ELI WITT settled in Greene county in 1829. He was a native of Jefferson county, Tenn., of English ancestry. At the age of 21 he was united in marriage with Nancy McNealy. He was engaged in farming in the county of his nativity until Dec., 1829, when he immigrated to this county, settling in the township of Carrollton. Here he resided some years when he removed to Texas, but later returned and bought a farm east of Carrollton, where he resided until overtaken by death, in Oct., 1851. He had been a soldier of the war of 1812. With him came his son, Randolph, then a young man of 19 years.