This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Whitt, Lea, Atkins Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lEC.2ACE/1989 Message Board Post: From "History of Grant County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 1044. TOWN OF HICKORY GROVE JOHN WESLEY WHITT, farmer, Secs. 25 and 26; P. O. Blue River; he is a son of Meredith and Sarah Atkins, natives of Virginia; they left their native State and located in Kentucky; in 1842, they came to this State and located in this county. John W. was born in Kentucky in 1834; he came to this State with his parents, since which time he has been engaged in farming and lumbering. He married, Nov. 25, 1857, Miss Sarah B. Lea, a native of Ohio; they have three children. [I am not related to this family. I'm posting this as a service and hope it helps!]