Hays County Texas Archives Photo Tombstone.....Pitts, Eliza Permilia Daves 
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Cemetery:           Pitts Cemetery
Name:               Eliza Permilia Daves Pitts

Date Of Photograph: July 5, 2005
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Eliza Permilia Daves Pitts was born in 1802 to the Daves family of Savannah, 
Georgia.  She married John Drayton Pitts in approximately 1821 at his family 
home in the Baldwin/Washington County area.  They moved to Stewart County a 
few years later where Pitts became a land speculator and started a school for 
girls.  During a severe depression during the late 1830's and 1840's, Pitts 
left the country and headed for the Republic of Texas.  Some of his poignant 
letters to his wife are in the holdings of the San Marcos City Library.  Eliza 
had 11 children, only 3 of which made it to adulthood.  She died at age 49 at 
their home in Stringtown, just south of San Marcos on the Hunter Road.

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