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Submitted: 8/28/21 • Approved: 8/29/21 • Last Updated: 5/23/23 • R1387174-G0-S3
CAPTAIN
Company K 34 Arkansas Infantry
Civil War Confederate
June 27, 1836 - July 22, 1915
*Obituary
Fayetteville Democrat
Friday, July 23, 1915
PITTMAN, Samuel P. – A large concourse of the Civil War comrades of the deceased and other friends were present at 9:30 o’clock Friday morning when funeral services were held at the old family residence two miles north of Fayetteville over the remains of Captain S.P. Pittman, an old and respected resident of Washington County who died Thursday morning at 6:40 o’clock at City Hospital as the result of a complication of maladies with which he had been suffering for some time. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. M.L. Gillespie, Pastor of the Central Presbyterian Church who was assisted by N.M. Ragland, Pastor Emeritus of First Christian Church. The remains were then taken to Mount Comfort Cemetery, five miles west from Fayetteville where they were buried beside the graves of other members of the Pittman family. Bruce Holcomb, George Appleby, E.G. Combs, Dr. T.W. Clark, George Deane and J.C. White served as pallbearers. Captain Pittman was born in Prairie Grove seventy-nine years ago and had always retained his citizenship in this county. He made a splendid record as a Confederate soldier in the War Between the States, entering as an orderly and mustering out as a Lieutenant. Returning to civil life he took an active interest in the development of Fayetteville and came to exert much influence as a business man. He was one of the first directors of the Washington County Bank and was its first president when later it became known as the First National Bank. The only immediate surviving relatives are his widow, who resides at the only family homestead northwest of Fayetteville and Ed Pittman, who resides on a farm near Prairie Grove.
*Obituary
Fayetteville Democrat
Friday, July 29, 1915
Samuel Pinkney Pittman – Samuel Pinkney Pittman was born near Prairie Grove, Arkansas, June 27, 1836. He was the first born son of James C. and Mary A. (nee Tuttle) Pittman. He departed this life in the City Hospital, Fayetteville, Arkansas, July 22, 1915.
When a young man he worked on his father’s farm and attended school at Prairie Grove, Cincinnati and the Ozark Institute, near Mt. Comfort, these places all being in Washington County.
He was married to Sarah D. Boon, May 19, 1858. To this union were born William C. Pittman, April 22, 1859, who died in 1877, at the age of 19 years, and Mary C. Pittman, April 18, 1868, who died in 1904, aged 36 years. Their mother followed them to there blessed, eternal home, in 1907.
He was again married, August 15, 1911, to Mrs. Mary Bruno, who survived him.
Judge J.M. Pittman and Mrs. Dudley Hinds (Dallas Pittman) brother and sister, preceded him to the beyond. One brother, W.E. Pittman of Prairie Grove, remain to mourn his departure.
In the year 1862, Capt. Pittman joined the Confederate army and was a member of Co. K, 34th Infantry. He was at first an orderly sergeant, but on account of his efficiency and bravery was rapidly promoted until he was First Lieutenant, and served throughout the war. He was in most of the battles west of the Mississippi River.
At the close of the war he returned to his farm and proved himself a successful agriculturist and stock raiser. In 1880, he sold his farm and moved to Nevada, Missouri, where he remained for two or three years, when he returned to Fayetteville, and remained until his death.
Captain Pittman was closely identified with the business life of Washington County since his young manhood. He was chosen as one of the first directors of what is now the Arkansas National Bank, and was the first President of the First National Bank. There never lived a man in Washington County whose name was more untarnished or whose honor was more implicitly trusted by all of the people. He was as nearly a man absolutely without guile as ever lived. As a soldier, as brave and courageous as any man who ever intelligently faced danger for the sake of a conviction; as a citizen, as honest, trustworthy and resourceful as the county possessed; as a husband and father, strong though tender, provident and kind; as a friend, true, considerate and just.
Captain Pittman possessed all of these characteristics because he was a devout, consistent, thoroughly consecrated Christian man. He was a valued member of Central Presbyterian Church of this city, having joined the church some years ago during the pastorate of Rev. R. Thomsen, his life-long friend, Dr. F.R. Earle, receiving him into the church. That day and service is one which will never be forgotten by the members of the congregation, as those two men whom they all loved so dearly, who had stood together in the hell of battle, who had been fast friends throughout the years, stood together in the altar of the church, the one receiving from the other the confession of his faith in Christ. This good man exemplified that faith in one of the most beautiful Christian lives ever lived in this community. His faith was as simple and sweet as that of a little child and his life as nearly perfectly consistent with it as is possible for imperfect humanity to live it.
*Source: Sons of Confederate Veterans, Washington County, Arkansas 2009
Compiled by William W Degge
Contributed on 8/28/21 by judyfrog
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