Family History and Genealogy
William Everett Whitener was my 2nd-great grandfather. He was the son of Phillip B. Whitener (1833-1865) and Levina J. Searcy (1830-?), both from North Carolina. 1855 – William was born in December, probably in Gilmer County, Georgia, as his parents were married there in 1852. 1860 – William appeared on the census in Gilmer County […]
Births Dwight McDonald Hemphill was born in 1812 in Old Fort, North Carolina. Deaths James Quiller Mathis died in 1964. Bertha Neoma (Whitener) Horner died in 1990 in Claremore, Oklahoma. Updated July 10, 2011
My last couple of Surname Saturday posts have been about families for whom I can’t go back very far, so I’m excited to write about the Whiteners – they are a well-documented bunch. This line starts with my great-grandmother, Maud Angeline Whitener (1885-1975). I’ve written extensively about Maud in “Timeline for Maud Whitener Butler.” Maud’s […]
Mary (Patterson) Whitener was my great-great-grandmother. She was born February 7, 1869, likely in Gilmer County, Georgia. She married Bill Whitener in 1883. They had eight children, the oldest of whom was my great-grandmother, Maud Angeline. Mary and Bill were married in Gilmer County, but had moved to Murray County, Georgia before Maud’s birth in […]
Randy Seaver’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun Assignment is to list one’s 16 great-great-grandparents, include their dominant ancestry and to calculate one’s own dominant ancestry. My spin on this is to look back an additional four generations from the ggg’s in order to identify their ancestry. Many, many of my ancestors were already on these shores […]
My grandmother’s grandmother was Mary (Patterson) Whitener. Family legend has it that she was at least part Cherokee. Mary was born in Ellijay, Georgia in 1869 and married William Whitener there in 1883. They lived in Murray County, Georgia in 1900. Sometime between 1904 and 1907, they moved to Oklahoma. According to my grandmother, they […]
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