Tennessee Family Group Sheet for the the Jacob J. WHITAKER Family

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Husband: Jacob J. WHITAKER
Birthdate: ca 1784
Birthplace: Orange Co., NC
Death date: after August 1843
Place of death: Maury Co., TN
Burial: Dockery Cem.
Father: Abraham Isaac WHITAKER
Mother: Mary Ann POTEET

Marriage date: May 16, 1805
Marriage place: Orange Co., NC

Wife: Mary "Polly" REDDING
Birthdate:
Birthplace:
Death date: after 1822
Place of death:
Burial: Dockery Cem.
Father: Thomas REDDING
Mother: Mary HOLLOWAY

CHILDREN

Child No. 1: John WHITAKER
Sex: M
Birthdate: June 9, 1806
Birthplace: Orange Co., NC
Death date: 1885
Place of death:
Burial:
Marriage date: June 19, 1829
Marriage place: Orange Co., NC
Spouse's name: Martha "Patsy" STEVENS

Child No. 2: Robert WHITAKER
Sex: M
Birthdate: January 19, 1807
Birthplace: Orange Co., NC
Death date: January 7, 1886
Place of death: Jasper Co., MO
Burial:
Marriage date: December 18, 1828
Marriage place: Orange Co., NC
Spouse's name: Lavina BARRIX

Child No. 3: Abraham Isaac WHITAKER
Sex: M
Birthdate: September 30, 1810
Birthplace: Orange Co., NC
Death date: December 14, 1868
Place of death: Maury Co., TN
Burial:
Marriage date: July 12, 1832
Marriage place: Orange Co., NC
Spouse's name: Sarah RHODES

Child No. 4: Mary "Polly" WHITAKER
Sex: F
Birthdate: 1812
Birthplace: Orange Co., NC
Death date: ca 1852
Place of death:
Burial:
Marriage date:
Marriage place:
Spouse's name: John BROWNING

Child No. 5: Thomas Warren WHITAKER
Sex: M
Birthdate: May 25, 1814
Birthplace: Orange Co., NC
Death date: May 19, 1856
Place of death: Reeds, Jasper Co., TN
Marriage date: October 8, 1835
Burial:
Marriage place: Maury Co., TN
Spouse's name: Mary L. PEEREY

Child No. 6: William WHITAKER
Sex: M
Birthdate: April 25, 1815
Birthplace: Orange Co., NC
Death date: June 19, 1890
Place of death: Lutts, Wayne Co., TN
Burial:
Marriage date: October 31, 1838
Marriage place:
Spouse's name: Mary MCCOY

Child No. 7: Elizabeth "Betsy" WHITAKER
Sex: F
Birthdate: 1822
Birthplace: Orange Co., NC
Death date:
Place of death:
Burial:
Marriage date: October 7, 1847
Marriage place: Maury Co., TN
Spouse's name: David R. MATTHEWS
 
 
Documentation:
(The following information was copied from Rootsweb Family Tree site.)
BIOGRAPHY: Jacob J. Whitaker (great grandfather of Thomas Henry Whitaker)
was born in 1785 in Orange County, North Carolina. He married Mary Polly
Reading, daughter of Thomas Reading and Mary Holloway. Jacob and Mary
lived in Orange County, North Carolina on a parcel of land he inherited
from his father. From 1810 -1830 he was selling and purchasing land. One
of Jacobs' brothers William had a large plantations and remained in
Orange County, North Carolina. Jacob left Orange County, North Carolina
with his four sons and two daughters. sometime around 1832 and traveled
over the Cumberland Mountains and stopped in Santa Fe which is just
outside of Columbia, Maury County, Tennessee. All of his sons are listed
in the 1840-1850 census. William, son of Jacob, married in Maury County.
Thomas Warren, fourth son of Jacob, moved to Missouri. in 1855 with his
family. He died in 1856 and was buried in Jasper County, Missouri. In
1857 Robert, first son of Jacob also moved to Missouri,. and he died in
1886. Abraham, second son stayed in Maury County alone with two sisters
who were married. Jacob J. Whitaker died about 1847 in Maury County
Tennessee and is buried on a hill known as Dockery Cemetery. The cemetery
is over grown with large trees and there is no sign indicating this is
Dockery Cemetery. Down below the cemetery is a fallen down log cabin
where his son Abraham lived. William moved to Wayne county around the
early 1860's.