I know of no relationship between this Daniel Pettit and my own Pettit line, but since they lived in the same part of southeast Ohio where several of the sons and grandsons of my great-great-great grandfather Samuel Pettit and his second wife Rebecca Foster settled, and he had a son Matt who moved to the same part of West Virginia where my great uncles Johnnie and Willie moved, it is helpful to keep track of their descendants, at least until they moved out of the Ohio/West Virginia area.

It is possible that Daniel is related to Samuel (b. ca 1755) and Rachel Pettit of Greenup Co., Kentucky.

Daughter of John Van Meter and Jane Clarkson.

1880 census of Lawrence Co., Ohio, Mason township, enumerated 4 June, lists on p. 5 as family #27:
Petit, Daniel, 65, laborer, b. Ohio Ohio Ohio; Lydia, 35, wife, b. Ohio Penn Va; Caroline, 23, dau, single; Martin V., 9, son; Cinderella, 6, dau; Samantha, 2, dau. All children born Ohio Ohio Ohio.

The birth place for Daniel is inconsistent with other records. Caroline is also recorded in Elizabeth township, same county, on June 9, as a servant with the family of Gideon Brown and Rebecca Norris.

In 1900 Daniel is recorded in Nebraska with his oldest son William, as Daniel Pettit, father, 88, b. June 1811 Penn Penn Penn, widowed.