FAMILY TREE OF GEORGE FREDERICK WHITMIRE

THIS IS THE FAMILY TREE OF GEORGE FREDERICK WHITMIRE FOLLOWING THE BRANCH OF HIS SON THOMAS WHITMIRE.

MICHL WIDMAYER, born in Gronningen, Wurttemberg, Germany, married UNKNOWN. CHILD OF MICHL AND UNKNOWN WIDMAYER IS: CHRISTOPH(VON WHITTENMEYER)WIDMAYER, born Enzweihingen, Neckarkreis Co., Wurttemberg, Germany, married ROSINA SPAETH, November 19, 1733 in Enzwehingen. CHILDREN OF CHRISTOPH AND ROSINA SPAETH WIDMAYER ARE: MICHAEL WIDMAYER, born Enzweihingen.....PHILIPP JAKOB WIDMAYER, born August 3, 1737, Enzweihingen.....ELISABETHA CATHARINA WIDMAYER, born August 21, 1738, Enzweihingen.....JOHAN GEORG WIDMAYER, born April 24, 1742, Enzweihingen.....GEORGE FREDERICK(WIDMAYER)WHITMIRE, born September 12, 1743, Enzweihingen, died June 23, 1829, Union Co., South Carolina.

GEORGE FREDERICK WHITMIRE, born GEORG FRIED WIDMAYER in 1743, Enzewihingen, Wurtemburg, Germany; died June 23, 1829 in Lower Duncan's Baptist Cemetary, Union county, South Carolina. Married SARAH PHOEBE HAGOOD, 1774, the daughter of REVEREND HAGOOD. George came to Philadelphia in the "Ship Salley. Shortly moved and arrived near Duncan Creek in the Ninety-six district, later called Newberry district, South Carolina. His farm later became the town of Whitmire, South Carolina. Children of GEORGE WHITMIRE AND PHOEBE HAGOOD are: THOMAS WHITMIRE, born 1787, Newberry, South Carolina, married to ELIZABETH HILL..... RACHEL WHITMIRE, born 1774..... HENRY WHITMIRE, born July 22, 1776, died February 5, 1836, married toRUTH HILL, sister of Elizabeth..... WILLIAM T. WHITMIRE, born July 22, 1776, died September 22, 1840, married to SARAH HILL FOWLER, sister to Ruth and Elizabeth..... CHRISTOPHER WHITMIRE, born 1785, Newberry District, S.C., died January 26, 1820, probably in Newberry Co. S.C., married to SARAH SHETTLEWORTH..... JOHN H. WHITMIRE, born May 22, 1780, died November 9, 1834, marriedSALLEY TIGER..... MOSES WHITMIRE, born August 25, 1789, died December 25, 1836, married Elizabeth Evans.....


DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS WHITMIRE AND ELIZABETH HILL

THOMAS WHITMIRE, Born 1787 to GEORGE FREDERICK WHITMIRE and SARAH PHOEBE HAGOOD. Children are: CHRISTOPHER WHITMIRE, born in South Carolina, married to KATHERINE FRENCH..... PHOEBE WHITMIRE..... POLLY WHITMIRE, born December 13, 1895, married to JOHN AUXER.... WILLIAM WHITMIRE...... JOHN HILL WHITMIRE, born 1897 in Newberry district, South Carolina, married to ELIZABETH WILLIAMS on December 25, 1829 in Franklin County, Missouri...... NATHAN(NATHANIEL) WHITMIRE, born 1810 in Newberry, South Carolina, died February 18,1891 in Sullivan Missouri. Married twice, first to ELIZABETH MARGARET CLARK . Second to MARY ANGELINE SULLIVAN...... MARGARET WHITMIRE, born 1818 in Newberry district, South Carolina, married to WILLIAM V.R. THURMOND in Missouri on April 7, 1841.....


DESCENDANTS OF NATHAN(NATHANIEL) WHITMIRE

NATHAN WHITMIRE, born in 1810 in Newberry district, South Carolina, died February 18, 1891 in Sullivan Missouri. Married first to ELIZABETH MARGARET CLARK, born 1818 in Abbeyville, South Carolina the daughter of the second JACOB CLARK, son of the first JACOB CLARK, the immigrant to Abbeyville. They had the following children: MARY CLARK WHITMIRE, born 1835 in Missouri..... MOSES H. WHITMIRE, born March 1, 1838 in Missouri..... JAMES CHRIST WHITMIRE, born 1845, Boone Creek, died 1921 and buried in Steeleville Cemetary, Missouri.....JEREMIAH E. WHITMIRE, born 1847..... CHARLES C. WHITMIRE, born 1849, died March 31, 1930..... Children of NATHAN WHITMIRE andMARY ANGELINE SULLIVAN are: CLAIBORNE(CLAYBORN) WHITMIRE, born in 1853, died December 29, 1910 and buried in Crow Cemetary, Franklin county, Missouri..... THOMAS JEFFERSON WHITMIRE, born July 17, 1856 in Sullivan Missouri, died July 30,1950 in West Plains, Howell county, Missouri.....SARAH FRANCIS WHITMIRE, born 1860..... NATHAN WHITMIRE took out a land patent in Missouri on October 3, 1846 to 40 acres in section 11 Township 40 range 3 West and later an adjoining 80 acres. He also, in 1872, had 161 acres in section 31 Township 49 Range 4 West in the Cuba city, Missouri area. His second wife, MARY ANGELINE SULLIVAN was the daughter of STEPHEN SULLIVAN, for whom the town of Sullivan, Missouri is named, andDORCAS PINNELL. Both Nathan and Mary Angeline are buried in the Crow Cemetary about a mile from their farm.


DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS JEFFERSON WHITMIRE

THOMAS JEFFERSON WHITMIRE, born July 17, 1856 in Sullivan, Missouri and died July 30, 1950 in West Plains, Missouri. He married JEMIMA ELLIS MASSEY, daughter of JOHN MASSIE and SARAH HUTCHINSON who was born May 5, 1833 in Peterhead, Scotland and died December 9 , 1928 in West Plains, Missouri. Her father was CHARLES C. HUTCHINSON. JOHN MASSIE, born june 9, in Longside, Aberdeenshire, England and died in 1920 in West Plains, Missouri. THOMAS JEFFERSON and JEMIMA ELLIS MASSEY WHITMIRE had the following children:CARL DOUGLAS WHITMIRE, born January 8, 1884 in West Plains, Missouri, died November 6, 1966 in Fort Smith Arkansas..... FRANCES WHITMIRE, lived in Kansas City, never married, taught high school Home Economics..... LOUISE WHITMIRE..... ALEXA WHITMIRE MARQUIS, a violinist on the Redpath Chataqua circuit, born 1895 in West Plains, married toHARRY MARQUIS the founding director of what is now the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra..... AGNES WHITMIRE GARNESS....ALICE LEE WHITMIRE DAVIDSON, born and lived always in West Plains, had at least one son, Carrick Davidson....RUTH WHITMIRE. THOMAS JEFFERSON WHITMIRE attended Sullivan schools and the Old Salem Academy, where he recieved the first diploma awarded by that institution in 1876. It was there that he met his bride -to-be miss JEMIMA ELLIS MASSEY whose family resided in Salem. T.J. came to West Plains in 1881 to clerk in the mercantile store owned by A.H. ane H.B.Clark and later, with a partner, C.S.Hill, established a mercantile business of their own, theHILL-WHITMIRE store, which became the largest and best in this section of the state. Served two terms as county Treasurer and one as Recorder of Deeds, as a Democrat. Charter member of First Presbyterian Church, serving 28 consecutive years as Sunday school Superintendant. Charter member of Chamber of Commerce. Member of all three Masonic bodies having joined the Masonic Lodge in 1882.


DESCENDANTS OF CARL DOUGLAS WHITMIRE

CARL DOUGLAS WHITMIRE, born January 8, 1884 in West Plains, Missouri, died November 6, 1966 in Fort Smith, Arkansas, married December 18, 1912 in Fort Smith, Arkansas to MYRTLE GALE SMITH, born November 4, 1890 in Cameron, Oklahoma, died August 6, 1957 in Fort Smith, Arkansas, the daughter of JACOB C. SMITH and DONA JASPER.Other children of JACOB C. SMITH AND DONA JASPER ARE: DELBERT SMITH, born February 15, 1897.

Parents of JACOB C. SMITH are: ALBERT H. SMITH, born September 25, 1838, died NOvember 12, 1868, married February 2, 1860 to MARGARET G. EMMERT, born March 3, 1840. Children of ALBERT H. AND MARGAREAT G. EMMERT SMITH are: JACOB C. SMITH, born September 11, 1862.....CORDELIA SMITH, born December 26, 1866.....WILLIAM E. SMITH, born April 20, 1868.

CARL DOUGLAS and MYRTLE SMITH WHITMIRE had the following children:ROBERT SMITH WHITMIRE, born October 13, 1917 in St. Louis, Missouri..... CARL DOUGLAS WHITMIRE, JR. born November 15, 1914.

ROBERT SMITH WHITMIRE taught Biology in Fort Smith at Darby Junior High School and at the University of Michigan where he also did advanced study. Joined the biology faculty at UW-STEVENS POINT in 1957 for nearly 20 years. Bachelor degree from the University of Missouri-Kansas City and Master's degree in Botany from the University of Arkansas-Fayetville. Served in Army Air Force in the China-Burma-India Theatre during WWII. He was a bryologist- Ferns and Mosses, his specialty. Met his wifeNANCY MAE STAFFAN at the University of Michigan. She was a student of his. They had Two children: ROBERT SMITH WHITMIRE, JR., born May 13, 1957 in Ann Arbor, Michigan..... MARNA ELIZABETH WHITMIRE, born April 16, 1959 in Stevens Point, Wisconsin.....

ROBERT SMITH WHITMIRE, JR. has two children: CAMERON MICHAEL WHITMIRE, born August 13, 1983..... ANDREW NATHAN WHITMIRE, born May 15, 1985, both in Stevens Point, Wisconsin.

MARNA ELIZABETH WHITMIRE has five children: REBECCA ANN MUDGETT, born April 14, 1978.....SEAN ROBERT MUDGETT, born March 18, 1979...JAMIE MARIE MADDEN, born December 28, 1984..... CARMEN LIZABETH MADDEN, born June 9, 1988..... KYLE XAVIER MADDEN, born July 19, 1991.

REBECCA is married toTONY ZABAWA and they have two children: DAKOTA NATHANIEL, born December 6, 1995..... CHEYENNE MARIE, born April 30, 1998.....

CARL DOUGLAS WHITMIRE,JR. a graduate of the Universtiy of Missouri in Engineering and like his brother served in the Army Air Corps, WWII in the China-Burma-India theater. Was a stock broker, sales manager for Trans World Airlines for 22 years and travel agent. Married HAROLDEAN BELL, born in Kansas City, Missouri October 28, 1916, an only child of HAROLD L. BELL(owner of Jenkins Music Co.), born January 15, 1892, White Cloud, Kansas, died 1965, Kansas City, Missouri and ELIZABETH CLAIRE EVANS BELL, born May 21, 1893, Milan, Missouri, died 1973, Houston, Texas. They had the following children.....CLAIRE EVANS WHITMIRE, born March 23, 1946 and married to ROSS FERGUSON MILLER II, later divorced. They had one daughter, JENNIFER CLAIRE MILLER, born February 23, 1970.........CAROL GALE WHITMIRE, born September 4, 1949, married to JON TIMOTHY RIVEIRE, born February 11, 1948. They have two children, JON TIMOTHY RIVEIRE, JR. born October 13, 1982 and CHRISTINE ELIZABETH RIVEIRE born July 11, 1985..........CATHY DOUGLAS WHITMIRE, born October 5, 1951, married to DENNIS HILLIN FITE, born April 5, 1950.......CARL DOUGLAS WHITMIRE III, born April 20, 1954, Married GAYLE MARIE INGRAM, born April 23, 1951. They have 3 children, ASHLEY INGRAM WHITMIRE, born March 4, 1984, RACHEL MICHELLE WHITMIRE, born September 15, 1987, OLIVIA MADISON WHITMIRE born October 3, 1996.

Parents of HAROLD L. BELL ARE: HARRY H. BELL, born October 14, 1860, Elmwood, Illinois and MARTIN OLIVE MAUCK BELL, born 1868, White Cloud, Kansas. FATHER OF HAROLD H. BELL IS: JOHN BELL

Parents of ELIZABETH CLAIRE EVANS ARE: WALTER LUKE EVANS, born November 23, 1859, Fairbault, Minnesota, died May 21, 1930 and IDA ROSE RYAN EVANS, born in Ireland, died September 19, 1908. CHILDREN OF WALTER LUKE EVANS AND IDA ROSE RYAN ARE: TERESA EVANS, KATHLEEN EVANS, JACK EVANS ELIZABETH CLAIRE EVANS.

SIBLINGS OF WALTER LUKE EVANS ARE: EDITH EVANS, DR. JANE EVANS, DR. ART L. EVANS.

PARENTS OF WALTER LUKE EVANS ARE: JOHN R. EVANS, born May 27, 1833, Wales, died 1913 and CLARA JANE HULETT, born January 5, 1842, Indiana, died 1894. OTHER CHILDREN OF JOHN R. AND CLARA JANE HULETT EVANS ARE: EDITH EVANS, born 1862, married JOHN KENNEDY, died 1956.

FATHER OF IDA ROSE RYAN IS: DENNIS RYAN, born in Ireland.