BIO: Pruitt, Daniel - Oldham Co., KY -------------------------------------------- Contributed for use in USGENWEB Archives by: Diana Flynn Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 08:15:12 -0500 -------------------------------------------- **************************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free genealogical information on the Internet, data may be freely used for personal research and by non-commercial entities as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may not be reproduced in any format or presentation by other organizations or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for profit or any form of presentation, must obtain the written consent of the file submitter, or his legal representative and then contact the listed USGENWEB archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net. ***************************************************************************** Subject: KFY: BIO: Pruitt, Daniel - Oldham Co PRUITT WILLIAMS ARNOLD POTTS Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana. Historical and Biographical. Charles Blanchard, Editor. Chicago: F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers, 1884. MORGAN COUNTY ADAMS TOWNSHIP PAGE 312 DANIEL PRUITT, farmer, brick-maker and brick-layer, was born in Oldham County, Ky., December 3, 1823, and is the third child in a family of eleven children born to Eli and Nancy (Williams) Pruitt, the former of whom was a native of North Carolina and the latter of Washington County, Ky. They were of German and English decent respectively. When but a lad of some four summers, in 1795, Eli Pruitt emigrated with his parents from North Carolina to Kentucky, which was then almost an unbroken wilderness. They settled near the present site of Lexington, where his father, Bright Pruitt, bought some 600 acres of military lands, which he lost in consequence of a defective title. Afterward he entered 400 acres in what is now Oldham County, Ky., where still later he built and operated a distillery until 1830, when he came to Gregg Township, Morgan Co., Ind., where he resided until his death. Young Eli received a very fair education at the rude log schoolhouses of the Kentucky frontier, and learned the cooper's trade with his father, which he followed for a number of years. At the age of twenty- seven he was married, soon after which he bought a farm in Oldham County, Ky., and was engaged in agricultural pursuits in connection with his trade until the fall of 1835, when he came with his family to Adams Township, Morgan County, Ind., entered and bought 743 acres of wild land, and improved a farm upon which he resided until his death, which occurred March 28, 1868, in his seventy-seventh year. He was an enrolling officer in Kentucky during the war of 1812, and Township Trustee for one term after he came to Indiana. Himself and wife were members of the Christian Church. In politics, he was identified with the Democratic party, and was one of the pioneers of Morgan County. Dan- iel Pruitt, the subject, received a fair common school education, and was employed on the home farm until he was twenty-one years old. He then went to Mooresville, where he remained one year, and learned the brick- making and brick-mason's trades, which he followed in connection with farming for some thrity-five years. In 1846, his father deeded him forty acres of wild land in Adams Township, Morgan Co., Ind., to which he added, now owning a well-improved farm of 113 acres, upon which he resides. He was married, December 29, 1846, to Elizabeth Arnold, a native of Harrison County, Ind., and a daughter of Richard and Lovina (Potts) Arnold, who were among the early settlers of Morgan County. To Mr. and Mrs. Pruitt have been born eleven children, ten of whom, four sons and six daughters, are yet living. Both himself and wife are members of the Christian Church. In politics, he is a stanch Democrat.