Biographical Sketch of Harvey Sitton, Washington County, Missouri

>From "History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford and 
Gasconade Counties", Biographical Appendix, Goodspeed Publishing 
Company, 1888.

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Harvey Sitton is a son of James and Mary (Bowen) Sitton, both natives
of South Carolina, and of Scotch and Irish descent, respectively.  They
married and lived in South Carolina until 1817, when they moved to 
Southern Illinois, where the mother died at the age of eighty years.
About 1824 the father and children came to Cape Girardeau County, Mo.,
and herre the father died, after having lived to a good old age.  He 
was a carpenter and blacksmith by trade, and a Democrat in politics. He
and wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.  Harvey
is the eldest of their four children.  He was born in Greenville Dist-
rict, S. C., and was reared on a farm, and educated in the old sub-
scription schools.  In 1835 he came to Washington County, Mo., and for
about forty-five years has followed farming and mining as an occupation.
He owns 400 acres of land, and is considered one of the first citizens
of the county.  In 1837 he married Mrs. Martha (Wingo) Crump, a native
of Virginia, born in 1817.  By her he became the father of twelve 
children; of whom four sons and four daughters survive.  Mr. and Mrs.
Sitton are worthy members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.

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