His WW I draft registration card, filed 12 Sep 1918 in Vanceburg, Lewis Co., Ky, records Walter Zacheus Pettit, age 40, born 31 March 1878, residence Burtonville, Lewis Co., Ky, occupation farmer, nearest relative Laura Pettit, physical description tall, slender build, black hair, black eyes.

Index to Lewis Co., Ky land records lists the following transactions by W. Z. Pettit:

1909 - 20 acres nr Tollesboro from W.B. Tully B.27 p.21
1916 - 65 acres on Mud Lick from heirs of Elbert Beckett B.40 p.548-54
1917 - 20 acres on Licking R. to Joseph Hampton B.42 p.476
1921 - 47 acres in Vanceburg from Jas A. Applegate B.49 p.26, p.40
1930 - unspecified, from heirs of Sam Tucker B.57 p.24
1943 - 12 acres nr Tollesboro to L.B. McKee B.67 p.28
1945 - 46 acres on Mud Lick to W.H. Ackley B.69 p.142
1945 - 10 acres to Parks Caudill B.69 p.459
1945 - 10 acres to Ed McDonald B.69 p.460
1945 - town lot in Tollesboro from L.B. McKee B.69 p.582
1945 - 2 acres to John F. Calvert B.70 p.79
1945 - 12 acres to John F. Calvert B.70 p.402
1945 - lot on St.Hwy 10 from Ed McDonald B.70 p.436
1946 - town lot in Tollesboro to John A. Stevens B.71 p.158
1947 - 1 acre in Tollesboro to Walter Howard Pettit B.73 p.366
1947 - 3 acres in Tollesboro to Porter Grant B.73 p.368
1950 - 4.4 acres to John A. Stevens B.77 p.260

Index to Kentucky death records lists Walter Z. Pettitt, d. 22 Jan 1970, age 91, in Mason Co., residence Lewis Co., certificate vol. 4, #01827.

Walter's obituary states that he had three grandchildren at the time of his death: Howard Pettit of Tollesboro, Mrs. Curtis Gochenour of Fairborn, Ohio, and John Pettit, who was in the U.S. Army in Vietnam.

1910 census of Lewis Co., Ky, district 2, enumerated 2 May, lists on p. 30A as family #62:
Pettit, Walter Z, 32, superintendent of infirmary; Laura E., wife, 33, housekeeper of infirmary; Walter H. son, 5/12. All born Ky Ky Ky.

The next line is a Daniel Smith, 44, bookkeeper for the infirmary, and the next 15 lines are listed as inmates.