From whitis Thu May 30 00:43:09 1996 Return-Path: whitis Received: (from whitis@localhost) by top.dbd.com (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA08619; Thu, 30 May 1996 00:43:06 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 00:43:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Mark Whitis To: whitis-clan@dbd.com Subject: Test Message Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: O X-Status: This is a test message to test that the archive is working. -- Mark Whitis ; 804-962-4268 428-B Moseley Drive; Charlottesville, VA 22903 From whitis Thu May 30 04:36:48 1996 Return-Path: whitis Received: (from whitis@localhost) by top.dbd.com (8.7.3/8.7.3) id EAA08928; Thu, 30 May 1996 04:36:44 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 04:36:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Mark Whitis To: Ava Whitis cc: gary@mce.com, 73121.2057@CompuServe.COM, whitis-clan@dbd.com Subject: Re: Whitis Name In-Reply-To: <199605280209.WAA29425@use.usit.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: O X-Status: On Mon, 27 May 1996, Ava Whitis wrote: > Hello Mark, > > I'm very interested in your last name, Whitis. > Where are you from? > Who's your Father? > Keep in touch, contact me at: Hi, Just out of curiosity, where did you get my address? Did you see a posting on a newsgroup, find it using a name based search engine, or find it in a web page log somewhere? Yours is the third request for information I have gotten on the net (am CCing the other two) so I have created a Web page and a email mailing-list specifically related to whitis geneology tonight. I will send an announcement out shortly. In the meantime, feel free to visit the newly created web page at: http://www.dbd.com/~whitis/clan/whitis I have lived in Charlottesville, VA 22903 for the past four years. Before that I lived in: Manassas, VA Fort Wayne, IN (for a few months) Berlin, Germany Fort Meade, MD Castle, Germany Tampa, FL Monterey, CA Send me email letting me know whether or not you want to be added to the mailing-list. -- Mark Whitis ; 804-962-4268 428-B Moseley Drive; Charlottesville, VA 22903 From whitis Thu May 30 18:03:42 1996 Return-Path: gary@mce.com Received: from ranchogrande.mce.com (ranchogrande.mce.com [204.118.212.190]) by top.dbd.com (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA09257; Thu, 30 May 1996 18:03:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from caracas by ranchogrande.mce.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id OAA24657; Thu, 30 May 1996 14:59:08 -0700 From: gary@mce.com (Gary W. Cook) Received: by caracas (SMI-8.6) id OAA00919; Thu, 30 May 1996 14:59:05 -0700 Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 14:59:05 -0700 Message-Id: <199605302159.OAA00919@caracas> To: whitis@dbd.com Subject: Re: Whitis Name Cc: gary@mce.com, icepick@usit.net, 73121.2057@CompuServe.COM, whitisr@isco.purdue.edu, whitis-clan@dbd.com X-Sun-Charset: ISO-8859-1 Status: O X-Status: Mark.. Definitely add me to the list. Web Page.. We could even collect some photos and get them scanned. If there's any interest, I'll pick them up next week and find a scanner. I have been in contact with another Whitis at Purdue. Her name is Ruth Whitis (whitisr@isco.purdue.edu). She's definitely a cousin. I've cc'd her on this mail. I'll also attach her list of relatives. Ruth.. hopefully, you don't mind if I do. I was going to contact Ava (icepick@usit.net), but I'll she gets a cc: of this message. Ava Whitis is a name this is familar, but I don't know exactly how it fits into our group or if it's the same clan. The mail I sent to Marjorie Whitis (73121.2057@CompuServe.COM) bounced. I guess her account is no longer active???? BTW.. I was curious if everybody pronounces the name the same. The Somerset / Indiana / Kentucky group that I know always uses the long i as in the color white for the first i. Is this the defacto standard for the other branches or do they use the short i? Just curious. I haven't contacted any of the ones below.. Ms. Almeta Whitis New York Minister.. Other things. Interesting person. Check her web page. (http://www.dynrec.com/diverse/almeta.html) Stephen Whitis Dallas Programmer http://web2.airmail.net/stephenw/ Judith A. Whitis Illinois Professor of English. http://tiger.olivet.edu:81/Campus/Departments/Comm/English/faculty.html) Andrew Whitis Pittsburg Has a web page.. ________________________________________________________________________ Here's what I _think_ I remember now. I thought I'd throw it out to see if it anybody remembers some of the missing links. Next week I'll be in Kentucky and I'll try to gather as many names as I can from my grandmother, Lizzie Whitis, wife of Otis (deceased) in Russell Springs. Lizzie is related to the same "Somerset" branch _and_ is also related in another way. Her aunt was Edward Whitis' second wife. That makes one of her husband's half brothers (Avery) her cousin! WHITIS BROTHERS & SISTERS OF THE SOMERSET KENTUCKY CLAN DECENDENTS OF EDWARD & (SARAH?) WHITIS Edward probably died in the early 50's. I never met him. I know his first wife died quite a bit of time before him and he remarried,. Rumor only.. That my great-great ( or greater?) grandmother on the Whitis side was a Cherokee Indian. Not verifiable. Other info to jog memories and build links.... I'll get the names next week. There's or was one family member somewhere up in the mountains of eastern Kentucky that sponsored some sort of big motorcycle meet every year on her farm. I know there's a branch of our clan that calls that part of world home. Back in the early 60's, one member (name? age? early 20's) that lived around Cincinnati was killed in a service station holdup. Shot in the back of the head by a sawed off shotgun in downtown Cincinnati. There were a lot of Whitis family members at the funeral. Perhaps somebody remembers it? I was only about 8 years old at the time. I'm not sure about some of the spelling of the names... The Whitis family has a strange way of naming kids :^/ SONS OF EDWARD & ?????? Otis - My grandfather. He died in 1977. He was more like a father because I was raised by him and his wife, the former Lizzie Bennett. My mother (his daughter) was named Veleda (60 years old) who had one son, ME! Otis and Lizzie also had a son, Jim, that lives down in Evansville, IN. Jim (54 years old) has two sons (Jim and Joe) that live in Indiana and Kentucky. They are in their mid 20's.. No kids. Henry.. I think he was the youngest. His wife was named Alva. They lived in Indianapolis. Two kids that I remember, Darvin and Belinda that should be 50-60ish in age by now. Oather - Died back in the 70's - Lived around Somerset all his live. Wife was named Claire. I don't remember exactly how many kids he had. Two I think. One was a girl for sure. Her name is Jean. She's got to be about 60 years old + by now. William "Willie" - Died sort of young, back in the 50'S. Military type. Lived in Texas around San Antonio, I think. I don't know if he had any kids. I think his wife was named Marie. Lando - He lived near Cincinnati, over in a little city named Elsmere, KY. Very sick last time I checked a few months back. Wife's name is Elsie. He had two kids, Judy and Dennis that also live in the Cincinnati area. Dennis had some kids. Names unknown. Sister ?? ... Don't remember her name for sure, but I think it was Martha. She lived mainly in the Cincinnati area, toward the east. She died probably 10 years ago. Her married name was Trivit (sp?). Avery - He was a half brother to the above brothers and sisters. He lived near Cincinnati, over in a little city named Elsmere, KY. Lost track of him. He was never that close to family. I think there was another brother named Edward. Maybe not. Perhaps he was a half brother. There may have been a brother or two that I forgot. I know one sister died really young, but I don't remember her name. ________________________________________________________________________ This info was "stolen from Ruth Whitis' mail to me.... All relationship are relative to her, not me. It appears that George and Edward were brothers. I'll verify next week. Gary WHITIS BROTHERS & SISTERS OF THE INDIANOPOLIS INDIANA CLAN DECENDENTS OF TOM & MARY WHITIS TOM and MARY (SEWAL) WHITIS (my great-great-grandparents) - I don't know how many kids they had, but they were the parents of GEORGE Wesley Whitis - I don't know about siblings either GEORGE and NORA (CHANEY) WHITIS (my great-grandparents) - They had 10 children (whose descendents make up most of the Indy clan) - I don't know yet about siblings RAYMOND - my grandfather (1904-1972) - married to Elizabeth Todd - had 3 children RAYMOND (BUD) JUANITA (PEG) BILLY JOE (JOE) - my father ELZER (1905-1947) SIMEON (SIM) EDWARD (1907-1994) - married to Ella Todd (yes, Elizabeth's sister) - had 3 children ROBERT JEAN BILL NANNIE (1910-1934) ESCO (1913-1996) - married to Irene Whitaker - no children CURTIS (1916-1975) - married to Marie GRACE FAYE (1919- ) - married to Eddie Baker LONNIE (1921- ) - married to Eva LEE WESLEY (1924-1925) VINA ELLEN - she is a half sister (1929- ) ________________________________________________________________________ Gary W. Cook Director of Technical Services Minicomputer Exchange, Inc. 610 North Pastoria Avenue Sunnyvale, CA 94086 Email: gary@mce.com Tel: 408-733-4400 Fax: 408-733-8009 From whitis Thu May 30 21:57:40 1996 Return-Path: icepick@usit.net Received: from use.usit.net (root@use.usit.net [199.1.48.3]) by top.dbd.com (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA09328 for ; Thu, 30 May 1996 21:57:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from LOCALNAME (pulaski-slip18.dynamic.usit.net [204.194.170.49]) by use.usit.net (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id VAA05936; Thu, 30 May 1996 21:55:08 -0400 Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 21:55:08 -0400 Message-Id: <199605310155.VAA05936@use.usit.net> X-Sender: icepick@usit.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: gary@mce.com (Gary W. Cook) From: Ava Whitis Subject: Re: Whitis Name Cc: 73121.2057@compuserve.com, whitisr@isco.purde.edu, whitis-clan@dbd.com Status: RO X-Status: At 02:59 PM 5/30/96 -0700, you wrote: > > >Mark.. > >Definitely add me to the list. Web Page.. We could even collect >some photos and get them scanned. If there's any interest, I'll pick >them up next week and find a scanner. > >I have been in contact with another Whitis at Purdue. Her name is Ruth >Whitis (whitisr@isco.purdue.edu). She's definitely a cousin. I've cc'd >her on this mail. I'll also attach her list of relatives. Ruth.. >hopefully, you don't mind if I do. > >I was going to contact Ava (icepick@usit.net), but I'll she gets a cc: of >this message. Ava Whitis is a name this is familar, but I don't know=20 >exactly how it fits into our group or if it's the same clan. > >The mail I sent to Marjorie Whitis (73121.2057@CompuServe.COM) bounced. I >guess her account is no longer active???? =20 > >BTW.. I was curious if everybody pronounces the name the same. The >Somerset / Indiana / Kentucky group that I know always uses the long i >as in the color white for the first i. Is this the defacto standard for >the other branches or do they use the short i? Just curious. > >I haven't contacted any of the ones below.. > >Ms. Almeta Whitis=20 >New York >Minister.. Other things. Interesting person. Check her web page. >(http://www.dynrec.com/diverse/almeta.html) =20 > > >Stephen Whitis >Dallas >Programmer >http://web2.airmail.net/stephenw/=20 > > >Judith A. Whitis >Illinois >Professor of English. >http://tiger.olivet.edu:81/Campus/Departments/Comm/English/faculty.html) > > >Andrew Whitis >Pittsburg >Has a web page.. > > > > >________________________________________________________________________ > > >Here's what I _think_ I remember now. I thought I'd throw it out to see >if it anybody remembers some of the missing links. Next week I'll be in >Kentucky and I'll try to gather as many names as I can from my >grandmother, Lizzie Whitis, wife of Otis (deceased) in Russell Springs. >Lizzie is related to the same "Somerset" branch _and_ is also related in >another way. Her aunt was Edward Whitis' second wife. That makes one >of her husband's half brothers (Avery) her cousin! =20 > > > > WHITIS BROTHERS & SISTERS OF THE SOMERSET KENTUCKY CLAN > DECENDENTS OF EDWARD &=A0(SARAH?) WHITIS > >Edward probably died in the early 50's. I never met him. I know his first >wife died quite a bit of time before him and he remarried,. > >Rumor only.. That my great-great ( or greater?) grandmother on the >Whitis side was a Cherokee Indian. Not verifiable. > >Other info to jog memories and build links.... I'll get the names next >week. There's or was one family member somewhere up in the mountains of >eastern Kentucky that sponsored some sort of big motorcycle meet every >year on her farm. I know there's a branch of our clan that calls that >part of world home. > >Back in the early 60's, one member (name? age? early 20's) that lived >around Cincinnati was killed in a service station holdup. Shot in the >back of the head by a sawed off shotgun in downtown Cincinnati. There >were a lot of Whitis family members at the funeral. Perhaps somebody >remembers it? I was only about 8 years old at the time. =20 > >I'm not sure about some of the spelling of the names... The Whitis >family has a strange way of naming kids :^/ > > >SONS OF EDWARD & ?????? =20 > >Otis - My grandfather. He died in 1977. He was more like a father >because I was raised by him and his wife, the former Lizzie Bennett. My >mother (his daughter) was named Veleda (60 years old) who had one son, >ME! Otis and Lizzie also had a son, Jim, that lives down in Evansville, >IN. Jim (54 years old) has two sons (Jim and Joe) that live in Indiana >and Kentucky. They are in their mid 20's.. No kids. > >Henry.. I think he was the youngest. His wife was named Alva. They=20 >lived in Indianapolis. Two kids that I remember, Darvin and Belinda that >should be 50-60ish in age by now. > >Oather - Died back in the 70's - Lived around Somerset all his live. >Wife was named Claire. I don't remember exactly how many kids he had. >Two I think. One was a girl for sure. Her name is Jean. She's got to >be about 60 years old + by now. > >William "Willie" - Died sort of young, back in the 50'S. Military >type. Lived in Texas around San Antonio, I think. I don't know if he >had any kids. I think his wife was named Marie. =20 > >Lando - He lived near Cincinnati, over in a little city named >Elsmere, KY. Very sick last time I checked a few months back. Wife's >name is Elsie. He had two kids, Judy and Dennis that also live in=20 >the Cincinnati area. Dennis had some kids. Names unknown. > >Sister ?? ... Don't remember her name for sure, but I think it was >Martha. She lived mainly in the Cincinnati area, toward the east. She >died probably 10 years ago. Her married name was Trivit (sp?). > >Avery - He was a half brother to the above brothers and sisters. He >lived near Cincinnati, over in a little city named Elsmere, KY. Lost >track of him. He was never that close to family. > >I think there was another brother named Edward. Maybe not. Perhaps he >was a half brother. There may have been a brother or two that I >forgot. I know one sister died really young, but I don't remember her >name. > > >________________________________________________________________________ > > >This info was "stolen from Ruth Whitis' mail to me.... All relationship >are relative to her, not me. It appears that George and Edward were=20 >brothers. I'll verify next week. > > Gary > > > > WHITIS BROTHERS & SISTERS OF THE INDIANOPOLIS INDIANA CLAN > DECENDENTS OF TOM &=A0MARY WHITIS > >TOM and MARY (SEWAL) WHITIS (my great-great-grandparents) > - I don't know how many kids they had, but they were the parents of= =20 >GEORGE Wesley Whitis > - I don't know about siblings either > >GEORGE and NORA (CHANEY) WHITIS (my great-grandparents) > - They had 10 children (whose descendents make up most of the Indy= =20 >clan) > - I don't know yet about siblings > > RAYMOND - my grandfather (1904-1972) > - married to Elizabeth Todd - had 3 children > RAYMOND (BUD)=20 > JUANITA (PEG) > BILLY JOE (JOE) - my father > > ELZER (1905-1947) > > SIMEON (SIM) EDWARD (1907-1994) > - married to Ella Todd (yes, Elizabeth's sister) - had 3=20 >children > ROBERT > JEAN > BILL > =20 > NANNIE (1910-1934) > > ESCO (1913-1996) > - married to Irene Whitaker - no children > > CURTIS (1916-1975) > - married to Marie > > GRACE FAYE (1919- ) > - married to Eddie Baker > > LONNIE (1921- ) > - married to Eva > > LEE WESLEY (1924-1925) > VINA ELLEN - she is a half sister (1929- ) > > > > >________________________________________________________________________ >Gary W. Cook Director of Technical Services >Minicomputer Exchange, Inc. 610 North Pastoria Avenue >Sunnyvale, CA 94086 Email: gary@mce.com >Tel: 408-733-4400 Fax: 408-733-8009=20 > Okay Guy's, I do think there is a link here, there is so much info, But the Sewell name clinched as soon as I saw it. Let me explain: My Husband, Gary Dwain Whitis / Born: Oct. 18, 1958 Columbus Indiana -Gary's Father: Paul S. Whitis / Born: April 28, 1923 Somerset Kentucky --Paul S. Whitis Father: George Edward Whitis / Second Child of 14# --Paul S. Whitis Mother: Pearl Susan Baker / died after birth of third= child ---George Edward Whitis Remarried to: ---Edith Turner / They had Four Children & then she died to. ---George Edward Whitis Remarried again to: ---Virginia Mount / They had Ten children, alot of these went to the Columbus In. area. ---George Edward Whitis Parent's are: ----James Henry Whitis=20 ----Rebecca Elizabeth Van Hook (I have that Rebecca's Mother died when Rebecca was very young, she was raised by her Aunt Mary (Janie) & Uncle Dave Van Hook. Dave VanHook was a school Teacher. -Rebecca's sister's are: Nanny Vanhook, raised by Uncle Fount Boyd & Aunt Lizzie. Nanny Married: Charlie Warren / children: 1#Lucy Warren married Marlow= Sears,=20 2#Sarah Warren. -Rebecca's Brother's are: George Monroe Vanhook, Tom Vanhook. -Halbert Vanhook (Misspelled) Don't know if he was full or half to Rebecca -Half sister: Mae Vanhook -Half brother's are: Rocus Vanhook, Wess Vanhook, Laton Vanhook, Paul (Might be misspelled) Vanhook. I also have that James Edward & Rebecca childrens names are: 1#--Mary Jane Whitis married David Wells 2#--George Edward Whitis (children listed below) ***---Edward Whitis ***---Paul S. Whitis ***---Baby Girl Whitis (Died After birth, Pearl Baker Whitis Died Shortly= After) ***---Calrence Whitis ***---Kenneth Whitis ***---Harold D. Whitis ***---Edith Whitis ***---Dewey Whitis ***---Lewis Whitis (TWIN) ***---Lonnie Whitis (TWIN) ***---Una Pearl (Sissy or Sis) Whitis ***---Ronald Whitis ***---Bobby Whitis ***---Marvin Whitis ***---Larry Whitis ***---Jean Whitis ***---Billy Whitis 3#--David Smith Whitis married Izetta Wesley (children listed below) ***---Billy Whitis ***---Mary Elizabeth Whitis ***---Everett (Nook) Whitis ***---Phyllis Whitis ***---David Whitis Jr. (Bucky) 4#--William Thomas Whitis married Eva Mae Edwards (Children listed below) ***---Gladys Dee Whitis ***---Ruby Jane Whitis ***---Maxcine Whitis ***---Virgil Rusell Whitis (died) ***---William Thomas Whitis Jr. ***---James Chapen Whitis ***---Verl Whitis ***---Jerry McCarthur Whitis ***---Elizabeth Whitis (died at birth) 5#--Nanny Susan Whitis married Luther Hyden (children listed below) ***---Beulah Hyden (8 living children / metion of twins died at 14 months old???) ***---Lewis Hyden (no children) ***---Clayton Hyden (3 children) ***---Gathel Hyden (3 children ***---Vermont Hyden (2 children) (Might be a misspelling here) ***---Sue Hyden (2 Children) ***---Eddie Eldon Hyden (3 children) ***---Sharon Hyden (3 children) ***---Levon Hyden (2 children) ***---Gerald Hyden 6#--Jonny Franklin married Pearl ? / second wife: Ina Hargus (Children listed below) ***---Geraldine Whitis ***---Janis Whitis ***---James Franklin Whitis ***---Ronald Whitis ***---Roger Whitis ***---Rebecca Ann Whitis 7#--Cy Rufus Whitis married Minerva Bolin (Children listed below) ***---Avis Whitis ***---Phyllis Whitis ***---Charlene Whitis=20 8#--Lucy Myrtle married Fred Kelsey (no children) 9#--Henry Authur Whitis married Marian Mount (Children listed below) ***---Carol France Mount (Step-Daughter thru marriage) 10#--Lena Mary Whitis married ? Myers / second husband: ? Sanders (no children list) 11#--Elizabeth Elma Whitis married Abe Wells (children listed below) ***---James David Wells ***---Janet Wells ***---Louise Wells ***---Ellis Wells ***---June Wells ***---Stephen Wells (died) ***---Charlotte Wells ***---Linda Wells 12#--Varner Lee Whitis married Ruby Mounce / might be incorrect, note:later devoriced ***---Varner Joe Whitis ***---Dale Lee Whitis ***---Vickie Whitis 13#--Eula Helen Whitis married Nelson Turner / second husband: Earl Myers ***---Gathel Turner ***---Helen Turner ***---Annette Myers ***---Carol Myers ***---Luanne Myers ***---Donna Myers ***---Yvonne Myers --Ellis Eldon Whitis killed in World War II =20 ----James Henry Whitis /born: 10-1877 Parent's are: -----William Thomas Whitis -----Mary Sewell -----Thomas Whitis Parent's are: ------John Wesley Whitis ------Susie Robert's -----Mary Sewell Parent's are: ------Ben Sewell ------Martha Sewell I have that LLOYD SEWELL PREACHER is some how related to James Henry's Brother's & Sister's. -Susan Whitis Dugger -Frank Whitis -George W. Whitis -Raymond Whitis -Edger (Edgar) Whitis=20 -Franklin Whitis=20 -Diasy Whitis Hope this will help you - all, let me know if any think clicks & Where!!! Are you all aware that the Family Surname is Whitehurst??? My info take the family back to 1609 England. The Family by trade were Watch makers. Very interesting info avaible to those who are interested. Send us some thing= new!!! Please keep in touch,=20 Ava A. Whitis icepick@usit.net=20 Ava Whitis From whitis Fri May 31 02:49:19 1996 Return-Path: whitis Received: (from whitis@localhost) by top.dbd.com (8.7.3/8.7.3) id CAA09729; Fri, 31 May 1996 02:49:17 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 02:49:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Mark Whitis To: "Gary W. Cook" cc: gary@mce.com, icepick@usit.net, 73121.2057@CompuServe.COM, whitisr@isco.purdue.edu, whitis-clan@dbd.com Subject: Re: Whitis Name In-Reply-To: <199605302159.OAA00919@caracas> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: O X-Status: On Thu, 30 May 1996, Gary W. Cook wrote: > Definitely add me to the list. Done. > Web Page.. We could even collect > some photos and get them scanned. If there's any interest, I'll pick > them up next week and find a scanner. Yes, I think it might be interesting to see if there is any resemblance. > I have been in contact with another Whitis at Purdue. Her name is Ruth > Whitis (whitisr@isco.purdue.edu). She's definitely a cousin. I've cc'd > her on this mail. I'll also attach her list of relatives. Ruth.. > hopefully, you don't mind if I do. If there is a problem, I can delete the text from the archive. > I was going to contact Ava (icepick@usit.net), but I'll she gets a cc: of > this message. Ava Whitis is a name this is familar, but I don't know > exactly how it fits into our group or if it's the same clan. > > The mail I sent to Marjorie Whitis (73121.2057@CompuServe.COM) bounced. I > guess her account is no longer active???? She appears to have a new one. > BTW.. I was curious if everybody pronounces the name the same. The > Somerset / Indiana / Kentucky group that I know always uses the long i > as in the color white for the first i. Is this the defacto standard for > the other branches or do they use the short i? Just curious. The simple answer is we (our side of the clan) don't pronounce it how everyone else in the country who isn't named whitis, does :-) (Although in Texas or Kentucky they might know how); people have this bizzare tendancy to make the first "i" short. The first "i" is definitely long, in accordance with the standard english pronunciation rules you find in any american dictionary. Usually pronounced Y-tis but exactly where the two sylables divide and which is emphasized may vary and if I am being sloppy the "t" might sound like a "d". Of course the emphasis varies if someone has just mistakenly pronounced it whittis or whites. > [deleted] You listed several names of people who were on the net. I already had two of them in the list of whitises on the net (see my home page http://www.dbd.com/~whitis/). > ________________________________________________________________________ > > > Here's what I _think_ I remember now. I thought I'd throw it out to see > if it anybody remembers some of the missing links. Next week I'll be in > Kentucky and I'll try to gather as many names as I can from my > grandmother, Lizzie Whitis, wife of Otis (deceased) in Russell Springs. > Lizzie is related to the same "Somerset" branch _and_ is also related in > another way. Her aunt was Edward Whitis' second wife. That makes one > of her husband's half brothers (Avery) her cousin! Yeah, I thought I found two places where my family tree didn't fork. One turned out to be my misreading a pedigree, the other isn't confirmed but it looks like there were two marragies where the wifes had the same full name about 4 generations apart. > TOM and MARY (SEWAL) WHITIS (my great-great-grandparents) > - I don't know how many kids they had, but they were the parents of > GEORGE Wesley Whitis > - I don't know about siblings either This looks like it is close to a connection between our differnt branches. My Great Great Grandfather was named Charles WESLEY Whitis (I). His fathers name was THOMAS but his mothers name was Elisibeth (Sp?). He had a son THOMAS born in 2/1874 whose wife MARY died in 1936. Charles Wesley Whitis (I) (1828-1877), who lived in Rogersville, TN prior to 1852, had the following kids with Florence Rogan: 1.Willie WHITIS 2.Rufus WHITIS 3.Mollie WHITIS 4.John WHITIS 5.Florence WHITIS 6.Ellen WHITIS 7.Gertrude WHITIS 8.Charles Wesley WHITIS II 9.Thomas WHITIS Thomas Whitis (1874 - some time after 1938) could possibly be the same as the one listed at the top of the indianapolis clan listing, but there are a few problems. He would have been only 30 when his first grandchild was born, he and Mary did not appear to have children from my records, and he would likely have been living in TX. In the online transciption of his autobiography (which can be found at http://www.dbd.com/~whitis/clan/whitis/mark_rogan_whitis/cwwii.ab) which was written in 1938 it says: 4 - Thomas - my youngest brother, married, living in Austin, Tex [no children] [Thomas wife Mary died in 1936 - CWW?] The fact that "no children" is in brackets suggests that it might have been a later annotation, I will have to look at the original. Now in Ava's response to your message, which I received while I was writing this, she writes: > ----James Henry Whitis /born: 10-1877 Parent's are: > -----William Thomas Whitis > -----Mary Sewell > -----Thomas Whitis Parent's are: > ------John Wesley Whitis > ------Susie Robert's > > -----Mary Sewell Parent's are: > ------Ben Sewell > ------Martha Sewell I assume from context that Thomas Whitis and William Thomas Whitis are the same person. This Thomas Whitis is just about the right age to match the Indianapolis clan (being halfway between the two Thomases in my tree who are either to old or too young to be likely candidates). Ava also mentions a "Cy Rufus Whitis" although without any connections to the other entries she lists. There are two Rufus Whitis's in my tree: One is the son of Charles Wesley Whitis I and the other (my grandfather) is the son of Charles Wesley Whitis II. In Ava's message I also note that there is > David Smith Whitis married Izetta Wesley (children listed below) > ***---Billy Whitis > ***---Mary Elizabeth Whitis > ***---Everett (Nook) Whitis > ***---Phyllis Whitis > ***---David Whitis Jr. (Bucky) although this entry also does not appear to connect to any of the others she cited and no date is given, this appears to be where the name Wesley came into play. This marriage would have had to occur before roughly 1800 to match up with my family tree. If this couple did start having kids prior to 1800 than I suspect that this is a common ancestor we all four share. -- Mark Whitis ; 804-962-4268; http:/www.dbd.com/~whitis/ 428-B Moseley Drive; Charlottesville, VA 22903 From whitis Fri May 31 04:01:32 1996 Return-Path: whitis Received: (from whitis@localhost) by top.dbd.com (8.7.3/8.7.3) id EAA09859; Fri, 31 May 1996 04:01:30 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 04:01:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Mark Whitis To: whitis-clan-archive@dbd.com Subject: Whitis Name (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: O X-Status: -- Mark Whitis ; 804-962-4268 428-B Moseley Drive; Charlottesville, VA 22903 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Received: from wright.nasm.edu (wright.nasm.edu [192.138.170.16]) by top.dbd.com (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA07356 for ; Tue, 28 May 1996 15:42:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: from use.usit.net (root@use.usit.net [199.1.48.3]) by wright.nasm.edu (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA01938 for ; Mon, 27 May 1996 22:15:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: from LOCALNAME (pulaski-slip9.dynamic.usit.net [204.194.170.40]) by use.usit.net (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id WAA29425 for ; Mon, 27 May 1996 22:09:29 -0400 Message-Id: <199605280209.WAA29425@use.usit.net> Date: Mon, 27 May 96 20:00:08 -0700 From: Ava Whitis X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.22KIT (Windows; U; 16bit) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: whitis@wright.nasm.edu Subject: Whitis Name Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Length: 161 Hello Mark, I'm very interested in your last name, Whitis. Where are you from? Who's your Father? Keep in touch, contact me at: Ava Whitis icepick@usit.net From whitis Fri May 31 04:05:16 1996 Return-Path: icepick@usit.net Received: from use.usit.net (root@use.usit.net [199.1.48.3]) by top.dbd.com (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA09867 for ; Fri, 31 May 1996 04:05:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: from LOCALNAME (pulaski-slip8.dynamic.usit.net [204.194.170.39]) by use.usit.net (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id EAA22123; Fri, 31 May 1996 04:02:49 -0400 Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 04:02:49 -0400 Message-Id: <199605310802.EAA22123@use.usit.net> X-Sender: icepick@usit.net (Unverified) X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: whititr@isco.purdue.edu From: Ava Whitis Subject: Re: Undeliverable message Cc: whitis-clan@dbd.com Status: RO X-Status: >At 02:59 PM 5/30/96 -0700, you wrote: >> >> >>Mark.. >> >>Definitely add me to the list. Web Page.. We could even collect >>some photos and get them scanned. If there's any interest, I'll pick >>them up next week and find a scanner. >> >>I have been in contact with another Whitis at Purdue. Her name is Ruth >>Whitis (whitisr@isco.purdue.edu). She's definitely a cousin. I've cc'd >>her on this mail. I'll also attach her list of relatives. Ruth.. >>hopefully, you don't mind if I do. >> >>I was going to contact Ava (icepick@usit.net), but I'll she gets a cc: of >>this message. Ava Whitis is a name this is familar, but I don't know=20 >>exactly how it fits into our group or if it's the same clan. >> >>The mail I sent to Marjorie Whitis (73121.2057@CompuServe.COM) bounced. I >>guess her account is no longer active???? =20 >> >>BTW.. I was curious if everybody pronounces the name the same. The >>Somerset / Indiana / Kentucky group that I know always uses the long i >>as in the color white for the first i. Is this the defacto standard for >>the other branches or do they use the short i? Just curious. >> >>I haven't contacted any of the ones below.. >> >>Ms. Almeta Whitis=20 >>New York >>Minister.. Other things. Interesting person. Check her web page. >>(http://www.dynrec.com/diverse/almeta.html) =20 >> >> >>Stephen Whitis >>Dallas >>Programmer >>http://web2.airmail.net/stephenw/=20 >> >> >>Judith A. Whitis >>Illinois >>Professor of English. >>http://tiger.olivet.edu:81/Campus/Departments/Comm/English/faculty.html) >> >> >>Andrew Whitis >>Pittsburg >>Has a web page.. >> >> >> >> >>________________________________________________________________________ >> >> >>Here's what I _think_ I remember now. I thought I'd throw it out to see >>if it anybody remembers some of the missing links. Next week I'll be in >>Kentucky and I'll try to gather as many names as I can from my >>grandmother, Lizzie Whitis, wife of Otis (deceased) in Russell Springs. >>Lizzie is related to the same "Somerset" branch _and_ is also related in >>another way. Her aunt was Edward Whitis' second wife. That makes one >>of her husband's half brothers (Avery) her cousin! =20 >> >> >> >> WHITIS BROTHERS & SISTERS OF THE SOMERSET KENTUCKY CLAN >> DECENDENTS OF EDWARD &=A0(SARAH?) WHITIS >> >>Edward probably died in the early 50's. I never met him. I know his first >>wife died quite a bit of time before him and he remarried,. >> >>Rumor only.. That my great-great ( or greater?) grandmother on the >>Whitis side was a Cherokee Indian. Not verifiable. >> >>Other info to jog memories and build links.... I'll get the names next >>week. There's or was one family member somewhere up in the mountains of >>eastern Kentucky that sponsored some sort of big motorcycle meet every >>year on her farm. I know there's a branch of our clan that calls that >>part of world home. >> >>Back in the early 60's, one member (name? age? early 20's) that lived >>around Cincinnati was killed in a service station holdup. Shot in the >>back of the head by a sawed off shotgun in downtown Cincinnati. There >>were a lot of Whitis family members at the funeral. Perhaps somebody >>remembers it? I was only about 8 years old at the time. =20 >> >>I'm not sure about some of the spelling of the names... The Whitis >>family has a strange way of naming kids :^/ >> >> >>SONS OF EDWARD & ?????? =20 >> >>Otis - My grandfather. He died in 1977. He was more like a father >>because I was raised by him and his wife, the former Lizzie Bennett. My >>mother (his daughter) was named Veleda (60 years old) who had one son, >>ME! Otis and Lizzie also had a son, Jim, that lives down in Evansville, >>IN. Jim (54 years old) has two sons (Jim and Joe) that live in Indiana >>and Kentucky. They are in their mid 20's.. No kids. >> >>Henry.. I think he was the youngest. His wife was named Alva. They=20 >>lived in Indianapolis. Two kids that I remember, Darvin and Belinda that >>should be 50-60ish in age by now. >> >>Oather - Died back in the 70's - Lived around Somerset all his live. >>Wife was named Claire. I don't remember exactly how many kids he had. >>Two I think. One was a girl for sure. Her name is Jean. She's got to >>be about 60 years old + by now. >> >>William "Willie" - Died sort of young, back in the 50'S. Military >>type. Lived in Texas around San Antonio, I think. I don't know if he >>had any kids. I think his wife was named Marie. =20 >> >>Lando - He lived near Cincinnati, over in a little city named >>Elsmere, KY. Very sick last time I checked a few months back. Wife's >>name is Elsie. He had two kids, Judy and Dennis that also live in=20 >>the Cincinnati area. Dennis had some kids. Names unknown. >> >>Sister ?? ... Don't remember her name for sure, but I think it was >>Martha. She lived mainly in the Cincinnati area, toward the east. She >>died probably 10 years ago. Her married name was Trivit (sp?). >> >>Avery - He was a half brother to the above brothers and sisters. He >>lived near Cincinnati, over in a little city named Elsmere, KY. Lost >>track of him. He was never that close to family. >> >>I think there was another brother named Edward. Maybe not. Perhaps he >>was a half brother. There may have been a brother or two that I >>forgot. I know one sister died really young, but I don't remember her >>name. >> >> >>________________________________________________________________________ >> >> >>This info was "stolen from Ruth Whitis' mail to me.... All relationship >>are relative to her, not me. It appears that George and Edward were=20 >>brothers. I'll verify next week. >> >> Gary >> >> >> >> WHITIS BROTHERS & SISTERS OF THE INDIANOPOLIS INDIANA CLAN >> DECENDENTS OF TOM &=A0MARY WHITIS >> >>TOM and MARY (SEWAL) WHITIS (my great-great-grandparents) >> - I don't know how many kids they had, but they were the parents of= >=20 >>GEORGE Wesley Whitis >> - I don't know about siblings either >> >>GEORGE and NORA (CHANEY) WHITIS (my great-grandparents) >> - They had 10 children (whose descendents make up most of the Indy= >=20 >>clan) >> - I don't know yet about siblings >> >> RAYMOND - my grandfather (1904-1972) >> - married to Elizabeth Todd - had 3 children >> RAYMOND (BUD)=20 >> JUANITA (PEG) >> BILLY JOE (JOE) - my father >> >> ELZER (1905-1947) >> >> SIMEON (SIM) EDWARD (1907-1994) >> - married to Ella Todd (yes, Elizabeth's sister) - had 3=20 >>children >> ROBERT >> JEAN >> BILL >> =20 >> NANNIE (1910-1934) >> >> ESCO (1913-1996) >> - married to Irene Whitaker - no children >> >> CURTIS (1916-1975) >> - married to Marie >> >> GRACE FAYE (1919- ) >> - married to Eddie Baker >> >> LONNIE (1921- ) >> - married to Eva >> >> LEE WESLEY (1924-1925) >> VINA ELLEN - she is a half sister (1929- ) >> >> >> >> >>________________________________________________________________________ >>Gary W. Cook Director of Technical Services >>Minicomputer Exchange, Inc. 610 North Pastoria Avenue >>Sunnyvale, CA 94086 Email: gary@mce.com >>Tel: 408-733-4400 Fax: 408-733-8009=20 >> >Okay Guy's, I do think there is a link here, there is so much info, But the >Sewell name clinched as soon as I saw it. Let me explain: > >My Husband, Gary Dwain Whitis / Born: Oct. 18, 1958 Columbus Indiana >-Gary's Father: Paul S. Whitis / Born: April 28, 1923 Somerset Kentucky > >--Paul S. Whitis Father: George Edward Whitis / Second Child of 14# >--Paul S. Whitis Mother: Pearl Susan Baker / died after birth of third= > child > >---George Edward Whitis Remarried to: >---Edith Turner / They had Four Children & then she died to. > >---George Edward Whitis Remarried again to: >---Virginia Mount / They had Ten children, alot of these went to the >Columbus In. area. > >---George Edward Whitis Parent's are: >----James Henry Whitis=20 >----Rebecca Elizabeth Van Hook >(I have that Rebecca's Mother died when Rebecca was very young, she was >raised by her Aunt Mary (Janie) & Uncle Dave Van Hook. Dave VanHook was a >school Teacher. -Rebecca's sister's are: >Nanny Vanhook, raised by Uncle Fount Boyd & Aunt Lizzie. >Nanny Married: Charlie Warren / children: 1#Lucy Warren married Marlow= > Sears,=20 >2#Sarah Warren. >-Rebecca's Brother's are: George Monroe Vanhook, Tom Vanhook. >-Halbert Vanhook (Misspelled) Don't know if he was full or half to Rebecca >-Half sister: Mae Vanhook >-Half brother's are: Rocus Vanhook, Wess Vanhook, Laton Vanhook, Paul (Might >be misspelled) Vanhook. I also have that James Edward & Rebecca childrens >names are: >1#--Mary Jane Whitis married David Wells >2#--George Edward Whitis (children listed below) >***---Edward Whitis >***---Paul S. Whitis >***---Baby Girl Whitis (Died After birth, Pearl Baker Whitis Died Shortly= > After) >***---Calrence Whitis >***---Kenneth Whitis >***---Harold D. Whitis >***---Edith Whitis >***---Dewey Whitis >***---Lewis Whitis (TWIN) >***---Lonnie Whitis (TWIN) >***---Una Pearl (Sissy or Sis) Whitis >***---Ronald Whitis >***---Bobby Whitis >***---Marvin Whitis >***---Larry Whitis >***---Jean Whitis >***---Billy Whitis >3#--David Smith Whitis married Izetta Wesley (children listed below) >***---Billy Whitis >***---Mary Elizabeth Whitis >***---Everett (Nook) Whitis >***---Phyllis Whitis >***---David Whitis Jr. (Bucky) >4#--William Thomas Whitis married Eva Mae Edwards (Children listed below) >***---Gladys Dee Whitis >***---Ruby Jane Whitis >***---Maxcine Whitis >***---Virgil Rusell Whitis (died) >***---William Thomas Whitis Jr. >***---James Chapen Whitis >***---Verl Whitis >***---Jerry McCarthur Whitis >***---Elizabeth Whitis (died at birth) >5#--Nanny Susan Whitis married Luther Hyden (children listed below) >***---Beulah Hyden (8 living children / metion of twins died at 14 months >old???) >***---Lewis Hyden (no children) >***---Clayton Hyden (3 children) >***---Gathel Hyden (3 children >***---Vermont Hyden (2 children) (Might be a misspelling here) >***---Sue Hyden (2 Children) >***---Eddie Eldon Hyden (3 children) >***---Sharon Hyden (3 children) >***---Levon Hyden (2 children) >***---Gerald Hyden >6#--Jonny Franklin married Pearl ? / second wife: Ina Hargus (Children >listed below) >***---Geraldine Whitis >***---Janis Whitis >***---James Franklin Whitis >***---Ronald Whitis >***---Roger Whitis >***---Rebecca Ann Whitis >7#--Cy Rufus Whitis married Minerva Bolin (Children listed below) >***---Avis Whitis >***---Phyllis Whitis >***---Charlene Whitis=20 >8#--Lucy Myrtle married Fred Kelsey (no children) >9#--Henry Authur Whitis married Marian Mount (Children listed below) >***---Carol France Mount (Step-Daughter thru marriage) >10#--Lena Mary Whitis married ? Myers / second husband: ? Sanders (no >children list) >11#--Elizabeth Elma Whitis married Abe Wells (children listed below) >***---James David Wells >***---Janet Wells >***---Louise Wells >***---Ellis Wells >***---June Wells >***---Stephen Wells (died) >***---Charlotte Wells >***---Linda Wells >12#--Varner Lee Whitis married Ruby Mounce / might be incorrect, note:later >devoriced >***---Varner Joe Whitis >***---Dale Lee Whitis >***---Vickie Whitis >13#--Eula Helen Whitis married Nelson Turner / second husband: Earl Myers >***---Gathel Turner >***---Helen Turner >***---Annette Myers >***---Carol Myers >***---Luanne Myers >***---Donna Myers >***---Yvonne Myers >--Ellis Eldon Whitis killed in World War II >=20 > >----James Henry Whitis /born: 10-1877 Parent's are: >-----William Thomas Whitis >-----Mary Sewell > >-----Thomas Whitis Parent's are: >------John Wesley Whitis >------Susie Robert's > >-----Mary Sewell Parent's are: >------Ben Sewell >------Martha Sewell > >I have that LLOYD SEWELL PREACHER is some how related to James Henry's >Brother's & Sister's. >-Susan Whitis Dugger >-Frank Whitis >-George W. Whitis >-Raymond Whitis >-Edger (Edgar) Whitis=20 >-Franklin Whitis=20 >-Diasy Whitis > >Hope this will help you - all, let me know if any think clicks & Where!!! >Are you all aware that the Family Surname is Whitehurst??? My info take the >family back to 1609 England. The Family by trade were Watch makers. Very >interesting info avaible to those who are interested. Send us some thing= > new!!! >Please keep in touch,=20 > >Ava A. Whitis >icepick@usit.net=20 >Ava Whitis > > > > Ava Whitis From whitis Fri May 31 04:07:12 1996 Return-Path: icepick@usit.net Received: from use.usit.net (root@use.usit.net [199.1.48.3]) by top.dbd.com (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA09872 for ; Fri, 31 May 1996 04:07:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: from LOCALNAME (pulaski-slip8.dynamic.usit.net [204.194.170.39]) by use.usit.net (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id EAA22859; Fri, 31 May 1996 04:04:50 -0400 Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 04:04:50 -0400 Message-Id: <199605310804.EAA22859@use.usit.net> X-Sender: icepick@usit.net (Unverified) X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: whitis-clan@dbd.com From: Ava Whitis Subject: Re: Undeliverable message Cc: whitis@isco.purdue.edu Status: RO X-Status: > >> >>Mark.. >> >>Definitely add me to the list. Web Page.. We could even collect >>some photos and get them scanned. If there's any interest, I'll pick >>them up next week and find a scanner. >> >>I have been in contact with another Whitis at Purdue. Her name is Ruth >>Whitis (whitisr@isco.purdue.edu). She's definitely a cousin. I've cc'd >>her on this mail. I'll also attach her list of relatives. Ruth.. >>hopefully, you don't mind if I do. >> >>I was going to contact Ava (icepick@usit.net), but I'll she gets a cc: of >>this message. Ava Whitis is a name this is familar, but I don't know=20 >>exactly how it fits into our group or if it's the same clan. >> >>The mail I sent to Marjorie Whitis (73121.2057@CompuServe.COM) bounced. I >>guess her account is no longer active???? =20 >> >>BTW.. I was curious if everybody pronounces the name the same. The >>Somerset / Indiana / Kentucky group that I know always uses the long i >>as in the color white for the first i. Is this the defacto standard for >>the other branches or do they use the short i? Just curious. >> >>I haven't contacted any of the ones below.. >> >>Ms. Almeta Whitis=20 >>New York >>Minister.. Other things. Interesting person. Check her web page. >>(http://www.dynrec.com/diverse/almeta.html) =20 >> >> >>Stephen Whitis >>Dallas >>Programmer >>http://web2.airmail.net/stephenw/=20 >> >> >>Judith A. Whitis >>Illinois >>Professor of English. >>http://tiger.olivet.edu:81/Campus/Departments/Comm/English/faculty.html) >> >> >>Andrew Whitis >>Pittsburg >>Has a web page.. >> >> >> >> >>________________________________________________________________________ >> >> >>Here's what I _think_ I remember now. I thought I'd throw it out to see >>if it anybody remembers some of the missing links. Next week I'll be in >>Kentucky and I'll try to gather as many names as I can from my >>grandmother, Lizzie Whitis, wife of Otis (deceased) in Russell Springs. >>Lizzie is related to the same "Somerset" branch _and_ is also related in >>another way. Her aunt was Edward Whitis' second wife. That makes one >>of her husband's half brothers (Avery) her cousin! =20 >> >> >> >> WHITIS BROTHERS & SISTERS OF THE SOMERSET KENTUCKY CLAN >> DECENDENTS OF EDWARD &=A0(SARAH?) WHITIS >> >>Edward probably died in the early 50's. I never met him. I know his first >>wife died quite a bit of time before him and he remarried,. >> >>Rumor only.. That my great-great ( or greater?) grandmother on the >>Whitis side was a Cherokee Indian. Not verifiable. >> >>Other info to jog memories and build links.... I'll get the names next >>week. There's or was one family member somewhere up in the mountains of >>eastern Kentucky that sponsored some sort of big motorcycle meet every >>year on her farm. I know there's a branch of our clan that calls that >>part of world home. >> >>Back in the early 60's, one member (name? age? early 20's) that lived >>around Cincinnati was killed in a service station holdup. Shot in the >>back of the head by a sawed off shotgun in downtown Cincinnati. There >>were a lot of Whitis family members at the funeral. Perhaps somebody >>remembers it? I was only about 8 years old at the time. =20 >> >>I'm not sure about some of the spelling of the names... The Whitis >>family has a strange way of naming kids :^/ >> >> >>SONS OF EDWARD & ?????? =20 >> >>Otis - My grandfather. He died in 1977. He was more like a father >>because I was raised by him and his wife, the former Lizzie Bennett. My >>mother (his daughter) was named Veleda (60 years old) who had one son, >>ME! Otis and Lizzie also had a son, Jim, that lives down in Evansville, >>IN. Jim (54 years old) has two sons (Jim and Joe) that live in Indiana >>and Kentucky. They are in their mid 20's.. No kids. >> >>Henry.. I think he was the youngest. His wife was named Alva. They=20 >>lived in Indianapolis. Two kids that I remember, Darvin and Belinda that >>should be 50-60ish in age by now. >> >>Oather - Died back in the 70's - Lived around Somerset all his live. >>Wife was named Claire. I don't remember exactly how many kids he had. >>Two I think. One was a girl for sure. Her name is Jean. She's got to >>be about 60 years old + by now. >> >>William "Willie" - Died sort of young, back in the 50'S. Military >>type. Lived in Texas around San Antonio, I think. I don't know if he >>had any kids. I think his wife was named Marie. =20 >> >>Lando - He lived near Cincinnati, over in a little city named >>Elsmere, KY. Very sick last time I checked a few months back. Wife's >>name is Elsie. He had two kids, Judy and Dennis that also live in=20 >>the Cincinnati area. Dennis had some kids. Names unknown. >> >>Sister ?? ... Don't remember her name for sure, but I think it was >>Martha. She lived mainly in the Cincinnati area, toward the east. She >>died probably 10 years ago. Her married name was Trivit (sp?). >> >>Avery - He was a half brother to the above brothers and sisters. He >>lived near Cincinnati, over in a little city named Elsmere, KY. Lost >>track of him. He was never that close to family. >> >>I think there was another brother named Edward. Maybe not. Perhaps he >>was a half brother. There may have been a brother or two that I >>forgot. I know one sister died really young, but I don't remember her >>name. >> >> >>________________________________________________________________________ >> >> >>This info was "stolen from Ruth Whitis' mail to me.... All relationship >>are relative to her, not me. It appears that George and Edward were=20 >>brothers. I'll verify next week. >> >> Gary >> >> >> >> WHITIS BROTHERS & SISTERS OF THE INDIANOPOLIS INDIANA CLAN >> DECENDENTS OF TOM &=A0MARY WHITIS >> >>TOM and MARY (SEWAL) WHITIS (my great-great-grandparents) >> - I don't know how many kids they had, but they were the parents of= >=20 >>GEORGE Wesley Whitis >> - I don't know about siblings either >> >>GEORGE and NORA (CHANEY) WHITIS (my great-grandparents) >> - They had 10 children (whose descendents make up most of the Indy= >=20 >>clan) >> - I don't know yet about siblings >> >> RAYMOND - my grandfather (1904-1972) >> - married to Elizabeth Todd - had 3 children >> RAYMOND (BUD)=20 >> JUANITA (PEG) >> BILLY JOE (JOE) - my father >> >> ELZER (1905-1947) >> >> SIMEON (SIM) EDWARD (1907-1994) >> - married to Ella Todd (yes, Elizabeth's sister) - had 3=20 >>children >> ROBERT >> JEAN >> BILL >> =20 >> NANNIE (1910-1934) >> >> ESCO (1913-1996) >> - married to Irene Whitaker - no children >> >> CURTIS (1916-1975) >> - married to Marie >> >> GRACE FAYE (1919- ) >> - married to Eddie Baker >> >> LONNIE (1921- ) >> - married to Eva >> >> LEE WESLEY (1924-1925) >> VINA ELLEN - she is a half sister (1929- ) >> >> >> >> >>________________________________________________________________________ >>Gary W. Cook Director of Technical Services >>Minicomputer Exchange, Inc. 610 North Pastoria Avenue >>Sunnyvale, CA 94086 Email: gary@mce.com >>Tel: 408-733-4400 Fax: 408-733-8009=20 >> >Okay Guy's, I do think there is a link here, there is so much info, But the >Sewell name clinched as soon as I saw it. Let me explain: > >My Husband, Gary Dwain Whitis / Born: Oct. 18, 1958 Columbus Indiana >-Gary's Father: Paul S. Whitis / Born: April 28, 1923 Somerset Kentucky > >--Paul S. Whitis Father: George Edward Whitis / Second Child of 14# >--Paul S. Whitis Mother: Pearl Susan Baker / died after birth of third= > child > >---George Edward Whitis Remarried to: >---Edith Turner / They had Four Children & then she died to. > >---George Edward Whitis Remarried again to: >---Virginia Mount / They had Ten children, alot of these went to the >Columbus In. area. > >---George Edward Whitis Parent's are: >----James Henry Whitis=20 >----Rebecca Elizabeth Van Hook >(I have that Rebecca's Mother died when Rebecca was very young, she was >raised by her Aunt Mary (Janie) & Uncle Dave Van Hook. Dave VanHook was a >school Teacher. -Rebecca's sister's are: >Nanny Vanhook, raised by Uncle Fount Boyd & Aunt Lizzie. >Nanny Married: Charlie Warren / children: 1#Lucy Warren married Marlow= > Sears,=20 >2#Sarah Warren. >-Rebecca's Brother's are: George Monroe Vanhook, Tom Vanhook. >-Halbert Vanhook (Misspelled) Don't know if he was full or half to Rebecca >-Half sister: Mae Vanhook >-Half brother's are: Rocus Vanhook, Wess Vanhook, Laton Vanhook, Paul (Might >be misspelled) Vanhook. I also have that James Edward & Rebecca childrens >names are: >1#--Mary Jane Whitis married David Wells >2#--George Edward Whitis (children listed below) >***---Edward Whitis >***---Paul S. Whitis >***---Baby Girl Whitis (Died After birth, Pearl Baker Whitis Died Shortly= > After) >***---Calrence Whitis >***---Kenneth Whitis >***---Harold D. Whitis >***---Edith Whitis >***---Dewey Whitis >***---Lewis Whitis (TWIN) >***---Lonnie Whitis (TWIN) >***---Una Pearl (Sissy or Sis) Whitis >***---Ronald Whitis >***---Bobby Whitis >***---Marvin Whitis >***---Larry Whitis >***---Jean Whitis >***---Billy Whitis >3#--David Smith Whitis married Izetta Wesley (children listed below) >***---Billy Whitis >***---Mary Elizabeth Whitis >***---Everett (Nook) Whitis >***---Phyllis Whitis >***---David Whitis Jr. (Bucky) >4#--William Thomas Whitis married Eva Mae Edwards (Children listed below) >***---Gladys Dee Whitis >***---Ruby Jane Whitis >***---Maxcine Whitis >***---Virgil Rusell Whitis (died) >***---William Thomas Whitis Jr. >***---James Chapen Whitis >***---Verl Whitis >***---Jerry McCarthur Whitis >***---Elizabeth Whitis (died at birth) >5#--Nanny Susan Whitis married Luther Hyden (children listed below) >***---Beulah Hyden (8 living children / metion of twins died at 14 months >old???) >***---Lewis Hyden (no children) >***---Clayton Hyden (3 children) >***---Gathel Hyden (3 children >***---Vermont Hyden (2 children) (Might be a misspelling here) >***---Sue Hyden (2 Children) >***---Eddie Eldon Hyden (3 children) >***---Sharon Hyden (3 children) >***---Levon Hyden (2 children) >***---Gerald Hyden >6#--Jonny Franklin married Pearl ? / second wife: Ina Hargus (Children >listed below) >***---Geraldine Whitis >***---Janis Whitis >***---James Franklin Whitis >***---Ronald Whitis >***---Roger Whitis >***---Rebecca Ann Whitis >7#--Cy Rufus Whitis married Minerva Bolin (Children listed below) >***---Avis Whitis >***---Phyllis Whitis >***---Charlene Whitis=20 >8#--Lucy Myrtle married Fred Kelsey (no children) >9#--Henry Authur Whitis married Marian Mount (Children listed below) >***---Carol France Mount (Step-Daughter thru marriage) >10#--Lena Mary Whitis married ? Myers / second husband: ? Sanders (no >children list) >11#--Elizabeth Elma Whitis married Abe Wells (children listed below) >***---James David Wells >***---Janet Wells >***---Louise Wells >***---Ellis Wells >***---June Wells >***---Stephen Wells (died) >***---Charlotte Wells >***---Linda Wells >12#--Varner Lee Whitis married Ruby Mounce / might be incorrect, note:later >devoriced >***---Varner Joe Whitis >***---Dale Lee Whitis >***---Vickie Whitis >13#--Eula Helen Whitis married Nelson Turner / second husband: Earl Myers >***---Gathel Turner >***---Helen Turner >***---Annette Myers >***---Carol Myers >***---Luanne Myers >***---Donna Myers >***---Yvonne Myers >--Ellis Eldon Whitis killed in World War II >=20 > >----James Henry Whitis /born: 10-1877 Parent's are: >-----William Thomas Whitis >-----Mary Sewell > >-----Thomas Whitis Parent's are: >------John Wesley Whitis >------Susie Robert's > >-----Mary Sewell Parent's are: >------Ben Sewell >------Martha Sewell > >I have that LLOYD SEWELL PREACHER is some how related to James Henry's >Brother's & Sister's. >-Susan Whitis Dugger >-Frank Whitis >-George W. Whitis >-Raymond Whitis >-Edger (Edgar) Whitis=20 >-Franklin Whitis=20 >-Diasy Whitis > >Hope this will help you - all, let me know if any think clicks & Where!!! >Are you all aware that the Family Surname is Whitehurst??? My info take the >family back to 1609 England. The Family by trade were Watch makers. Very >interesting info avaible to those who are interested. Send us some thing= > new!!! >Please keep in touch,=20 > >Ava A. Whitis >icepick@usit.net=20 >Ava Whitis > > > > Ava Whitis From whitis Fri May 31 22:52:56 1996 Return-Path: icepick@usit.net Received: from use.usit.net (root@use.usit.net [199.1.48.3]) by top.dbd.com (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA10391 for ; Fri, 31 May 1996 22:52:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: from LOCALNAME (pulaski-slip3.dynamic.usit.net [204.194.170.34]) by use.usit.net (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id WAA24961 for ; Fri, 31 May 1996 22:50:19 -0400 Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 22:50:19 -0400 Message-Id: <199606010250.WAA24961@use.usit.net> X-Sender: icepick@usit.net (Unverified) X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: whitis-clan@dbd.com From: Ava Whitis Subject: Re: Whitehurst-Whitis Name & History Status: RO X-Status: >Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 20:13:43 >To: Mark Whitis >From: Ava Whitis >Subject: Re: Whitehurst-Whitis Name & History > >At 04:12 AM 5/31/96 -0400, you wrote: >>Uh, looks like Eudora is improperly configured. >>My last message to you bounced. >> >>-- >>Mark Whitis ; 804-962-4268 >>428-B Moseley Drive; Charlottesville, VA 22903 >> >> >Mark, > >Is it possible that we could have been E-Mailing each other at the same instant, cause I had mail going to you, that got kicked back to me also. >Did you get my last mailing, info on Charles Wesley Whitis? >So bring me up to date, what's new? >I have already talked with Andrew Whitis, & Stephen Whitis, Stephen is especially interested in gathering info & Sharing. Andrew self-pronounced Gay Man, gave some family info, his Sister & Mother will be more helpful. >This is Some of the info I have, Every one feel free to fill in the blanks. It's long but it was the only way I could explain my husband (Gary Dwain Whitis) Link in the Whitis Clan. >Generation I >------------William Whitehurst, believed to be the Emigrant father of the Whitehurst of Virginia, was one of 20# men transported into the colony of Elizabeth City County, Va. This was the location of the 1,000 acres Mr. Stafferton received for transporting the 20# men into the Virginia colony. >the following entry by Nell M. Nugent may be found in the "Cavaliers and Pioneers", published in 1934 in Richmond, Va. and reprinted by the Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc. in 1963, 1969, 1974, 111 Water Street, Baltimore, Maryland, 21202, or in the Land Office Records, Virginia State Library, Richmond Virginia. > JAMES VANERIT, 1,000 acs. Eliz. Citty Co., 17 Oct 1636, p. 396. > For the breadth from Sandy Bay along point Comfort Cr. N.E. & Into > the wood S.W. Due by purchase from Stafferton(first name not mentioned) > to whom it was due for trans. of 20 per: > Georg Woodcook Wm. James Jon. Sanders > John Wilcocks Hen. Walker Chr. Dawsey > Abr. Iveson Chr. Ward Fr. Denmarke > Hugh Lawson Jon. Holmes Rowd Vaughan > Hen. Jeffery Geo. Clarke Rachell Adams > Jon. Haward *Wm. Whitehurst Jon. Newman > Tho. Martin Jon. Tingy > William Whitehurst came from Staffordshire, England. I have info on this Whitehurst family from England that goes back to 1558 & earlier. (Trade Watch Makers) >The name is spelled eight different ways: Whitehurst, Whithurst, Whithurste, Whiturst, Whytehurst, Whytehurste, Whythurst, and Whythurste. >This may account for the pronunciation of the most commonly used Whitis name. >Misspelling's in 1820 - to Whitass, 1830 - Whitus, 1840 - Whitis. It is in my information back six years ago there was 363# Whitis Family's. The spelling links all these families. >--------William Whitehurst came to America with son's from Dublin, Ireland, but they were English; not Irish. Son William Richard Whitehurst > William Richard Whitehurst Born: circa 1600/Died: Nov 22, 1651 > Married: Ellen Russell Died: 1634 >Children listed below: >1. James Whitehurst will: 1721 > Married:Sarah Goldsmith, daughter of William Goldsmith >2. Robert Whitehurst will: 1691 > Married:Elinor Nicholas, daughter of Henry Nicholas >3. John Whitehurst will: 1691 > Married:Mary (Unknown) >4. William Whitehurst will: 1699 > Married:Jane (Unknown) >5.******Richard Whitehurst Born: circa 1636 Died: circa 1705 > Married: before 1675, Margaret Nicholas, daughter of Andrew Nicholas >6. Ellen Whitehurst, no information >7. Susan Whitehurst, no infromation >All of us who go by the Surname Whitis are decendants of Richard Whitehurst (Third Gen) >& wife Margaret Nicholas children listed as: >1. William Whitehurst will: 1732 Princess Anne County, Va. >2. Richard Whitehurst will: 1765 Onslow County, North Carolina >3. John Whitiehurst no information >4. Batson Whitehurst will: 1759 Princess Anne County, Carolina >5. James Whitehurst no information >6.******Simon Whitehurst Born: circa 1730 Died: 1800 Princess Anne County, Va. > Married: Argent Cox Princess Anne County Va. They had five children born in Va, and later moved the family to Beaufort County, North Carolina, and settled on South Dividing Creek. >The 1790 Census of Beaufort County, N.C., list three Simon Whitehurst. Surname was misspelled even then as Whittus. > Simon & Argent Cox Whitehurst children listed: >1. Henry Whitehurst Born: Oct. 23, 1753 > Married: Lydia Vause >2. Hillery Whitehurst Born: 1755, Pricess Anne County, Va. >3.******Batson Whitehurst Born: 1757 >4. Nancy Whitehurst Cox >5. Sarah Whitehurst >Batson Whitehurst, son of Simon Whitehurst, was born in Princess Anne County, Va., but moved with his parents to Beaufort County, N.C., when he was about four years old. He married in North Carolina, but there were several Batson's in Beaufort County and Pitt County, so the wife of Batson, Simon Whitehurst, has not been determined. >Batson enlisted in the Revolutionary War July 20, 1778. and served nine months. He was enlisted as Batson Whites instead of Batson Whitehurst. >Batson had many land deeds on record in Beaufort County, but he sold his land before he moved to Hawkins County, Tennessee, with his son Thomas Joshua, and his family. This move was made sometime between 1821 and 1823. >When Batson made his will March 26, 1823, he did not name his wife as an heir, so she must have been deceased. >Among those named in Batson's will were four grandchildren: >Patsy (Martha), Batson, John, and Thomas Whitehurst. (Thomas Jefferson Whitehurst is the seventh generation in this genealogy). Three more grandchildren were born after the elder Batson's death. >___________________________________________________________________________ _____________ >********Batson Whitehurst Sr. Born: 1757 and his wife children listed below: >1# Batson Whitehurst Jr. no information >2# Simon Whitehurst no information >3# Aurthur Whitehurst & his wife child listed below: > 1. William Whitehurst Born: 1788 Married: Elizabeth ? >4# Richard Whitehurst & his wife child listed below: > 1. John C. Whitehurst Born: 1803 Married: Elizabeth Bryan Born: 1812 >5#******Thomas Joshua Whitehurst (Generation VI in this Genealogy) > Married:Elizabeth P. ? 1814-1815, their children listed below: > 1# Martha (Patsy) (Whitehurst)-Whitis Born:1816 N.C. > Married: Claiborn Russell in 1836, Tennessee/children listed below: > 1. Albert Russell > 2. Jane Russell > 3. Thomas Russell > 4. Elizabeth Russell > 5. Russell Russell > 2# John (Whitehurst)-Whitis Born:1817 N.C. > Married: Susan Roberts / in Hawkins County, Tennessee children listed below: > 1. Nomen Whitis > 2. John Wesley Whitis > 3. Francis Whitis > 4. Amanda Whitis > 5. Hiram Whitis > 6. William Thomas Whitis Born:Dec 1855 > Married Martha Sewell Born:Jan 1853 /children listed below: > 1. James Henry Whitis Born:Oct 23, 1877 > Married: Rebecca Elizabeth Vanhook Born:July 7 1883 Children listed below: > 1. Mary Whitis > 2. George Edward Whitis > 1. Edward Whitis > 2. Paul S. Whitis > 1. Paul Edward Whitis > 1. Terry Paul Whitis > 2. Jennifer Ann Whitis > 2. Debbie Marie Whitis > 3. Gary Dwain Whitis > 1. Roy Whitis > 2. Ava Ann Whitis > 4. Darlene Faye Whitis > 1. Scottie Dewitt > 2. Adam David Dewitt > 5. Lena Mae Whitis > 1. Amber Novem > 2. Joshua Novem > 3. Harold D. Whitis > 4. Kenneth Whitis > 5. Clarence Whitis > 6. Edith Whitis > 1. George Anthony Authur > 2. John Avery Auther > 7. Dewey Whitis > 8. Euna Pearl Whitis > 9. Ronald Whitis > 10. Billy Whitis > 11. Marvin Whitis > 12. Eugene (Gene) Whitis > 13. Bobby Whitis > 14. Louie Whitis > 15. Lonnie Whitis > 16. Larry Whitis > 3. David Smith Whitis Born:Sept 15 1830 > 1. Mary Whitis > 2. Phyllis Mary Whitis > 1. David Anderstrosse > 1. Hope Anderstrosse > 2. April Anderstrosse > 2. Vickie Ann Anderstrosse > 1. Shiefer (girl) > 2. Shiefer (girl) > 3. Shiefer (boy) > 3. Mary Lou Anderstrosse > 4. Debbie Kay Anderstrosse > 3. David O.(Bucky) Whitis > 1. Pamala Whitis > 2. David Whitis > 3. Phyllis Whitis > 4. William James (Billy) Whitis > 1. William Whitis > 2. Christy Lynn Whitis > 3. Brenda Ann Whitis > 4. Jody Whitis > 5. Keith Whitis > 6. Cary Whitis > 5. Everett Lee Whitis b.11-26-1935/d.1987 > 4. William (Bill) Thomas Whitis > 1. Gladys Dee Whitis > 2. Ruby Catherine Whitis > 3. Maxine Whitis > 4. Vrigil Russell Whitis > 5. William Thomas (Billy) Whitis Jr. > 6. James Chapen Whitis > 7. Verle Whitis > 8. Jerry McGather Whitis > 5. Nannie Whitis > 1. Buelah Hyden > 2. Lewis Hyden > 3. Clayton Hyden > 4. Getha Hyden > 5. Seel Hyden > 6. Vermont Hyden > 7. Eldon (Eddie) Hyden > 6. Frank Whitis > 1. Geraldine Whitis > 2. Janice Whitis > 3. Frankie Whitis > 4. Ronald Whitis > 5. Roger Whitis > 6. Becki whitis > 7. Cy Rufus Whitis > 1. Avis Whitis > 2. Phyllis Whitis > 3. Charlene Whitis > 8. Lucy Whitis > 9. Arthur Whitis > 1. Carol Whitis > 10. Lena Mae Whitis-Myers-Sanders > 1. Donald Ray Myers > 11. Elma Whitis > 1. James Wells > 2. Janet Wells > 3. Louise Wells > 4. Ellis Wells > 5. June Wells > 6. Steven Wells > 7. Charlotte Wells > 8. Linda Wells > 12. Varner Whitis > 1. Joe Whitis > 2. Dale Whitis > 3. Vicki Whitis > 13. Eula Helen Whitis > 1. Gathel Louise Myers-Turner > 2. Myrtle Helen Myers-Tuner > 3. Eula Annette Myers-Short > 1. Robert William Short > 2. Ranee Elizabeth Short > 4. Donna Elaine Myers-Sheridan > 1. Eric James Sheridan > 2. Stacy Lynn Sheridan > 5. Carol Mea Myers-Zen Eyck > 1. Donald Earl Zen Eyck > 2. Micheal Scat Zen Eyck > 6. Yvonne Elizabeth Myers-Taylor > 1. Timmothy David Taylor > 7. Lou Ann Myers-Dutton > 1. Lana Dutton > 2. Adinah Dutton > 3. David Earl > 14. Ellis Eldon Whitis > 2. George W. Whitis Born:Oct 1883 > 3. Franklin Whitis Born:Feb 1886 > 4. Disie Whitis Born:Aug 1889 > 5. Susan Whitis-Dugger > 6. Raymond Whitis > 7. Edgar Whitis > 7. Rachel Whitis > 8. James Whitis > 9. Charles Whitis > 10. Martha Whitis > 3# Batson (Whitehurst)-Whitis Born:1818 N.C. > 4# Thomas Jefferson (Whitehurst)-Whitis Born:1819 N.C./Died: Nov 21, 1905 > Married: Elizabeth Ann Burton Born: April 28, 1824/Died: April 30, 1906 > Elizabeth Ann Burton is supposed to be related to Daniel Boone / Apparently Thomas Jefferson & Elizabeth Ann Whitis moved to Williamson County, Texas before 1900. > Children listed below: > 1. Sarah Whitis > 2. Jessie Whitis > 3. Martha Whitis > 4. Mary B. Whitis > 5. Alice Whitis > 6. Nancy Whitis Born: 1858 / Died: 1858 Somerset, Kentucky > 7. Lucinda Whitis > 8. James Calvin Whitis > 9. John Napoleon Whitis > 10. William Robert Whitis > 5# Charles Wesley (Whitehurst)-Whitis Born:1824 Tn. > Married: Florance Rogan / 1857 Lockhart Texas children listed below: > 1. Mary Whitis > 2. Dr. Rufus Whitis > 3. Willie B. Whitis > 4. John H. Whitis > 5. Charles Wesley Whitis > 6. Florance Whitis > 7. Ellen Patten Whitis > 8. Gertrude Whitis > 9. Thomas P. Whitis > 6# Hiram (Whitehurst)-Whitis Born:1825 Tn./Died:May 2,1899 Ky. > Married: Nancy Stinson Ping on Oct. 20, 1853 Somerset, Pulaski Co., Kentucky she was Born:March 13, 1836/Died:May 29, 1915 /children listed below: > 1. Mary Elizabeth Whitis - Born:Nov 20, 1854/Died:July 20, 1894 > 2. Melvina Whitis - Born:Oct 16, 1856/Died:July 15, 1889 > Married: James Riley Mize / children listed below: > 1. William Mize > 2. Cora Mize > 3. Robert Greenup Whitis - Born:Dec 9, 1859/Died:Feb 21, 1955 > Married: Emma Sarah Ryder - Born:Nov 12, 1861/Died:Jan 6, 1957 > Children listed below: > 1. Theadore Whitis > Married: Mattie Baird / children listed below: > 1. Wilma Luvian Whitis Born:Sept 6 1922 > 2. Alma Lee Whitis Born:July 30 1924 > 3. Ralph Theadore Whitis Born:Feb 23 1926 > 4. Robert Lafollette Whitis Born:Oct 31 1931 > 5. Jean Anne Whitis Born:Feb 26 1937 > 6. Thomas Dewey Whitis Born:May 6 1940-Apr 4 1985 > 2. George Ishmael Whitis > 3. Anna Whitis > 4. Sophia Alice Whitis > 4. Charles Wesley Whitis - Born:Jan 10, 1862/Died:Jan 11, 1933 > Married: Sarah C. Randall - Born:Nov 22, 1887 > 5. William Daniel Whitis Born:Jan 10, 1864/Died:March 17, 1914 > Married: Paralee Russell > 6. Thomas Whitis - Born:Nov 5, 1866/Died:Feb 8, 1939 > Married: Emily Jane Smith > 7. George Hampton Whitis - Born:Oct 29, 1869/Died:Feb 14, 1945 > Married: Janie Langford on July 22, 1891 > 8. Florance Patience Whitis - Born:Jan 30, 1872/Died:Mar 3, 1893 > Married: James Riley Mize on 1872 > 9. Sarah Alice Whitis - Born:Sept, 1874/Died:Dec 2, 1936 > Married: James Milky Mize Sr. on 1874 / children listed below: > 1. George Fred Mize > 2. Theadore Mize > 3. Mary Zena Mize > 4. Earl Mize > 5. Ella Mize > 6. Lucion Mize > 7. Vola Bea Mize > 8. James Riley Mize Jr. > 7# Angeline (Whitehurst)-Whitis Born:1830 Tn. >Elizabeth P. Whitehurst listed on 1850 census, but not on the 1860. Possiably died about 1852, as four of her children, Martha, John, Hiram, and Thomas Jefferson, moved to Pulaski County, Kentucky. Another son, Charles Wesley, was attending Tusculum Collage in Greenville, N.C., and after he received his degree, moved to Lockhart, Texas, in 1854. > >*************************************************************************** ************* > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Ava Whitis From whitis Sat Jun 1 22:26:30 1996 Return-Path: whitis Received: (from whitis@localhost) by top.dbd.com (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA11707; Sat, 1 Jun 1996 22:26:28 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 1 Jun 1996 14:17:38 -0400 Message-Id: <199606011817.OAA26098@use.usit.net> X-Sender: icepick@usit.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 1 (Highest) To: whitis@dbd.com From: Ava Whitis Subject: Whitehurst & Whitis Family Name & History/New info Added Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ReSent-Date: Sat, 1 Jun 1996 22:26:19 -0400 (EDT) ReSent-From: Mark Whitis ReSent-To: whitis-clan-archive@dbd.com ReSent-Message-ID: Status: RO X-Status: Generation I ------------William Whitehurst, believed to be the Emigrant father of the Whitehurst of Virginia, was one of 20# men transported into the colony of Elizabeth City County, Va. This was the location of the 1,000 acres Mr. Stafferton received for transporting the 20# men into the Virginia colony. the following entry by Nell M. Nugent may be found in the "Cavaliers and Pioneers", published in 1934 in Richmond, Va. and reprinted by the Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc. in 1963, 1969, 1974, 111 Water Street, Baltimore, Maryland, 21202, or in the Land Office Records, Virginia State Library, Richmond Virginia. JAMES VANERIT, 1,000 acs. Eliz. Citty Co., 17 Oct 1636, p. 396. For the breadth from Sandy Bay along point Comfort Cr. N.E. & Into the wood S.W. Due by purchase from Stafferton(first name not mentioned) to whom it was due for trans. of 20 per: Georg Woodcook Wm. James Jon. Sanders John Wilcocks Hen. Walker Chr. Dawsey Abr. Iveson Chr. Ward Fr. Denmarke Hugh Lawson Jon. Holmes Rowd Vaughan Hen. Jeffery Geo. Clarke Rachell Adams Jon. Haward *Wm. Whitehurst Jon. Newman Tho. Martin Jon. Tingy William Whitehurst came from Staffordshire, England. I have info on this Whitehurst family from England that goes back to 1558 & earlier. (Trade Watch Makers) The name is spelled eight different ways: Whitehurst, Whithurst, Whithurste, Whiturst, Whytehurst, Whytehurste, Whythurst, and Whythurste. This may account for the pronunciation of the most commonly used Whitis name. Misspelling's in 1820 - to Whitass, 1830 - Whitus, 1840 - Whitis. It is in my information back six years ago there was 363# Whitis Family's. The spelling links all these families. --------William Whitehurst came to America with son's from Dublin, Ireland, but they were English; not Irish. Son William Richard Whitehurst William Richard Whitehurst Born: circa 1600/Died: Nov 22, 1651 Married: Ellen Russell Died: 1634 Children listed below: 1. James Whitehurst will: 1721 Married:Sarah Goldsmith, daughter of William Goldsmith 2. Robert Whitehurst will: 1691 Married:Elinor Nicholas, daughter of Henry Nicholas 3. John Whitehurst will: 1691 Married:Mary (Unknown) 4. William Whitehurst will: 1699 Married:Jane (Unknown) 5.******Richard Whitehurst Born: circa 1636 Died: circa 1705 Married: before 1675, Margaret Nicholas, daughter of Andrew Nicholas 6. Ellen Whitehurst, no information 7. Susan Whitehurst, no infromation All of us who go by the Surname Whitis are decendants of Richard Whitehurst (Third Gen), & wife Margaret Nicholas children listed as: 1. William Whitehurst will: 1732 Princess Anne County, Va. 2. Richard Whitehurst will: 1765 Onslow County, North Carolina 3. John Whitiehurst no information 4. Batson Whitehurst will: 1759 Princess Anne County, Carolina 5. James Whitehurst no information 6.******Simon Whitehurst Born: circa 1730 Died: 1800 Princess Anne County,Va. Married: Argent Cox Princess Anne County Va. They had five children born in Va, and later moved the family to Beaufort County, North Carolina, and settled on South Dividing Creek. The 1790 Census of Beaufort County, N.C., list three Simon Whitehurst. Surname was misspelled even then as Whittus. ********Simon & Argent Cox Whitehurst children listed: 1. Henry Whitehurst Born: Oct. 23, 1753 Married: Lydia Vause 2. Hillery Whitehurst Born: 1755, Pricess Anne County, Va. 3.******Batson Whitehurst Born: 1757 4. Nancy Whitehurst Cox 5. Sarah Whitehurst Batson Whitehurst, son of Simon Whitehurst, was born in Princess Anne County, Va., but moved with his parents to Beaufort County, N.C., when he was about four years old. He married in North Carolina, but there were several Batson's in Beaufort County and Pitt County, so the wife of Batson, Son of Simon Whitehurst, has not been determined. Batson enlisted in the Revolutionary War July 20, 1778. and served nine months. He was enlisted as Batson Whites instead of Batson Whitehurst. Batson had many land deeds on record in Beaufort County, but he sold his land before he moved to Hawkins County, Tennessee, with his son Thomas Joshua, and his family. This move was made sometime between 1821 and 1823. When Batson made his will March 26, 1823, he did not name his wife as an heir, so she must have been deceased. Among those named in Batson's will were four grandchildren: Patsy (Martha), Batson, John, and Thomas Whitehurst,(Thomas Jefferson Whitehurst). Whitehurst is the seventh generation in this genealogy). Three more grandchildren were born after the elder Batson's death. ____________________________________________________________________________ _________ ***Batson Whitehurst Sr. Born: 1757 and his wife children listed below: 1# Batson Whitehurst Jr. no information 2# Simon Whitehurst no information 3# Aurthur Whitehurst & his wife child listed below: 1. William Whitehurst Born: 1788 Married: Elizabeth ? 4# Richard Whitehurst & his wife child listed below: 1. John C. Whitehurst Born: 1803 Married: Elizabeth Bryan Born: 1812 5#*Thomas Joshua Whitehurst (Generation VI in this Genealogy) Married:Elizabeth P. ? 1814-1815, their children listed below: 1# Martha (Patsy) (Whitehurst)-Whitis Born:1816 N.C. Married: Claiborn Russell in 1836, Tennessee/children listed below: 1. Albert Russell 2. Jane Russell 3. Thomas Russell 4. Elizabeth Russell 5. Russell Russell 2# John (Whitehurst)-Whitis Born:1817 N.C. Married: Susan Roberts / in Hawkins County, Tennessee children listed below: 1. Nomen Whitis 2. John Wesley Whitis 3. Francis Whitis 4. Amanda Whitis 5. Hiram Whitis 6. William Thomas Whitis Born:Dec 1855 Married Martha Sewell Born:Jan 1853 /children listed below: 1. James Henry Whitis Born:Oct 23, 1877 Married: Rebecca Elizabeth Vanhook Born:July 7 1883 Children listed below: 1. Mary Whitis 2. George Edward Whitis 1. Edward Whitis 2. Paul S. Whitis 1. Paul Edward Whitis 1. Terry Paul Whitis 2. Jennifer Ann Whitis 2. Debbie Marie Whitis 3. Gary Dwain Whitis 1. Roy Whitis 2. Ava Ann Whitis 4. Darlene Faye Whitis 1. Scottie Dewitt 2. Adam David Dewitt 5. Lena Mae Whitis 1. Amber Novem 2. Joshua Novem 3. Harold D. Whitis 4. Kenneth Whitis 5. Clarence Whitis 6. Edith Whitis 1. George Anthony Authur 2. John Avery Auther 7. Dewey Whitis 8. Euna Pearl Whitis 9. Ronald Whitis 10. Billy Whitis 11. Marvin Whitis 12. Eugene (Gene) Whitis 13. Bobby Whitis 14. Louie Whitis 15. Lonnie Whitis 16. Larry Whitis 3. David Smith Whitis Born:Sept 15 1830 1. Mary Whitis 2. Phyllis Mary Whitis 1. David Anderstrosse 1. Hope Anderstrosse 2. April Anderstrosse 2. Vickie Ann Anderstrosse 1. Shiefer (girl) 2. Shiefer (girl) 3. Shiefer (boy) 3. Mary Lou Anderstrosse 4. Debbie Kay Anderstrosse 3. David O.(Bucky) Whitis 1. Pamala Whitis 2. David Whitis 3. Phyllis Whitis 4. William James (Billy) Whitis 1. William Whitis 2. Christy Lynn Whitis 3. Brenda Ann Whitis 4. Jody Whitis 5. Keith Whitis 6. Cary Whitis 5. Everett Lee Whitis d.11-26-1935/d.1987 4. William (Bill) Thomas Whitis 1. Gladys Dee Whitis 2. Ruby Catherine Whitis 3. Maxine Whitis 4. Vrigil Russell Whitis 5. William Thomas (Billy) Whitis Jr. 6. James Chapen Whitis 7. Verle Whitis 8. Jerry McGather Whitis 5. Nannie Whitis 1. Buelah Hyden 2. Lewis Hyden 3. Clayton Hyden 4. Getha Hyden 5. Seel Hyden 6. Vermont Hyden 7. Eldon (Eddie) Hyden 6. Frank Whitis 1. Geraldine Whitis 2. Janice Whitis 3. Frankie Whitis 4. Ronald Whitis 5. Roger Whitis 6. Becki whitis 7. Cy Rufus Whitis 1. Avis Whitis 2. Phyllis Whitis 3. Charlene Whitis 8. Lucy Whitis 9. Arthur Whitis 1. Carol Whitis 10. Lena Mae Whitis-Myers-Sanders 1. Donald Ray Myers 11. Elma Whitis 1. James Wells 2. Janet Wells 3. Louise Wells 4. Ellis Wells 5. June Wells 6. Steven Wells 7. Charlotte Wells 8. Linda Wells 12. Varner Whitis 1. Joe Whitis 2. Dale Whitis 3. Vicki Whitis 13. Eula Helen Whitis 1. Gathel Louise Myers-Turner 2. Myrtle Helen Myers-Tuner 3. Eula Annette Myers-Short 1. Robert William Short 2. Ranee Elizabeth Short 4. Donna Elaine Myers-Sheridan 1. Eric James Sheridan 2. Stacy Lynn Sheridan 5. Carol Mea Myers-Zen Eyck 1. Donald Earl Zen Eyck 2. Micheal Scat Zen Eyck 6. Yvonne Elizabeth Myers-Taylor 1. Timmothy David Taylor 7. Lou Ann Myers-Dutton 1. Lana Dutton 2. Adinah Dutton 3. David Earl 14. Ellis Eldon Whitis 2. George W. Whitis Born:Oct 1883 3. Franklin Whitis Born:Feb 1886 4. Disie Whitis Born:Aug 1889 5. Susan Whitis-Dugger 6. Raymond Whitis 7. Edgar Whitis 7. Rachel Whitis 8. James Whitis 9. Charles Whitis 10. Martha Whitis 3# Batson (Whitehurst)-Whitis Born:1818 N.C. 4# Thomas Jefferson (Whitehurst)-Whitis Born:1819 N.C./Died: Nov 21, 1905 Married: Elizabeth Ann Burton Born: April 28, 1824/Died:April 30, 1906 Elizabeth Ann Burton is supposed to be related to Daniel Boone/Apparently Thomas Jefferson & Elizabeth Ann Whitis moved to Williamson County, Texas before 1900. Children listed below: 1. Sarah Whitis Born: 1845, Hawkins County, Tennessee Married: Bowling Bullock on Feb 2, 1863 Pulaski County, Tennessee Bowling Bullock Born:1828 Virginia Children listed below: 1. Elizabeth Bullock Born: 1864 2. Mary M. Bullock Born: 1865 3. Edward Bullock Born: 1868 4. James Bullock Born: 1874 2. Jessie Whitis Born: 1847, Hawkins County, Tennessee Married: Elizabeth N. Eldridge in 1870 /Born:1847 North Carolina Children listed below: 1. James E. Whitis Born: 1871 2. William Whitis Born: 1874 3. Mary E. Whitis Born: 1875 4. Martha Whitis Born: 1879 5. Ted Whitis Born: ???? 3. Martha Whitis Born: 1849, Hawkins County, Tennessee Married: Pleasant John Smith in 1873 Children unknown? 4. Mary B. Whitis Born: 1851, Hawkins County, Tennessee Married: Daniel Harper in Feb. 1872 Child listed below: 1. Frank Harper 5. Alice Whitis Born: 1856, Pulaski County, Kentucky Married: Augusta Smith on March 13, 1873, Pulaski Co., Ky. Augusta Smith Born: 1851, Lee County, Virginia Children unknown? 6. Nancy Whitis Born: 1858 / Died: 1858 Somerset, Kentucky 7. Lucinda Whitis Born: 1860, Pulaski County, Kentucky Married: Felix Shelton, in Pulaski County, Kentucky Children unknown ? 8. James Calvin Whitis Born: 1865, Pulaski Conty, Tennesse Married Twice, Wife's Names Unknown? Children listed below: 1. Jess (J.J) Whitis 2. Will (W.T.) Whitis 3. Colby Whitis 4. Frank Whitis 5. Clarence Whitis 6. Elbert R. Whitis 9. John Napoleon Whitis Born: Aug 1, 1871 /Died: Oct 12, 1895 Buried in the Whitis plot in Kempner Cem., Kempner Texas. 10. William Robert Whitis Born: June 20, 1863/Died: Apr 17, 1928 Married: Twice (first wife's name is Unknown, but from Tenn, married in in Pulaski County,Kentucky) child from this union below: 1. Edgar Whitis Born: circa 1861, Pulaski County, Ky. Married: Eliza Ellen Chapman on 1882 Born: Mar 25, 1865/Died: Aug 16, 1948/ Children listed below: 2. James Harvey Whitis Born: Apr 27, 1884/Died: Nov 27, 1884 3. Emmett Whitis Born: Jan 13, 1886/Died: Jun 1, 1963 Married: Kate Seals on Mar 15, 1906 Born: 1887/Died: Jan 14, 1980 Children listed below: 1. Thurman Stanley Whitis Born:Mar 11, 1907 Kempner, Tx Married: Glenna Evelyn Dillard on Apr 4, 1931 Bron: Apr 3, 1909. Children listed below: 1. Van Whitis Born: Nov 31, 1937 Lubbock, Tx. Married: Martha Ann Phillips on Jul 13, 1963 in Whittier, California/ Born: Mar 12, 1941 Arkansas. Children listed below: 1. Cary Alysia Whitis Born: Mar 7, 1941 in Stamford, Cailfornia 2. Gavin David Whitis Born: May 12, 1944 in London, England 2. Robert Benjamin (R.B.)Whitis Married: Oletha ? on July 30, 1931/children listed below: 1. Jeanne Whitis Born: Jan 15, 1932 2. Bobbie Whitis Born: Aug 8, 1933 3. Patsy Whitis Born: Apr 27, 1935 4. Robert Van Whitis Born: Apr 8. 1945 3. Emmett Duwain Whitis Sr. Born: Apr 15, 1918 Kempner, Tx./Died:? Married: Susan Perry on Nov 30, 1944 in Dallas, Tx. Born: July 20, 1920 San Angelo, Tx./Died: Children listed below: 1. Susan Whitis 2. Catherine Whitis 3. Emmett Duwain Whitis 4. Elzy Whitis Born: Jan 13, 1886/Died: Feb 5, 1957 Married: Kate Casbeer on Jan 1, 1906. Born: Sep 21, 1884/Died: July 1, 1951 /children listed below: 1. Inez Whitis 2. Johnie Pauline Whitis 3. Myrl Whitis 4. Arleta Whitis 5. Billie Louise Whitis 6. Kenneth Wayland Whitis 7. William Robert (W.R.) Whitis 5. Mary Elizabeth (Bettie) Whitis Born: Mar 7, 1888 Burnet County, Tx./Died: May 26, 1973 Married: Alonzo Seal on June 15, 1910. Born:Jun 7, 1888/Died: June 6, 1966 both are buried Kempner Cem., Kempner, Tx. Child listed below: 1. Alonzo Seals Jr. 6. Thomas Benton Whitis Sr. Born: Jun 20, 1890/Died: Dec 4, 1967. Married: Lera M. Trussell on Dec 19, 1909 in Lampasas, Tx. Born: Sep 19, 1889/Died:? /children listed below: 1. Juanita Whitis 2. Bonnie Lee Whitis 3. Thomas Benton Whitis, Jr. 4. Edwin Earl Whitis 7. Maude Muller Whitis Born: Sep 5, 1892/Died: Sep 10, 1949 in Burnet County, Tx. Married: Joe Resek on Aug 4, 1910 in Kempner, Tx. / Born: 1886/ Died: 1973/ child listed below: 1. Phelo Mea Resek 8. William Lester Whitis Sr. Born: Jul 13, 1895/Died: Sep 19, 1972. Married: Eupha Wheeler on May 11, 1918/ Born: Feb 18, 1896/Died: Sep 26, 1961/Children listed below: 1. William Lester (W.L) Whitis Jr. 2. Avis Whitis 3. Donald Whitis 4. Elaine Whitis 5. Glenn Whitis 6. Maurice Whitis 7. Kline Whitis 8. Delbert Whitis 9. Albert Whitis 9. Baby Whitis Born: Jan 10, 1897/Died: Jan 10, 1897 10. Robert Claude Whitis Born: Dec 1, 1898 /Died: Nov 17, 1974 Married: Tommie W. Nichols on Nov 18, 1925. Born: 1907 Children listed below: 1. Claude Elwyne Whitis 2. Robert Whitis 11. Lena Mae Whitis Born: Oct 1, 1900 /Died: ???? Married: Arthur Clyde Crawford on Aug 15, 1930. Born: Dec 8, 1896/Died: ????/Children listed below: 1. Durwood Douglas Crawford 2. Carlan Clyde Crawford 3. Arlyn Gail Crawford 12. Ernest Herbert Whitis Sr. Born: July 27, 1902/Died: Oct 10, 1959. Married: Johnie Lee Williams in 1927 in Kempner, Tx. Children listed below: 1. Edna Theresa Whitis 2. Wanda Jean Whitis 3. Ernest Herbert Whitis Jr. 4. Nelda Delores Whitis 13. Abe Mulkey Whitis Born: Apr 26, 1905 Kempner, Tx/Died: ??? Married: Helen Miller on Nov 9, 1935 Hamilton, Tx. Born: Mar 10, 1912, Whiteboro, Tx. Child listed below: 1. Robert Wayne (Bob) Whitis 5# Charles Wesley (Whitehurst)-Whitis Born:1824 Tn. Married: Florance Rogan / 1857 Lockhart Texas children listed below: 1. Mary (Molly) Whitis Married: Dr, Arthur Llewellyn Enco 2. Dr. Rufus Whitis 3. Willie B. Whitis 4. John H. Whitis 5. Charles Wesley Whitis 6. Florance Whitis 7. Ellen Patten Whitis 8. Gertrude Whitis 9. Thomas P. Whitis 6# Hiram C. (Whitehurst)-Whitis Born:1825 Tn./Died:May 2,1899 Ky. Married: Nancy Stinson Ping on Oct. 20, 1853 Somerset, Pulaski Co., Kentucky she was Born:March 13, 1836/Died:May 29, 1915 children listed below 1. Mary Elizabeth Whitis - Born:Nov 20, 1854/Died:July 20, 1894 2. Melvina Whitis - Born:Oct 16, 1856/Died:July 15, 1889 Married: James Riley Mize / children listed below: 1. William Mize 2. Cora Mize 3. Robert Greenup Whitis - Born:Dec 9, 1859/Died:Feb 21, 1955 Married: Emma Sarah Ryder - Born:Nov 12, 1861/Died:Jan 6, 1957 Children listed below: 1. Theadore Whitis Married: Mattie Baird / children listed below: 1. Wilma Luvian Whitis Born:Sept 6 1922 2. Alma Lee Whitis Born:July 30 1924 3. Ralph Theadore Whitis Born:Feb 23 1926 4. Robert Lafollette Whitis Born:Oct 31 1931 5. Jean Anne Whitis Born:Feb 26 1937 6. Thomas Dewey Whitis Born:May 6 1940-Apr 4 1985 2. George Ishmael Whitis 3. Anna Whitis 4. Sophia Alice Whitis 4. Charles Wesley Whitis - Born:Jan 10, 1862/Died:Jan 11, 1933 Married: Sarah C. Randall - Born:Nov 22, 1887 5. William Daniel Whitis Born:Jan 10, 1864/Died:March 17, 1914 Married: Paralee Russell 6. Thomas Whitis - Born:Nov 5, 1866/Died:Feb 8, 1939 Married: Emily Jane Smith 7. George Hampton Whitis - Born:Oct 29, 1869/Died:Feb 14, 1945 Married: Janie Langford on July 22, 1891 8. Florance Patience Whitis - Born:Jan 30, 1872/Died:Mar 3, 1893 Married: James Riley Mize on 1872 9. Sarah Alice Whitis - Born:Sept, 1874/Died:Dec 2, 1936 Married: James Milky Mize Sr. on 1874 / children listed below: 1. George Fred Mize 2. Theadore Mize 3. Mary Zena Mize 4. Earl Mize 5. Ella Mize 6. Lucion Mize 7. Vola Bea Mize 8. James Riley Mize Jr. 7# Angeline (Whitehurst)-Whitis Born:1830 Tn. Elizabeth P. Whitehurst listed on 1850 census, but not on the 1860. Possiably died about 1852, as four of her children, Martha, John, Hiram, and Thomas Jefferson, moved to Pulaski County, Kentucky. Another son, Charles Wesley Whitis, was attending Tusculum Collage in Greenville, N.C., and after he received his degree, moved to Lockhart, Texas, in 1854. **************************************************************************** ********* Mark, Please let me know if you get this, I'm having a hard time mailing to addresses you listed! What do you guy's want to do with all this info now. I say set it up where Folks can post new information, so it can be added to this, the over all Whitis-Clan Tree. Mail this to the other folk's you mentioned (E-Mail). It's taken two days to get this info, down for everyone to see and understand the breakdown of the Whitis Population Explosion. Keep in touch, Ava Ann Wilson Whitis icepick@usit.net. Ava Whitis From whitis Sat Jun 1 23:08:44 1996 Return-Path: whitis Received: (from whitis@localhost) by top.dbd.com (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA11829; Sat, 1 Jun 1996 23:08:42 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 1 Jun 1996 23:08:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Mark Whitis To: RON WHITIS cc: whitis-clan@dbd.com Subject: Re: ANCESTRAL SEARCH In-Reply-To: <199606020254.WAA21726@mail0.erols.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: O X-Status: On Sat, 1 Jun 1996, RON WHITIS wrote: > I FOUND YOUR NAME ON THE WHO/WHERE LIST AND THOUGHT THAT I WOULD SEE > IF YOU HAVE ANY INSIGHT TO THE WHITIS NAME. I'M TRYING TO TRACE THE ORIGIN > OF THE NAME AND ANY INFORMATION ABOUT IT. IF YOU CAN BE OF ANY HELP THEN > PLEASE E-MAIL ME BACK WITH ANY AVAILABLE INFO. Ron, I just created a web page and mailing list for disiminating that information. Yours is the third, unrelated, such message I have received in about a week. I am CCing this reply to the mailing list; there are about 3 people on it now and I have the addresses of about 13 more who will receive an announcement shortly. All of the messages sent to that list are archived. Please visit the web page at: http://www.dbd.com/~whitis/clan/whitis/ I have taken the liberty of adding your name to that list. Let me know if this is not what you want. Send mail to whitis-clan@dbd.com to go to everybody. -- Mark Whitis ; 804-962-4268 428-B Moseley Drive; Charlottesville, VA 22903 From whitis Sat Jun 1 23:15:14 1996 Return-Path: whitis Received: (from whitis@localhost) by top.dbd.com (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA11877; Sat, 1 Jun 1996 23:15:13 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 1 Jun 1996 23:15:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Mark Whitis To: Ava Whitis cc: whitis-clan@dbd.com Subject: Re: Whitehurst & Whitis Family Name & History/New info Added In-Reply-To: <199606011817.OAA26098@use.usit.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: O X-Status: On Sat, 1 Jun 1996, Ava Whitis wrote: > Please let me know if you get this, I'm having a hard time mailing to > addresses you listed! I got three copies, each slightly different at the beginning or end. > What do you guy's want to do with all this info now. I say set it up where > Folks can post new information, so it can be added to this, the over all > Whitis-Clan Tree. Do you have this information in a GEDCOM file or in any geneology program which can be converted to one? This is about the only sane way to manage this information. > Mail this to the other folk's you mentioned (E-Mail). One of your copies addressed to the whitis-clan list I believe got through. Within the next few days, I will send out notice to everyone who's email address I have collected announcing the list. They will be able to get this information out of the archive. > It's taken two days to get this info, down for everyone to see and > understand the breakdown of the Whitis Population Explosion. > Keep in touch, The Charles Wesley Whitis who appears in your geneology who married Florance Rogan is definitely my great-great-grandfather. The children of this mariage are not, by the way, listed in the order of birth. -- Mark Whitis ; 804-962-4268 428-B Moseley Drive; Charlottesville, VA 22903 From stephenw@airmail.net Wed Jun 5 13:17:08 1996 Return-Path: stephenw@airmail.net Received: from mail.airmail.net (server-f.iadfw.net [206.66.12.40]) by top.dbd.com (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA23647 for ; Wed, 5 Jun 1996 13:17:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail.airmail.net (/\##/\ Smail3.1.30.16 #30.73) id ; Wed, 5 Jun 96 12:14:53 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <31B5C16A.6CD7@airmail.net> Date: Wed, 05 Jun 1996 12:18:34 -0500 From: Stephen Whitis Organization: What? Me, Organized? X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: whitis-clan-request@dbd.com Subject: Whitis mailing list X-URL: http://www.dbd.com/~whitis/clan/whitis/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: O X-Status: Please add me to the mailing list. And thanks for running it! From whitis Wed Jun 5 17:16:37 1996 Return-Path: whitis Received: (from whitis@localhost) by top.dbd.com (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA23783; Wed, 5 Jun 1996 17:16:34 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <31B5C3E4.671D@airmail.net> Date: Wed, 05 Jun 1996 12:29:08 -0500 From: Stephen Whitis Organization: What? Me, Organized? X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: whitis@dbd.com Subject: Whitis clan home page X-URL: http://www.dbd.com/~whitis/clan/whitis/ Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii ReSent-Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 17:16:26 -0400 (EDT) ReSent-From: Mark Whitis ReSent-To: whitis-clan@dbd.com ReSent-Message-ID: Status: RO X-Status: Ava just sent me an Email telling about the Whitis Clan page, so I jumped over and checked it out. I'm glad to see it. :^) I've done WWW searches on WHITIS a number of times, but never found this listed. Is it new? If you haven't already, I'd recommend getting it added to the Yahoo and Netscape search engines, Webcrawler, etc. That would make it easier to find. I found you had this information for me... Whitis, Stephan Email: stephenw@airmail.net Email: stephan.whitis@cld9.sccsi.com (old?) Email: Stephen.Whitis@f4229.n124.z1.fidonet.org Email: Stephen.Whitis@fquest.FidoNet.Org Email: stephan.whitis@lunatic.om WWW: http://web2.airmail.net/stephenw AKA: Steve C Whitis I'd recommend changing to this. (Note that Stephen has no A's in it.) Whitis, Stephen Email: stephenw@airmail.net Email: Stephen.Whitis@f4229.n124.z1.fidonet.org Email: stephan.whitis@lunatic.om WWW: http://web2.airmail.net/stephenw AKA: Steve C Whitis If your keeping address/phone number information, its: 214-348-8003 8523 Shagrock Dallas, Tx. 75238 --- I think the estimate of the number of Whitis's in Texas is low. I'll be trying to get updated information together, and I'll send it to you when its ready. My father is Howard Whitis. Married to Jean Whitis (who you have listed as Eleanor, which is her middle name.) His father is Jessie Whitis, married to Marjorie. (She died less than a year ago.) Jessie had several kids: Dillard, Howard, Jack, Robert (aka Bob) and Nelda (Sis.) Robert is marred to Grace, (makes her my aunt) and she's done a fair amount of genealogy research. My mom has a copy of what Grace came up with, and is supposed to be sending it to me. When I get it, I'll put it in a GedCom file and send you a copy. I'm sure glad Ava got in touch with me. :^) I got another Email from someone else recently, who I don't think knew about Ava and you (Ron Whitis, if I remember right) and I'll pass the URL on to him. Take care. From whitis Wed Jun 5 18:46:56 1996 Return-Path: whitis Received: (from whitis@localhost) by top.dbd.com (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA23871; Wed, 5 Jun 1996 18:46:54 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 18:46:54 -0400 (EDT) From: Mark Whitis To: Stephen Whitis cc: whitis-clan@dbd.com Subject: Re: Whitis clan home page In-Reply-To: <31B5C3E4.671D@airmail.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: O X-Status: On Wed, 5 Jun 1996, Stephen Whitis wrote: > I've done WWW searches on WHITIS a number of times, but never found this listed. > Is it new? If you haven't already, I'd recommend getting it added to the > Yahoo and Netscape search engines, Webcrawler, etc. That would make it easier > to find. Very new. About a week old. I notified a couple of the search engines, I believe Infoseek and Excite, about the pages then. It will probably take another week before their robots visit them. Then you won't have trouble finding it, although you might have trouble finding anything else :-). Any search on the keyword "whitis" will produce about 60 exact matches on my server alone. > I found you had this information for me... I have edited your record as follows: Whitis, Stephen Email: stephenw@airmail.net Email: Stephen.Whitis@f4229.n124.z1.fidonet.org Email: stephen.whitis@lunatic.om WWW: http://web2.airmail.net/stephenw AKA: Steve C Whitis Phone: 214-348-8003 (home) Address: 8523 Shagrock Dallas, TX 75238 Old-Email: stephen.whitis@cld9.sccsi.com Old-Email: Stephen.Whitis@fquest.FidoNet.Org Note that I have not deleted the two email addresses which I suspect were old; instead, I recorded them with the Old-Email: attributes. This way, someone won't think they have found a "new" whitis. You may want to provide "Old-Address" entries, as well. > I think the estimate of the number of Whitis's in Texas is low. I'll be trying > to get updated information together, and I'll send it to you when its ready. The numbers in the "Distribution of the Whitis clan" on the web page are the number of Whitises listed in the phone book, not the number of Whitises. Multiply by the magic fudge factor of 3.5 to get my estimate of the number of Whitises in Texas, which is 215. You will note that at the bottom of the Distribution section I specifically note that these are number of phone listings, not people. And in the very first paragraph on the web page, I say that 345 listings corresponds to around 1200 people (actually, I think my original calculation was about 1249). > My father is Howard Whitis. Married to Jean Whitis (who you have listed as Eleanor, > which is her middle name.) His father is Jessie Whitis, married to Marjorie. (She > died less than a year ago.) Jessie had several kids: Dillard, Howard, Jack, Robert > (aka Bob) and Nelda (Sis.) I have edited the entry for Howard and Eleanor. Would that be the Jessie listed (a couple years ago) on 2116 Hilltop Street? Was Marjorie Howard's (Senior) mother? > Robert is marred to Grace, (makes her my aunt) and she's done a fair amount of > genealogy research. My mom has a copy of what Grace came up with, and is supposed > to be sending it to me. When I get it, I'll put it in a GedCom file and send > you a copy. Good. I like GEDCOM (.GED) files. What package do you use and on what platform, out of curiousity? -- Mark Whitis ; 804-962-4268 428-B Moseley Drive; Charlottesville, VA 22903 From whitis Wed Jun 5 23:37:27 1996 Return-Path: whitis Received: (from whitis@localhost) by top.dbd.com (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA24005; Wed, 5 Jun 1996 23:37:25 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 23:37:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Mark Whitis To: Ava Whitis cc: whitis-clan@dbd.com Subject: Re: Whitehurst & Whitis Family Name & History/New info Added In-Reply-To: <199606011817.OAA26098@use.usit.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: O X-Status: On Sat, 1 Jun 1996, Ava Whitis wrote: > Generation I > ------------William Whitehurst, believed to be the Emigrant father of the > Whitehurst of Virginia, was one of 20# men transported into the colony of > Elizabeth City County, Va. This was the location of the 1,000 acres Mr. There is no Elizabeth City or County in VA anymore. Would this be Elizabeth City, NC, which is located about about 16 miles south of the current virginia boarder at latitude 36.296N longitude 76.221 W with a 1990 population of 14292? It would be easy to believe that that was once part of the colony of Virginia. There are 23 Whitehursts listed in the Elizabeth City phone directory on Switchboard. There are also about 218 White's, 7 Whitehead's, 1 Whitfield, 1 Whitford, 7 Whitley's, and 1 Whitworth listings. There are no Whitis's or any of the intermediatiate spellings or any other names begining with "Whit". Some of the lines which follow are longer than 80 columns because they contain long WWW URLs. The following URL will take you to the listing of whitehursts in Elizabeth City, NC. http://www.switchboard.com/bin/cgiqa.dll?SR=&NN=0&L=Whitehurst&T=Elizabeth%20Cy&S=NC The following URLs, will show Elizabeth City, NC on a map at various zoom levels, courtesy of the U.S. Census departments Tiger Mapping Project: 16 Degree: (Shows entire state of VA, WV,MD, and NC) http://tiger.census.gov/cgi-bin/mapbrowse?lat=36.29604&lon=-076.22058&wid=8&ht=8&mlat=36.29604&mlon=-076.22058&msym=redpin&off=CITIES&mlabel=Elizabeth+City,+NC 4 degree: (Shows virgina border) http://tiger.census.gov/cgi-bin/mapbrowse?lat=36.29604&lon=-076.22058&wid=2&ht=2&mlat=36.29604&mlon=-076.22058&msym=redpin&off=CITIES&mlabel=Elizabeth+City,+NC\ 2 degree: (Still shows Virginia border, shows counties) http://tiger.census.gov/cgi-bin/mapbrowse?lat=36.29604&lon=-076.22058&wid=1&ht=1&mlat=36.29604&mlon=-076.22058&msym=redpin&off=CITIES&mlabel=Elizabeth+City,+NC 1 Degree: http://tiger.census.gov/cgi-bin/mapbrowse?lat=36.29604&lon=-076.22058&0.5&ht=0.5&mlat=36.29604&mlon=-076.22058&msym=redpin&off=CITIES&mlabel=Elizabeth+City,+NC 30 Minute: http://tiger.census.gov/cgi-bin/mapbrowse?lat=36.29604&lon=-076.22058&wid=0.25&ht=0.25&mlat=36.29604&mlon=-076.22058&msym=redpin&off=CITIES&mlabel=Elizabeth+City,+NC 15 Minute, 640x480: shows streets (no names): http://tiger.census.gov/cgi-bin/mapbrowse?lat=36.29604&lon=-076.22058&wid=.125&ht=.125&mlat=36.29604&mlon=-076.22058&msym=redpin&off=CITIES&mlabel=Elizabeth+City,+NC&iht=640&iwd=480 From whitis Tue Jun 18 00:26:17 1996 Return-Path: whitis Received: (from whitis@localhost) by top.dbd.com (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA01873; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 00:26:15 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 00:26:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Mark Whitis To: whitis-clan-archive@dbd.com Subject: Re: Whitis & Whitehurst Family Linkage (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: O X-Status: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 10:28:29 -0700 From: Gary Cook To: whitis@dbd.com, icepick@usit.net Cc: ronw@mail.erols.com, gary@mce.com, stephenw@mail.airmail.net Subject: Re: Whitis & Whitehurst Family Linkage Somerset Whitis Update........ I'm back from an somewhat unexpected trip to Kentucky. My mother, Veleda Whitis Meece passed away over the weekend. She's been very sick with cancer for about a year. During the visit, I met a number of the members of the Somerset clan and collected names. I also went through the family photo albums and videotaped a number of interesting pictures. One picture has Ed Whitis with his children taken around 1950. When I find a way to edit and convert them to something we can view, I'll forward them to the home page. Here's a quick summary. I guess I'll have to figure out how to use some geneolgy software package and do this properly. Tom Whitis had at least 5 kids that I was able to trace: His Children: Edward (aka Cas Edward? His gravestone has EDD) - Deceased 1952 Buried somewhere near Somerset Ky. with his 2nd wife, Rebecca. Frank George Green Susie/Susan Theres also a rumor that he had another son illegitimately whose last name is Barnes. ________________________________________________________________________ Tom's Family ________________________________________________________________________ Frank Whitis He was married to Winnie. Lived around Eden and Somerset Ky. He died shortly after son Bobby was killed. Children: Joyce Bobby - killed in a service station holdup in Cincinnati in the early/mid 60's. He was perhaps 25 years old at the time. Charles - Army recruiter - Wife was Florence Richard Betty Phylis Green Whitis Not much on him. Part of the Somerset clan. Don't know where the children live. Children: Marvin Glen Mary Russell Sussy Whitis Married name Dugger. No other info. George Whitis He's the one that went off to Indianopolis and founded the clan up there. Edward Whitis My great grandfather. Somerset clan. Children by ? "Gelly": William "Bill-cat" - No known children. Died early 50's and buried in San Antonio Texas. Major, US Army. Children by Rebecca Dugger: Note: She died giving birth; Child did not survive. Zilma - deceased at an early age; Unknown cause or age; ????? - Boy; name unknown; died also at an early age; cause unknown. Otis - My grandfather - Florence Ky. 1918 - 1977; nickname "Bun"; Married Lizzie Bennett; two children: Veleda - 1935 - 1996 - My mother; lived around Cincinnati then in Russell Springs Ky. Married first to Robert Cook of Greensburg Ky. then to James Meece of Russell Springs, Ky. Jimmy Ronald - Evansville, Indiana. Born 1942. Two Children by first wife Joann Laise Whitis, deceased: James Ross Whitis - Bardstown, KY. Joseph ___ Whitis - Moving to Chicago this week. Helen Elizabeth - Died at birth with mother, 1974. Lando - Erlanger (but listed as Covington) Ky; living; Married Elsie _____; two children: Judy - Northern Ky, perhaps living with Lando & Elsie Dennis - Florence Ky. Henry - Deceased; Indianopolis; Married to Alva ____; two children: Belinda - Indianopolis probably Dorwin - Indianopolis probably Oather - Deceased; Somerset; Wife Claire ____; Four Children: Vernon - living; Somerset; Wife _____; Edward - living; Bowling Green, Ky.; wife ___; Jean - living; Somerset; Husband _____; Anna May - living; Somerset; Husband ______; Alice - Deceased; Lived outside Cincinnati; Husband Bill Trivitt; Two or more children: John Trivitt - Daughter ______; Stella - Deceased around 1946 during childbirth; Husband __'; 3 or more children: Arvel Dewey Earl Children by Telitha "Niney" Boemer/Bomer/Bowmer/Bommer (sp?): James Avery - living; wife Iva Smiley; 6 children (two of the below may have been twins, perhaps Doug and Patty): Julie Carolyn Linda Doug Patty Lawrence Avery ________________________________________________________________________ Gary W. Cook, Tech. Director gary@mce.com Minicomputer Exchange, Inc. http://www.mce.com/ 610 North Pastoria Avenue Sunnyvale, CA 94086 Tel: 408-733-4400 Fax: 408-733-8009 From whitis Tue Jun 18 00:31:07 1996 Return-Path: whitis Received: (from whitis@localhost) by top.dbd.com (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA01918; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 00:31:06 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 00:31:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Mark Whitis To: whitis-clan@dbd.com Subject: Elizabeth City Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: O X-Status: It looks like my theory regarding Elizabeth City was wrong: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 10:37:43 +0000 From: Eddie Stuart To: whitis@dbd.com Subject: Family History Mark, this is Eddie Stuart from the Elizabeth City Area Chamber of Commerce. Elizabeth City was not "Elizabeth City" until 1893. It was originally known as Pasquotank Precinct, created in 1672 and later became known as Redding, then it became Elizabeth Town and ultimately Elizabeth City. As far as your ancestors, I suggest you call the Family Research Center of Northeastern North Carolina in Belvidere. The number is 919-297-2025. The contact's name is Annette Williams. If no luck there, call the Museum of the Albemarle. They may be able to help. Their # is 919-335-1453. Good luck! From whitis Tue Jun 18 01:10:57 1996 Return-Path: whitis Received: (from whitis@localhost) by top.dbd.com (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA01956; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 01:10:14 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 01:10:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Mark Whitis To: awhitis@telerama.lm.com, awhitis@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu, icepick@usit.net, mwhiti@trojan.neta.com, whitis@dbd.com, whitis@kdsi.net, mwhitis@ska.com, mwhitis@panix.com, NWHITIS@bll.olivet.edu, whitisr@isco.purdue.edu, stephenw@airmail.net, stephan.whitis@cld9.sccsi.com, Stephen.Whitis@f4229.n124.z1.fidonet.org, Stephen.Whitis@fquest.FidoNet.Org, stephan.whitis@lunatic.om, gwhitis@ca.uky.edu, glwhit00@service1.uky.edu, lawhit00@ukcc.uky.edu, sdw9417@acs.tamu.edu, sbw9584@acs.tamu.edu, 71664.44@compuserve.com, 103640.3445@compuserve.com, 102351.1124@compuser