From icepick@usit.netWed Nov 13 03:00:52 1996 Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 22:50:19 -0400 From: Ava Whitis To: whitis-clan@dbd.com Subject: Re: Whitehurst-Whitis Name & History >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