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- from A REMINISCENT HISTORY OF THE OZARK REGION, A Condensed General History, a Brief Descriptive History of each County, and Numerous Biographical Sketches of Prominent Citizens of Such Counties, 1956 reprint, Ramfre Press, Cape Girardeau,MO, p. 771:
M. B. Chitwood, another of the early pioneers of Reynolds County, Mo., was born in Campbell County, Tenn., on the 6th of July, 1828, to the marriage of William and Cecili (Whitecotton) Chitwood, both natives of that State also. The paternal grandfather, Pleasant Chitwood, passed his entire life in Tennessee, engaged in farming. The maternal grandfather, Aaron Whitecotton, came to this county in 1844, and followed farming on Webb's Creek until his death about 1866. The parents of our subject were married in their native State, and in 1841 they moved with ox-teams from that State to Reynolds County, Mo. They settled on a farm on Webb's Creek, in the woods, and there the father died a few years later, leaving our subject, who was the eldest of the family, although but sixteen years of age, to take charge of affairs. Mrs. Chitwood reared her family and after all were married she was wedded to J. Odell. Both are now deceased, her death occurring in 1878. Her children, eight in number, were named as follows
Source: https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A419037
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1828 - 1918 (89 years)
