Husband: Joseph Jackson PRUITT II (1, 2, 5, 7)
Birthdate: 12/12/1829 (5)
Birthplace: Jackson Co., GA (1)
Death date: 12/5/1865 (5)
Place of death: Wheelock, Navarro Co., TX (5)
Burial: Wheelock, Navarro Co., TX (5)
Father: Joseph PRUITT I (2, 9)
Mother: Martha Sneed HENSLEY (2, 9)

Marriage date: 3/9/1851 (5, 6)
Marriage place: Pontotoc Co., MS (5, 6)

Wife: Emma Elizabeth HOLDITCH (2, 5, 6, 7)
Birthdate: 4/6/1833 (5)
Birthplace: Charleston, SC (2, 5)
Death date: 8/8/1926 (5)
Place of death: Houston Co., TX (5)
Burial: Wallerville Baptist Cemetery, Union Co., MS (11)
Father: George HOLDITCH (5)
Mother: Jennie (Jane) FINLEY (5)

CHILDREN

Child No. 1: Martha A. (Mattie) PRUITT (2, 3)
Sex: F (2, 3)
Birthdate: 12/6/1852
Birthplace: MS (2, 3)
Death date: 11/28/1916
Place of death: unknown
Burial: unknown
Marriage date: 11/30/1871 (5)
Marriage place: unknown
Spouses' names: Argyle Taylor (A.T.) STOCKS (3)

Child No. 2: Texie PRUITT (2)
Sex: F (2)
Birthdate: 12/29/1853
Birthplace: TX (2)
Death date: 1/26/1925
Place of death: unknown
Burial: unknown
Marriage date: 12/20/1889
Marriage place: unknown
Spouses' names: Russell HILL

Child No. 3: Joseph Jackson PRUITT III (2, 7)
Sex: M (2, 7)
Birthdate: 12/3/1855 (5, 7)
Birthplace: MS (2, 5, 7, 8)
Death date: 3/1/1940 (5, 7, 8)
Place of death: Arlington, Tarrant Co., TX (7, 8)
Burial: Greenwood Cemetery, Ft. Worth, Tarrant Co., TX (7, 8, 12)
Marriage date: 12/14/1886 (5, 13)
Marriage place: Union Co., TX (5, 13)
Spouses' names: Lucy Mae WILKINS (5, 13)

Child No. 4: George Holditch PRUITT (2, 5)
Sex: M (2)
Birthdate: 7/10/1857 (5)
Birthplace: MS (2, 4)
Death date: 11/29/1920 (5)
Place of death: Clinton, Hinds Co., MS (5)
Burial: Clinton Cemetery, Clinton, Hinds Co., MS (10)
Marriage date: unknown
Marriage place: unknown
Spouses' names: Martha Ann Teresa REEVES (4, 5)
 
 
Documentation:
(1) 1830 Jackson Co., GA Census.
(2) 1860, New Albany, Pontotoc Co. MS., Census.
(3) 1880 Baldwyn, Prentiss Co., MS., Census.
(4) 1900, Henderson Co., TX., Census.
(5) Samuel Pruitt I and Elizabeth Hawker Their Descendants, 1997; Prewitt – Pruitt Records of GA, 1996; Prewitt – Pruitt Records of, MS, 1996; Prewitt – Pruitt Records of TX, 1998, Richard A. Prewitt.
(6) Mississippi Marriages From 1829 to 1900.
(7) Certificate of death.
(8) Obituary from the Ft. Worth Starr Telegram newspaper.
(9) Family Bible of Samuel Pruitt Jr & John Willis Pruitt, Banks Co, GA.
(10) The old cemeteries of Hinds County, Mississippi: from 1811 to the present / by Mary Collins Landin.
(11) Wallerville Baptist Cemetery, Union Co., MS.
(12) Greenwood Cemetery, Ft. Worth, Tarrant Co., TX.
(13) Certificate of Marriage.

Notes:
(1) Where the Pruitt's lived in Jackson Co., GA is now Banks Co., GA.
(2) Where the Pruitt's lived in Pontotoc Co., MS is now Union Co., MS.
(3) Joseph Pruitt I is Samuel Pruitt's son. John W. Pruitt is Josephs half brother from his father second marriage to Sarah Blackwell.
(4) The 1860 Pontotoc Co., Ms census shows 19 slaves owned by Joseph II and Emma Pruitt and 19 slaves owned by his father Joseph Pruitt I.
(5) Family group sheet for Joseph J. Pruitt II continued on Joseph J. Pruitt III family group sheet.