his peo
pie. Friends of the family took
it.. . l l r_ 11 - -i
i)i<i idiiow hi cnarga.
Inquiry roveilol Hie Inot thht
I'ittimn's wife, who now goes
under the name of her last hut
band, Whitecotton, had move
to Bartow county, at or nei
Cartersville. Mr. Pitt man
nephew, Hugh Keeler, readil
consented to help his uncle t
find his wife. Accordingly Thurs
day morning Koe'er an i Andei
eon bonded the Air Line Be
train at Cornelia and went t
Atlanta. There Keeler transfe
red the old man to the Wester
and Atlantic tram bound f<
Cartersville.
This true story is one of th
most peculiar and interestin
yet unearthed in this section <
the state. The trials and viciss
tudes of Anderson Pit I man ar
I
r unlike those endured by an
man in all the world, and hi
reunion with his wife, after s
many years of bitter eeparatiot
was the happiest moment of hi
otherwise sad, stormy life.
Program of Children's Da
Exercises at Flat Cree
Church.
The following programme wt
successfully carried out at tli
recent Children's Day exercise
at Flat Creek Baptist church :
Singing by school?No. 2
Prayer by pastor.
Singing by little people?Brin
them in.
'Tis Children's Dav?Dewe
Marshall.
What the Fool has Said?Be
sie Knight.
The Boy of his Word?Hya
Faile.
Singing?No. 7.
IIow God has Spoken?Eul
Marshall.
Freely ye have received, freel
give?4 boys.
Singing?158.
Reliance?Lula Marshall.
God's Gifts?3 girls.
IIow a Little Helps?Ola Pi
man.
Singing?59.
The good that we can_doLula
Knight.
God is Love?9 girls.
The Girl who Smiles- Gill)']
Gardner.
!. >'vnxiii^ ? iicoicr my vio
to I liee.
The Way of a Boy?Labor
Pitman.
Within the Solemn |TetnpleGladvs
C >ok.
Only Small Boys?Oscar Wi
liams.
Singing?145.
Little Soldiers?3 girls.
Pantomime? My Faith Loo!
up to Thee.
Singing?No. 14h.
The Seasons?I girls.
The Master Sculptor-?Lul
J Marshall.
My Grawhn i?Beulali Gar<
I ner.
Singing?H>7.
Song of the Homeland ?
j boys.
j Nature Prayer?Lola Kuigh
Tenting on the ^Old Cam
I Ground.
I Homeward Bound.
Short Sermon?(Jroxton (Jar(
ner.
i Prayer?by Nancy Hilton.
Singing?By little people.
The Cotton Crop---Greate:
Deterioration in South Cai
olina.
Co'umb a special in Oharlott
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THAT [ WOULD RATHER GO
? AROOHD IN A NIGHTGOWNTHAH
IN THE HOT HEAVY GARME AT.J
aSOHE BIG TOLKS AND LlTTLE
foLKS WEAR. VbU CAN ATfORD To
55 BUY NEW CLOTHES NOW. JOHNIER
CLOTHES ARE CHEAP-SO CHEAP i
e yCpWN THAT YOU CAN AF fORD TO 0REJ5
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Clothes will not burden you if you wear the
iy right kind. Should you go around not look8.
ing tidy ? You do, do you believe others
will think well of you? If others think well
M r ? ...
ol you their good opinion will put you forward.
No one is independent. We can help
a to put you forward by dressing well, you and
your children. Our summer goods (which
can yet be worn a long time) have gone
through the slaughter house. The prices on
these goods are cut. See how cheaply we
1 can "put you forward" and yet keep you cool.
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n Yours truly, !
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II liiiiKiislcr Mm-anlile Co.
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compiled by Secret iry B F.Tay- crease: Arkansas 29, Mississippi his children. Kent appeared on
lor, of the S >11?h C irolin i branch 2$, Louisiana 53, Indian 'l'erri the scene, and, while he wac
of the Inter-S'a'e Cotton Seed torv 24, Oklahoma 14. Texas 1 <?. I wrest.'iiur with a \t ?
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has suffered more than any other ^SSO(*'lM?11 s,l.vs /'"P *" ,'!',s lorm<*r husband through the
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last year. Mr. Taylor's conclu* \ Killed by Divorced Wife. , DllC W6St P6D1 B.16 Collt^G
sions are reached irom detailed! . 4.sth year begin* Sept. Pith. Witt
reports he has received from all' s,UPVePor ? L, ? August 1? f,,,, Faculty of Five Men ami Nine
qt! . ^ a . Charles Attawav was shot and Women 14o pupilH?2n per cent in31
the Southern S'at98. All show in-I. . crease over last year New Carnegie
. VT .. instantly killed today at Blanch Dormitory with all Iiiotlern comforts,
r- creases excep' Ceorgia, North . . . . ..... reatlv for riccnnannv ill the fall I'?Oarolina
and South Carolina. s,rd? Me*r ,,U8 Clt^ h,s d,vorc ual extras RoSrd and Tuition *1M>
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