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(1845 - 1932)

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(1817 - 1892)

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Wesley
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(1787 - 1856)

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Wesley
Witherspoon

(1749 - 1790)

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Witherspoon

(1724 - 1778)

John Witherspoon
(1700 - 1730)

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Leander Denford Lutz Witherspoon

 

Born: 11 Nov 1861, Catawba County, NC
Died:  26 Nov 1941

 

Leander Denford Lutz Witherspoon was the eighth child born to Miles Rankin Witherspoon and Sarah "Sallie" Elizabeth Aderholdt.  Denford, or "Dense", was born 11 Nov 1861 in Catawba County, NC.

 

Dense married Lydia Hawn (b. 1866), a daughter of Abner Hawn.  He lived at the family home place near Witherspoons Cross-Roads, southeast of Newton, NC.  The family cemetery is across the street from the original site of the family home.

 
 
 

Leander Denford Lutz Witherspoon and Lydia Hawn's children were:

Name Birth Date Death Date Spouse
Essie M. Witherspoon 30 Oct 1888   John Hewitt
Ivey Aderholt Witherspoon 1890   Esther Hewitt
Herbert Eugene Witherspoon 07 Nov 1892   Nita Hewitt
Annie Witherspoon 08 Jan 1895   John Troutman
Clarence B. Witherspoon 20 Apr 1897   Bertie Mundy
m. 07 Oct 1920
Mamie Pearl Witherspoon Apr 1899 Aug 1974 Lawrence Gray
Marvin Howie Witherspoon 23 Sep 1902 28 Feb 1975 Mattie Pauline Holler
m. 07 Apr 1928
Loy Hawn Witherspoon 1904 1935 Margaret Catherine Wilson
m. 16 Sep 1924)
 
 
 

Lydia died 19 Mar 1926.  Dense died 26 Nov 1941.  They are both buried in the Bethlehem Methodist Church Cemetery in Claremont, NC.

 
 
                             
     
 
 
 
 
 

SOURCES:

 

"The Descendants of John Witherspoon", Compiled by H. Glenn Williams, 1997, sixranch@swbell.net

 

"The Witherspoons of North Carolina, 1775 - 1975" compiled by David Howell Witherspoon, Raleigh, NC, 1976

 

Thanks to Dr. Frank Witherspoon from Memphis, TN, for additional information on Thomas Wesley Witherspoon
and the Witherspoon Family.  You can contact Frank at
fwspoon@bellsouth.net

 
 

If you have additional information or photos of John Witherspoon, please contact me.