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Wallace Earl Witt

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Birth	:	20 Jul 1884 Tulare County, California, USA
Death	:	11 Apr 1963 Tulare County, California, USA
Burial	:	Home of Peace Cemetery, Porterville, Tulare County, USA
Coordinate	:	36.0654297, -118.9956589
Plot	:	B-6-4
Description	:	Porterville Recorder - Apr. 11, 1963, pg.1 WALLACE WITT, SUCCESS VALLEY PIONEER, DIES A Success Valley rancher and member of a pioner Porterville area family, Wallace Earl Witt, 78, died early this morning at Auberry following a long illness. Mr. Witt was a descendant of Napoleon Bonaparte Witt, who migrated to California in 1852. His father, Henry Shelton Witt, moved to Tulare county in 1869 and to the Tule river area in 1870. He homesteaded and planted one of the first orange groves in Success valley and was among those who built the original South Tule schoolhouse. It was on the Success... Read More	Porterville Recorder - Apr. 11, 1963, pg.1 WALLACE WITT, SUCCESS VALLEY PIONEER, DIES A Success Valley rancher and member of a pioner Porterville area family, Wallace Earl Witt, 78, died early this morning at Auberry following a long illness. Mr. Witt was a descendant of Napoleon Bonaparte Witt, who migrated to California in 1852. His father, Henry Shelton Witt, moved to Tulare county in 1869 and to the Tule river area in 1870. He homesteaded and planted one of the first orange groves in Success valley and was among those who built the original South Tule schoolhouse. It was on the Success valley orange ranch that Wallace Witt was born in 1884, one of six sons and three daughters. He lived there his entire lifetime and was the last survivor of the builders of the irrigation ditch which still winds through Success valley. He later served as a member of the irrigation district's board of directors (South Tule Ditch company). In the 1920's, Mr. Witt as a director for the old Tule River Citrus association, an orange packing house razed to make way for Success reservoir. Survivors include his wife, Helen, of Success; a son, Walter of Pleasant Valley; a daughter, Mrs. Shirley Phillips of Monterey; a sister, Mrs. Minnie Nunes of Porterville; a brother, C.V. Witt of Ducor; five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 9:30 a.m. Saturday at the Myers chapel. Interment will be in the family plot at the Old Porterville cemetery.

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Nettie Emily Moulton Witt

(1883 - 1919)

Anna Pauline Smith Kieffer

(1884 - 1980)

Helen Elizabeth Stevens Witt

(1902 - 1970)

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