Blackford County Indiana Biographical Sketches--1887--Pages 865, 866 Gabriel Kitterman, a prosperous farmer of Blackford County, residing on section 12, Washington Township, was born in Floyd County, Virginia, July 29, 1832, a son of Solomon and Leocia (Slusher) Kitterman, natives of Virginia, the father born november 12, 1802, and the mother about the year 1810. Our subject was six years old when he was brought by his parents to Indiana, they settling in Harrison Township, Wayne County, where he grew to manhood, being reared to agricultural pursuits. Four days before reaching his twenty-first year he began learning the carpenter's trade, at which he worked for the same party four years. He was married March 30, 1854, to Eliza Crawford, who was born in Wayne County, Indiana, September 21, 1833, where she was reared and married. She died September 14, 1855, and September 23, 1858, Mr. Kitterman married Sarah Williams, a native of Baltimore County, Maryland, born May 30, 1839, a daughter of Washington and Rachel (Lamont) Williams, who came to Wayne County when Mrs. Kitterman was a child. Mr. and Mrs. Kitterman have had born to them five children--Washington, born August 23, 1859, died July 3, 1863; Harvey, born July 1, 1862; Harlan, born September 18, 1863; Ailey A., born January 17, 1865, and Solomon, born July 5, 1868. Mr. Kitterman came to Blackford County in 1859, when he settled on his present farm before a stick had been cut on the place. His family lived in the school-house until he had built his cabin. For a time after coming to the county he worked at his trade in connection with his farming, and since coming here he has by persevering industry and good management acquired a fine property. His home farm now consists of 240 acres of choice land, which he cleared and improved, 160 acres of his farm being on section 12, and the remaining eighty acres on section 13, of Washington Township. Mr. Kitterman is a preacher in the Dunkard church, and is an active worker in the cause of his Master, and during his residence in the county has gained the confidence of all who knew him. The parents of Mr. Kitterman were married in Virginia in 1831, living in that state about six years after their marriage, then migrated to Wayne County, Indiana, where the father died in the fall of 1876, aged seventy-four years. The mother is still living on the homestead, where they first settled on coming to Indiana, making her home with one of her sons. They were the parents of ten children--Gabriel, Harvey, Ailey A., Hulda E., Ephraim, Nancy S., Annanias, Calvin, Mary and LeRoy. The grandfather of our subject, David Kitterman, was a native of Virginia, coming to America with a brother. He settled in Virginia, where he lived until his death. The grandmother Julia Kitterman, died in Floyd County, Virginia. The maternal grandparents, David Slusher and wife, died in Floyd County, Virginia. Washington Williams, the father of Mrs. Kitterman, was born in Maryland, and is now living in Wayne County, Indiana, where he has resided many years. He is a blacksmith by trade, which he has followed the greater part of his life. He is now seventy-five years old. He has been three times married, his first wife being Rachel Lamont, by whom he had five children--Rebecca, Sarah, Amanda, Martha and John. He had no children by his second marriage, and to his last wife were born two children, named Albert and Harriet. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Virginia Perry (© 1998 Virginia Perry)