One of nine children of Isaac and Elizabthe Phillips Stitt of Ohio. He left home quite young, and traveled by water down the Ohio and up the Mississippi and Illinois rivers to Beardstown, Illinois, in company with William W. Wykoff. They started from Beardstown with one horse to ride and tie. When within about fifteen miles of their destination, Mr. Wycoff mounted the horse, gave Mr. Stitt particular directions about the road, and forgot to tie any more, for which he was excused by Mr. Stitt, because he was so near his family, from whom he had been absent several months. This caused Mre. Stitt to arrive on foot, alone, tired and hungry, at the south side of Richland creek, in what is now Cartwright township, in 1838. William Stitt was married Sept. 5, 1847, in Sangamon County, Illinois, to Elizabeth Hardin. They had five children in Sangamon county: William Wallace who married Julia F. Hurt, Helen A, Laura L (Purviance), and Edith Belle. The forth cheild (John E.) died young. Published in the EARLY SETTLERS OF SANGAMON COUNTY-1846, By John Carroll Power
One of nine children of Isaac and Elizabthe Phillips Stitt of Ohio. He left home quite young, and traveled by water down the Ohio and up the Mississippi and Illinois rivers to Beardstown, Illinois, in company with William W. Wykoff. They started from Beardstown with one horse to ride and tie. When within about fifteen miles of their destination, Mr. Wycoff mounted the horse, gave Mr. Stitt particular directions about the road, and forgot to tie any more, for which he was excused by Mr. Stitt, because he was so near his family, from whom he had been absent several months. This caused Mre. Stitt to arrive on foot, alone, tired and hungry, at the south side of Richland creek, in what is now Cartwright township, in 1838. William Stitt was married Sept. 5, 1847, in Sangamon County, Illinois, to Elizabeth Hardin. They had five children in Sangamon county: William Wallace who married Julia F. Hurt, Helen A, Laura L (Purviance), and Edith Belle. The forth cheild (John E.) died young. Published in the EARLY SETTLERS OF SANGAMON COUNTY-1846, By John Carroll Power
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