Bedford County PA Archives Biographies.....PITTMAN, Benjamin 
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Author: Excerpts from a Biographical & Historical History of SE Nebraska

Benjamin Pittman, born in PA, was father of Joseph Pittman, born in PA, who was 
father of Ezra Pittman, born in Bedford County, PA. 

Ezra Pittman, born Bedford County, PA, married Elizabeth Knable, born in 
Bedford County, PA. Elizabeth was a daughter of John Knable, of an old PA Dutch 
family. Ezra & Elizabeth were parents of Joseph K. Pittman, born in 1840 in 
Bedford County, PA. 

Joseph K. Pittman enlisted in the Civil War as a private on 19 November 1861 at 
Warfordsburg, PA., in Co. B and was taken into the 3rd Maryland Volunteer 
Infantry, where he served 3 years & 3 months. Joseph K. was promoted from 
private to corporal, to orderly sergeant, to first lieutenant, with which rank 
he was honorably discharged. 

He moved to Knox Co., Illinois in 1865 and farmed near Galesburg for 13 years. 
In 1878 the family moved to Lincoln Co., Kansas, took up a homestead and lived 
there until 1888, when they removed to Gage Co., Nebraska, where he was a 
farmer & stock-raiser. 

Jospeh K. Pittman married in Knox Co., Illinois with Mary F. Bower, born in 
Ohio, daughter of Jacob E. & Susan (Bryan) Bower. Joseph K. & Mary had 12 
children, 1 of which died in childhood. The other children were: Jasper D. 
Pittman; Joseph Pittman; Ulysses G. Pittman; Ezra Pittman; William Pittman; 
Edwin Pittman; Roy Pittman; Robert Pittman; Susan Pittman; Jessie Pittman; Mary 
Pittman. 

Excerpts from A Biographical & Historical History of Southeastern Nebraska; 
Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago-New York, 1904.


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