When Christopher Columbus Pitts was born on 25 November 1861, in Pittsburg, Hickory, Missouri, United States, his father, Andrew Jackson Pitts, was 31 and his mother, Sarah Ann Melissa Pitts, was 23. He married Martha Isabelle Alexander on 24 December 1882, in Pittsburg, Hickory, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Missouri, United States in 1870 and Green Township, Hickory, Missouri, United States for about 50 years. He registered for military service in 1865. He died on 4 August 1937, in Pittsburg, Hickory, Missouri, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Antioch Cemetery, Green Township, Hickory, Missouri, 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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