| 1. |  Fritts, Phillip was born on 10 Jan 1803 in Lincoln County, North Carolina, USA; died on 31 May 1864 in Maries County, Missouri, USA; was buried in Walker Cemetery, Maries County, Missouri, USA. Notes:
We must thank Ronald Gretz for taking the time to do a final
proof of Phillip Fritts’s family for us. Also, Jackie Nelson Brooks, sent us many old letters written to Ray Vernon Fritz of Camas, WA in 1953, 1954 and 1955 from the following: John L. Fritts, Harriman, TN; Robert P. Fritts, Harriman, TN; Jesse Sexton Fritts, Knoxville, TN; Dr. Oscar C. Fritts, Osage City, KS; Mr. and Mrs. Samuel A. Fritts, Kansas City, MO; Samuel Button Copeland, St. James, M0 and Robert M. Copeland, Rolla, MO; Marguerite Hanna, Joplin, MO; Rosa Lee (Fritts) Daugherty;
Alma G. Fritts; Martha Dehn; Nellie Mansfield, Douglas, AZ; and Larry S. Fritts of Dayton, OH in 1969. These letters included both personal family data as well as copies of family Bible records. Jackie thank you for sharing these letters with and for Roy’s inquires in the I950’s and the history he persevered for the future generation. I wish we had the space to record the letters, but it just not possible.
PHILLIP FRITTS, son of Henry Fritts (c1770) and his first wife, b. 10 Jan 1803, Lincoln Co., NC; d. 31 May 1864, age
61y 4m 1d, Maries Co., MO, bur. Walker Cem., near Vichy, Maries Co., MO, as was his wife, Frances, 20y later; Ind. Frances Jane Williams on 15 Dec 1830 (date of bond), Roane Co., TN, with his brother Peter Fritts providing the surety. Frances Jane was b. 16 May 1813, Virginia (according to 1850 Roane Co., TN and 1860 Maries Co., MO censuses). She d. 3 Jul 1884, age 71y 3m 18d, according to her tombstone. They had twelve children—nine born in Roane Co., TN and three born in Maries Co., MO.
Phillip wrote his will on 27 May 1864, just four days before he died. He made small bequests to the following children: Phillip Ballard Fritts...when he attains the age of 21 years, Marion F. Fritts, Amanda Lee Fritts, Arletha Fritts, Mary Ann Bradshaw, Armelia Jane Love, Nancy Ann Fritts, Robert W. Fritts, Peter B. Fritts and son Samuel S. Fritts at his death...Remained of estate to wife Frances Fritts. Executor: William S. Pannell (Pinnel).
Witnesses: Jacob Moreland and G.W. Shinkle, both of Lanes
Prairie. Codicil—including a description of land in Phelps Co., with the same date and witnesses. Also, renaming daus., Mary Ann Bradshaw, Permelia Jane Love, Nancy Ann Fritts, Addia
Frances Fritts, Arletha Paris Fritts and Amanda Lee Fritts. On
30 Mar 1872, eight years after it was written the will was official recorded.
[The above will listed “Peter B.” it should have read Peter M., Samuel S. should have read Samuel I_..And Samuel had been dead some two years when his father wrote his will. In the first part of the will five daus. were listed leaving Frances out. In the Codicil the six daus. were listed. ..PAF]
Frances obtained a mother’s pension (#304,751, dated 21 May
1883) from her son Samuel who died while in service during the
Civil War. Witnesses were listed as William R. Fritts and F.M.
Harrison.
While in Tennessee on 26 Jan 1839, nine years after Phillip
marriage he purchased a tract of land from George Cook, Jr., paying $400. George, Jr. received this land from his father George Cook, Sr. at his death. The land was registered on 7 May 1849 and witnessed by Robert Williams. The land was located on Sinking Cave Creek on the Clinch River, Roane Co., TN and this was were Phillip as a farmer raised his family.
In preparation for his move to Lanes Prairie, Maries Co., MO,
Phillip sold on 21 Sep 1851, the above tract of land to Edward
Munger. It was registered on 19 Apr 1855. The move in the fall of 1851 took about six to eight weeks by covered wagon and they arrived in Maries Co. by Nov 1851.
Mack Raymond Fritts wrote in 1965: “about his great randfather, Philip Fritts, using only one “I”. Philip Fritts came from PA in 1857 [Not correct he came from TN in 1851] and settled in Maries Co., on the same farm grandfather Phillip Ballard Fritts lived on. Grandpa was the youngest one in the family. Great Grandpa, or Philip Fritts (1803), died at the young age of 61y. He was bur. Walker Cem., located on the old Walker farm, one mile west of Grandpa's home. The farm was “homesteaded” and the deed was signed by the President of the U.S. Up to now—l965—there have been only three owners—only one (the last) was not of the Fritts name.
Wanda (Steinhoff) King and her sister Delma (Steinhoff) Sampson took a trip from their home in KS to Vichy, Maries Co., M0, the home of their ancestors. Where they visited the Hickory Grove Cem. where they saw many familiar family names such as Love, Copeland and Bradshaw. The Fritts plot had an iron picket fence and gate around the graves. Wanda could not get the gate open, so she climbed over the fence. The fence originally was meant to fence turkeys out.
In the plot were six stones. There were very old and on two she was unable to read anything on them. On another it stated Mother and nothing more that she could read. The other two she thought were Dr. Otto Fritts’ parents Eliza Ellen Fritts, May 4, 1900, 54y 6m 4d. The records for Volume I of the Fritts Heritage had Ella Eliza, b 30 Aug 1843 and d. 4 May 1900, so Wanda feel sure this was Dr. Otto’s mother. The last one said Frank Fritts, d. June 14, 1902, this was the first born child of Dr. Otto Fritts and his wife. Frank d. before he was a year old.
Phillip married Williams, Frances Jane on 15 Dec 1830 in Roane County, Tennessee, USA. Frances was born on 15 Mar 1813 in Tennessee, USA; died on 3 Jul 1884 in Maries County, Missouri, USA; was buried in Walker Cemetery, Maries County, Missouri, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 2. Fritts, Mary Ann
 was born in 1832 in Tennessee, USA; died on 20 Dec 1893 in Lanes Prairie, Maries, Missouri, USA.
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1803 - 1864 (61 years)
