In a quite little cemetery in Harrison County, Indiana, about 4 miles from
Corydon, lies Zachariah Kitterman and his wife Mary Catherine Poteet and
many of their children and grandchildren.  The name of the cemetery is
Perseverance.  In 1837 Zachariah donated a piece of ground for a Methodist
Church. In Deed Book K Page 384, Dec. 6, 1837, Zachariah Kitterman and
wife Mary, convey to the trustees the following piece of groung:  A part
of the North West Quarter of Section 30, Township 4, Range 4, beginning at
the Southwest corner of said Kitterman's fourth part, containing one acre,
with all the houses, woods and waterways, that they shall erect a house of
worship. The church history recorded the church was made of logs and was
located where the monument of Taylor Kitterman now stands.
On Zachariah's tombstone it says he died 17 Jan. 1869 at the age of 68
years, 1 month and 17 days.
Zachariah Kitterman born to Henry and Anna (Danner) Kitterman in Franklin
county, Virginia, the eleventh child in order of birth. He was only ten
years old when his father died and a young man of nineteen when the family
decided to move to Harrison county, Indiana. February 20, 1825 he took as
his wife, the widow Mrs. Mary Catharine (Patrick) Bird.  Mary Catharine
was the daughter of Mary Rice and Mr. Whitecar/Whitacar and born in Ohio
county, Ky. When she was seven years old, her mother married Jacob Poteet
and Mary took Poteet as a last name.  Mary married Patrick Bird and they
had a daughter Eliza and Patrick died.  Zachariah and Mary Kitterman had
eleven children;  James Samuel, married Hanna Marsh, Eliza Hart and Rachel
Clark;  Mary Ann, married George Shuck and John Marsh; Judith Ann, married
James Cline; Rebecca married Charles Smith;  William Rice, married Louisa
Rowe; Alfred Poteet married Elizabeth Rowe; John Wesley married Sarah
Ellen Smith; Clorinda Catherine married William Smith; Thomas Henry,
married Sarah C. Hedges and Malinda Hedges; Zachariah Taylor, married
Matilda Williams and Sarah A., married Wilford T. Hedges.


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