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The Society of the Whitfields

The Society of the WhitfieldsThe Society of the WhitfieldsThe Society of the Whitfields

Founded in 1961 by J. Vivian whitfield

Founded in 1961 by J. Vivian whitfieldFounded in 1961 by J. Vivian whitfieldFounded in 1961 by J. Vivian whitfield

ELIZABETH NEAILEY DEATH CERTIFICATE 1939

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BARRINGTON WHITFIELD OLIVER BIRTH CERT 1867

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BARRINGTON WHITFIELD-AGNES FORSYTH MARRIAGE CERT 1897

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CHRISTOPHER WHITFIELD-ELIZABETH OLIVER MARRIAGE CERT 1870

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Submitted BY OUR MEMBER JIM NEAILEY (From australia)

Jim's father, James Neailey, Sr. (1925-1983)

Great Grandfather Barrington Whitfield (1867-1935)

Whitfield Hall (A long time ago)

Submitted by our member, Dennis whitfield, victoria, texas

Whitfield Family Bible

Whitfield Family Bible

Whitfield Family Bible

Dennis is descended from William I, William II, William III, and Bryan (died 1817).   Bryan moved to Tennessee (married Anne Neville), along with two of his brothers, and his son moved to Texas,  where the line continued down to Dennis.  The Tennessee Gen Web Project includes the following link, which mentions a Whitfield family Bible:  http://www.tngenweb.org/montgomery/whitfieldbible.html


This Bible is in the possession of Dennis and is pictured above.  We thank him for his submission.

List of Slave Births

Whitfield Family Bible

Whitfield Family Bible

The Bible also includes a list of slave births, as pictured above.

submitted by our member, beth whitfield, new Bern, nC

Beth's Paternal Grandparents

Whitfield and Bryan Family Coats of Arms

Beth's Paternal Grandparents

Pictured are George Thomas Whitfield and his wife,  Ressie Dell Worley Whitfield.  George was born on September 3, 1887,  and Ressie was born September 26,  1891.  They were married February 4, 1914 and lived in Lenoir County.

George Thomas Whitfield

Whitfield and Bryan Family Coats of Arms

Beth's Paternal Grandparents

Here is another picture of George.  He seems a bit younger than in the picture at left.

Whitfield and Bryan Family Coats of Arms

Whitfield and Bryan Family Coats of Arms

Whitfield and Bryan Family Coats of Arms

Beth says these have been hanging in her home for as long as she can remember.

SUBMITTED BY OUR MEMBER, DENNIS WHITFIELD, VICTORIA, TEXAS

Here is a bit about about J. O. Whitfield [John Oliver Whitfield 1813 - ?].  He was a son of Wm. III that came to TX.  He was uncle to my gg grandfather W B Whitfield but we are close in age.  They knew each other and were here together in the Republic.  They were original Texas land owners & have land abstracts bearing their names next to each other in Coryell County, TX, near Turnersville.  I, of course, went to just walk around.  It's farm land.  I don't think they ever lived on it because of Comanche Indians.  Either they bought as speculators or received for service to Republic of Texas revolution.  They both  lived in more settled east Texas & my bunch later moved to Lavaca County, TX.   

SUBMITTED BY OUR MEMBER, DAVID COMPTON, DEMOPOLIS, ALABAMA

David Compton, one of our members in Demopolis, Alabama, submitted a letter written in 1928 by his great great uncle, Jesse George Whitield.  Jesse was writing to his niece, Mary Compton, about her interest in joining the Daughters of the American Revolution.  From his letter, he was obviously a well-educated man and well-versed in our family history..  Jesse has a brief biography in the Whitfield, Bryan, Smith book, which reads as follows:


(492)  Jesse George Whitfield

                             (Bryan, Nathan, Bryan, William, William)


Jesse George Whitfield was born November 25, 1859, in Alabama.  He married June 7, 1882, Penelope Clinton Holmes (528).  Jesse Whitfield was a civil engineer and a man of high culture.  He became interested in family history and was good enough to contribute a deal of material upon which part of this genealogy is based.  He was living in Demopolis, Ala., in 1947.


Children:


                    1.  William Holmes Whitfield; b. April 13, 1885, at Demoplis, Ala.; d. Oct. 14, 1891.

                    2.  Foscue Bryan Whitfield; b. Sept. 4, 1888, in Demopolis; m. __________.

                    3.  Thomas Holmes Whitfield; b. Nov. 22, 1890, in Aberdeen, Miss.


Jesse George Whitfield died on October 11, 1949, at the age of 89.  He is buried in Riverside Cemetery in Demopolis, Alabama.  


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Dothan, Ala., Dec. 10, 1928


Dear Mary,


I have had your letter of the 12th Nov sometime. Have been waiting to get home again so as to give you the information you want, but have not been able to leave here yet. With reference to your going into the D.A.R., there is one thing you will have to make clear to me. Many years ago when I did some work along this line it seems to me that in order to get into this society it was necessary for your ancestor of the Revolution to have had some official status and not just a soldier, but your paper states that “any woman who is descended from a man or woman who, with unfailing loyalty to the cause of the American independence served as a sailor, or as a soldier or civil officer etc. etc.”


Now both my Whitfield great grandfathers were soldiers of the revolution and were in the battle of Moores Creek Bridge (1776) one of these was clerk to Col. Caswell. This is tradition but might be proved by referring to the War Department. I don’t know.


My mother’s grandfather, F[illegible] Foscue, entered the war in 1780, and was in battles before he was captured by the British. I have at home his record sent from the War Department. This was also tradition, and I never could see how it was that a boy born 1766, could have been in the war in 1780. But the records show it.


My mother’s great grandfather, William Borden of Carteret, was member of the Constitutional Convention, N. Ca., 1776 (Wheeler’s Hist. N. Ca.) Can not give the page because the book is at home. 

My mother’s great-grandfather Col. Lemuel Hatch was in the Revolution (Wheeler’s N.Ca.) Our descent from him can be shown by N.Ca records.


You could get into the Colonial Dames on a good many counts. One of your ancestors was the first white man to own land in N.Ca. (before it was N.Ca.) his two deeds from the two Indian chiefs [illegible] [Cuskatenow?] and Kilkonanen dated 1661 1662, are the oldest paper on record in N.Ca. He was born 163? Married Ann Marwood 16 Jany 165 8/9, was member House of Burgesses, attorney general, imprisoned by the notorious Go. Seth Sothel died 1693 or 1694. I will send you your pedigree from him.


George Durant                               married to                                        Ann Marwood                   Dates given in

Born Oct 2 1632 in                  16 Jany 1658/59                          of Northumberland         Jany to March

London.  Probably son                                                                             Va                                                inclusive are in both

of Geo Durant, Vicar of                                                                                                                                 OS and NS

Blocklee [Blockley] County

Worcester.  Letter still                                                                            Could supply other dates if I

[illegible] to him                                                                                           had access to my books

from Wm Laud, Arch Bishop

Canterbury, dated 1639.

Geo Durant was Memb.

House of Burgesses, Attorney

General (Hathaways Register)


John Durant                                     married                                              Sarah Jooke


Elizabeth Durant                          married                                               Anthony Hatch

                                                                                                                              Treasury of the Province 1721

                                                                                                                               died 1726


Edmund Hatch md Lucy Richards   Col. Lemuel Hatch md Mary Fonville  Anthony Hatch md Elizabeth

                   15th Mar 1742/43                     d. 1776                                                                                                       Dickenson

Ancestor of many of the Whitfields


                                                                                    Asa Hatch  md  Hope Borden              Anthony Hatch md Susan (?)

                                                                                                         1794           185-                            died 1810


                                                                            Mehitable Hatch md Augustus Foscue

                                                                              1800-1871                      1793-1861


                                                                     Mary Alice Foscue md Dr. Bryan W. Whitfield

                                                                          1838-1889                          1828-1908          

                                                  

                                                                              Alice Hill Whitfield md L. S. Compton               

                                                                                    1868-1921                      1858-1939


Whitfield Compton md Bertha Whittaker         Mary Compton                         Julia Compton

   1891-                                            1891                                   1900-                                            1903-


I thought a Lieut Col Lemuel Hatch was a link between Col Lemuel Hatch and Asa, but Miss Emma Whitfield Va in her research [illegible old N Ca records has found that Asa was the son of Col Edmund Hatch


Lieut Col Lemuel Hatch was also a soldier of the Revolution


Jesse Whitfield


On down. Giving all dates that remember with certainty. Information about him gotten from Wheelers Hist N.Ca., and Hathaway’s Register (both books out of print) Suppose you keep this information. You may be able with it to help my grandchildren, and after I am gone it will all be lost. I expect it would be very difficult to find either a copy of Wheelers History of Hathaways Register. When I get home I may be able to give more complete information. In the meantime set me right as I ask on first page of this letter.


Somehow I have great [illegible] for my grandfather Augustus. He came of a long line of noble ancestry. Any one who knows his [illegible] knows that he was not an ordinary man. Because of his lack of education and polish he was not considered by some others as quite up to standard, but his ancestors were [illegible] where those others were_____ The Foscues were a [illegible] family back to the time of the conquest, and before the conquest they were barons of Normandy. I don’t [illegible] I am snobbish___ I know I am not in this case. I am more proud of being descended from Augustus than I am of being descended from his ancestors.


Yours


Jesse Whitfield

Submitted by our member, Penny Short, from Sammamish, Wa

 

I am attaching a photo of my great-grandmother, Adelia Ann Whiitfield Staton.  She was born December 5, 1846 in Montgomery County, TN, married my great-grandfather, Charles Wesley Staton on November 18, 1865, and died  May 30, 1906.  They had six children, only two of whom lived to adulthood; my grandfather, Joseph Lewis Staton, was the youngest surviving child.  Adelia's parents were Robert Diggs Whitfield and Susan Ann Norsworthy, both of Montgomery County, TN.

My grandfather was very proud of his Whitfield ancestry, and passed that pride down to his children and grandchildren.  My husband and I named our son Laurence Whitfield Short, and he and his wife named their son Charles Wesley Warrington Short!  It must have caught on...



submitted by our member, curtis deal, from jacksonville, fl

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 The old guy that gets up from his  chair then stands next to the woman with the plate is Otis Jenkins my grandmothers uncle. My grandmother Sara Mildred Whitfield Deal is the woman standing with him she was born in Wilton NC. The oldest of the kids is me waving across the table the others are my brothers. My mother Millicent Davis Deal is the dark haired youngest woman. I think the place is Brassfield NC. The last seconds of the clip is my dad as we were leaving Duke Univ. 

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Banks United Methodist Church near Wilton in Granville County, North Carolina was organized around 1762 when Thomas Banks from Virginia founded the church. It was originally Episcopalian in denomination but changed to Methodist during or shortly after the American Revolution. This structure was built 1909-1911 with the Sunday School Annex added in 1927. 

 Robert Haliburton Whitfield, James Early Whitfield, John Wesley Whitfield, George Washington Whitfield sons of David H Whitfield Granville NC 

 

Edward Whitfield, Julian Whitfield, William Whitfield sons of James Early Whitfield


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