Drucilla Neal was born in Warren County, Georgia in 1792 to Sarah and Thomas Neal. Thomas, along with practically every male resident of Warren County, had been a soldier in the American Revolution. In 1807, Drucilla was married to Hardy Pitts and before her sixteenth birthday became the mother of twins. Ten other children were born to this couple.
Hardy Pitts died in 1841 and in 1854, after a cotton crop failure on her plantation, Drucilla, along with five of her adult children, their families and slaves, migrated to northern Upshur County, Texas, which in 1874 became Camp County. Their settlement became known as Pittsburg. At the time of this migration, Drucilla Pitts was 62 years old. She died at age 75 and is buried in Pittsburg.
Drucilla is believed to have been literate and thought to have been a woman of means due to the land and property which she owned. She was definitely a woman of courage to have left her established home and part of her family in Georgia to make a home on the frontier at the then, ripe old age of 62. She was a real daughter of the American Revolution. |
