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From: "John Wayland" <>
Subject: Wilhite
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 00:11:20 -0500

I got these responses from an inquiry on the Randolph Co., MO list. I
wonder if it is enough to tie this Sampson Wilhite line into the Germanna
Wilhites. I can post an inquiry on the Boone Co. list meanwhile. It has
been my experience that a lot of the Germanna families (including Waylands)
went first to KY and then to MO.

John

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In the book " Missouri Miscellany Vol. 14"

Mentions a Fielding Wilhite as a minister in Boone Co. 1820-1841. There's
also mention of a marriage of an Elizabeth and an Eliza Wilhite in this
county, if you need that info let me know... I also find Wilhite marriages
in
Clay Co.

Here is a marriage in Boone Co. I think might interest you because of the
names you mentioned. 1841-1849 Boone Co. marriages

8 Feb. 1849 John S. Wilhite - Nancy B McQuitty

12 Oct. 1848 Smith Wilhite - Rebbecca Grant

In Mo. Pioneers Vol. 30 Howard Co. Mo. Petition of Inhabitants of Howard
Land
Dist. 23 Dec 1819. Fieldin Wilhite is on this list...

I hope this is useful!!!

Diana

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John, Wilhite is not one of my lines, but Fielding and Sampson Wilhite are
Boone county names. In fact, Boone county was and is full of Wilhites,
some of
which married into various lines of mine. I would recommend looking at
Switzler's History of Boone County, MO. On p. 996, Fielding Wilhite is
mentioned as the first pastor of Walnut Grove church, who first began his
labors in Old Bethel in 1829, and closed them in Walnut Grove church
(Baptist-northeast of Rocheport) in 1844. [At some point, members of Old
Bethel church split over the question of sending missionaries, and some of
them--pro missionary--started Walnut Grove church.] Old newspapers at the
Historical Society on campus here in Columbia will have lots of Wilhite
information, too. The McQuitty name appears throughout Switzler's book, as
well.

PP. 980-981 of Switzler: "Among the first settlers of this township
[Missouri
Township, Boone County--[still in Howard County until 1820] were members of
the
Wilhite family. Sampson Wilhite and his three sons, William, Stephen and
Fielding Wilhite, came from Kentucky to this township (then Howard county)
as
early as the year 1818. They located in the neighborhood of Rocheport,
where
many of their descendants yet live [written in 1882]. They were all
farmers.
Stephen Wilhite was a blacksmith as well as a farmer; Fielding Wilhite was
a
farmer and a Baptist minister. All of them lived reputable lives and died
full
of years and honors. Probably the first loom was brought into the township
by
Mrs. Sampson Wilhite in 1818. The greater part of the clothing for
families
was carded, spun and woven by the female members, and was usually made up
of
wool and flax; the latter being among the first crops raised. The first
brick
house in the township was built by Sampson Wilhite in the year 1822. It is
still standing and is the housenow occupied by J. E. Hart, four miles from
Rocheport, on the Sturgeon road."

I watch the Randolph county list because I had some Jacobs and Daly
relatives
who moved there in the 1800's from Boone county, and I don't have a lot of
information on some of them.

I hope this is helpful.

Louise

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> Virgil Wilhite, b. 10 May 1882, d. 28 Jan 1975, Moberly, MO, in 1913 m.
> Julia Pfeiffer and on 3 Mar 1951 m. Kate Stamper.
> |
> Andrew N. Wilhite m. Mary Anne Jackson
> |
> Fielding Wilhite m. Elizabeth McQuitty
> |
> Sampson Wilhite m. Alice McKinney
>
> Sampson came to MO from VA in 1818. Does anyone have the dates on the
> above, which were not given in the article. It is likely that the
Wilhite
> line fits into the Germanna Colony line of Wilhites, and I would like to
> determine that also, if possible.
>
>John

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