Lougee Pitman

   Another name for Lougee was Longu G. Pitman.

  General Notes:

LOUGEE PITMAN (John), born at Barnstead, N.H. ca. 1806, and died after 1852. He married at Barnstead, N.H. 9 February 1826 by Rev. Enos George to SARAH STRAW (Aaron), born at Barnstead, N.H. 1797; they were residing at New Bedford, Mass. in 1852.He was the son of John and Shuah (Lougee) Pitman of Barnstead. Lougee had a son named Leonard Pitman who was living with him at the time in 1852. (Ancestry .com message board inquiry of David Lambert on 16 March 2000)

In the 1850 census for Dracut, MA the HH is as follows: Lougee Pitman age 43 b. NH Sarah age 53 b. NH Leonard age 21 b NH Jane age 10 b. NH Mary Straw age 35 d/o Aaron Straw/Eunice Pitman (per S. Phaneuf: Eunice was Lougee's Aunt so Mary was his cousin and a sister to his wife Sarah?)

1860 Brooklin, Green County, WI Laugee PITTMAN age 55 NH Sarah PITTMAN age 63 NH Leonard PITTMAN age 32 NH Sarah M PITTMAN age 30 VT Anna PITTMAN age 5 MA Mary PITTMAN age 3 MA Dora PITTMAN age 10 mos MA

1870 Grant, Mason County, MI Lougee Pitman age 65 NH Sarah Pitman age 70

1880 Grant, Mason, Michigan
L. G. Pitman76 b. NH and parents b. NH
Isabelis Pitman55; born NY; father b. Scotland and mother born Ireland


Headstone details: Cemetery name Grant Township Cemetery Name on headstone LONGU PITMAN Birth 1807 - Barnstead, NH Death 1882 - Grant, Michigan

Find A Grave Memorial 14148494
His gravestone is mispelled with the name LONGU PITMAN. LOUGEE PITMAN (94) (John188), born at Barnstead, N.H. 21 October 1804 [calc.], and died at Grant Township, Mason Co., Michigan 2 December 1882, age 78 yrs. 1 mos. 12 dys., due to old age. He married (1) at Barnstead, N.H. 9 February 1826 by Rev. Enos George to SARAH "SALLY" STRAW (95) (Aaron190), born at Ellsworth, N.H. 27 August 1797, died at Grant Township, 17 May 1871, age 74 [84?] yrs., due to old age. He married (2) in Michigan between 1871-1880 to Isabella -----. She was born in New York state November, 1824, died at Amber Township, Mason Co., Michigan 28 March 1904, age 79 yrs. due to paralysis. ----. Lougee and Sarah were residing at New Bedford, Mass. in 1852. In 1855 Lougee is living in Janesville (1st Ward), Rock Co., Wisconsin. On 15 April 1856 "Laugee Pitman" purchased 40 acres from the Wisconsin General Land Office "the south west quarter of the south east quarter of section eight, in Township Four [Union Township], north, of Range Nine, East, in the District of Lands formerly subject to sale at Milwaukee, now Minasha, Wisconsine, containing Forty acres" and were living at Grant Township, Michigan at the of the 1870 Census, with $1500. in real estate, and $150. personal estate.. L.G. Pitman residing in Grant, Mason, Michigan in the 1880 Census, with a wife Isabella Pitman. Lougee is listed from Manistee, Michigan in the booklet written in 1884 on The Barnstead Reunion. And she is listed in Grant in 1900 as the widow "Belle Pitman". Lougee's gravestone is the oldest stone in the Grant Township Cemetery. Lougee's children: Leonard Pitman, d. at Mainistee, Mason Co., Michigan, 14 October 1874, age 45 yrs., due to lung fever. Leonard purchased 40 acres from the Land office 1 November 1870 for "the north west quarter of the north west quarter of six thirty six, in Township twenty, north of Randge Seven west, in the district of land Subject to Sake at Ionia containing forty acres".

Lougee married Isabella. (Isabella was born in Nov 1824 in New York, died on 28 Mar 1904 in Amber, Mason County, Michigan and was buried in Grant Township Cemetery in Michigan.)

Lougee next married Sarah Straw, daughter of Aaron Straw and Eunice Pitman, on 9 Feb 1826 in Barnstead, Belknap County, New Hampshire. (Sarah Straw was born on 27 Aug 1797 in Ellsworth, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA, died on 17 May 1871 in Grant, Mason County, Michigan and was buried in Grant Township Cemetery Mason County, Michigan, USA.)