Wade & Webb Family History

John C Pitts1795–?

Effingham · Perry · Jones

On this page
  1. Family Record
  2. Life
  3. Sources
  4. Notes

Birth

  1. 1795 Effingham, Georgia

Marriages

  1. 1827 Nancy Walden, at Perry, Mississippi
  2. Date unknown Nancy Walden

Death and burial

  1. Date unknown Death: Jones, Mississippi

Family

Parents
Not recorded
Spouse, 1827
Nancy Walden 1805–1870
Children
Jesse Pitts 1838–?
Benjamin Pitts 1845–?
Henry P. Pitts 1844–1911
Leander Pitts 1849–?
Joshua Pitts 1842–?
Frances Faribee Pitts 1834–?
Louisa Pitts 1846–?
Nancy Pitts 1831–?
William Waldon Pitts 1828–1863
George Pitts 1839–?
Stacey Pitts 1843–?
James Edward Pitts 1826–1906
Sarah E Pitts 1853–1895
Renvey Pitts 1840–?

Line of descent Webb line

  1. John C Pitts
  2. Husband of Nancy Walden
  3. Westley D Walden
  4. William Walker Walden, son
  5. Lila Walden, daughter
  6. Hilda Webb, daughter
  7. William Albert Webb Wade, son

Husband of 2nd great-grandaunt of Webb Wade, from whom this history is traced. Why Webb Wade?

Life

John C. Pitts was born in 1795 in Effingham County, Georgia, according to the FamilySearch tree, which gives no source for the date or place.1 A compiled index of marriage records on Ancestry gives his birth as 1800 in Georgia, so the year is uncertain.2 The tree records his name in several forms, John G. W., John G., John A. and John C. Pitts, without saying which records use which.3 He married Nancy Walden, a daughter of Charles Sparks Walden and Sarah Walker, in Perry County, Mississippi, in 1827, the tree says, without an attached record of the marriage.4 A J. C. Pitts appears in the federal census of 1840, and the censuses of 1850 and 1860 list John Pitts, with Nancy in his household, in Perry County, Mississippi, in the Southern District in 1860.5 The tree names fourteen children, born between 1826 and 1853, among them James Edward (1826–1906), William Waldon (1828–1863), Henry P. (1844–1911) and Sarah E. (1853–1895).6 Nancy died in Perry County in August 1870.7 The tree places his own death in Jones County, Mississippi, with no date.1

Sources

Every FamilySearch record attached to John C Pitts.

  1. 1840J C Pitts, "United States, Census, 1840"
  2. 1850John Pitts, "United States, Census, 1850"
  3. 1860John Pitts, "United States, Census, 1860"
  4. 1860 United States Federal Census for John Pitts
  5. John Pitts in the U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560
  6. Legacy NFS Source: John C Pitts - Government record: birth-name: John Pitts

Notes

  1. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KJCV-V6G: birth 1795, Effingham, Georgia; death Jones, Mississippi, no date; no sources for either back to the text
  2. "John Pitts in the U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560." 1900 https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/7836/records/962912?indiv=try&h&db. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025. Record: John Pitts, birth place GA, birth year 1800, spouse Nancy back to the text
  3. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KJCV-V6G: other names John G. W. Pitts, John G. Pitts, John Pitts, John C Pitts, and John A. Pitts (also known as) back to the text
  4. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KJCV-V6G: marriage 1827, Perry, Mississippi, spouse Nancy Walden FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KH4K-KPV (their page): parents Charles Sparks Walden and Sarah Walker back to the text
  5. "United States, Census, 1840", FamilySearch, J C Pitts, 1840. Record: J C Pitts, 1840 census "United States, Census, 1850", FamilySearch, John Pitts, 1850. Record: John Pitts, 1850 census "United States, Census, 1860", FamilySearch, John Pitts, 1860. Record: John Pitts, 1860 census "1860 United States Federal Census for John Pitts." 1860 United States Federal Census for John Pitts. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 Jan. 2019. <https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/7667/4233372_00312?indiv=try&h&db>. Record: 1860 census for John Pitts, Ancestry image "United States, Census, 1850", FamilySearch, Nancy Pitts in entry for John Pitts, 1850. Record: Nancy Pitts in entry for John Pitts, 1850 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KJCV-V6G: residences 1850 Perry county; 1860 Southern District, Perry, Mississippi back to the text
  6. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KJCV-V6G: fourteen children with Nancy Walden, with the years given back to the text
  7. "Find a Grave Index", FamilySearch, Nancy Walters Pitts, August 1870. Record: Nancy Walters Pitts, Find a Grave Index, August 1870 back to the text