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OTHER WHITSETT FAMILIES

SAMUEL PORTER WHITSITT FAMILY OF NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE

Photos Courtesy of Christine Drury, great-great-grandaughter of Samuel Porter Whitsitt (2007)

Samuel Porter Whitsitt family of Nashville, Tennessee
two sons are missing from this photo; six younger women are shown, one is probably
the wife of the older male son. Photo taken ca.1900

Robert Allen Whitsitt (1888-1934)
great-grandfather of Christine Drury ca.1900
Played his horn at celebrations of "the Great Secession"

The bearded gentleman is Samuel Porter Whitsitt, (1836-1925) of Nashville, son of Dr. Samuel Dawson Whitsitt, grandson of Rev. James and Jane (Cardwell) Whitsitt,
great grandson of William and Ellen (Menees) Whitsett, 2nd great grandson of William and Elizabeth (Dawson) Whitsitt. Samuel P. Whitsitt served in Wheeler's Cavalry, Company D, 1st Tennessee. He was born in Yalabusha Co., Miss. and died in Nashville; married 1865, Saluda "Ludie" Harriet Harvey (1844-1917) in Williamson Co., Tenn.

Samuel and Ludie Whitsitt had ten children: Mildred B. (1866-1951), Samuel Dawson (1868-1963), Mary G. (1870-1922), Nettie H. (1873-1966),
Jean P. (1875-1949), John H. (1877-1887), Annis R. (1880-1945), daughter T. Elizabeth "Bessie" (1883-1959), Foster G. (1884-1974), Robert Allen (1888-1934)

The family of Robert Allen Whitsitt, wife Luella Whitsitt; the baby is Thomas Porter Whitsitt

Thomas Porter Whitsitt, grandfather of Christine Drury

"I can tell you a bit more about my great-grandfather Robert Allen, but only what I’ve heard from my aunts. My grandfather never talked about his father. Robert was killed in a barroom brawl when his son (my grandfather, Thomas Porter Whitsitt), was a young man… early 20s. My aunt Barbara tells me it was over a car or something, but other family members have said it was over a woman. (He was definitely a womanizer, and his wife, Luella, actually shot a Mrs. Brown, because of her relationship with Robert.)

"Grandfather went to the hospital and held his father erect in his arms while he died because Robert didn’t want to die in bed. Thomas was the oldest child and there were five younger girls. Thomas was already married and had a very young daughter (my mother), but at least he had a job (it was during the depression) and so he sent food and whatever he could to his mother to help support them."

Christine Drury

Luella and Robert Allen Whitsitt

Ronald N. Wall

Modified: 16 September 2025