My line is whew here goes: Jacob I b. 1751& Milly Holt/Jacob II & Mary Powell/Amelia Wilhoite & Harris Austin/James Austin & Elizabeth Epps/Charles Austin & Otie Kerr/Paul Austin & Ruby Barlar/C. Wayne Austin & Linda Black I know where you are talking about. You are right it is not clear from the history who is buried there. We don't know where Harris & Amelia are buried either. They died in the 1860-1870 era. We do know they lived also in Flat Creek Community the same as your Henry Willis Wilhoite. I suspect there are some unmarked graves in the area somewhere or surely someone would know about that unless the stones have fallen and are sunken below the ground. I don't have that much WIlhoite historical things. I & the county judge's wife of Madison County, TN started to gather materials for a book in 1988 but before I got very far into it Jacob IV came out with theirs and I pretty much stopped research because they had done a more thorough job than I had. But Wilhoite ws only to be one of the many surnames in that book which I manuscripted and then laid over here by my desk to age. I am glad to meet a Wilhoite Cousin. Did not know any were on the Internet. Do you attend the annual reunions? I have not attended one since 1991 myself. Jacob also took me on a tour of the old Wilhoite Graveyard and I took photos and also he showed me where the old Mill that Jacob I started in 1807 or so on the Duck River was located though it is long gone. The Mill Race is still there though. I am a graphic artist so therefore I built an image of the mill as I thought it would look from the photo layout.

Wayne, Don and I have been to one reunion. I am not sure which one it was. Jacob IV was so nice to show us all around. We tromped down through the tall grass down to the Duck to see the remains of the mill. Also, saw the old cemetery where Jacob and Amelia are buried. I think that possibly during the 1860-1870 period that there was not money for a man made stone and probably they just used field stone and those are long gone. My gggrandmother Susan Wilhoite who was married to Simon Peter Vess died thirteen days after the birth of her first baby, my great grandmother Susan Craig Vess/Speier. They must be buried along flat creek somewhere. I think there is a Holt cemetery there, but there isn't a stone for Susan Wilhoite or her parents, but I have wondered if they aren't buried there. I am wondering about your 1807 date. I thought that the first migration by Jacob Wilhoite was in 1813/14. Lewis Willis Wilhoite and Frances Moore Christmas were married in either 1813/14 and they came to Bedford Co. in 1819. I was wondering if Jacob I was on that 1812 tax list. I am, also, glad to meet a cousin. I think that it is so special that you could create an image of the old mill. One thing that is a puzzle to me is that I have no idea where my great grandmother was living after her mother died. I would assume that she lived with here grandparents Lewis and Frances Wilhoite. She was born in 1853 and her father remarried a Frances Joyner and they went on to have a family of four children, but she is not listed with him after that. She must have been Living with some relative. My grandmother was not a Wilhoite, but she loved her husband's people and she talked about Louis Wilhoite and Georgia Mallard Wilhoite. Their son was Clyde Wilhoite. I knew him when I was little. He was the Commandant at Columbia Military Academy. I don't know why she was close to them. Guess I need to check the census records again. Mary Pat -----Original Message----- From: WayneAL1@aol.com [mailto:WayneAL1@aol.com] Sent: Saturday, April 06, 2002 10:43 AM To: TNBEDFOR-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [TNBEDFOR] Jacob Wilhoite My line is whew here goes: Jacob I b. 1751& Milly Holt/Jacob II & Mary Powell/Amelia Wilhoite & Harris Austin/James Austin & Elizabeth Epps/Charles Austin & Otie Kerr/Paul Austin & Ruby Barlar/C. Wayne Austin & Linda Black I know where you are talking about. You are right it is not clear from the history who is buried there. We don't know where Harris & Amelia are buried either. They died in the 1860-1870 era. We do know they lived also in Flat Creek Community the same as your Henry Willis Wilhoite. I suspect there are some unmarked graves in the area somewhere or surely someone would know about that unless the stones have fallen and are sunken below the ground. I don't have that much WIlhoite historical things. I & the county judge's wife of Madison County, TN started to gather materials for a book in 1988 but before I got very far into it Jacob IV came out with theirs and I pretty much stopped research because they had done a more thorough job than I had. But Wilhoite ws only to be one of the many surnames in that book which I manuscripted and then laid over here by my desk to age. I am glad to meet a Wilhoite Cousin. Did not know any were on the Internet. Do you attend the annual reunions? I have not attended one since 1991 myself. Jacob also took me on a tour of the old Wilhoite Graveyard and I took photos and also he showed me where the old Mill that Jacob I started in 1807 or so on the Duck River was located though it is long gone. The Mill Race is still there though. I am a graphic artist so therefore I built an image of the mill as I thought it would look from the photo layout. ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237