A Brief Autobiography of the Whitises
In 1771 Daniel Rogan sailed from Dublin, Ireland
He met and married Catherine Crawford in 1779.  They had 11 children.
   8 boys and 3 girls.  Griffith Rogan was the third child of that
    marriage.

Griffith Rogan married Mary Smith and they had seven children.  One of
   these children, named Florance Rogan, married Charles Wesley Whitis
   (Ruf's Grandfather) who was born in 1828.
Charles Wesley Whitis arrived in Lockhart Texas in 1854.  Civic leader,
    banker, business leader in Austin, Texas.  Charles and Florence
    had eleven children (some of whom died) and one of whom was named
    Charles Wesley Whitis (Junior-altho they didn't refer to him as such)
    married Frances Fallowell Robinson.  There is very little on
    record of Ruf's Mother's heritage.  She would not talk about it,
    but her parent's were either lost in the Galveston Flood, at
    too young an age for her to remember, or very poor, anyway she
    was adopted by a Mr. Robinson and his wife, who was the Post-
    master of Dallas, Texas.  They visited once when Ruf was a boy
    in White Plains, N.Y. and Ruf has memories of a "typical Southern
    Gentleman with a big white moustache who gave him a white dog,
    (Spitz, named Tex) and a lot of rattlesnake skins he decorated
     his room with."

Since our one visit to Ausin, where we knwe the Whitis papers were in some
library-but could not find the right one- we obtained the list from Ruf's
sister.  I hope one day to see it for myself and also hope that you will.
Also take a walk down "Whitis Ave" and the best part they KNOW HOW TO
PRONOUNCE WHITIS!!!! Enjoy!


[This was written by Ruth Josephine (Roome) Whitis -MRW]