Family:Whitney, William O. (b1775-1826)

William O. Whitney, parentage unknown, born before 1775, killed, 23 October 1826, Shelbyville, Bedford Co., TN.^[1]

The following notice appeared in the Knoxville Register newspaper of 8 November 1826: Monday morning, 23rd October, 1826, a personal recontre took place on the public square in Shelbyville between Major Philip J. Scudder and Captain William O.Whitney, in which the latter was killed.

He married, probably in Franklin Co. Georgia, between 1803-1805, Ruth/Ruthy Payne, daughter of Thomas Payne and Yanake/Annica Ayers. ^[2] She was born about 1777, in Halifax County Virginia, and died, May 1860, Shelbyville, Bedford Co. Tennessee. ^[3] She is buried Willow Mount Cemetery, Shelbyville, Bedford Co. Tennessee. ^[4]

William O. Whitney is probably the same man who appears as W. O. Whitney and Olney Whitney in early Georgia Tax Records.

"Upon the formation of Bedford County, in 1807, ... the other early settlers were ..., Whitneys, ..."^[5]

"Shelbyville, the capital of Bedford County, ... was incorporated October 7, 1819, and has continued as an incorporated town up to the present. At the first municipal election, held on the first Monday in November, 1819, Thomas Davis, David McKissack, James A. McClure, Giles Burdett. William 0. Whitney, John H. Anderson and Jacob Morton were elected aldermen, and by them Thomas Davis was chosen mayor and James Brittain recorder."^[6]

Children of William O. and Ruth (Payne) Whitney, based on a census reconstruction, probably incomplete:

i.	(son) Whitney, b. 1776-1794.
ii.	(son) Whitney, b. 1776-1794.
iii.	(son) Whitney, b. 1776-1794.
iv.	(son) Whitney, b. 1795-1804.
v.	(son) Whitney, b. 1795-1804.
vi.	Joseph Alexander Grant Whitney, b. 1803, VA.^[7]
vii.	(son) Whitney, b. 1805-1810.
viii.	Harriet Whitney, b. 1808, d. 1868, m. Phillip Scudder.^[8]
ix.	Thomas P. Whitney, b. 1810-1815.^[9]
x.	James G. Whitney, b. 10 Sep 1812, d. 26 Mar 1905, Emory Gap, Harriman, TN.^[10]

Notes

Were two of the young men listed in the 1830 census with Ruth Whitney the William Whitney and John Whitney, both born in Tennessee, who resided next to each other in Washington Twp, Independence Co., AR in 1850?

For more on this family, see this page as well as related pages.

Census

1820, Bedford Co., TN: William O. Whitney, 1 male over 45, 3 males 26-44, 3 males 16-25, 2 males 10-15, 1 female over 45, 1 female 26-45, 2 people in agriculture, 1 person in commerce, 2 male slaves 14-25, 1 female slave 26-44, 1 female slave under 14.
1830, Bedford Co., TN: Ruth Whitney, 3 males 20-30, 1 male 5-9, 1 female under 5, 1 female 15-20, 1 female 20-30, 1 female 40-50, 1 male slave 24-35, 1 male slave under 10, 1 female slave 36-54, 1 female slave 24-35, 1 female slave 10-23, 13 people total.

References

Census records

1. ^ Re: William O. Whitney, Bedford County, TN.

2. ^ Descendants of John and Millicent Payne/Paine researched by Mr. Bob Meadows http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=john_millicent&id=I29 descendants of John and Millicent payne/paine

3. ^ Title: Federal Census of Bedford County, Tennessee, 1860, page 5, line 6 of the Mortality Schedule.

The mortality schedule lists people who died in the 12 months preceding 1 Jun 1860. The mortality schedule's information was supposed to come from someone in the household where the deceased had usually lived. Ruth was listed as a widow who died in May at age 83, having been born in Virginia.

4. ^ Marsh, Tim and Helen, "Cemetery Records of Bedford County, Tennessee"

5. ^ BEDFORD COUNTY, HISTORY OF TENNESSEE ILLUSTRATED, Nashville, The Goodspeed Publishing Company, 1887.

Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of ..., Volume 4, By Tennessee. Supreme Court, George Shall Yerger.

6. ^ BEDFORD COUNTY, HISTORY OF TENNESSEE ILLUSTRATED, Nashville, The Goodspeed Publishing Company, 1887.

7. ^ Whitney, William O., died 1823

8. ^ Whitney, William O., died 1823

9. ^ Whitney, William O., died 1823