The Summitt Family Quarterly

Family News:

  • September 4, 2008
    Received from Colleen & Roger Englert. Henry Clifford "H.C" Summitt, Jr., 78, died September 3, 2008 in Tallahassee. Graveside services will be held 11 a.m. EDT Saturday, at Roselawn Cemetery. The family will receive friends 5 to 7 p.m. EDT Friday at Culley's MeadowWood Funeral Home, Riggins Road Chapel (850-877-8191). Memorial contributions may be made to Pine Hill Baptist Church Building Fund, Lower Hawthorne Trail Cairo, Ga. 39828. H.C. was a resident of Tallahassee until he moved to Cairo in 2005. Before retiring, he was a former Gulf Life Insurance agent and manager, horse trainer and showman, and a plant manager in Tennessee. He was a member of Pine Hill Baptist Church. And was also a Shriner and Mason. H.C. is survived by his wife of 60 and a half years, Frances Summitt of Cairo; one son, Jay H. Summitt, DVM (Marge Hilaman) of Thomasville; two daughters, Molly Pevey (Earl) of Thomaston, Ga.and Bebe S. Thedford (Ricky) of Coolidge, Ga.; one sister, Alice Englert of Tallahassee; nine grandchildren, Jennifer Pevey, Josh Speelman, Pamela Wilson, Taran Warren, Vann Pevey, Addie Summitt, Shane Thedford, Emma Thedford, Hank Summitt; six great grandchildren; and numerous special nieces, nephews and cousins. He was preceded in death by his daughter, Vann Summitt.
  • June 28, 2008
    Maurine Burch Summitt, a long time resident of Searcy, Ark., from 1934 to 2000, died at the age of 102 on June 26, 2008 in Niceville, Fla. at the home of her son Paul. more...
  • March 1, 2008
    Received email from Paul Alvin Summitt (yep, another Paul Summitt, wow ). He has in his possession a bible from the 1850's with the following information listed: Solomon Summitt married Elizabeth D. Clayton May 19, 1851 (according to family tales her father was a civil war general) Children were: Minerva L. 4-8-1852 Laura C. 6-15-1854 Sarah E. 1/18/1856 died 8/30/1886 Alvin J. (Paul's grandfather) 4/1/1858 died 12/2/1945 Evangaline 2/24/1860 William J. 3/1/1862 died 8/8/1896 Charles L. 5/7/1864 died 8/7/1868 Joseph O. 7/16/1866 died 9/4/1899 George W. 12/5/1871
  • November 14, 2007
    Received an email from Robin Summitt Hunt concerning listing below detailing the death of her son in 2005. Robin corrected our information. Nicholas Andrew Hewitt died November 5, 2005, not October 2005. We apologize for this error and offer our sincerest regrets.
  • December 19, 2006

    Received these two pictures from Granville Summitt celebrating the birth of Maxwell Summitt Feinman, March 16, 2006, to Jimmie and Laurel Feinman, Lynchburg, VA.
  • February 7, 2006
    Clara Mai Summitt Agee passed away after a long illness on January 31, 2006. She was the daughter of Virgil A. Summitt. She was buried on February 3, 2006 at Belle Vernon Cemetery in Friendship, Tennessee. We thank her daughter, Carolyn Burnett Warren, for letting us know.
  • November 23, 2005
    While recently reviewing the latest rootsweb social security death index, Paul C. Summitt found La Rue Summitt Williford, born August 30, 1908, died Noveober 23, 2005, last residence Houston, Harris Co., TX, SS # 467-05-0339, issued in TX. La Rue was a Summit descendant of Francis Summit (1826-1892) who ultimately settled in Sims, Montgomery County, Arkansas with his large family. Her grandfather was William Haskell Summit, son of Francis and Emaline Shaffer, and the only son who did not make the trek to Arkansas with the rest of the family and stayed in Texas.
  • November 22, 2005
    Tampa, Florida. Martha Lynn Delaney Timby passed away after a year long battle with cancer. Lynn was the daughter of Jeanette Summitt Delaney.
  • October 2005
    Tucson, Arizona. Nicholas Hewett, the son of Robin Elizabeth Summitt Hunt (daughter of Charles Kenneth Summitt), age 20 passed away.
  • 12/13/2004
    Davis Alison (Al) Summitt of Paragould, Arkansas died Monday, December 13, 2004 at Regional Medical Center of Northeast Arkansas in Jonesboro at the age of 72 years, 3 months, and two days. Al was the son of Herbert Alison and Irene E. Davis Summitt. Herbert was my dad's brother. I'll have a copy of the obituary on this site in another day or so.
  • 11/10/2004 4:46 PM
    Dear Summitts, I have just returned from my father, Howard Lee Summit's, funeral. He would have been 82 today had he lived. He died on November 4th 2004 from metastatic liver, lung, bone and brain cancer, all coming from prostate cancer. He lived four weeks after his diagnosis.
    Ashley Summitt Lincolnton, NC and Charleston, WV
  • Another new Summitt arrived in Indiana on August 7, 2004 at 8:14 PM. Check out John Allen's Web site for his new son!
  • Two new Summitts arrived 5/1/04 just after 10:30 PM in Columbia, MO.
    Click here for pictures of my new grandsons. Paul M. Summitt

The data contained in the Family history pages represent that material I had in my files as of February 2, 2003. I hope to update these pages soon.


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