Ancestry of
Brad Pitt

Movie Actor

Oliver Brown Pitt

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• • Great-grandfather of Brad Pitt — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 8 
  • Father:
  • Thomas M. Pitt 
  • Mother:
  • Bell Ray   
  • Birth Date:
  • 24 Aug 1891 
  • Birth Location:
  • Honey Grove, Fannin, Texas 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 14 Nov 1973 
  • Death Location:
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  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Timothy Cemetery, Springhill, Webster, Louisiana 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Rosalee "Rosie" Dorris
  • Marriage Date:
  • 20 Nov 1911 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Ouachita County, Arkansas 
  • Child:

  Alvin Monroe Pitt (Ahnentafel No:4 )

  • Notes: 

  • Oliver Pitt's tomstone gives the year of his birth as 1890, but his social security record and his WW I draft registration has 1891.

• Additional marriages for Oliver Brown Pitt

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  • Spouse:
  • Ellen - - - - - -

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  • Spouse:
  • Hazel Merrett
  • Marriage Date:
  • 13 Jun 1922
  • Marriage Location:
  • Ouachita County, Arkansas

• Sources for Oliver Brown Pitt

  • ¹ Alabama, U.S., Deaths and Burials Index, 1881-1974, Death record for son Alvin Monroe Pitts.
  • ² Arkansas, County Marriages, 1837-1957, Marriage certificate for Oliver B Pitt and Rosalee Dorris.
  • ³ Arkansas, U.S., County Marriages Index, 1837-1957, Marriage record for O B Pitt and Hazel Merrett.
  • ⁴ Federal Census, LA, Webster Parish, 1930, Police Jury Ward 2, E.D. 60-7, Sheet 11A, Image 21 of 22.
  • ⁵ Federal Census, LA, Webster Parish, 1940, Ward 2, E.D. 60-7, Sheet 15B, Image 30 of 34.
  • ⁶ Federal Census, LA, Webster Parish, 1910, Police Jury Ward 2, E.D. 115, Sheet 9A, Image 17 of 66.
  • ⁷ Federal Census, OK, McCurtain County, 1920, Frisco, E.D. 141, Sheet 2A, Image 3 of 53.
  • ⁸ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 09/25/2014).
  • ⁹ U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014, Death record for Oliver Pitt.
  • ¹⁰ U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, Draft registration for Oliver Brown Pitt.
  • ¹¹ U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942, Draft registration for Oliver Brown Pitt.
  • ¹² McClure, Rhonda R., Finding Your Famous {and Infamous} Ancestors, Cincinnati, Ohio: Betterway Books (2003), 194.