Husband: Rev. Leroy McWHORTER
Birthdate: 1797
Birthplace: SC
Death date: 5 April 1875
Place of death: Carroll Co., GA
Burial:
Father: Moses McWHORTER
Mother: unknown (thought by some to be a Rebecca Williams)
Other spouses:

Marriage date: Abt 1818
Marriage place: SC

Wife: Mary Elizabeth THOMASSON
Birthdate: 1796
Birthplace: SC
Death date: 9 Oct 1875
Place of death: Carroll Co., GA
Burial:
Father: unknown
Mother: unknown
Other spouses:

CHILDREN

Child No. 1: Moses Allen McWHORTER
Birthdate: 25 Nov 1820, SC
Spouses' names: Sarah KINNEY
Marriage date: 2 Nov 1848, Carroll Co., GA
Death date: 14 May 1902, Carroll Co., GA

Child No. 2: Sarah M. McWHORTER
Birthdate: 11 May 1822, SC
Spouses' names: George M. JOHNSTON
Marriage date: 10 Dec 1844, Paulding Co., GA
Death date: unknown

Child No. 3: Mary Ann E. McWHORTER
Birthdate: 11 May 1822, SC
Spouses' names:
Marriage date:
Death date: unknown

Child No. 4: Johnson McWHORTER
Birthdate: 3 Jan 1826, SC
Spouses' names:
Marriage date:
Death date: unknown

Child No. 5: Laura McWHORTER
Birthdate: 30 Nov 1827, SC
Spouses' names:
Marriage date:
Death date: unknown

Child No. 6: Thomas Benson McWHORTER
Birthdate: 27 July 1829, SC
Spouses' names: Mary Ann BARR
Marriage date: 21 June 1853, Carroll Co., GA
Death date: 15 June 1863, Carroll Co., GA

Child No. 7: Elizabeth McWHORTER
Birthdate: 5 July 1831, SC
Spouses' names: Madison M. BOLTON
Marriage date: 16 May 1856, Benton Co., AL
Death date: bef 1890, Villa Rica, Carroll Co., GA

Child No. 8: Newton Alexander McWHORTER
Birthdate: 20 April 1833, SC
Spouses' names: Celia Elizabeth WILSON
Marriage date: 13 Dec 1860, Carroll Co., GA
Death date: 28 Dec 1912, Carroll Co., GA

Child No. 9: Franklin McWHORTER
Birthdate: 4 Oct 1836, SC
Spouses' names: Nancy Ann Lucinda WILSON
Marriage date: 29 March 1860, Carroll Co., GA
Death date: 15 Oct 1862, Crab Orchard, KY
 
 
Documentation:
* Bible records of Leroy McWhorter as found in "Old Southern Bible Records" by Memory Aldridge Lester;
* "Descendants of Moses McWhorter & Related Families" by Anna Harman Bowman, Norman Oklahoma & Manchester, MO;
* Excerpts from research of Max L. McWhorter, Arab, AL;
* Excerpts from research papers of Davis McWhorter, Bethel, NC;
* "The History of Heard County, Georgia" published by Heard County Historical Society;
* Online minutes of Van Wert Baptist Church, Polk County, GA (formerly Paulding Co.);
* Census records of Greenville Dist., SC (1830), Cass Co., GA (1840), Carroll Co., GA (1850, 1870), Heard Co., GA (1860);
* Civil War service records;
* Carroll County, GA marriage records;
* Carroll Co., GA cemetery records;
* Various church history books;
* Research papers of Ruby Faye McWhorter Barron (deceased);
* Information from and interviews with family members;
* Leroy's obituary and much other information provided by Kathy Gregory.

Notes:
* Leroy and Mary moved to Georgia from Greenville, SC, sometime between 1830 and 1840, as information shows in census records. On Dec 21, 1843, he accepted a call as pastor of Van Wert Baptist Church, Paulding County, GA, where he served until 1846. He was dismissed by letter in that year, along with several other church members who were "moving from the neighborhood." He then moved to Carroll County and, in 1847, was one of the founding members and first pastor of Macedonia Baptist Church (now Midway Macedonia Baptist Church) near Villa Rica. In 1849, he and other pastors constituted Pleasant Grove Baptist Church in the same area. In 1858, he accepted a call as pastor of Centralhatchee Baptist Church in Heard County and moved there sometime before 1860. By 1870, he was back in Carroll County where he died on April 5, 1875, "in his 78th year," according to his obituary. Leroy was affected by palsy several years before his death and was described as a "poor man who always had to perform manual labor." His wife, Mary, followed him in death six months later. Their burial places are unknown. Leroy's will was made and recorded in Carroll County.
* Mary's surname is also seen as "Thompson" and "Thomson."
* In the absence of records and concrete proof, the name of Leroy's father is the subject of much controversy among McWhorter researchers. However, descendants of Leroy and Mary feel that Leroy's naming his first son "Moses Allen" and the absence of any descendants named "Landon" are powerful indications that Leroy's father was Moses, one of three sons (Moses, Landon and John) of Moses McWhorter and his first wife (name unknown), of Edgefield Dist., SC. This earlier Moses was also the father of Allen Marlin McWhorter (by his second wife, Elizabeth Puckett), claimed by family members living in Carroll County to be Leroy's uncle.
* Allen Marlin's ancestors and descendants are well documented. Of the other two sons of Moses of Edgefield and his first Wife: John's Bible records have been found and published and do not list a son named Leroy, and no records of Landon as an adult have been found. He is thought by many noted researchers to have died young. Research by Kathy Gregory shows that Leroy and Mary McWhorter were members of Mountain Creek Baptist Church in Greenville before they moved to Georgia.