Well – I’m so far behind it’s insane, but I need to wrap this up in some way. There are a lot of loose ends when it comes to the Whittle line. It seems that there are no smoking guns and some names in the line are just not meant to be known. So lets recap!<\/p>\n
This project started in Oct 2008 and the focus was looking for information on the Samuel Whittle Family interred in Govanstown Presbyterian Cemetery in Baltimore. It began simply enough with trying to confirm who might be in the Whittle plot. Never say a project is \u201csimple\u201d – you doom it from the very beginning! While the basic information for who was in the plot was not that difficult to locate \u2013 there was nothing simple about the Whittle line. Never have so many MEN remained so elusive!<\/p>\n
Samuel N. Whittle died 7 Oct 1892 in Allegheny City (Pittsburg) PA when he fell from a window. Using news articles and census records, I was able to establish that he was a married to Georgeanne Higle, (c. 1846 \u2013 c. 1875), who died of tuberculosis, and he had two daughters, Clara May (1866-1946) and Maggie S. (c.1869-1897). He was the son of an Unknown Whittle and Eliza [Unknown] Whittle (c.1815-1896). Samuel had an older brother Charles Nicholas Whittle (1838-1916) and both brothers had served in the Civil War. Charles went by his middle name of Nicholas, which has often left me wondering if his father might not have been a Charles also.<\/p>\n
While I have had no success in providing the name of Samuel\u2019s father, I was more successful with the sibling lines of the Unknown Whittle. There were at least five children born to Jeremiah Whittle and Nancy Best between 1805 and 1815, three males and two females, all of whom remain unknown by name. Samuel\u2019s father was the youngest of that group, born c. 1915. After the death of Nancy Best, Jeremiah married Elizabeth Eyle and four more children Thomas (c.1826 \u2013 c. 1863), Susan A. (1822 \u2013 1916), Jeremiah Amos (1824 \u2013 1902), and John R. (c. 1829 – unk). These lines were a great deal of fun to explore and provided lots of juicy information.<\/p>\n
Sadly, with the Whittle men there are always more questions than answers. With help from family member Ruth I was able to establish a few more facts and chase a few more leads. I actually had more fun following up on the information about Thomas Whittle – uncle to Samuel N. Whittle. It was a great exercise in \u201cdebunking\u201d family lore and published accounts concerning his Civil War service. While we will probably never know what happened to Thomas \u2013 we know that he could not have died at Shiloh.<\/p>\n
I have provided links below to the previous posts on the Whittle family if you need to refresh and then we\u2019ll move on to all the loose material that I have located, but can\u2019t attach.<\/p>\n
The Great Obituary Hunt 1 Oct 2008<\/a> Whittle Family Tree Well – I’m so far behind it’s insane, but I need to wrap this up in some way. There are a lot of loose ends when it comes to the Whittle line. It seems that there are no smoking guns and some names in the line are just not meant to be … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,57,79,150],"class_list":["post-936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-reports","tag-best","tag-eyle","tag-higle","tag-whittle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/findyourdead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/findyourdead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/findyourdead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findyourdead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findyourdead.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/findyourdead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/findyourdead.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findyourdead.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findyourdead.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe Lowest Branch of the Family Tree 5 Oct 2008<\/a>
\nTrying to Tree Climb 6 Oct 2008<\/a>
\nA Footnote to History 8 Oct 2008<\/a>
\nDangling from a Tree Limb 9 Oct 2008<\/a>
\nOdds and Ends 14 Oct 2008<\/a>
\nGOOGLING for Dead People 15 Oct 2008<\/a>
\nThe Family Comes Through19 Oct 2008<\/a>
\nClara May Whittle 20 Oct 2008<\/a>
\nElizabeth (am I an Eyle or a Hall) Whittle 9 Nov 2008<\/a>
\nWrapping up the Whittle Plot 10 Nov 2008<\/a>
\nBarking up the Wrong Family Tree 20 Nov 2008<\/a>
\nOh Susannah! 1 Dec 2008<\/a>
\nI\u2019m a Doubting Thomas \u2013 About Thomas (Part 1) 12 Dec 2008<\/a>
\nDoubting Thomas \u2013 Part 2 13 Dec 2008<\/a>
\nDoubting Thomas \u2013 Part 3 16 Dec 2008<\/a>
\nThomas Whittle\u2019s Service Record 29 Dec 2008<\/a>
\nPlaying Catch Up 5 Jun 2009<\/a>
\nThe Last Two Brothers with Names 10 Jun 2009<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"