Hi Bobby, I don'T have anything on Benjamin Whatley and very little other then some marriage notes on other but on of my gr. gr. uncles, Robert Calvin Ware Rasco also left Dallas County Alabama between 1865 and 1870 and moved to Freestone County Texas where he resided a year or two and then moved on to Comanche County Texas. A sister of his, Sarah Jane Rasco married, as her second husband, J. T. Whatley in Shelby County Alabama. In my research on the Rasco family in Alabama I have come across the Whatley name several time either in association with the Rascos or living in the same general area as the Rascos. James R. Rasco