- Jane G. Buchanan,
Thomas Thompson and Ann Finney of Colonial
Pennsylvania and North Carolina, (Oak Ridge,
Tennessee, 1987), pg. 216-222.
- Uley T. Morgan,
"The Family of Samuel Samuel Whitsett
And His Two Wives," Macon, Georgia 1989.
- Strictland, Joseph,
(March 20, 2000), "Electronic,"
E-mail giving the dates from the headstones
for John and Sarah who are buried in a cemetery
on Ed Avery's property.
- William Heth Whitsitt, "Annals
of a Scotch-Irish Family: The Whitsitt's of Nashville, Tenn.,"
American Historical Magazine, Vol. IX, Nashville, Tennessee, 1904.
- Edythe Whitley,
Sumner County, Tennessee Will Abstracts 1779-1842,
Will of father Laurence Thompson.
- North Carolina Land
Grant Office, (North Carolina State Archives,
Raleigh), Book 63, pg. 328.
- Dorothy M. Jones,
"Notes From Wrightsborough," Wrightsboro
Quaker Community Foundation, Inc.
- Orange County, North
Carolina List of Taxables 1779-1783, (Technical
Institute of Alamance).
- Edythe Whitley,
Sumner County, Tennessee Will Abstracts 1779-1842.
- 1830 Census, Greene
County, Alabama, pg. 388, Lawrence Whitsett
- 1 male 30-40; 1 male 50-69; 1 female 80-90;
37 slaves.
- Directory of Greene
County, Alabama 1855-1856, James and Lawrence
Whitsett settled near Havana in 1818.
- Pauline Jones Gandrud,
Alabama Records, Vol. 180, pg. 33, Greene
Co. Orphans Book D, pg. 244, 26 Sep. 1836,
Lawrence Whitsett, deceased; Eliax C. Field
and Robert Williamson, administrators; lists
heirs of Lawrence, all children of his sisters
and brother. There are many documents related
to his estate in Greene Co. records.
- Greene County, Alabama
Tract Book, Jan. 14, 1820, Extracted by Ann
Rea, Greene County Court House, March 26,
1985.
- Lawrence Whitsett Estate Papers, (Photocopies
of original documents).
- Greene County, Alabama
Orphans Book, Book D, pg. 244.
- Greene County,
Alabama Orphans Book, Book D, pg. 295.
- Greene County,
Alabama Orphans Book, Book D, pg. 318.
- Greene County,
Alabama Orphans Book, Book H, pg. 212.
- Greene County,
Alabama Orphans Book, Book H, pg. 215.
- Greene County,
Alabama Orphans Book, Book H, pg. 210-214,
Estate of Lawrence Whitsett.
- Mrs. S. M. Marshall, "Greene
County, Alabama Records," Willo Publishing Company, Tuscaloosa,
Alabama (no date), pg. 124.
- Pauline Jones Gandrud,
Alabama Records, Vol. 28, pg. 16, Greene Co.
Deed Book B, pgs. 82, 93, Jesse Crawford and
wife to James Whitsett, 17 Sep. 1825.Beaufort
Seale to James Whitsett, 20 Sep. 1825.
- Pauline Jones Gandrud,
Alabama Records, Vol. 34, pg. 54, 61 Greene
Co. Deed Book C, pg. 433, 512, James Whitsett
and wife Margaret to Allen McDonald, 25 May
1829.
- Greene County, Alabama
Orphans Book, Book H, pg 210-221, Estate of
Lawrence Whitsett, James assigns his remaining
share of estate to Joseph T. Whitsett.
- Noxubee County,
Mississippi Deed Book, Book E, pg. 620, James
Whitsett of Greene County, Alabama gave his
grandson, James W. McDonald a slave.
- Edythe Rucker Whitley,
Records of Early Settlers From State &
County Archives, (Genealogical Publishing
Co., Inc., Baltimore, MD 1980), pg. 305, Sumner
County, Tenn. Deed Book 1, pg. 440.
- Sumner County, Tenn.
Deed Book 1, pg. 440, pg. 306, Sumner Co.,
Tenn. Deed Book 1, pg. 440.
- Ann W. Rea, "Whitsett
Family Genealogy."
- Pauline Jones Gandrud,
Marriage Records of Green County, Ala. 1823-1860,
(The Milestone Press, 1969).
- Pauline Jones Gandrud,
Alabama Records, Vol. 34, pg. 27 Greene Co.
Deed Book C, pg. 64, John O. Webster to John
C. Whitsett and William H. Whitsett, Nov.
1827.
- Greene County, Alabama
Orphans Book, Book D, pg. 30, Estate of Nicholas
G. Hill.
- 1850 Census, Rutherford
Co., Tennessee, pg. 706, daughter of John
and Sarah Thompson Whitsett of Sumner Co.
and mother of Sarah Childress Polk, first
lady.
- William Thornton
Whitsett, PhD, "Whitsett, Dr. William
Thornton Papers," Southern Historical
Collection, University of North Carolina,
(abt. 1910).
- Byron and Barbara
Sistler, Early Middle Tennessee Marriages,
(Byron Sistler & Associates, Inc. Nashville,
Tenn. 1988).
Walker Genealogy off the web. Author unknown.
- Jeanette T. Acklen,
Tennessee Records: Tombstones & Manuscripts.
- Connie Walton Moretti,
"Electronic."
- 1850 Census, Noxabee
County, Mississippi, pg. 232.
- 1850 Census, Sumter
Co., Alabama, Gainsville Div. pg. 289, Listed
as John C. Whitsitt.
- 1860 Census, Sumter
Co., Alabama, pg. 583/18, family 151.
- Pauline Jones Gandrud,
Alabama Records, Vol. 34, pg. 27 Greene Co.
Deed Book C, pg. 64, John O. Webster to John
C. Whitsett and William H. Whitsett, Nov.
1827.
- Pauline Jones Gandrud,
Alabama Records, Vol. 34, pg. 54, 61 Greene
Co. Deed Book C, pg. 433, 512, Richard Inge
to John C. Whitsett, 15 sep. 1829.
- Pauline Jones Gandrud,
Alabama Records, Vol. 52, pg. 97 Sumter Co.
Miscellaneous Records.
1840 Census, Sumter County, Alabama.
- "Mississippi
Genealogical Exchange," Vol. XX, no.
1-3, Spring 1974.
- Thomas McAdony Owen, History of Alabama
and Dictionary of Alabama Biography, (S. J. Clarke Pub. Co., Chicago,
1921), Vol. IV, pg. 1760.
- Maida Whitten, Whitsett
Database of Maida Whitten, January 5, 1999.
- Alcorn County, Mississippi
Deeds, Book A, pg. 126-127, Old Tishomingo
County.
- Alcorn County, Mississippi
Deeds, Deed Book A, pg. 89-90.
- "Caroline Keziah
McDonald Burrage Genealogy." Author unknown.
- Noxubee County,
Mississippi Deed Book, Book E, pg. 620, James
Whitsett of Greene County, Alabama gave his
grandson, James W. McDonald a slave.
- 1850 Census, Kemper
Co., Mississippi, pg. 223, Also in Kemper
Co. is James Whitsett and family.
- 1860 Census, Kemper
Co., Mississippi, pg. 102/833, family 705,
J. Lipscomb, age 21, physician in household.
There is no wife or children on this census.
- Sumter County, Alabama
Marriage Book, Book 1, pg. 7.
- 1850 Census, Kemper
Co., Mississippi, pg. 217, Occupation merchant.
Also in Kemper Co. is Howell Whitsett and
family.
- Alabama LDS ICI,
John Childress Whitsett, son of James Thompson
Whitsitt and Betty Winston Whitsitt.
- Mississippi Genealogy
Society, "Cemetery And Bible Records,"
Vol. VI, Sept. 1959.
- 1850 Census, Greene County, Alabama,
pg. 254, family 155: Joseph Whitsett, age 31, farmer, b. Ala;
Elizabeth J., age 25, b. N. C.; Cornelia J., age 6, b. Ala.;
Betty G., age 4, b. Ala.; Harriet J., age 1, b. Ala.; John G.
Huckabee, age 24, laborer, b. N. C.; Benjamin Fitzpatrick, overseer,
b. Ala.
- Joseph Whitsitt
Strickland, Strickland, Joseph W. e-mail,
(May 23, 2000 jwstrick@bellsouth.net), "Electronic."
- Perry County, Alabama Probate Records,
Will of Joseph T. Whitsett, 29. Jan. 1866, Photo copy; unfortunately
I forgot to list the exact source.
- Perry County, Alabama
Probate Records, Will of Joseph T. Whitsett
probate April 2, 1866.
- 1900 Census Soundex,
Sumter County, Alabama, ED 103, Sheet 20,
Gainesville.
- Pauline Jones Gandrud,
Alabama Records, Vol. 145, Madison County,
Alabama.
- Pauline Jones Gandrud,
Alabama Records, Vol. 157, 165, Madison Co.
Newspapers
- 1880 Census Soundex,
Harrison Co., Texas, ED48, pg. 33.
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