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Descendants of David Whitaker

Generation No. 2

2. SAMUEL² WHITAKER (DAVID¹) was born 1805 in White County, Tennessee, and died January 1863 in Grayson/Collin County, Texas. He married SUSAN TURNER, daughter of JAMES TURNER. She was born 1801 in White County, Tennessee.

Notes for SAMUEL WHITAKER:
1826 moved from Tennessee to Clay County, Missouri

1830 Census (Ray County, Missouri)
      Listed Males - 1 between 5 & 10, 1 between 20 & 30
      Listed Females - 2 under 5, 1 between 30 & 40
      No other information was on this census.

Nov 1845 Settled Grayson County near Collin County on 640 acre headright

PC received land Mig 1848 Collin County

From "Kentucky Colinization in Texas" by Seymour V. Connor:
Peters Colony was a colony formed by 11 men from London, England, and 9 men from Louisville, Kentucky. They promoted the land in order to settle it. It consisted of about 20 counties in North Texas. Listed among the Bonafid Colonists who received land were:
*Jonas Whitaker - married- 1848 - Collin - sld - Born in Tennessee - from Missouri - 3 children - Collin - Farmer - age 24.
*Samuel Whitaker - married - 1848 - Collin/Grayson - Born Kentucky - From Missouri - 2 children - Farmer - age 45.

From "The Peters Colony of Texas" by Seymour V. Connor:
Samuel Whitaker moved to the colony prior to July 1848 and settled on a company survey in present Collin county. he was issued a certificate by Ward in 1850 abd patented 634 acres in Collin County (Fannin 3rd Class #920). He is listed on the 1850 census (Grayson County, family 40) as a 45 year old farmer, born in Kentucky, with 2 children. He migrated from Missouri.

1850 Census (Grayson County, Texas)
      Listed Sam Whitaker, age 45, Value of Real Estate is $640, Born in Kentucky
            Susan/wife, age 49, Born in Virginia, Cannot read or write
            J./daughter, age 16, born in Missouri
            C./son, age 14, born in Missouri
            P.A./daughter, age 12, born in Missouri

Found the following query in the Collin County GenWeb Site:
From: "Gerald D. Watkins" <gdwatkins@mail.utexas.edu>
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1997 01:05:05 -0600
Hollett/Hollis WATKINS/WADKINS b. Washington Co., AR abt 1827, settled
Highland Community, Collin Co. & was shot and killed by Samuel WHITAKER
on 27 May 1860 in Mantua, Collin Co. Wife, Mary Jane MARCUM b. 17 Aug
1834 TN m. 1850/1851 MO.d. 18 Jul 1895 Burnet Co., TX. Children: Mary
Elizabeth b. 24 May 1851, MO.; LeRoy b. 24 Oct. 1855 MO.; John Calvin b.
13 Feb 1858 MO & Jeaanette H. b. 6 Jul 1860 Collin Co., TX.

1860 Collin County Census
S. Whitaker      55      Male      born in Kentucky      Farmer      1500/4000
Susan "            59      Female      born in Virginia            Illiterate
Cit "            22      Male      born in Missouri
Permelia A "      20      Female      born in Missouri
Christopher Nolan      18      Male      born in Texas      Single
Rily Ballard      34      Male      Unknown            Farm Laborer      Illiterate

Also on the 1850 Collin county slave schedule:
Samuel Whitaker owned a 9 year old black female and 1 slave house

From "Biographical Souvenir of the State of Texas" published in 1889:
Jonas Whitaker is descended from an old English stock, as the name clearly indicates, and fortunately is able to trace the line back through the traditions of the family to the first ancestor who settled on this side of the waters. That ancestor was his paternal grandfather, David Whitaker, who, in company with a brother, emigrated to America from England during the early settlement of this country, and located in one of the Southern states, where he pursued his trade as a miller, till his death. He left eight children, one of whom was named Samuel, who became the father of Jonas Whitaker. Samuel Whitaker was born in White County, Tennessee, moved to Clay county, Missouri, when about twenty-five years of age, lived there eighteen years, and in 1844 moved to Texas. He settled in what afterward became Grayson county, near the Collin county line, laying a head-right there of 640 acres, and lived in that community until his death, which occured in January, 1863, in the fifty-ninth year of his age. He was for many years a large and successful farmer and stock dealer, and was also at one time the owner of a great many slaves.

The mother of Jonas Whitaker bore the maiden name of Susan Turner, and was a daughter of James Turner, a native of White county, Tennessee, but who moved to Clinton county, Missouri, and there died. Mrs. Whitaker was also born in White county, Tennessee, was a child when her father moved to Missouri, grew to womanhood there, and there met and was married to the subject's father. The children of this union were -Jonas, Jane, who was married to John Batterson; Rebecca, who married Christopher Nowland; Elizabeth, Jennette, who was married to William Garnett; Christopher, and Parmelia Ann.

The eldest of these, and the subject of this brief biography, Jonas Whitaker, was born in White county, Tennessee, March 20, 1825. He was about a year-old when his father moved to Missouri, settling in Clay county. In that county the subject of this sketch was mainly reared, being brought up to the plain life of a farmer.

On November 22, 1843, Mr. Whitaker married Isabelle, daughter of James Smarr, then of Andrew county, Missouri, but originally of Virginia.

In 1845, Mr. Whitaker and his father started with their families to Texas, reached Grayson county in November that year, and located. At that time neither Grayson nor Collin county was organized, the territory being included in old Fannin county. They settled near the Grayson and Collin line, locating their lands partly in each county, each taking up 640 acres, and making permanent settlement there on. At that date the entire country west as far as Gainesville was open and unsettled, there being only a militery post even at Gainesville. The Indians were numerous and troublesome, making frequent raids on the scattered setlements, in which they murdered, burnt, and carried away property and committed other depredations, ofter their manner of carrying on warfare. The Mexican troubles came on in a year or two after Mr. Whitaker's coming to Texas. His two brothers-in-law, John Batterton and Christopher Nowland, were both in the Mexican War, Mr. Whitaker remaining at home to take care of his and their families. Batterton and Nowland were killed while in service, and this calamity left upon Mr. Whitaker the burden of permanently providing for their families - a burden which he cheerfully assumed and faithfully performed.

When the the Civil War came on Mr. Whitaker was for the preservation of the Union, but on Texas going out he went with her, and became a sympathizer with the Confederate cause. He did not go into the service, however, but remained at home, rendering the cause such aid as he could by affording shelter and protection to Confederate soldiers and by providing for their families.

Mr. Whitaker has been a successful farmer and an extensive stock dealer. Over-confidence in his fellow-men has cost him much in the way of security debts, and he has a time or two been on the verge of financial ruin from this source, but he has held up well, notwithstanding his reverses, and retains the hope and buoyancy of spirit characteristic of his younger and more prosperous days. Mr. Whitaker has reared to maturity a large and interesting family of children, all of whom are now living except the youngest, are married and settled in life. His children are - Julia Ann, wife of John Watson; John, Susan, who was the wife of John Simpson, but is now deceased; Dennis, Nannie, wife of Irving T. Simpson; Addie, Elizabeth, wife of Pickens Bowen, and James Richard. These Mr. Whitaker has made reasonable provision for, and they are repaying his care and solicitude in their behalf with lives of usefulness and sobriety."

According to Gerald Watkins (gdwatkins@mail.utexas.edu) - Samuel shot and killed Hollis Watkins on May 27, 1860 in Mantua, Collin County, Texas. Emailed him on 6/5/1999.

From Gerald Watkins:
1860 Texas, Mortality Schedule, Collin County dated June 1860
Shows Hollis shot and killed at Mantua, Grayson County,
Texas May 1860 and he was 33 years of age.
*
1860 Marshall Texas
MARSHALL, Texas newspaper article quoting a McKinney
newspaper article as follows (Frontier Times):
FATAL AFFRAY-On last, Monday, at the village of Mantua, 14
miles North of this place, a difficulty occurred between one
Hollis Wadkins and another individual, after which difficulty,
Wadkins brutally assaulted Samuel Whitaker, who had assisted
in separating the parties, and not withstanding Whitaker's
repeated protests against having a difficulty with him, as he
was an entire stranger to him, Wadkins continued his assaults
'til he received a shot from Whitaker, of which he died the
following day. Mr. Whitaker was tried yesterday before J.J.
Harrison, Chief Justice of Collin county, and J.L. Lovejoy,
Justice of the Peace, and acquitted on the ground of justifiable
homicide.

I have tried to find the McKinney Messenger article about the above but
they were not microfilmed until 4 months later. Apparently the paper in
question is lost forever.
Mr. Whitaker's statements in regard to the difficulty came to
the office too late for publication-McKinney Messenger.

Children of SAMUEL WHITAKER and SUSAN TURNER are:

3.	i.	JONAS W.³ WHITAKER, b. March 09, 1825, White County, Tennessee; d. October 16, 1898, Collin County, Texas.
4.	ii.	E. JANE WHITAKER, b. 1827, Missouri.
5.	iii.	REBECCA WHITAKER, b. 1829, Missouri.
	iv.	ELIZABETH WHITAKER.
	v.	JENNETTE WHITAKER, b. 1834, Missouri; m. WILLIAM R. GARNETT, September 25, 1854, Collin County, Texas.
6.	vi.	CHRISTOPHER WHITAKER, b. 1836, Missouri; d. March 20, 1863, Collin County, Texas.
	vii.	PARMELIA ANN WHITAKER, b. 1838, Missouri.

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