There is a mistake in the biography concerning the children. There was never a Bettie Clay Pitchford. The biographer merged one of their daughter's names, Elizabeth "Bettie" b. 1865, with one of their son's name, Clay b. 1867, and created the Bettie Clay Pitchford by mistake, who never existed.

Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 1886. Allen County.
JUDGE NERO C. PITCHFORD was born August 29, 1830, in Allen County, on Long Creek; he is the second of four sons and one daughter born to Orange D. and Mary E. (Fitzpatrick) Pitchford. Orange D. was born in Allen County, Ky., in 1808, was a farmer and died March, 1842. He was a son of Col. Eli Pitchford, who married Miss Davis, a native of North Carolina. She is said to be a relative of Jefferson Davis.
Col. Eli Pitchford was colonel of militia; he was a farmer, he came to Allen County, Ky., from North Carolina about 1800, and purchased and improved 200 acres on Long Creek. He was elected to represent his county in the Legislature; was also magistrate and sheriff several terms; was one of the leading and prominent men of the county, and died in 1835, aged about seventy years; was of English and Irish extraction. Our subject's mother was born in Augusta County, Va., and reared in Allen County, Ky. She was a daughter of William Fitzpatrick, who married Dolly Napier; both were natives of Augusta County, Va., immigrated to Kentucky about 1812, and settled in eastern Allen, where he was extensively engaged in farming. He was a magistrate for many years, and was a slave holder.

Judge Pitchford remained with his mother till her death, after which he married Elizabeth M. Gatewood, of Allen County, a daughter of Fletcher and Mary (Calvert) Gatewood. Twelve children were born to this union, eleven named:
Mary E. (Thomas), Emma A. (deceased), William G., Laura D., Catharine W. (deceased), Bettie Clay, James E., John J., Lula, Bruce and Finis. Mrs. Pitchford died in July, 1883, a devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. After his marriage Judge P. located on Long Creek. In 1860 located on the farm, where he now resides, of 100 acres,eighty acres under cultivation, and which he has improved by his own labor. He was magistrate from 1870 to 1878, and in 1878, was elected county judge. He cast his first presidential vote for Gen. Scott in 1852. Since the war he has been a Democrat. He is a Christian gentleman, a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and a progressive and liberal-minded citizen.

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