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Cemetery:           Bowdle Cemetery, Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio.
Name:               Rev. Elijah Truitt
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Rev. Elijah Truitt
Died
May 7, 1853
Aged 83 Y, 2 M, & 9 DS.


Additional Comments:
Rev Elijah Jeremiah Truitt

Birth: 	1770, Broad Creek, Sussex County, Delaware, USA
Death:  May 7, 1853, Ross County, Ohio, USA

The Rev. Elijah J. Truitt first married Miss Tabitha Giles in Sussex County, DE
in 1792. He second married Miss Elizabeth Bowdle on December 6, 1827 in Ross
County. Elijah and Elizabeth Truitt are buried together in the Bowdle Graveyard.

Biographical information from obituary, dated 1853. For the Western Christian
Advocate, "Memoirs"

REV. E. TRUETT.
Rev. Elijah Truett, of Ross county, O., died May 7, 1853. He was born in Sussex
county, Delaware, February 24, 1770, and was awakened and converted in the
nineteenth year of his age, under the preaching of Rev. Ebenezer Everett. He
joined the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he remained a member till death.
Soon after his conversion he erected the family altar in his father's house, and
under his first prayer a sister was awakened, and soon the whole family united
with the Methodist Episcopal Church. Soon after his second marriage, which
occurred October 9, 1794, he removed to the state of Georgia, where he lived
about ten years; but becoming disgusted with slavery and its connections, he
returned to the state of Delaware, and a few months afterward removed to Ross
county, O. He received license to preach in 1808, and in 1815 joined the
itinerancy, and was appointed to Salt Creek circuit. In 1816 he traveled Scioto
circuit. In 1817 he was received into full connection ["full connection" should
be 1810 according to ME records], elected deacon, and appointed to Brush Creek
circuit. At the close of this year he located. He was an acceptable member of
the Church sixty-three years, and a preacher about forty-five. As a man and a
Christian he was remarkable for his uprightness, integrity, affability and
humility. As a preacher he was acceptable and useful: hence, Christians loved
him, and all respected him; and when the Master called, his work was done, he
was ready to go. David Smith. Clarksburg, O., July 6, 1853. 
 

Children:  Gilead "Gilley" Truitt (1793 - 1869)*
 
Spouses:  
Tabitha Giles Truitt (1773 - 1793)*
Elizabeth Bowdle Truitt (1784 - 1857)*
 
 
Inscription:
"Rev. Elijah Truitt
Died
May 7, 1853
Aged 83 Y, 2 M, & 9 DS."
 
Note: Rev. Truitt's stone has lost stability and appears to be flat on the
ground. Please help. I am far away - will be glad to compensate.
 
Burial: Bowdle Cemetery, Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio.


Created by: Sherry Bradley
Record added: Apr 28, 2010
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