When Fountaine Erold Pitts was born on 3 April 1851, in Pontotoc, Pontotoc, Mississippi, United States, his father, Robert Lee Pitts, was 31 and his mother, Mary Ann Beeks, was 17. He married Mattie E. Wise on 29 January 1874, in Monroe, Mississippi, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Pontotoc, Mississippi, United States in 1900 and Beat 1, Pontotoc, Mississippi, United States for about 20 years. He died on 17 April 1938, in Pontotoc, Pontotoc, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Pontotoc, Pontotoc, Mississippi, United States.
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English: variant of Pitt , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
English: topographic name for one who lived by pits or hollows, from the plural of Middle English pitt.
Americanized form of German Pitz .
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