Peter Kitts Sr. Gravesite
Gravesite
Family tradition is that Peter Kitts, Sr. was shot and killed while attending his livestock in 1830.
Eva Kitts Luttrell, a descendant of Peter Sr.’s son John Kitts and Barbara Monroe, provides us with the location of Peter Sr. grave.
Eva lived in a house adjacent to Dyer Cemetery in Union County, TN and sent the following photo to Patricia Graves Reagan, who forwarded a copy to Verla Barr. Verla shared it with me.
It is a picture of the oak tree that was growing out of the grave where Peter Kitts Sr. is buried in the Dyer Cemetery.
The following inscription is written on back of the picture by Eva Kitts Luttrell
"Peter Kitts was found shot to death after he went to saddle his horse in his pasture field. No one ever knew why or who killed him. He is buried in the very rear of Dyers Cemetery, what was then Grainger Co., near the mines in Luttrell, Tn. After burial a big oak tree grew on his grave & still there.” -- Eva Luttrell
Unfortunately the oak tree no longer stands; only pieces of the stump remains.
Elizabeth Kitts is believed to be buried in the Dyer Cemetery alongside Peter Kitts Sr. on land that was originally in Grainger County, but is now in Union County, TN once it was created in 1850.
Family tradition is that Peter Kitts, Sr. was shot and killed while attending his livestock in 1830.
Eva Kitts Luttrell, a descendant of Peter Sr.’s son John Kitts and Barbara Monroe, provides us with the location of Peter Sr. grave.
Eva lived in a house adjacent to Dyer Cemetery in Union County, TN and sent the following photo to Patricia Graves Reagan, who forwarded a copy to Verla Barr. Verla shared it with me.
It is a picture of the oak tree that was growing out of the grave where Peter Kitts Sr. is buried in the Dyer Cemetery.
The following inscription is written on back of the picture by Eva Kitts Luttrell
"Peter Kitts was found shot to death after he went to saddle his horse in his pasture field. No one ever knew why or who killed him. He is buried in the very rear of Dyers Cemetery, what was then Grainger Co., near the mines in Luttrell, Tn. After burial a big oak tree grew on his grave & still there.” -- Eva Luttrell
Unfortunately the oak tree no longer stands; only pieces of the stump remains.
Elizabeth Kitts is believed to be buried in the Dyer Cemetery alongside Peter Kitts Sr. on land that was originally in Grainger County, but is now in Union County, TN once it was created in 1850.