This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/XBB.2ACE/242.556.1.1.1.2.2.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Rosemary~~ This is a misconception among Whittle researchers, and took me a while to straighten out. William Whittle, Sr. was married to Milly Stephens. William Whittle Jr. was William Sr.'s son from his first marriage to Rachel Sherill. My gggrandfather, John Jackson Whittle is William Jr.'s brother. William Sr. and Milly Stephens had one daughter Elizabeth, and she apparently went by the name Stephens on occassion, and by Whittle, as well. William Sr. married his third wife Ferriby Jane Owens, 34 years his junior, on 9 APR 1859. Milly died @ 1863, so they were divorced sometime before 1859. William Sr., b. 1801, d. 1863. William Jr., b. @1821, d. @ 1907, married Darcus Luttrell on 19 Feb 1843; married Serene Pate, 28 SEP 1865. William Jr. had 13 children.