A Memorial and Biographical History of Johnson and Hill Counties, Texas. Page: 643
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AND HILL COUNTIES.
Government position in Revolutionary days.
Jesse Pitts left South Carolina in an early
day, and settled in middle Georgia. In 1860
he cane to Texas, on account of his wife's
health, and died, his wife having preceded
him ten years.
F. M. Pitts, our subject, left the common
schools at the age of sixteen years and entered
a high school in north Georgia, which
was conducted by an old Athens classical
scholar. He remained with him two years,
and then began reading medicine under his
older. brother, who was practicing near
Columbus, Georgia. He was there studiously
engaged until prepared for his lecture
course, when he entered the Jefferson Medical
College at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
were he graduated in 1849. Mr. Pitts
located for the practice of his profession at
Indian Springs, Georgia, where he remained
eight years, and in 1859 he came to Waco,
Texas. Two years later the conflict between
the States found him unable to go into the
service, as his hearing had been greatly impaired,
but there was a service he could perform
which was as illustrious as any he could
give his State by entering her armies. The
defenseless women and children were to be
cared for. Disease as well as riot prevailed,
and a strong mind and a firm hand was needed
to stay both. It is in this capacity that we
find the Doctor engaged, providing for the
widow and orphans, comforting the afflicted
and administering to the sick. In 1866 Dr.
Pitts engaged in farming, but two years' experience
demonstrated to him that the dispensing
of curatives was his fort. He thenmoved to Mount Calm, where he was engaged
in practice for over twenty years, and he then
came to Hubbard City, where he is engaged
in practice with his son.
In 1853 he was married to Miss Ward, of
Georgia, a daughter of Major B. F. Ward, a
lawyer by profession. He was one of the
Trustees of the State University at Athens,
and for a number of years was Representative
and Senator from his county to the Legislature.
He gained the title of Major by serving
in the Seminole war, under General
Jackson, and was an intimate friend of Judge
Longstreet, Ben Hill, Alexander Stephens
and Robert Toombs. Mrs. Pitts was educated
in a female college at La Grange, Georgia.
They are the parents of five living children,
viz.: John D., who spent two years at the
Texas Military Institute at Austin, two years
at Cornell University, and also studied law in
Georgia; Dr. F. M., who was educated at the
Texas Military Institute at Waco, and took a
course of lectures at the Jefferson Medical
College, where he graduated in 1880; B. M.,
in the employ of the railroad in California;
and Mrs. H. B. Allen, of this city.
AMUEL G. GRAHAM, of Cleburne,
Johnson county, was born in Washington
county, Virginia, in April, 1829,
the seventh of eight children born to William
and Isabella (Buchanan) Graham, natives of
Virginia. Our subject spent his early life
in his native State, receiving an academic
education at Emory and Henry College, and
when twenty-five years of age, in 1855, he643
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Lewis Publishing Company. A Memorial and Biographical History of Johnson and Hill Counties, Texas., book, 1892; Chicago, Illinois. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth46829/m1/684/: accessed May 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dallas Genealogical Society.