Note: THE SON OF ICHABOD (BYRD) PITTMAN OF GWINNETT, FIRST APPEARS IN COBB COUNTY HISTORY IN THE 1830'S AS R.N. (BOOK: "THE FIRST HUNDRED YEARS, A SHORT HISTORY OF COBB County, IN GEORGIA"; SARAH BLACKWELL GOBER TEMPLE; COBB LANDMARKS AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Inc.; INFO PROVIDED BY MRS. MOLLY LOGAN, AUSTELL, GA). THE 1850 CENSUS INDEX LISTS HIM AS RITT (MISREAD, IT SAYS R M, BUT THE M IS VERYLIGHT), WIFE MARY ANN, AND THE FIRST FIVE CHILDREN. HIS TOMBSTONE IN THE HOWELL FAMILY CEMETERY READS RENE M. HIS CHILDREN WITH MARY ANN HOWELL ARE LISTED WITH THEIR SPOUSES, P. 72-3 UNDER THE PIONEER FAMILIES SECTION OF THE BOOK. "THE HOWELL AND PITTMAN FAMILIES LIVED IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE COUNTY IN THE VICINITY OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE RIVER. THE HOWELL PROPERTY, NEAR GARRETT'S BRIDGE, IS NOW OWNED BY MRS. HAMPTON HOWELL, THE DAUGHTER OF R. N. PITTMAN. THE ADJOINING PITTMAN PROPERTY IS OWNED BY MRS. HATTIE PITTMAN PARISH, DAUGHTER OF ALLISON PITTMAN." MARY ANN'S FATHER ISAAC HOWELL WAS A PIONEER SETTLER OF COBB AND THE BROTHER OF EVAN P. HOWELL OF GWINNETT County, THEN ATLANTA. HER BROTHERS MARRIED SEWELL SISTERS, AND ANOTHER BROTHER MARRIED ELIZABETH REDWINE WHOSE FAMILY WAS ALSO ASSOCIATED WITH THE WORD FAMILY IN NEIGHBORING COWETA COUNTY. MANY FULTON AND COBB County, LANDMARKS ARE NAMED FOR THE HOWELL AND SEWELL FAMILIES (HOWELL MILL RD., SEWELL MILL RD, SEWELL FARMS SUBDIVISIONS, ETC). MARY ANN HOWELL'S UncLE CAPTAIN EVAN P. ACQUIRED THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION NEWSPAPER WHEN IT WAS STRUGGLING IN ITS INFAncY AND WAS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF FOR MANY YEARS. DESCENDANT OF THE HOWELL FAMILY CLARK HOWELL HOGAN DISCUSSED FOUNDING OF THE HOWELL FAMILY CEMETERY IN ONE OF THE VOLUMES OF "COBB COUNTY, GEORGIA CEMETERIES." HE SAID THAT THE "CEMETERY WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1860 WITH THE DEATH OF ISAAC HOWELL WHO FELL DEAD, ACCORDING TO FAMILY LEGEND, 'CUSSING ABRAHAM LIncOLN, HAVING SAID THAT HE WOULD RATHER DIE THAN SEE ABE PRESIDENT.'"∼Father: Ichabod Byrd Pittman 1780-1827
Mother: Frances Jackson Stone 1783-1857

Rene Marion Pittman served in the 7th State Guard Infantry Regiment of Georgia, and enlisted as a Sargent in Company K at the age of 49 years on May 31, 1961. (documented in US Civil War Records and Profiles) His son George Washington Pittman, also enlisted in the Confederacy with Company B 7th Regiment, Georgia Volunteer Infantry in June 1861 at the age of 18 years. (documented in US Civil War Records and Profiles and The Texas State Cemetery Confederate Veterans webpage...link on George W. Pittman's Family Tree page).

While there is not a detailed record of Rene Marion Pittman's battlefield experiences or commanding officers, there is of his son George W. Pittman, and although they served in different companys, they were both in the 7th Regiment of Georgia Volunteers.

Rene Marion married Mary Anne Howell on December 20, 1840.
Parents of:
William Howell (1842-1909)
George Washington(1843-1938)
Albert Singleton (1845-1921)
James Allison(1848-1928)
Mary Eugenia (1850-1934)
Fannie Margaret (1851-1882)
Emma (1854-1879)
Elizabeth Lizzy (1857-1921)
Isaac Marion (1859-1919)(FAG#52667339)
Savannah Bartow Pittman Brown(1862-1937)

Sons William Howell and George Washington left Georgia after the Civil War and settled in Texas. George Washington in Grandfalls, Ward County, Texas where his decendents are still living today. William Howell settled in Eastland County, Texas.

Pittman Find A Grave Memorials-Decendents of Rene Marion and Mary Anne Howell Pittman:
George Washington Pittman-#10740542-Son
Willard Carroll Pittman-#74541006-Great Grandson
MD Pittman-#67942456-Great Grandson
Thomas Leland Pittman-#14761772-Great Grandson
Ruth Beatrice Pittman Sanders-#40910616-Great Granddaughter
Stacy Scott Pittman-#74548736-Great Great Grandson