Hitt, Charles B.

Born: 1805-XX-XX Edgefield, South Carolina

Died: 1888-10-31 Augusta, Georgia

Flourished: 1826 to 1888 Augusta, Georgia

Charles B. Hitt, businessman and land agent, settled permanently in Augusta, Georgia in 1826. He initially worked in the cotton business for the firm of Bridges & Smith, then later formed the wholesale and retail grocery partnership of Hitt & Dill. After several years in the grocery line Hitt opened a land office. While at the time of the 1860 census Hitt reported real and personal wealth totalling only $325, as well as ownership of one enslaved woman, he reportedly saw financial success as a land agent but suffered reverses during the Civil War. Hitt married Susan A. Goodman in 1832 and the pair were survived by five children.

Georgia, U.S., Marriage Records From Select Counties, 1828-1978, 23 February 1832, Richmond County (Lehi, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, 2013); U.S. Census Office, Seventh Census of the United States (1850), Richmond County, GA, 458; U.S. Census Office, Eighth Census of the United States (1860), Ward 1, Augusta, Richmond County, GA, 24; U.S. Census Office, Eighth Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedule, Ward 1, Augusta, Richmond County, GA, 5; Augusta Chronicle (GA), 1 November 1888, 5:4; 2 November 1888, 8:3; Gravestone, Magnolia Cemetery, Augusta, GA.