Wilson Whitsett, Son of Adam, Lauderdale County, Alabama

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DECENDANTS OF WILSON WHITSETT OF LAUDERDALE COUNTY, ALABAMA


Western Lauderdale County, Spains and Waterloo Townships, northwestern Alabama.  Lauderdale County is bordered by Mississippi on the west
and Tennessee on the north. Wilson Whitsett's properties are located in Waterloo Township, section 20 and section 33, T1R11W. Related family
members are: Ben Price, Wilson's father-in-law (NW quarter, section 32); Wilson's brother Isaac Whitsett (our ancestor) T2R24W, section 11;
William Hopson, father-in-law of Isaac's son William Wallace Whitsett, is in Spains Township, southwest quarter, section 33, T1R12W.  Wilson
and others marked on this map were deceased by 1907.

 
Apparently some time before his death Wilson donated land for a school that was known as the Whitsett School. It was located on land formerly owned by him near Wright, which would be the property on Potts Branch northwest of Wright. Wilson died in December 1878 at the age of about seventy. His place of burial is not known but presumably he and Elizabeth are buried together. The picture on the right was posted on the Rootsweb Lauderdale County web site by Pat M. Mahan.

Whitsett School ca.1901

Isaac Jones Whitsett

Apparently, the only descendants of Wilson and Elizabeth Price Whitsett who today have the surname Whitsett are from the family of Isaac, who the family called Jones, through his son Benjamin Shanner Whitsett. I have had the pleasure of corresponding with Elwyn DeWayne Whitsitt, Fred Whitsitt and Mary (Whitsett) Thomas, great grandchildren of Isaac Jones. Some in this family spell the name as "Whitsitt." I am grateful to them for much of the information and all of the pictures I have of their family.

Isaac Jones Whitsett married on December 5, 1871, Sarah Elizabeth Sherrod (born Feb. 1851, died Feb. 1905) in Lauderdale County, Alabama. Isaac and his family left Lauderdale County in 1876 and settled in Grayson County, Texas. Grayson County is the location of Sherman and Denison, Texas just south of Oklahoma. When the 1880 census was taken he was listed as J. Whitsitt, age 31. In the household were wife Bettie (Sarah Elizabeth) age 28 and their two sons, Benjamin Shanner Whitsett, age six and Herbert Hughes Whitsett, age 3. Also living with the family at the time was Isaac's younger brother William Shanner Whitsett, age 22 and single.
Isaac Jones Whitsett (1847-1928)

Sarah Price Whitsett Webb

Sarah P. Whitsett Webb (1841-1921), sons:
right - Bailey (1870-1950)
left - Wilson Whitsett Webb (1878-1926)

Sarah Price Whitsett was the sixth of Wilson Whitsett's children. The marriage of Thomas Webb and Sarah Whitsett was recorded on December 29, 1860 but they must have been married earlier in the year to be enumerated together on the census taken in July. The children of Thomas and Sarah were: Luther C. Webb, born about 1862; Bailey D. Webb, born about 1870; Arthur B. Webb, born about 1875; and Wilson Whitsett Webb, born on September 17, 1878. They are listed on the 1880 census in Waterloo, Lauderdale County. Sarah and Thomas lived for a while in Lorado, Greene County, Arkansas near Sarah's sister Cammie before moving to Texas in about 1898. Thomas and Sarah are listed in Navarro County, Texas on 1900 census. Thomas Webb was injured during the Civil War so severely that he was unable to work most of his life. The four boys worked and ran the farm. Son Wilson and wife Fannie cared for the couple in their later years. Thomas died in 1905 in Texas, probably Navarro County. Sarah died in 1922 at the home of her son, Bailey Webb in Foard County, Texas. Wilson Whitsett Webb died on November 26, 1926 in Wilbarger County, Texas.

      

Headstones, Texas: left - Sarah Price Whitsett Webb, son Wilson W. Webb, Thalia Cemetery, Foard County; Bailey Donely Webb, Vernon, Wilbarger County, Texas.

Benjamin Shanner Whitsett
The oldest son of Isaac Jones Whitsett, Benjamin Shanner Whitsett married Sarah Myrtle Dugger on June 7, 1903, in Griffithville. She was the daughter of William A. and Mary A. Rebecca Dugger. In February, 1905 Jones' wife Sarah Elizabeth died in Griffithville. The following year Ben and Myrtle's first child, Herbert Hicks died on February 18, 1906. He was not yet two years old. In 1909 Benjamin took his father and brother Herbert and moved back to Texas. Benjamin's father-in-law William Dugger also took his entire family and went with the Whitsett's and in 1910 there were all located in Comanche County, Texas. Comanche is located about half way between Abileen and Waco. Benjamin S. Whitsett's household in 1910 consisted of wife Myrtle, his father Isaac J., brother Herbert H. and three sons: Ewell, age 4, born in Arkansas; Thomas W., age 2, born in Arkansas; Jake, age five months, born in Texas are also in the household.
Benjamin Shaner Whitsett (1874-1957)

Sons of Benjamin Shaner Whitsett, Thomas Wilson,
Amor Shanner, John Dugger Whitsett

Benjamin Shanner Whitsett family in the late 1940's


Thomas Wilson Whitsett (1907-1990)

John Dugger Whitsett (1910-2005) and family

Mary P. Whitsett, daughter of Thomas Wilson Whitsett, and her husband William G. Thomas
 
Ronald N. Wall
Modified: 13 September 2025