Carrie Fletcher Hitt - I75 - Individual Information

Carrie Fletcher Hitt (I75)

Name:
Carrie Fletcher Hitt

Gender: Female

Birth: 16 May 1892 Belena, Calhoun County, MS, USA
Death: 5 December 1977 New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA, USA

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Birth

16 May 1892 Father

37 Belena, Calhoun County, MS, USA

Marriage

1 November 1914 (Age 22) Hollis Irl Ellzey -

Occupation

school teacher Goss, Marion County, MS, USA

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http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:710541

Corporation / Company: Goss School

Note: Carrie taught at the Goss School until it burned down in 1946 according to John Ulmer. She then moved to the Cedar Grove School.

Occupation

1946 (Age 53) school teacher Columbia, Marion County, MS, USA

Web URL:

http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:689654

Corporation / Company: Cedar Grove School

Note: After the Goss School burned down, Carrie taught at the Cedar Grove School, probably until she retired.

Text

Obituary for Carrie Fletcher Hitt from the Hattiesburg American, 6 Dec 1977

Mrs. H.I. Ellzey

Rites Wednesday at Columbia for last wagon train survivor

Columbia--Services for the last surviving person on the wagon train from Marcun, Texas, [probably means San Marcos, TX] in 1900 will be held Wednesday at Colonial Funderal [Funeral] home chapel.

Mrs. H.I. Ellzey, 85, of New Orleans, formerly of Columbia, died at 6 p.m. Monday at the Hotel Dieu, New Orleans. Burial will be in in Woodlawn Cemetery.

Mrs. Ellzey was seven years old and the youngest in the caravan, made up of several families equipped with five covered wagons and 32 horses. It arrived in what in now known as the Bunker Hill Community at Christmas time.

H.I. Ellzey Jr., one of two sons of Mrs. Ellzey, now living on Broadmoor St., Columbia, said his mother's parents, Mr. and Mrs. R.M. Hitt, had only 50 cents upon their arrival in Bunker Hill but that the little band of travelers sold some of their horses and divided the money.

Mrs. Ellzey retired at age 60 after spending most of her life teaching in various Marion County schools. She was a member of Goss Baptist Church.

She is survived by two sons, H.I. of Columbia and Jack Ellzey of New Orleans; two daughters, Mrs. Charles Fortenberry and Mrs. Bob Ulmer, both of New Orleans; eight grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

Death

5 December 1977 (Age 85) New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA, USA

Last Change

8 April 2008 - 16:33:27 - by: lrh

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Occupation	Carrie taught at the Goss School until it burned down in 1946 according to John Ulmer. She then moved to the Cedar Grove School.
Occupation	After the Goss School burned down, Carrie taught at the Cedar Grove School, probably until she retired.

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Multimedia Object	The Hitt Sisters (Edgie, Folsie, Tack, Carrie, Alice) and others Type: Photo
Multimedia Object	Carrie Fletcher Hitt and Hollis Irl Ellzey in 1954 Type: Photo
Multimedia Object	James K. Vardaman Type: Photo