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Persoonlijke gegevens Pleasant Williams Kittrell MD KBNrWm 25PqFgmctOakwdTXBu 18 "Pleasant" 

• Hij is geboren op 13 april 1805 in Chapel Hill, Orange County, North Carolina.Bronnen 1, 2, 3
• Beroep: medical doctor (Sam Houston was once a patient) ---not as a primary occupation (which was farm owner and state legislator in NC, AL, and then TX)--- in Texas, Alabama and first North Carolina.
• Hij is overleden op 29 september 1867 in Steamboat House, Huntsville, Texas, hij was toen 62 jaar oud.Bronnen 2, 3, 4

  Oorzaak: yellow fever

• Hij is begraven in Oakwood Cemetery, Huntsville, Walker County, Texas.Bronnen 2, 5
• Een kind van Bryant Kittrell en Mary Norman
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 15 juni 2019.

Gezin van Pleasant Williams Kittrell MD KBNrWm 25PqFgmctOakwdTXBu 18 "Pleasant"

(1) Hij is getrouwd met Ann Hicks Pegues.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 23 maart 1826 te Residence of Mrs. Sarah Pegues, hij was toen 20 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. Mary Evans Pegues Kittrell  ± 1828-1900 
2. Ellen H. Kittrell (geadopteerd)  ± 1833-???? 

(2) Hij is getrouwd met Mary Frances Goree.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 12 oktober 1847 te Greensboro, Hale County, Alabama, hij was toen 42 jaar oud.Bron 6

Kind(eren):

1. Norman Goree Kittrell  1849-1927 
2. William Henry Kittrell  1851-1934 
3. Lilla Ann Kittrell  1854-1936 
4. Lucy Bettie Kittrell  ± 1855-1897 
5. Sarah Langston Kittrell  1857-???? 
6. Fannie Kittrell  1859-1859

Notities over Pleasant Williams Kittrell MD KBNrWm 25PqFgmctOakwdTXBu 18 "Pleasant"

K14113
1822
Of the honor men of the class of 1822, Benjamin Sumner, a relation of Brigadier-General Jethro Sumner, was an esteemed Classical teacher and member of the Legislature; Robert N. Ogden, Judge of the Superior Court of Louisiana, and Joel Holleman, a Representative in Congress from Virginia. Other members were Thomas F. Davis, Bishop of South Carolina; John G. Elliott, a quaint but able teacher, so cadaverous as to receive the nickname of Ghost, which he good-humoredly adopted as his middle name; Fabius J. Haywood, a physician of Raleigh, of large practice; Pleasant W. Kittrell, State Representative of Granville, an esteemed physician and University Trustee; Wm. D. Pickett, a Judge of the Superior Court of Alabama; Lucius J. Polk, planter, Adjutant-General of Tennessee; Abram W. Rencher, member of Congress, Governor of New Mexico, and Charge d'Affaires to Portugal.
Of the non-graduates, conspicuous were Patrick Henry Winston, of Rockingham County, a learned old bachelor, lawyer and Reporter of the Supreme Court, and Hugh McQueen, Attorney-General of the State, a brilliant speaker of irregular habits, who emigrated to Texas. He wrote a book called "Touchstone of Oratory." He recommends the young orator
Kemp P. Battle in History of the University of North Carolina

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1850
Pleasant W Kittrell Not Stated, Greene, AL abt 1805 North CarolinaMary F Kittrell Not Stated, Greene, AL abt 1827 South CarolinaMary A Kittrell Not Stated, Greene, AL abt 1776 North CarolinaEllen H Kittrell Not Stated, Greene, AL abt 1834 North CarolinaNorman G Kittrell Not Stated, Greene, AL abt 1839 Alabama
1863
[HOUSTON] TRI-WEEKLY TELEGRAPH, July 30, 1863, p. 1, c. 3Dayton, Polk County, July 4th, 1863.Editor Telegraph:--The ladies of the quiet and unpretending precinct of Dayton, Polk county, got up a Barbecue on the 4th inst., for the purpose of raising a sum of money to be donated to the company of Capt. John S. Cleaveland, (which volunteered mostly from this county two years since,) as a testimony of our kind remembrance of that gallant little band, which, with their gallant leader, have, as a part of the immortal 5th Texas, shared all the privations, dangers and hardships of that noble old regiment in the Virginia campaign. The meeting was addressed in an effective manner by Dr. P. W. Kittrell, in behalf of the objects of our meeting. A sympathetic cord was touched in the hearts of all, old and young; even the small children rushed forward, anxious to contribute their little offerings, one little girl, five years old, giving $25. All responded nobly, though few in number. You will please publish the following as the result:[list]
[http://www.uttyl.edu/vbetts/houston%20tri-w%20telegraph%201863.htm]

Children of Pleasant Williams Kittrell and Mary Frances Kittrell:
1. Norman Goree, born July 27, 1849. Married Louisa Keyes. District Judge at Houston, Tex. for years. Later member of Court of Appeals. He also served four terms as legislator. He was author of many books, religious editor of the Houston Post, and was said to be the most gifted orator in Texas. At his funeral in January, 1926, in Houston, Tex., the governor, all members of the Legislature, the members of the Supreme Court were present. The attendance was more than at any other funeral ever held in Houston. He left six children.
1. Norman Goree, Jr. Died 1924.
2. Alice who lives at 3416 Milan St., Houston, Tex.
3. Nelly, teacher in public schools of Houston, Tex.
4. Mary, who married Charles Giraud of Houston, Tex.
5. Pleasant Williams, Houston Tex.
6. Wade, Alco, La.

2. William Henry Kittrell was born March 13, 1851 in Huntsville, Tex. He was graduated from Austin College at sixteen. The war had just ended and his father had died of yellow fever, so instead of attending Washington-Lee College in Virginia, as his brother, Norman, had, he was forced to manage the plantations. He became a minister of the Church of Christ [author's note: the Church of Christ, I believe, does not refer to their leaders as ministers, usually as evangelist]. He was also an orator and writer. He married Mrs. Laura Barkeley in 1893. They have four children:
1. W. H. Kittrell, died at Cisco, Tex., on Feb. 28, 1934. The legislature adjourned in his respect and sent resolutions to his family. The governor, congressman and U.S. Senators sent flowers, although he was not a politician. His children are: [Names omitted for four children.]
2. Frank...
3. Laura, born Aug. 31, 1898, lives in Winters, Tex., where she is employed in the Post Office.
4. Lucy, born Aug. 24, 1901 is teacher in the Public schools of Cisco, Tex. Her address is...

3. The third child of Pleasant Williams and Mary Frances Kittrell, was Lilla, who married Rev. John Durst. They both died in Junction Tex. They had five children: [Names omitted.]

4. Fourth child of Pleasant Williams Kittrell: Sara Langston, born Jan. 10, 1857, lives in Conroe, Texas. She married John Sterret. She had three children: [Names omitted]

5. Fifth child of Pleasant Williams Kittrell:
who married Autin McGary, a Church of Christ minister [author's note: the Church of Christ does not refer to their leaders as ministers, usually as evangelist]. They had issue: [Seven children's names omittted.]

6. [Sixth child missing from this copy of copy of copy.]
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Name Birth Date Sex Mother Father
Hicks, Frank Masling 10-15-1927 M Evelyn Bernice Butler Archie Henry Hicks
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Kittrell, Lida Baker 5-21-1927 F Maidel Baker Pleasant William Kittrell
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C.S.: From the Handbook of Texas Online
KITTRELL, PLEASANT WILLIAMS (1805-1867). Pleasant Williams Kittrell, author ofthe bill to establish the University of Texas, son of Bryant and Mary (Norman)Kittrell, was born at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, on April 13, 1805. At age thirteen he entered the University of North Carolina, from which he graduated atage seventeen. His great-grandfather, Judge John Williams, had helped establish the university. Kittrell then studied at the medical college of the University of Pennsylvania but left without a degree in 1824 and returned to North Carolina to practice medicine. He served later as a trustee of the university and was also twice elected to the state legislature. In 1837 he moved to Alabama, where he was elected to the state legislature three times, though he continued hispractice of medicine. While he was serving in the Alabama legislature the University of Alabama conferred on him an honorary master of arts degree. In 1847 he was married to Mary Frances Goree, his second wife. He served also as trusteeof the Judson Institute, a school for girls that his father-in-law, Dr. Langston Goree, had served as regent.

In 1850 the Kittrells, along with the Goree family and their slaves, moved to Madison County, Texas. They later moved to Huntsville, where Kittrell's acquaintance with Sam Houstonqv began. In Huntsville Kittrell continued his medical practice. He and Mrs. Kittrell had five children. Kittrell was twice elected to the Texas legislature. While serving as chairman of the Education Committee, he introduced and successfully fought for the bill to establish the University of Texas. The bill, signed by Governor E. M. Peaseqv on February 11, 1858, appropriated every tenth acre of state land for theuniversity and $200,000 in cash, a portion of the $10 million received by Texas for relinquishing claim to parts of Colorado, New Mexico, Kansas, and Wyoming. In 1866 Governor James W. Throckmortonqv appointed Kittrell chairman of the board of administrators of the still nonexistent university. After Houston diedin 1863 Kittrell bought Houston's residence, the Steamboat House,qv and moved his family there. When the yellow fever epidemic struck Huntsville in 1867 he cared for fever patients until he too succumbed to the disease. He died at the Steamboat House, probably on September 29, 1867.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: D'Anne McAdamsCrews, ed., Huntsville and Walker County, Texas: A Bicentennial History (Huntsville, Texas: Sam Houston State University, 1976). Pleasant Williams Kittrell,The Kittrell Journal, 1853-1867 (Bryan, Texas: Family History Foundation, 1980).

Viva M. McComb

AND ALSO

MADISON COUNTY. Madison County (H-19) is located in central East Texas. Madisonville, the county seat and largest town, is near interstate Highway 45 about 100 miles northwest of Houston; the town is at 30°57' north latitude and 95°55' west longitude, close to the center of the county. Madison County includes 473 square miles primarily of post oak savannah, a mixture of post oak woods and grasslands. The northeast and south central parts of the county are in the Blackland Prairies region; the southeast corner of the county lies in the Piney Woods. Today, about one-fifth of the area is timbered, but early reports describe it as two-thirds timber and one-third prairie. It supported oak, cedar, elm, walnut, hickory, gum, pecan, ash, cypress, and pine. The terrain is undulating, with an elevation ranging from 213 to 364 feet above sea level. The rolling prairies drain to the waterways that form the county's boundaries: the Trinity River in the east, the Navasota River in the west, and Bedias Creek in the south. Numerous other creeks run through the county, notably the Caney, which bisects it. Several soil types are found in the county, which lies principally in the Claypan area. They range from black waxy to light sandy loam around creeks and lower lands, with dark chocolate mixed with sand on the prairie uplands. Almost the entire county is made up of soils with sandy surface layers and mottled yellow, red, and gray loamy subsoils. The northwest portion is surfaced by noncalcareous and calcareous cracking clayey soils and slightly acid soils with loamy surface layers and cracking clayey subsoils. Oil and gas are found in the county, as are lignite, sand, and gravel. Madison County has a mild climate, with an average growing season of 272 days. Its average annual rainfall is 41.50 inches, and temperatures range from a January minimum average of 40° F to a July maximum average of 94°.
The territory in present-day Madison County was occupied by members of two Indian groups, the Caddoes and the Atakapans. The Caddoes were among the most advanced of the Texas Indians and were considered wealthy as well as friendly. They lived in large villages and constructed beehive-shaped houses. The Bidais, who were the principal residents of the area now known as Madison County, belonged to the Atakapan group. They, along with the Deadose Indians, themselves also Atakapans, occupied the Trinity River valley in the heart of the county. The main village of the Bidais was located at the confluence of the Trinity River and Bedias Creek. Closely associated with the Caddoes, the Bidais were agriculturalists, known for raising corn. They also depended largely on hunting, especially of deer. Though they were never a large group, they were decimated by epidemics and incursions by hostile tribes. The Kickapoos, migrants from the east who settled among the remnants of the Caddo confederacies, also resided in the area at one time; Kickapoo Creek still bears their name.
Settlement of the future Madison County began in Spanish Texas.qv The first European explorers known to have reached the area were Luis de Moscoso Alvarado and Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle.qqv Moscoso, a member of Hernando De Soto's expedition who continued on in 1542 after De Soto's death, eventually reached the southeastern part of the future Madison County and traveled along what became the La Bahía Road. La Salle is thought to have crossed southeastern Madison County in 1687, and some believe he was killed in Madison County, at a site just south of Madisonville. The La Bahía Road and the Old San Antonio Road,qv originally Indian trails, passed through what is now Madison County. The former led southwest to Washington-on-the-Brazos, Gonzales, and Goliad, diverging from the Old San Antonio Road at a point not far from where the two crossed the Trinity. The Old San Antonio Road, which forms a major portion of the county's northern boundary, continued through Bastrop on its way from Nacogdoches to San Antonio. A Spanish settlement was established in Madison County in 1774, on the banks of the Trinity at the crossing of the two Spanish roads. The site, known as Paso Tomás, was near the main village of the Bidais. The settlement comprised a group of families resettled from Los Adaesqv by Governor Juan María de Ripperdáqv and led by Antonio Gil Ibarvo.qv The reasons given by Ripperdá for the selection of the site were its central location on the highway from Bexar to Natchitoches, the agricultural promise of the region, the fact that it was buffered from hostile Indians by the presence of friendly tribes, the opportunity to conduct missionary work among the local tribes, and its useful situation for the observation and interdiction of the French contraband trade, as well as the protection of the Gulf Coast from the English. The settlement was named Nuestra Señora del Pilar de Bucareli, and was called Bucareli.qv Fears of Comanche attack led many to abandon the settlement in January 1779; flooding of the Trinity in February dealt the final blow. The inhabitants returned eastward to the vicinity of the old mission at Nacogdoches. The site of Bucareli was later occupied by Robbins's Ferry.qv In 1805 the settlement of Trinidad, or Spanish Bluff,qv was established by Spanish soldiers sent by Governor Manuel Antonio Cordero y Bustamanteqv to regain possession of territory claimed by the United States. This settlement was sacked by members of the Gutiérrez-Magee expeditionqv in 1812. After the failure of the expedition, some of its members were captured at Spanish Bluff and executed by the Spanish commander, Ignacio Elizondo.qv
In the future Madison County three empresarioqv grants of the Mexican government (Austin, Vehlein, and Burnet) joined. José Miguel Músquiz received the first grant, which was situated partially in the Vehlein colony, in 1831. Major W. C. Young is generally agreed to have been the first Anglo-American to settle permanently in the area. He left South Carolina in 1829 and moved to Texas, where he participated in the battle of San Jacinto.qv Prominent among other early settlers and instrumental in settlement and development were James Mitchell, Job Starks Collard, and Dr. Pleasant W. Kittrell.qv Mitchell kept a well-regarded hostelry at the parting of the San Antonio and La Bahía roads and established the first post office in Madison County. Collard, a member of the Austin colony, was granted a league of land by the Mexican government on May 28, 1835. In 1853 he donated 200 acres for the establishment of a townsite, on which the county seat, Madisonville, was founded. Kittrell was the impetus behind the organization of Madison County.
The judicial Madison County was formed on February 2, 1842, from Montgomery County. (Judicial counties were later declared unconstitutional because they had no legislative representation.) Because residents of the northern parts of Walker and Grimes counties lived forty to fifty miles from their county seats, they petitioned the legislature for the establishment of a new county. The formation of Madison County from Grimes, Walker, and Leon counties was approved on January 27, 1853, and organization followed on August 7, 1854. Kittrell was instrumental in this effort, and became the county's first representative in the legislature. He selected the site for the county seat, which was preferred because of its central location; he named the county and its seat for the nation's fourth president, James Madison. Dr. Kittrell was also Sam Houston'sqv physician and was in attendance at the general's death.
Of numerous early settlements, only three flourished. Midway, the oldest town in Madison County, was settled in 1829 by J. H. Young. It was located in the eastern end of the county approximately three miles from the Trinity River and named Midway in 1855, when Professor Joseph A. Clarkqv arrived from Midway, Kentucky. North Zulch, in the west end of the county, was named for Julius Zulch, who emigrated from Germany in 1848 and founded the settlement named Zulch. Around 1906, the community moved to the railroad and became North Zulch. Madisonville, the county seat, was established upon the formation of the county, in compliance with the legislature's ruling that county seats be no more than five miles removed from the centers of the counties. By 1854 Elwood, one of the largest communities in the county, was a rival to Madisonville for designation as the county seat. But after being passed over, it did not continue to prosper. Rogers Prairie, on the Old San Antonio Road, was settled in 1835 by Robert Rogers, who had received a land grant from the Mexican government. When bypassed by the Trinity and Brazos Valley Railway in 1906, the settlement moved 1.6 miles westward; it eventually became Normangee.
Settlers in the future Madison County witnessed the Runaway Scrapeqv in 1836, as citizens of Texas rushed toward the Trinity in an effort to escape the advance of Santa Anna. News of the victory at San Jacinto caused them to turn back before many had crossed the river. Madison County, reported to have been "wild and wooly" before and after the Civil War,qv was referred to as the "Free State of Madison." Between 1854 and 1873 the county lost three courthouses to fire, and in 1967 yet another courthouse burned to the ground. The present building was completed in 1970.
Madison County has always been primarily agricultural and rural. Crop production, once the primary means of subsistence, dropped off sharply after 1959 in almost every category. In 1987 the number of farms operating was 756, only 32 percent of the total of 2,355 reported in the peak year of 1930. The former staple crops, corn, cotton, and sweet potatoes, no longer contribute significantly to agricultural income. Cotton production was 12,196 bales in the peak year, 1900, but yields diminished gradually to 2,435 bales in 1959 before dropping to zero in 1982. Corn harvests increased dramatically, from 65,225 bushels in 1860 to 589,202 bushels in 1920, then dropped to 189,364 bushels in 1930. Although production of corn recovered to 336,326 bushels in 1940, it decreased steadily until reaching an insignificant level in 1987. Sweet potato cultivation, which yielded 5,512 bushels in 1860, exhibited erratic levels of production. The yield was 2,933 bushels in 1880, 37,283 bushels in 1890, 8,583 bushels in 1910, and 24,959 bushels in 1920. After remaining stable from 1930 through the 1950s, the sweet potato yield fell to zero in 1969. Wool, also an important agricultural product in Madison County before 1900, yielded 11,676 tons in 1890, but was no longer produced by 1969. Until the 1950s, poultry production and the dairy industryqqv contributed substantially to agricultural production in the county, but subsequently lost importance. Madison County had 6,806 milk cows in 1920, but only 277 in 1987. Reported fowl numbered 90,602 in 1920 and 642 in 1987.
The raising of beef cattle, long a major activity in Madison County, remains the primary source of agricultural income. The county had 16,110 head in 1860 and maintained similar numbers through the 1920s; cattle declined by 1930 to 9,876. The 1940s saw the beginning of a recovery in the industry; 54,288 cattle were enumerated in the county in 1950 and 31,919 in 1987. An increase in the cultivation of hay and forage crops accompanied the growing numbers of cattle, rising from 1,348 tons in 1940 to 73,445 tons in 1987. Horse raising also grew in importance. Swine raising,qv which dropped from 11,021 in 1920 to 5,124 in 1930, remained steady afterward; 4,640 head were reported in 1987.
The construction of Interstate Highway 45 through Madison County, which began in 1962, brought a short period of prosperity to the county. A substantial decline occurred after its completion in 1965, however, as jobs and trade that had been generated by the construction were lost. Between 1960 and 1970 employment in every category declined drastically; construction jobs dropped from 568 to 69, jobs associated with transportation dropped from 326 to 32, and employment in service industries and retail and wholesale trade declined from 2,745 in 1960 to 547 in 1970. But the oil boom of the 1980s again brought temporary prosperity to the county. Oil was discovered in 1946, and the county has generally ranked in the middle range of producing counties in Texas. In the early 1980s the county ranked in the top third of Texas counties in oil production, yet still substantially below the largest producers. As the market fell off, however, Madison County's petroleum-related activities shared the decline of the rest of the Texas oil industry.
In 1980 more than 48 percent of Madison County residents held high school diplomas, more than triple the percentage in 1950. Of Madison County's 1989 workforce of 3,138 persons, 23 percent were employed in trade, 24.9 percent in service industries, 25.6 percent in state government (the Ferguson Unit of the prison systemqv employs more than 700 people), and 17.5 percent in local government. The total number of employees in these areas increased during the 1980s. The remaining 9 percent worked as follows: 2.8 percent in finance, insurance, and real estate, 2.7 percent in mining, 2.3 percent in construction, .6 percent in city services, and .5 percent in manufacturing. Types of business in the county include oilfield service, natural gas distribution, newspaper and printing, and agricultural supply. Madison County has the nation's largest mushroom production and processing facility, established in 1975. It distributes nationwide and employed 538 people in 1991.
Since 1860, Madison County's population consistently has averaged about 70 percent white and 30 percent black. The 1990 census yielded figures of 73 percent white (including Hispanics, who accounted for 11 percent of the total population), 24 percent black, and 3 percent other. Madisonville, the county seat, was the largest population center in 1990, with 3,569 of the county's 10,391 inhabitants. Other towns include Normangee (1990 population, 689, partly in Leon County) and Midway (274). The population of the county grew steadily from 1860, when it was 2,238, to 1940, when it crested at 12,029. After two decades of decline, the population was 7,996 in 1950; it fell further to 6,749 in 1960 before beginning to recover. It was 10,649 in 1980 and 10,931 in 1990. The black population declined between 1980 and 1990, from 2,639 to 2,575, while the white population increased slightly, from 7,349 to 7,984.
The largest religious communions in the county are Baptist and Methodist. Madison County has nearly 5,000 registered voters, and generally demonstrates a high voter turnout. The county supported American (Know-Nothing) partyqv candidate Millard Fillmore in 1856 and the Southern Democrats in 1860; it afterward championed the Confederacy and continued to vote Democratic through 1892, when a strong Populist vote emerged. More recently, the county voted Democratic in 1968, strongly supported Richard Nixon in 1972, and turned heavily to James E. Carter in 1976. It narrowly supported Carter in 1980, voted Republican in 1984 and 1988, and gave Democrat W. J. Clinton a slight edge in 1992.
The railroad reached Madison County in 1903, when the International-Great Northern Railway Company extended a branch line from Navasota to Madisonville. In the 1980s the county was served by the Joint Texas Division main line running between Dallas and Houston, operated by a partnership of the Burlington Northern and Chicago, Rock Island Pacific lines. Madison County is crossed by Interstate Highway 45 and has a road network that totals 493 miles. One public airport provides service to the county. Each June the Sidewalk Cattlemen's Association Celebration opens with the El Camino Trail Ride. Festivities include a horse and cattle show and rodeo. The scenic Texas Brazos Trail runs through Madison County.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Madison County Historical Commission, A History of Madison County (Dallas: Taylor, 1984). Cecil N. Neely, An Early History of Madison County, Texas (M.A. thesis, Sam Houston State University, 1971).
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Fantastic letter written to the Honorable P. W. Kittrell concerning the halting of the internal slave trade in Alabama. Charts show each state's population and indicate that Alabama's slave population is increasing. Only three institutions are thought to have any issues of this rare southern newspaper.
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BIOGRAPHIES

"Pleasant W. KittrellDR. PLEASANT W. KITTRELL was born in 1805 in GRANVILLE COUNTY, N.C. He attended the University of N.C., and afterwards moved to ANSON COUNTY, where he served as representative in the North Carolina Legislature from that district. He was twice married, first to MRS. ANN EVANS, who died in Alabama in 1846, and second to MARY FRANCES GOREE, the daughter of L. J. GOREE, who was born in Newberry District, S.C. and moved with her parents to MARION, ALABAMA. DR. KITTRELL settled in or near Huntsville, Texas, Walker County about 1850, and served two terms from that District in the Legislature of the new state. He died in Walker County in 1867, and his wife, the former, Mary Frances Goree, died in Montgomery County in 1807. She was the mother of Judge Norman Goree Kittreell, a well known Texas jurist.Two of the brothers of MARY FRANCES (GOREE) KITTRELL came to Texas and settled, both of whom received their schooling at INDEPENDENCE in Washington County, one of whom was ROBERT DANIEL GOREE, who afterwards went to West Texas (Knox County) and for whom the town of GOREE was named. The Hon. B. K. GOREE, of Fort Worth, Texas, is a son of ROBERT DANIEL GOREE. The other brother (Goree) of Mary Frances Kittrell was Superintendent of the Penitentiary system of Texas in the days of Gov. R. B. Hubbard, and left a son ROBERT GOREE, now living on his plantation in Aberdeen, Mississippi, though he was born in Texas. The mother of DR. PLEASANT W. KITTRELL, was a Miss Hunt, and WILLIAM HUNT KITTRELL, of Cisco, Texas was a brother of NORMAN GOREE KITTRELL, and his son WILLIAM HUNT KITTRELL, JR. is a well known Texas writer and politician, who lives in the City of Dallas."From Austin Colony Pioneers by Worth S. Ray, page 139Copied exactly as written in book - death of Mary Frances Goree should probably say 1907 instead of 1807."KITTRELL, PLEASANT WILLIAMS (1805-1867). Pleasant Williams Kittrell, author of the bill to establish the University of Texas, son of Bryant and Mary (Norman) Kittrell, was born at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, on April 13, 1805. At age thirteen he entered the University of North Carolina, from which he graduated at age seventeen. His great-grandfather, Judge John Williams, had helped establish the university. Kittrell then studied at the medical college of the University of Pennsylvania but left without a degree in 1824 and returned to North Carolina to practice medicine. He served later as a trustee of the university and was also twice elected to the state legislature. In 1837 he moved to Alabama, where he was elected to the state legislature three times, though he continued his practice of medicine. While he was serving in the Alabama legislature the University of Alabama conferred on him an honorary master of arts degree. In 1847 he was married to Mary Frances Goree, his second wife. He served also as trustee of the Judson Institute, a school for girls that his father-in-law, Dr. Langston Goree, had served as regent. In 1850 the Kittrells, along with the Goree family and their slaves, moved to Madison County, Texas. They later moved to Huntsville, where Kittrell's acquaintance with Sam Houstonqv began. In Huntsville Kittrell continued his medical practice. He and Mrs. Kittrell had five children. Kittrell was twice elected to the Texas legislature. While serving as chairman of the Education Committee, he introduced and successfully fought for the bill to establish the University of Texas. The bill, signed by Governor E. M. Peaseqv on February 11, 1858, appropriated every tenth acre of state land for the university and $200,000 in cash, a portion of the $10 million received by Texas for relinquishing claim to parts of Colorado, New Mexico, Kansas, and Wyoming. In 1866 Governor James W. Throckmortonqv appointed Kittrell chairman of the board of administrators of the still nonexistent university. After Houston died in 1863 Kittrell bought Houston's residence, the Steamboat House,qv and moved his family there. When the yellow fever epidemic struck Huntsville in 1867 he cared for fever patients until he too succumbed to the disease. He died at the Steamboat House, probably on September 29, 1867. BIBLIOGRAPHY: D'Anne McAdams Crews, ed., Huntsville and Walker County, Texas: A Bicentennial History (Huntsville, Texas: Sam Houston State University, 1976). Pleasant Williams Kittrell, The Kittrell Journal, 1853-1867 (Bryan, Texas: Family History Foundation, 1980). "By Viva M. McCombHandbook of Texas Online, s.v. "KITTRELL, PLEASANT WILLIAMS," http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/KK/fki40.html"Pleasant Williams KITTRELL Born 1805; Attended University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 1824-1825, but did not earn a degree; in 1858, he introduced the legislation that established the University of Texas; in 1866, he was a member of the first Board of Administrators of the University; died 1867. "From the University Archives and Records Section, University of Pennsylvania"MADISONVILLE, TEXAS. Madisonville is at the junction of State highways 21 and 90, U.S. highways 75 and 190, and Interstate Highway 45, on Town Creek in central Madison County. It was founded in 1853 as the county seat of the newly organized Madison County. Sale of lots began in the summer of 1853 on a 200-acre tract of land donated by Job Starks Collard, who had settled in the vicinity during the 1840s in what was then northern Montgomery County. At the suggestion of Dr. Pleasant Williams Kittrell, another early resident of the area, the town, like the new county, was named in honor of President James Madison. The site was chosen due to its proximity to the geographical center of the county and the availability of fresh water from a stream-fed lake northeast of the townsite. The first courthouse, made of logs, was constructed on a large square in the center of the settlement in 1854, and a post office was established the same year. "Handbook of Texas Online, s.v. "MADISONVILLE, TX," http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/MM/hgm1.html"MadisonvillePopulation 4,100Dr. P.W. Kittrell proposed to create a new county in 1853 from Walker, Grimes and Leon Counties. The State Legislature adopted the measure and Madison County was created and named after the US President. Madisonville, the county seat, is located on land granted by the Mexican Government in 1835 to Job Starks Collard. He donated 200 acres of the land in 1854 to create the county seat.""The early Congress of the Texas Republic created what was then knows as judicial counties. Madisonville arose from the northwestern half of what was then known as Montgomery County. Madison County was officially created in 1853 but was organized in 1854. Our first representative was Dr. Pleasant William Kittrell. Dr. Kittrell was a personal physician of Sam Houston and was in attendance at Sam Houston's last illness (more can be learned about Kittrell and Goree families by reference to "A History of Madison County, Vol. 1".) Pictured on page 265 of that edition are members of the Goree and Kittrell families. On the first row farthest to the right is Thomas Jewett Goree who was Lt. General James Longstreet's personal aid and served in the First Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia, and for a period of time were partners in a business in Midway, Texas."From the Madisonville Meteor, February 18, 2004Steamboat House1800 block Sam Houston, Huntsville, TexasBuilt about 1858; altered about 1875; remodeled in 1936 and 1992"This unusual mid-1800s dwelling overlays Greek Revival and Gothic Revival elements on an elongated gable roof building with square towers flanking the entry. A 2-story entry porch spans the south elevation (the main entry is on the second level), while 2-story galleries are along the side elevations. Design is thought to be inspired by steamboats, with the faux Gothic crenelation probably inspired by contemporaneous structures. Dr. Rufus Bailey built this dwelling in 1858 as a wedding gift for his son. In 1862, after having served as governor of Texas since 1859, General Sam Houston returned to Huntsville from Austin and rented the Steamboat House, where he resided until his death there in July 1863. His funeral was held in the upstairs parlor. Dr. Pleasant Williams Kittrell purchased the house in December 1866; Kittrell had been Houston's physician at the time of Houston's death. During this early period the house was known as "Buena Vista," and was located just outside the Huntsville city limits, inside the present entrance to the Adickes Addition of Oakwood Cemetery. In 1933 J.E. Josey, a Houston businessman, purchased the house and donated it to the state of Texas. The Texas Centennial Commission restored the house and moved it to its present location in Sam Houston Park in 1936. Local historians contend that the house was moved here in 1928. "From the City of Huntsville "STEAMBOAT HOUSE. The Steamboat House was built in Huntsville by Rufus W. Bailey, a professor of languages at Austin College. In 1855 Bailey bought from the college five acres located northeast of town and described in the deed records of Walker County as part of a league of land originally granted to Pleasant Gray, one of the founders of Huntsville. Here in 1858 Bailey built the odd-looking house with twin turrets at the front and galleries on each side. Since it somewhat resembled a riverboat of that era, it acquired the name Steamboat House, although in the deed records the building and grounds were referred to as Buena Vista. Tradition holds that Bailey offered the house as a wedding present to his son, Frank Bailey, but the young man and his bride refused to live there. In late 1862 Sam Houston, having been deposed as governor the previous year, rented the Steamboat House and moved his family there from Cedar Point, his farm in Chambers County. The few months that Houston resided at Steamboat House were darkened by ill health and news of Vicksburg and other Confederate defeats. In midsummer Houston was stricken with pneumonia and died in the front room downstairs on July 26, 1863. He was buried in nearby Oakwood Cemetery, where his monument now stands. Bailey, who died three months before Houston, had willed all his property to his son. Thus Frank Bailey became the owner of the house he had rejected five years earlier. In November he sold the house and grounds, now including ten acres, to A. C. McKeen for $4,000. Three years later, on Christmas Day 1866, Pleasant W. Kittrell, a Huntsville physician and former member of the legislature, bought the property from McKeen for $1,500. Kittrell's time there, like Houston's, was brief. He died in the house on September 29, 1867, during a yellow fever epidemic that claimed some 130 lives in Huntsville within a few weeks. Mary Frances Kittrell, the doctor's widow, lived there with the younger Kittrell children until January 1874, when she agreed to trade the property to Maj. Thomas J. Goree for a house in Madison County. Major Goree, superintendent of the Texas prisons, used convict labor to remodel the front of the building and give it a Victorian style. It was during Goree's residence there that a famous dinner was given on October 16, 1879, the official opening day for Sam Houston State Normal Institute. At the dinner, attended by such notables as Governor Oran M. Roberts, Congressman Roger Q. Mills, and Professor Oscar H. Cooper, a decision was made to revive the movement to build the University of Texas at Austin. In April 1891 Goree sold the house and grounds to I. N. Smith for $2,250. In August 1917 Smith sold the property to Lamkin Brothers, a Huntsville hardware firm, which sold it to the Oakwood Cemetery Association for $3,500 in March 1925. In 1928 the association sold the house to J. H. Johnson, who moved it one-half mile to North Main Street. J. E. Josey, publisher of the Houston Post, bought the house for $500 in 1933 and announced plans to restore it to its original appearance, but work was delayed until 1936. Meanwhile, the Steamboat House had fallen into disrepair and became known as "Squatters' Place," a rickety haunt of ten rooms occupied by homeless families. In early 1936 it was dismantled, and the original two-story body was moved to the Sam Houston Memorial Museum grounds, where on March 2 Josey formally presented it to the state. The ceremony, attended by Governor James Allred, former governor William P. Hobby, Governor Hill McAlister of Tennessee, and Governor Philip La Follette of Wisconsin, was one of the largest local celebrations of the Texas Centennial. Restoration of Steamboat House was soon begun under the supervision of the architectural firm Wilkinson and Nutter. The work was completed in time for a second presentation on Texas Independence Day in 1937. Since 1937 the Steamboat House has remained one of the most popular of the historical buildings in the fifteen-acre Sam Houston Memorial Museum complex. It is estimated that 40,000 people, including many schoolchildren, visit it each year. By 1988 the building was in dire need of repair and was closed to the public. Later that year the board of regents of Sam Houston State University selected the architectural firm David Hoffman, Incorporated, of Austin as director of a repair project to restore the house to sound condition. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Dallas Morning News, January 15, 1928, February 26, 1936. Houston Post, March 3, 1936, March 3, 1937. Pleasant Williams Kittrell, The Kittrell Journal, 1853-1867 (Bryan, Texas: Family History Foundation, 1980). William Seale, Sam Houston's Wife: A Biography of Margaret Lea Houston (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1970). A Souvenir of Gen. Sam Houston's Home (Huntsville, Texas: Sam Houston Memorial Museum, 1937). Vertical Files, Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas at Austin. " By John W. Payne Jr."Handbook of Texas Online, s.v. "STEAMBOAT HOUSE," http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/SS/ccs6.html "Editor Telegraph:--The ladies of the quiet and unpretending precinct of Dayton, Polk county, got up a Barbecue on the 4th inst., for the purpose of raising a sum of money to be donated to the company of Capt. John S. Cleaveland, (which volunteered mostly from this county two years since,) as a testimony of our kind remembrance of that gallant little band, which, with their gallant leader, have, as a part of the immortal 5th Texas, shared all the privations, dangers and hardships of that noble old regiment in the Virginia campaign. The meeting was addressed in an effective manner by Dr. P. W. Kittrell, in behalf of the objects of our meeting. A sympathetic cord was touched in the hearts of all, old and young; even the small children rushed forward, anxious to contribute their little offerings, one little girl, five years old, giving $25. All responded nobly, though few in number." HOUSTON TRI-WEEKLY TELEGRAPH, July 30, 1863Oakwood Cemetery in Huntsville, Walker County, Texas has a historical marker on Pleasant Williams Kittrell. It reads as follows:"(April 13, 1805 - September 29, 1867) Doctor Pleasant Williams Kittrell, a statesman in North Carolina and Alabama, moved with his family to Texas in 1850. While serving two terms in the Texas Legislature, the doctor authored the bill to establish the University of Texas. Though the bill was signed in 1858, the university's opening was delayed until 1883. At home in Huntsville, Kittrell managed his extensive land holdings and practiced medicine. He treated area victims of the 1867 yellow fever epidemic until he himself succumbed to the disease. Kittrell is buried near his good friends Sam Houston (in whose former home Kittrell died) and historian Henderson Yoakum. "
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