Pitkin, Erastus

PITKIN, BARNES

Posted By: Jane Adams (email)
Date: 1/9/2006 at 16:44:55

Fairfield Ledger
Apr. 6, 1910
Page 7, col. 2.

Erastus Pitkin was a nephew of Wm. Pitkin who operated a mill where the Fairfield and Birmingham road crosses Cedar Creek and for whom the old ford was named ..... Erastus married Jan 1 1849 Emily Barnes, in the Barnes log cabin on what was later known as the Hill farm, three miles north of Birmingham. This cabin was a stopping place for the Indian chiefs of those days and Keokuk was entertained beneath its roof .....

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