of Champaign County, Ohio · documented from the public record
The family in the record
Samuel W. Hitt 1816 – 1892
Samuel W. Hitt⚭ wife born near Glendale
childrenJoseph Hitt · Anna R. Hitt · George W. Hitt · Lizzie Hitt · Mary Hitt
Their story
What the record says
Longtime Urbana merchant and member/chorister of First Methodist Episcopal church.
Generous and public-spirited, aided in building up Urbana.
Died April 20, 1892 in his seventy-sixth year, leaving a widow and four children.
Son Joseph killed in action at Atlanta as a soldier in the Sixty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
Daughter Anna R. was widow of John T. Mitchell.
Daughter Lizzie was widow of James R. Fuller.
Daughter Mary married J. E. Burchard.
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