SOURCES FOR John WHITSITT, son of Samuel and Margaret Tuttle/Tittle Whitsitt |
| 1. EARLY SETTLERS IN LAFAYETTE COUNTY, MISSOURI, (no
publication data but probably a Goodspeed
History), 1881, CLAY TOWNSHIP, WASHINGTON
TOWNSHIP. |
| 2. Venita
L. (Whitsitt) Bumgarner, Whitsitt and Douthitt
families of Lafayette Co., Missouri (327 North
West Street, Perryville, Mo., 63775).
[My correspondent, Mrs. Pauline Maciejewski,
Grand Island, NE, (1986), did not consider
this source to be reliable except in matters
of her immediate family] |
| 3. KENTUCKY
BIBLE RECORDS, Vol. IV; Phillips and Whitsitt Bible (Washington,
D. C.: D. A. R., 1966). [Photocopy in the D.A. R. Library, Washington,
D.C., contributed by Mrs. R. M. Holstine; actual Bible was owned
by the Phillips and Whitsitt descendant in Deputy, Gibson County,
Indiana] |
| 4. Montgomery
County, Kentucky Deed Book, Samuel Whitsitt
Estate (Frankfort, Kentucky: Kentucky State
Archives), DB 7-422; film No. 252350; extracted
for me by Jane Grey Buchanan, Oak Ridge, TN,
June 5, 1985. Mrs. Buchanan was researching
the Thompson and Whitsett families of Tennessee
and Clark County, Kentucky for a book |
| 5. Miriam
Holstine,, Whitsitt Family of Kentucky and
Missouri (Palmyra, Mo., April 30, 1986). Papers
of Ronald N. Wall. |
| 6. Portrait
and Biographical Record of Johnson and Pettis
Counties Missouri (Chapman Pub. Co., Chicago,
1895). |
| 7. Linda
Gardner, Will of John Whitsett of Lafayette
County, Missouri (Jan. 14, 1999). |
| 8. Hazel
M. Boyd, THE ADVOCATE, Montgomery County [KY]
Notes (Mt. Sterling, Kentucky, Jan. 22, 1981).
[Article about early families of Montgomery
County, Kentucky, specifically Samuel and
Margaret Whitsitt of Mt. Sterling and their
children; mentions Phillips-Whitsitt Bible] |
| 9. 1830
Census, Lafayette County, Missouri (Provo,
UT, USA, Ancestry.com, The Generations Network,
Inc., 2004), James D. Whitsette, John Whitsette;
Lafayette, Missouri; U. S. Census Bureau Washington,
D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration,
M19, Roll: 73; Page: 249. |
| 10. Maida
Whitten, Whitsett Family Tree Database (7201
Mastin, Shawnee Mission, KS 66203-4616). Date
of Import: Dec 30, 1998. I know Maida to be
a reliable researcher; however, I have verified
the data she sent me in a GEDCOM. |
| 11. Ron Jackson, Kentucky Census, 1810-90 (Provo,
UT, USA, Accelerated Indexing Systems, The
Generations Network, Inc., 1999), Compiled
from microfilmed schedules of the U.S. Federal
Decennial Census, territorial/state censuses,
and/or census substitutes. Actually covers
years from the 1780's to 1890's. |
| 12. "Portrait
and Biographical Record of Johnson and Pettis
Counties, Missouri," Chapman Pub. Co.,
Chicago, 1895. |
| 13. THE TERRITORIAL PAPERS OF THE UNITED STATES, "The Territory of
Louisiana - Missouri 1815-1821," Vol. XV (Washington D.C.,
U. S. Government Printing Office, 1936), Petition of inhabitants
pertaining to abuses by acting Land Register, James D. Whitesitt
and John Whitesitt among the signers. |
| 14. MISSOURI PIONEERS, Vol. IX, Lillard County, Mo., Abstracts
of Deed Book A and B, 1821-1825. |
| 15. MISSOURI
PIONEERS, Vol. IX, Lillard County, Mo., Deed
Book A, pg. 43. |
| 16. Transcript
by Linda Gardner, The Last Will and Testament
of John Whitsett, 11 August 1841, Letter from
Linda Gardner, 14 Jan. 1999; no source notation
but full transcript of will. |
| 17. "News
Items from Lafayette and Adjoining Counties From Papers Published
in Lexington, Missouri, 1844-45," MISSOURI PIONEERS, Vol.
IV, jan. 1969 (pg 87,88) |
| 18. Susan
Ormesher, Missouri Marriages Before 1840 (Genealogical Publishing
Co., Inc., Baltimore, MD 1982, 1982), Ancestry.com, pg. 240 (Whitsett
name listed as Whitsell). |
| 19. U.S. General Land Office Records 1796-1907,
Lafayette County, Missouri (Provo, UT, The Generations
Network, Inc., 2007), Ancestry.com on-line database,
Certificate No. 159, John Whitsitt Senr. of Lillard
County, Western District of Missouri. |
| 20. Hon.
William Young, YOUNGS HISTORY OF LAFAYETTE
COUNTY MISSOURI, Vol. 1 (Indianapolis, Indiana,
B. F. Bowen & Company, 1910), Heathstone
Legacy Publications, Higginsville, MO (2004)
CD, pg. 50.
"FIRST IMPORTANT EVENTS.
Around the first events of a county's settlement
there hangs much of interest, even way down
the years. The following events show the beginning
of affairs in Lafayette county: The
judges of the first county court were John
Stapp, John Whitsett and James Lillard. " |
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