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Virginia:Pittsylvania County
Andrew Jackson Whitehead (1815-1861)
Drusilla Hobson Wade Whitehead (1820-1902)
Married 8 August 1836 at West Castle, Caswell County NC.
He was the son of Richard Whitehead (1773-1843) and Pency Camden (1775-1851) and was born near Mount Airy/Chalk Level 12 March 1815 on the former Jesse/Thomas Mustain land grant farm near Greenfield Church and Stinking River in northeastern Pittsylvania County which his parents bought after they moved from Amherst County. He held numerous elective offices and died intestate 12 August 1861.
She was the daughter of John Wade Sr and Elizabeth Hobson Wade of Franklin County, one of 11 children, including her brothers John Wade, Sheriff, and Dr Benjamin Wade,physician, who was a Colonel of 57th Regiment Infantry CSA and highest ranking officer from Franklin County killed at Gettysburg.
Children of Drusilla and Andrew Jackson Whitehead:
1.Victoria Ann, b 12 Sept 1842, and married John D Glenn on 12/14/1859;
2.John Richard, b 7 Aug 1844, and married Sallie Hunt Graves 06/22/1864; 6th Virginia Cavalry,Sgt,CSA, 3/6/1862 to 3/22/1865, POW,and twice wounded; (http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hills/1850/6thvacav.html). Later Sheriff and Treasurer of Pittsylvania County;
Parents of Joseph Whitehead, US Representative to Congress, who (http://bioguide.house.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=w0004000), introduced legislation to establish Shenandoah National Park-20 Feburary 1926. (Call Number Y26.W54:S54 Library of VA)
3.William Joseph,(birthname "Joseph A.") b 6 July 1846, married ? see obit below; 6th Virginia Cavalry, also in 24th and 8th Cavalry units, paroled 6/6/1865 at Franklin Courthouse; (Part of the obituary as it appeared in Vol XXXIX, December 1931, p 567 of "The Confederate Veteran Magazine":
".....William Joseph died on the 23rd of October 1927 at the age of eighy-one years in Beaver Park, Colo....was one of the five children of Capt. A. J. Whitehead, who was once a member of the Virgina legislature and twice elected high sheriff... in his teens, enlisted in the Confederate Army, where he served with distinction in the command of Gen Fitzhugh Lee and ....(had) the honor of capturing General Gregg,of the Union Army...in a hand-to-hand encounter...." Library of Virginia, Call Number:Reference E482 C74 v.35.
4.Millard Webster, b 16 May 1851, never married;
5.Elizabeth Pency, b 1 June 1855, married Peter Booth 12/29/1870.
John D Glenn served as Administrator of the Estate of Andrew Jackson Whitehead, Mixed Probate Records Pittsylvania Clerk's Office 1863-1864.
Sources/References:
1.Will of Richard Whitehead Will Book I, pp 476-479 Pittsylvania County Clerk's Office;
2.Will of John Wade, Sr Franklin County Clerk's Office;
3."Franklin County Virginia 1786-1986" Bicentenial History by John S Salmon & Emily J Salmon 1948;
4."Pioneer Families of Franklin County Virginia" by Marshall Wingfield 1964 pp93-95;
5.Will of John Whitehead Will Book 3 1786-1800,Adm bond 1787; Amherst County Clerks Office;
6.Handwritten notes on back of both photographs as to certain above children etc;
7.Census of 1850 both Pittsylvania County and Franklin County Va.
8. Tombstone inscriptions for above in Chatham Burial Park;
Submitted by M R Whitehead, (ggg-granddaughter of Andrew J & Drusilla H W Whitehead) |
