When Sarah Ann Pitts was born on 28 July 1856, in Pittsburg, Hickory, Missouri, United States, her father, Andrew Jackson Pitts, was 26 and her mother, Sarah Ann Melissa Pitts, was 18. She married Dr Arthur Lee Fisher on 29 January 1874, in Hickory, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Missouri, United States in 1870 and Wheatland Township, Hickory, Missouri, United States for about 31 years. She died on 26 October 1943, in Wheatland, Hickory, Missouri, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Crutsinger Cemetery, Tyler 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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