Pleasant Williams Kittrell

Pleasant Williams Kittrell

Pleasant Williams Kittrell, 1805-1867

• Father: Bryant Kittrell b. circa 1779, d. 1836
• Mother: Mary A. Norman b. circa 1776

• Pleasant Williams Kittrell was born on 13 April 1805 in Chapel Hill, Orange County, North Carolina.
• He was educated at University of North Carolina, at Chapel Hill, at North Carolina graduating 1822.
• He married Ann Hicks Pegues, daughter of William Pegues and Sarah Gardiner, on 23 March 1826.
• He served as a member of the North Carolina House of Commons in 1832 and 1833.
• He relocated to Alabama in 1837.
• Pleasant Williams Kittrell became a widower at the 9 July 1846 death of his wife Ann Hicks Pegues.
• He married Mary Frances Goree, daughter of Langston James Goree and Susan Kenner, on 9 October 1847 in Perry County, Alabama.
• Pleasant Williams Kittrell and Mary Frances Goree appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1850 in Greene County, Alabama, living next to Pleasant's sister Sarah Goree.. Other members of the household included Mary A. Norman, Ellen H. Kittrell and Norman Goree Kittrell.
• He was a physician, according to the 1850 census.
• He and Mary Frances Goree relocated to Madison County, Texas, in 1850 as did the Goree family, and later to Huntsville, Walker County.
• On 12 November 1858, Pleasant Williams Kittrell wrote in his journal: "Jo. Harrison (at the Penitentiary). Some months since, Jo came to me in the street and said that he wanted ten dollars. I owed him five dollars for a sow, which I had sometime before bought of him. I handed him a ten dollar gold piece with this understanding, that half of it was to go for the hog which I had bought of him and the balance for another if I wanted one. If not, he is to return me the money. I took no note or due bill or shewing of any kind."
• On 25 November 1858, Pleasant Williams Kittrell wrote in his journal: "On yesterday, I carried to my plantation a young sow which Jo. sold me sometime since. Since I bought her she has had a litter of pigs, which have grown up to the size of shoats. Jo. has swindled me out of the shoats, and made that much clear out of me. Some few days since, I ws reproaching him with it and he told me to come and get the pigs, he didn't want them. I attempted it this morning, and he got under his wife's petticoats and defeated me again. (Jo. won't exactly do)."
• The following appeared on 27 April 1859 in The Houston Telegraph: The following gentlemen have been requested by his excelency H. R. Runnells, to represent Texas in the Southern Commercial Convention, which will assemble at Vicksburg, Miss., on the 9 day of May. Col. Jas. W. McDade and Frank Lipscomb Esq., of Austin county. . . . Hon. R. M. Powell of Montgomery. . . . Cols Geo. W. Chilton and R. B. Aubbard of Smith. Hon. A. P. Wiley and P. W. Kittrell of Walker. . . . The Governor, we understand, will extend his appointments to others at the suggestion of respectable parties in the State.-- State Gazette.
• Pleasant Williams Kittrell and Mary Frances Goree appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1860 in Huntsville PO, Walker County, Texas. Other members of the household included Norman Goree Kittrell, William Henry Kittrell, Lilla Ann Kittrell, Lucy Bettie Kittrell, Sallie Langston Kittrell and Mary A. Norman.
• He was a physician, according to the 1860 census.
• In 1863, Pleasant Williams Kittrell was living in Huntsville, Walker County, Texas, at the Steamboat House Sam Houston's residence, residence, which he purchased following Houston's death.
• Pleasant Williams Kittrell died on 29 September 1867 at age 62 in Huntsville, Walker County, Texas, at the Steamboat House having succumbed to yellow fever while caring for patients during the epidemic.
• For additional biographical information, see The Texas Handbook Online.
• And for a description of the Steamboat House at Buena Vista, The Texas Handbook Online.

• Last Edited: 28 Jul 2013