Crenshaw County AlArchives Biographies.....Pittmon, Joseph Wesley 1845 - 1929
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I was born in Covington county near Rose Hill.  My father & family moved to Butler
county during the year 1849 near a place called Smuteye.  I was born Jan. 29,1845, I
being only four years old.  My father was killed at Smuteye precinct on a general
election day in the year 1850.

Well my mother moved near Rutledge, then in Butler county and I was reared there
and lived there until the Civil War and I volunteered at Millville,near
E. B. Sikes mill now, then a grocery and dry goods establishment were kept and a
grist mill was there and I did my milling there.  they made some flour there & it
was bolted by a bolting chest.  I got mighty good exercise by turning the crank of
that machine and if you had some of that flour you would call it good, for it was
the pure stuff.

Listen I never wore shoes until I was about 9 year sold and all the clothes I
wore was made by process of spinning and carding and weaving, all home made and
very good. I wish I had a suit of that old time jeans which was dyed with walnut
and shoemake.

Well I never went to school but little about 2 years all total and it came in
broken dosses, so what I do know, I have got it out side of school except just a
little.  When I joined the service,I was 17 1/2 years old, could spell but little
and hardly could write my name so it could be read distinctly, when I came out of
the war I could write very well and could read well.

Well I want to tell you about some of the things was here in my boyhood
days.  There was a school path led out from our place right across where the old
court house was at Rutledge.  I have seen droves of deer and turkey,near there the
old Log School house was near the Rutledge Cemetery.  John Brown was my teacher
and he gave me many a licking and I don't think he gave me a lick a miss unless
he struck at me and missed.

Well now something about the history of our county.  It was formed 1865 and name
for Hon. Anderson Crenshaw and was debared the enjoyment of railroad
privileges.  The area of the county 660 square miles.  Well I married Feb. 4, 1875
reared 11 children, 8 boys and 3 girls all married and living. Well I must close
for this time as my Epistle is getting lengthy, I am getting apprehensive.

Yours for business, J. W. Pittmon. April 29,1915

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