Just a reminder to everyone. If you have information for a user who posts a query here, PLEASE post it back to the List as well as to the original poster. Many of us are adding to our databases for WILHITE/ WILHOIT and greatly value any information we find anywhere. Thanks, SgtGeorge WILHITE Listowner At 01:47 10/10/97 -0500, T&S Day wrote: >Hello Everyone, > >Hoping for some help! > >I haven�t ever posted any queries here on my own(usually through John >Connie Wilhite), So thought I would see if anyone might recognize any >of my Wilhite�s. I am looking for information on my grandfather James >Andrew Wilhite. I obtained a copy of his death certificate and it tells >me that he was born on Nov 11, 1880 in IL., and died on March 12, 1934 >in Garfield, Benton Co., AR. He was married on April 14, 1919 in Benton >Co., AR., to Mintora Abegail Lee, daughter of Jesse Vincent Lee and Mary >A. Rubottom. James and Mintora had 4 children, one of them being my >father James C. Wilhite, still living. The other three children were >Juanita M., still living, Jesse Paul, died in WWII, and Betty June, died >in 1986 in N.J. > > I don�t believe that my grandfather James Andrew was born in IL. But >I need to find proof of where he was born. My Aunt Juanita, one of >James Andrew Wilhite�s daughters, shared her birth certificate >information with me and it says that James was born in 1880 in Monett, >Mo. This is one reason I don�t think he was born in IL. Another reason >I think he was born in Missouri is because his death certificate list >his father as H.P. Wilhite, birth place unknown and his mother as Mary >Riley born in IL. > > In Lawrence Co., MO., I discovered an Haloway P. Wilhite who married >Dicy M. Riley on Oct 17, 1875. This H.P. and Dicy are listed on the >1880 census for Lawrence Co., in Spring River Twp., with one child Lula, >age 2. This census also says that H.P. was born in TN., and that Dicy >was born in IL. Also in a Lawrence Co., MO., tombstone inscriptions >book for Spring River Twp., there were two children of Mary D. & H.P. >Wilhite, one was a daughter who died in 1877 and one was a son who died >in 1883. This couple are the right ages to be my grandfathers parents. >James was not on the census, but he was not born until Nov of that >year. Dicy could have been preg., with him during the time the census >was taken. > >James Andrew had a brother named Onus/Onis. Onus appears on the 1910 >Lawrence Co., Mo., census (also on the 1920 Barry Co., Mo., Census)with >his wife Frances P. Onus and Frances are also buried in Lawrence Co., >Spring River Twp. Onus and Frances had the following children: Atha, >Mildred M., Martha E., Claudie, Amos W., & Bert A. Willhite. > >My father was only 4 years old when his father James died, so he cannot >tell me much about his father or his family. After the death of her >husband James, Mintora remarried and never talked to her children much >or kept in touch with the rest of the Wilhite family. > >There is a Disa Riley, age 13, born: IL., on the 1870 census who lived >with Pryer L. Snuffer and family. This is a ? to me! Pryers wife�s >name was Mary. Could this Mary be Dicy�s mother, and Pryer her >step-father? If this Mary Snuffer is mother to Dicy, then Mary Snuffer >would have been 14 yrs., old when she had Dicy. Was that very common >back then? (the age?) > >In 1866 James Willhite purchase land in Lawrence County, Spring River >Twp, he was an early settler there. I think this could be a brother to >H.P. Wilhite. They both were born in TN., and only 8 yrs apart in >age. And this could explain one reason that my grandfather was named >James. I also wonder if maybe H.P. Wilhite�s father was James also. >Seems a lot of families back in the early days went by a naming >tradition, where they named their first born son after the paternal >grandfather and the first born daughter after the maternal grandmother. >In other words, the son after H.P.�s father and daughter after Dicy�s >mother. > >Does anyone have any information on these Wilhite�s I listed. Sorry to >rattle on. Just wanted to get as much information out as possible, so >maybe someone can help me in my search of my hard to find Wilhite >family. They sure seem to know when & where to hide I guess. Any >information would so much be appreciated. > >By the way, I tried a query on the Lawrence Co., Mo., roots-L page and >got no response from anyone on the Wilhite/Willhite name. >One more thing, I tried to find H.P. on the 1860 census listing for TN, >he was born abt 1852. No luck! I�m seem to have ran into a wall again. > >Thanks for your time, I do so much enjoy reading all your posting from >this Wilhite discussion group. >Thanks again! >Sharon Day >[email protected] > > >==== WILHITE Mailing List ==== >To unsubscribe from WILHITE, send an e-mail message to: > [email protected] (for individual messages) > [email protected] (for Digest mode) >Subject: unsubscribe >In the body include only one word: unsubscribe >(Turn OFF your signature file when sending this command) > > > ==== WILHITE Mailing List ==== To unsubscribe from WILHITE, send an e-mail message to: [email protected] (for individual messages) [email protected] (for Digest mode) Subject: unsubscribe In the body include only one word: unsubscribe (Turn OFF your signature file when sending this command)