Pitt County NC

Pitt County, North Carolina Cemetery Transcriptions

North Carolina Cemetery records are listed by county then name of cemetery within the North Carolina county. Most of these are complete indices at the time of transcription, however, in some cases we list the listing when it is only a partial listing. Following Cemeteries (hosted at Access Free Genealogy) Andrews Cemetery, Pitt County, North Carolina Andrews Cemetery 2, Pitt County, North Carolina Andrews Family Cemetery, Pitt County, North Carolina Big Oak Road Cemetery, Pitt County, North Carolina Bowers Cemetery, Pitt County, North Carolina Briey Swamp Road Cemetery, Pitt County, North Carolina Brown Cemetery, Pitt County, North Carolina Bryan Cemetery, … Read more

V. S. Tyson

Private, 90th Inf., Med. Dept. Born in Pitt County; the son of Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Tyson. Entered the service May 28, 1918, at Tarboro, N.C. Was sent to Camp Jackson, S. C., and then to Camp Sevier, S. C., then to Camp Hancock, Ga. Mustered out there March 7, 1919.

Tuscarora Indians

Tuscarora Tribe, Tuscarora Confederacy: From their own name Skǎ-ru’-rěn, signifying according to Hewitt (in Hodge, 1910), “hemp gatherers,” and applied on account of the great use they made of Apocynum cannabinum. Also called: Ă-ko-t’ǎs’-kǎ-to’-rěn Mohawk name. Ani’-Skǎlǎ’lǐ, Cherokee name. Ă-t’ǎs-kǎ-lo’-lěn, Oneida name. Tewohomomy (or Keew-ahomomy), Saponi name. Tuscarora Connections. The Tuscarora belonged to the Iroquoian linguistic family. Tuscarora Location. On the Roanoke, Tar, Pamlico, and Neuse Rivers. (See also Pennsylvania and New York.) Tuscarora Subdivisions. The Tuscarora should be considered a confederacy with three tribes or a tribe with three subtribes as follows: Kǎ’tě’nu’ā’kā’, “People of the submerged pine tree”; … Read more

John B. Kittrell

2nd Lt., 34th Inf., 7th Div., Co. M. Born in Pitt County; the son of Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Kittrell. Entered the service August, 1917, at Greenville, S. C. Was sent to Ft. Oglethorpe and from there to Camp Merritt. Sailed for France July 2, 1918. Fought at Meuse-Argonne, Toul Sector. Received machine gun wound October 16th at Argonne and was sent to Base Hospital No. 45. Received one wound chevron and one gold service chevron. Mustered out at Camp Grant, Ill., July 8, 1919.