Major Witherspoon Genealogy

Record modified: 2025-03-22

			/	William Weatherspoon
	/	John Weatherspoon	\|
	\|		\
Major P Witherspoon	\|
	\|		/	Richard Hopson
	\	Sarah Hopson	\|
			\	Margaret Martin

Born: about 1798-00-00 Wake Co, North Carolina USA
Died: 1876-00-00

Marriages:
1. 1817-12-27 Sarah Jane Moody

Children of Major Witherspoon and Sarah Moody:

Emily Witherspoon	b. about 1819-00-00
Ewing Witherspoon	b. about 1821-00-00
Samuel Irving Witherspoon	b. 1824-05-09

Notes:

married 1845-08-20 Elizabeth Pearson. divorced 1848-02-xx
married 1853-10-15 Sophia Moody d/o Martin Moody + Martha Guthrie
married 1866-09-27 Lucinda Rose d/o John C Rose + Cynthia Angel

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Allen Co KY will abstracts

WITHERSPOON, Major Mar 10, 1876/Aug 1876 Wife: Lucinda. My three children: Ewin WITHERSPOON, Samuel J. WITHERSPOON, Emily DEARING dec'd to her four children.

WITHERSPOON, Lucinda May 6, 1890 / July 13, 1891 Martha E. DAUGHTRY ( no relationship given).
Emily DEARING's four children: Robert DEARING, W.G. Dearing, Sarah J. TABOR, Ann Elizabeth
WILLIAMS. S.J. WITHERSPOON's three children: Narcissa J. SHELTON, Martha PEARSON, Thomas
M. WITHERSPOON. Eliza Jane SPENCER's four children: J(burned) SPENCER, Major SPENCER,
Ewing SPENCER, William SPENCER. Patsy Ann DEARING (no relationship given) Ida B. GOODRUM
(no relationship given)

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1870 census Allen Co KY p211b
Major Witherspoon 74 NC
Lucinda 48 KY

1860 census Allen Co KY p187
M P Witherspoon 62 NC
Sophy 48 KY
S J Dearing (f) 20 KY
W E Dearing (m) 16 KY
A E Dearing (f) 13 KY

1850 census Allen Co KY p163a
Major Witherspoon 52 NC
Emily Deering 31 KY
S R Deering (m) 12 KY
S J Deering (f) 10 KY
M C Deering (m) 9 KY
W J Deering (m) 7 KY
A E Deering (f) 3 KY
T A Hickman (f) 22 KY

1840 census Allen Co KY p56
Major Witherspoon 2 M 15-20, 1 M 40-50, 1 F 40-50
[Samuel 16, Ewing 19, Major 44, Sarah 39?]

1830 census Allen Co KY p46
Major Weatherspoon 2 M 5-10, 1 M 30-40, 1 F 10-15, 1 F 30-40
[Samuel 6, Ewing 9, Major 34, Sarah 29?]

1820 census Allen Co KY p110
Major Weatherspoon 1 M <10, 1 M 16-26, 1 F 16-26
[x, Major 24, Sarah 19]

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