BIO: Pruitt, Eli, Rev. - Oldham Co., KY -------------------------------------------- Contributed for use in USGENWEB Archives by: Diana Flynn Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 08:43:11 -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, Eli, Rev. - Oldham Co PRUITT WILHITE KIVETT 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 313 REV. ELI PRUITT, farmer and stock-raiser, is the eldest son of James and Polly (Wilhite) Pruitt, natives respectivley of South Carolina and Virginia. James Pruitt was a soldier of the war of 1812, and was in the battle of New Orleans. He moved to Kentucky, there married, and farmed until 1832-33, when he came to this county, and located on land he had previously entered. He built a cabin, but lost his health the first year, and died with consumption in 1846, upward of sixty years old. He was possessor of nearly 1,000 acres, was a Democrat and an upright citizen. Mrs. Pruitt afterward lived with our subject until her decease in 1866, being sixty-six years old. Eli Pruitt was born in Oldham County, Ky., August 19, 1820, was reared to honest farm toil, and is largely self-educated. When he was twenty-two years old, he located where he now resides, having, however, previously entered forty acres adjoining, and beginning with but a horse and a cow, his outfit being of the most primitive kind. Being an expert with the ax, he soon accumulated, by industry and care, a farm consisting of 200 acres. September 29, 1842, he married Miss Barbara M. Kivett, a native of North Carolina, by which union were producted two sons and four daughters, of whom are living, John M., Belinda A., Paulina J. and Sarah M. Mr. Pruitt has been a leader in society, and is a licensed minister of the Christian Church; he has held several large revivals, made many baptisms and solemnized a number of marriages. His conduct proves his professions, and he is greatly esteemed.