Pitts Family Cemetery

The Camp County TXGenWeb transcription of the cemetery lists William Harrison Pitts (1815-1898) with three marriages: Mary Louisa Hanson in 1848, Sarah Richardson Harvey in 1855 and Julia F. Roberts in 1870. It also lists Hardy Augustus Pitts (1825-1879), whose portrait hangs in the Pittsburg Masonic Lodge, and Walter VanBuren Pitts (1830-1897), both sons of Hardy G. and Drucilla Neal Pitts, and Dr. Thomas N. Pitts, a Confederate veteran who died in 1907. Two daughters of Hardy and Drucilla Pitts are listed too: Amanda, who became Mrs. Abernathy, and Mary Drucilla, Mrs. Heath.

What the plaque says

Pitts Family Cemetery The Pitts Family Cemetery was established by William Harrison Pitts, founder of Pittsburg, according to family history. The earliest burial on this site was that of Sarah Richardson Harvey Pitts, the third wife of W. H. Pitts and mother of their daughter Ella, in 1862. Confederate Corporal Joseph H. Pitts was buried her in 1863. Others interred here include W. H. Pitts' mother, Drucilla Neal Pitts, and five of his eight siblings. These members of the large Pitts family left their Georgia plantations and reestablished their households here on the Texas frontier in the mid-19th century. They shaped early Camp County and saw Pittsburg grow into a thriving village. The cemetery remains a chronicle of early Camp County history and culture. (2000)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Lake Bob Sandlin State Park — 8.5 mi
  A 1987 state park on a 9,000-acre reservoir, where a Republic of Texas stockade called Fort Sherman stood in 1838 and the Caddo lived from A.D. 800 to 1860, now with fishing piers, trails and cabins.
• Daingerfield State Park — 16 mi
  A pine-and-hardwood park built in 1935-39 by a white and a Black Civilian Conservation Corps company, with a dammed lake, Bass Lodge and a 2.4-mile loop trail around the water.

More markers nearby

• Pittsburg — steps away
• Site of First Carnegie Library in Texas — steps away
• The Ezekiel Airship — 0.3 mi
• Colonel John L. Camp — 3.0 mi