Effie D. Tittsworth

Notes:

Burial in St. John's Cemetery, Ellicott City, Howard Co., MD.

Notes:

The following is from the research of Shirley Massey, which was sent to the author on January 15, 2014:

Notes for ELISHA CONGER TITTSWORTH:

ELISHA CONCORD TITTSWORTH (08/28/1839 - 05/30/1910)

Excerpts from Civil War Pension Records obtained from the National Archives, Washington, D. C.
From the Adjutant General's Office of the War Department. dated November 16, 1896:

Elisha C. Tittsworth, a farmer from Jefferson County, Tennessee:
(Personal description: 5 ft. 11-1/4 in. Tall, hazel eyes, dark hair, fair complexion)
at the age of 2l on June 16, 1858, enlisted at St. Louis, Missouri, and was assigned
to Capt. Nathaniel Lyon's Company B, 2nd U. S. Infantry and joined the company September 1, 1858
from Newport Banks, Kentucky; appointed Corporal October 9, 1859; promoted to Sergeant July 1, 1861

Muster Roll May & June 1862 reports him "Present, slightly wounded June 27, 1862."

Company was in action at Gaines Mills, VA that date

Muster roll November & December 1862 reports him: "Deserted from Camp near
Warrenton, VA, November 11, 1862, a Sergeant."

Not reported sick on any muster roll other than quoted. He is a deserter at large.

Pension of $8 per month was dropped February 25, 1897, presumably as a result of this report.

From the Record and Pension Office, War Department, dated August 24, 1893:

July 7, 1863, enrolled in Captain John Sommer's Company C, 2nd Regiment, Maryland
Cavalry. Medical record of November 7, 1863, show him as a member of Company E
January 31, 1864, mustered out with company.

From enrollment to mustering out he held the ranks of private and corporal.

From Elisha's Declaration for an Original Invalid Pension dated January 2. 1890:
(Personal description: age 50, 6 ft. Tall, dark complexion, dark hair, dark eyes.
February 15, 1864, enrolled as a private in Luther W. Roberson' s (commander) Company A,
3rd Regiment of Maryland Volunteer Infantry.

About July 30, 1864, captured in front of Petersburg and held prisoner in Danville Prison,
Danvile, VA. His fatigue jacket and hat were taken and he spent the winter in prison without them,
contracting rheumatism and heart disease as a result. (Confirmed by affidavit of Randolph Gansewig
of 103 W. Camden Street, Baltimore who was a private in Co. A, 3rd Md. Vol. Inf and was captured
and imprisoned at Danville with Elisha.)

About the last of April 1865 treated by the Camp Surgeon for rheumatism and heart disease
at Camp Tennelytown near Washington City, D.C.

About July 1, 1865, treated for the same disease by the same surgeon in Camp at Bladensburg and Hyattsville Station on B & 0 R.R.

July 31, 1865, honorably discharged at DeLaney House, D.C.

From Bureau of Pensions. Department of the Interior reports:
$15 per month pension dropped June 30, 1910. (Elisha died May 30, 1910)
$12 per month pension awarded Catharine H. Tittsworth, widow, on June 24, 1910.

Miscellaneous:

Elisha, at the age of 26, married Catharine H. McKinzie, age 21, on November 14, 1865.
Married by Rev. Dr. I. J. Martin, Minister of the Gospel, residing at Ellicotts Mills.
Elisha served in the same company and regiment and was a tent-mate with Stephen
Hillsinger (moved to Ellicott City from New York in 1863). Stephen Hillsinger married Sarah E.
McKinzie who was Catharine's sister. Sarah and her husband Stephen attended Elisha and
Catharine's wedding.

Catharine died of uterine cancer on August 10, 1911. She had had surgery at University of
Maryland Hospital. Surgery was performed by Dr. Frank Martin. She evidently required nursing care
from the first of May 1911 until her death. Nursed by Mrs. C. R. (Rose) Tittsworth and Miss Bessie
Hunt. She was attended by Dr. Wm. B. Gambriul. Among the expenses of her final illness and death
were $84.38 for the undertaker, Stephen Hillsinger & Son, and $16.00 to C. W. Tucker for cemetery
expenses. She was buried at St. John's Cemetery, Howard County.

Records at the Andersonville GA Confederate Prison historical site indicate that Elisha Tittsworth was
a prisoner there. It was the practice to transfer prisoners from the smaller VA prison sites to the larger
camp at Andersonville although it was severely overcrowded.

Burial in St. John's Cemetery, Ellicott City, Howard Co., MD.

Elisha married Catherine Hyett (Kate) MacKenzie on 14 Nov 1865 in Howard County, Maryland. Catherine (daughter of David MacKenzie and Sarah Jones) was born in May 1844 in Howard County, Maryland; died on 10 Aug 1911 in Howard County, Maryland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

David MacKenzie of Howard Co., Maryland Will dated 06 Jan 1881 (T.B.H. folio 563, MSA film CR 32993). After the death of my beloved wife I bequeath to my children and grand children namely David, Geroge W., Ruth, Catherine, Ellen, Julia Ann, Susan R., and Martha Ellen Tucker 98 acres of land part of three tracts called part of Hobsons Choice, part of Addition to Hobsons Choice, and part of MacKenzies Discovery to be equally divided.

She is buried in St. John's Cemetery in Howard County, Maryland.

Thomas + Martha Morgan. Martha died in UNKNOWN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

David MacKenzie of Howard Co., Maryland Will dated 06 Jan 1881 (T.B.H. folio 563, MSA film CR 32993). After the death of my beloved wife I bequeath to my children and grand children namely David, Geroge W., Ruth, Catherine, Ellen, Julia Ann, Susan R., and Martha Ellen Tucker 98 acres of land part of three tracts called part of Hobsons Choice, part of Addition to Hobsons Choice, and part of MacKenzies Discovery to be equally divided.

This is the same land handed down by John Mackenzie (b. 1687) via his Will dated 1758 to his son Daniel (b. 1716/1717) then to his son Aaron (b. 1769) then to his son David (b. 1798) and then to be split amonst David's descendants as outlined above. What a wonderful record to track 5 generations of Eastern Maryland MacKenzies.

On a deed (Howard Co., Court Vol. 1 p.8, Liber J.L.M. folio 8 & 9) dated 12 Mar 1840, from Aaron MacKenzie to David MacKenzie of the lands so described "devised to Michael MacKenzie by his father John MacKenzie, by his last will and testament bearing date the seventeenth day of March one thousand seven hundred and fifth eight." It goes on the lay out the location, as beginning at the bounded trees of the Addition to Hopsons Choice, to intersect the outlines of MacKenzie's Discovery Enlarged, containing ninety eight acres.

In consideration of the sum of $5.00 to David MacKenzie and wife Sarah D. of Howard County, Aaron L. MacKenzie obtains the deed to 6 1/4 acres being in a tract of land called Additon to Hobsons Choice. Dated 09 Oct 1868, Howard Co., Maryland Circuit Court, Liber W.W.W. 28 f.448.

By the will of David MacKenzie (MSA film CR32993, T.B.H. f.563) 06 Jan 1881, John W. is left the following: 12 1/4 acres called Hobsons Choice, and 37 acres of Addition to Hobsons Choice adjoining Aaron MacKenzie's lot.

In an email from Dick MacKenzie dated 9 Sep 2013, he wrote:

Now, on to the other Aaron d. 1831, who was the youngest son of Daniel2. His offspring never went to Allegany Co. or anywhere else in Western MD as far as I can tell. Jesse b. 1807 is not of this Aaron. Aaron’s children were born about as follows:

Caleb b. @1791 (Don’s ancestor, who married Elizabeth Pierce and stayed in the Ellicott City area)
Jesse @ 1792 (who is believed to have also stayed in Ellicott City)
Mary L. @ 1795 (Married Joseph Pierce, stayed local, and their daughter Rachel Elizabeth married Joseph McKenzie, brother of Israel Jr.)
David (my ancestor) b. 1798
Catherine b. 1800 (married John Hancock Hyatt and moved to Zanesville, Muskingum Co., OH in the late 1820’s)
Rachel b.@ 1803 (married Enoch Pearce and moved to Steubenville, Jefferson Co., OH by 1842. He had a different wife by 1860)
Aaron b.@ 1810 (lived on the family property in Ellicott City w/older brother David, apparently never married)

John Hancock died in Zanesville, and Catherine and the children moved to Knox Co., OH by 1840, when son John is shown as head of household. Why Knox Co? Maybe because she had cousins there? I don’t know if this untangles anything – maybe just makes the mess messier!?

Dick

Death date per the research of Shirley Miller. 1-15-14

The following os located in Find-a-Grave:

Cemetery notes and/or description:

On the east side of MacKenzie Lane, north of the intersection of St John's Lane & Old Frederick Road (Rte 99) in the Ellicott (2nd) District of Howard Co, Md., is the remnant of a family burying ground, moved to the present site from its original location on the farm of John W MacKenzie (whose wife was Susannah Keyes). Called 'MacKenzie's Neglect' the property was the site of a blacksmith shop and overnight 'stop-over' for travelers on the road from Hollofield to Frederick. The original house burned, but still standing is an old ban bearing the date 1863. Present owners of the property, now called 'Windy Hill; are Mr and Mrs Norman Otto and Mr and Mrs Phillip hammon who furnished this information.

Tombstone Inscriptions
From A Few
Cemeteries in Howard County, Maryland
Recorded by
Colonel Thomas Dorsey Chapter
DAR
Ellicott City, Maryland
1958-1960

David married Sarah Jones on 13 Jan 1831 in Baltimore County, Maryland. Sarah (daughter of Amos Jones and Elizabeth Davis) was born in 1811 in Maryland; died on 10 Apr 1894 in Ellicott City, Howard County, Maryland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Marriage license data: Baltimore Co., Maryland Court (Marriage Licenses) 1778-1851, MSA CM 174-1

Will of Aaron McKenzie (b. 1769)

Anne Arundel Co., MD Will Book 40, p.106

The will of Aaron McKenzie, dated 13 Mar 1828 and probated 23 May 1831, states the following: First: giving my part of land in Anne Arundel Co., called "Hopkins Choice" to my two sons, David and Aaron. Then, I give to my two sons David and Aaron, another tract of land known as "Addition to Hopkins Choice." Second I desire that a tract "McKenzie's Pleasure," lying between "Maidens Bower" and "Carters Whim" be sold and the money applied to payment of my debts. I desire that six acres of land belonging to me lying between "Carters Whim" and "Carters Addition," be sold with the money going to my estate, and the remining part of "McKenzies Pleasure" I give to my two sons David and Aaron. I give to my wife Rachel McKenzie one cow of her choice. I give to my oldest son Caleb McKenzie*, my son Jesse McKenzie, my daughter Catherine Hyatt, my daughter Mary Pierce*, and my daughter Rachel Pearce* the sum of one dollar each, and all the balance of my estate to my two sons David and Aaron McKenzie.

I have underlined "my part" to suggest the possibility that Aaron shared a larger tract of the same name with his brother or brothers.

*Please note that Mary and Rachel married a Pierce/Pearce and that my 3rd. great grandfather Caleb married Elizabeth Pierce. I would suggest that this Caleb is the correct son of Aaron and is not the Caleb who married Margaret Magers and settled in Ohio as other researchers have stated.

Aaron married Mary Rachel Earp on 11 Mar 1789 in Baltimore County, Maryland. Mary (daughter of Joseph II Earp and Elizabeth Something) was born about 1764 in Anne Arundel County, Maryland; died in UNKNOWN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Marriage license data: Baltimore Co., Maryland Court (Marriage Licenses) 1778-1851, MSA CM 174-1

Amos + Elizabeth Davis. Elizabeth was born about 1780; died after 1850. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]