Italian Ancestry "Our Little Italian Princess Cambrie"
- Your 18th Great-Grandfather Giovanni John Patitti was born in 1610 in Venice, Venezia, Italy and met and married Ann Gould your 18th Great-Grandmother who immigrated here herself from Italy, although she was born in Ireland.
- The Italian line of Patitti comes from your father's grandmother's side of your family tree on her father's side.
- The name was changed to a more American version and wound up being spelled as Poteet used by your 17th Great-Grandfather Thomas Poteet who was also born in Italy and immigrated here to the United States with is parents, Giovanni and Ann.
The Poteet's were a prominent Italian family in the United States and they were involved in some major historical events and the town of Poteet, Texas is named for your Italian line, Poteet.
12th Great-Grandfather Samuel D Poteet
Levi Rufus Poteet 11th Great-Grandfather
Levi Rufus PoteetWhen Levi Rufus Poteet was born on September 10, 1810, in McDowell, North Carolina, his father, Samuel, was 21 and his mother, Nancy, was 15.
He married Katherine Basham in 1833 in Roane, Tennessee. They had one child during their marriage, your famous 10th Great-Grandfather Francis Marion Poteet. Levi Rufus Poteet also was living in North Carolina in 1810 when the cotton crop reigned as lifeblood to the state’s economy. There is no evidence of him being a slave owner like his father. He moved from Tennessee to Washington County, Texas. Levi Rufus Poteet lived in Texas during the Apache Wars, when white settlers and native Apache battled for control of the area. He died in January 1883 in Washington, Texas, at the age of 72, and was buried there. |
Francis Marion Poteet 10th Great-Grandfather
Francis Marion PoteetWhen Francis Marion Poteet was born on May 23, 1833, in Tennessee, his father, Levi, was 22 and his mother, Katherine, was 25.
He married Mary Ann Davis on August 19, 1852. They had one child during their marriage. Francis Poteet was a Civil War veteran. He fought on the side of the Confederates and served in the 30th Texas Calvary Co. Francis Poteet and his family were present during the Mountain Meadows massacre. Family legend maintains that Francis Poteet and his family escaped the wagon train just before the massacre. The 1860 U.S. Census places them in Los Angeles. Given his close ties to the Harp family, however, he may instead have continued to California in Thomas D. Harp’s train, which traveled close to the Baker train as far as Salt Lake City. He and other members of the Poteet family eventually settled in Texas. POTEET, TEXAS was named after him. He established a mercantile store and he was a Blacksmith and Farmer as well as a Merchant. Francis Marion Poteet also began the Postal Mail Service for the area for his customers. He died on June 30, 1907, in Poteet, Texas, at the age of 74, and was buried there. |