Ancestry of
Oliver Brown Pitt

(1891–1973)

Bell Ray

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• • Mother of Oliver Brown Pitt — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 3 
  • Father:
  • William Ray 
  • Mother:
  • Belle -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • 21 Sep 1854 
  • Birth Location:
  • Tennessee 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 19 Sep 1936 
  • Death Location:
  • Springhill, Webster, Louisiana 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Timothy Cemetery, Springhill, Webster, Louisiana 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Thomas M. Pitt
  • Marriage Date:
  • 31 Oct 1888 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Hempstead County, Arkansas 
  • Child:

  Oliver Brown Pitt (Ahnentafel No:1 )

  • Notes: 

  • Although Bell Pitt's tombstone gives 20 SEP 1936 as her death date, the death certificate gives it as 19 SEP 1936.

    It appears that Bell Ray may have been married twice as Bell's name is listed as Bell Amer on the record of her marriage to Thomas Pitt.

• Sources for Bell Ray

  • ¹ Arkansas, U.S., County Marriages Index, 1837-1957, Marriage record for Thomas M Pitt and Bell Armer.
  • ² Federal Census, LA, Webster Parish, 1930, Police Jury Ward 2, E.D. 60-7, Sheet 11A, Image 21 of 22.
  • ³ Federal Census, LA, Webster Parish, 1910, Police Jury Ward 2, E.D. 115, Sheet 9A, Image 17 of 66.
  • ⁴ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 09/25/2014).
  • ⁵ Louisiana, Deaths Index, 1850-1875, 1894-1956, Death record for Belle Pitts.