HISTORY OF SESSUMS COMMUNITY THROUGH 1976 MRS ...

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Pitt
Roger Williams Pitt lived with his wife and daughter in his maternal grandparents'
home. This is the old John Palmer Castles home built earlier by Will Eads. Roger is
the son of Laud and Lavancia Mcllwain Pitt. The were from Colquet, Minnesota.
Roger's paternal grandparents were Henry and Winifred Williams Pitt of Wisconsin.
The children in this family were Laud, Lyle, and Hazel. Because of an article which
followed the death of a relative connecting this family with Roger Williams of
Rhode Island, Roger Pitt was given his name. Roger is married to the former Kay
Carothers. She is the daughter of David Ray and Josephine Hadaway Carothers. Mrs.
Carothers was formerly from Smithville. Mr. Carothers was from Itawamba County. The
Pitts have two children.
(For further information, see summary of Castles Family)
Quayle
James Quayle, whose first wife and children are unknown to us, married Alice
Thorley the second time. They had one son, Thorley. Mr. Quayle came originally from
the Isle of Man--between Ireland and England. He owned land here some fifty years
before he built a summer home in 1922 or 1923. The house presently belongs to Mrs.
Hunter Arnold. It seems an English Syndicate got control of the land in this county
during the 1893 depression. Mr. Quayle actually traded Chicago property for this
land. Mr. Tumlinson used it as a pasture for years before the Quayles came.
Mr. Quayle died at this home and was carried north for burial. Later Mrs. Quayle
was killed in an X-ray explosion in a Cleveland, Ohio hospital.
Their son, Thorley, married Carolyn Smith of Duquin, Illinois. Shortly afterwards
they sold the place and went North to live.