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The
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Margaret
Ann
Elizabeth
Witherspoon
(1845 - 1932)
Miles
Rankin
Witherspoon
(1817 - 1892)
Thomas
Wesley
Witherspoon
(1787 - 1856)
Thomas
Wesley
Witherspoon
(1749 - 1790)
John
Witherspoon
(1724 - 1778)
John Witherspoon
(1700 - 1730)
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Thomas Aderholt Witherspoon
Born: 02 Mar 1852, Catawba County, NC
Died: 10 Feb 1940Thomas Aderholt Witherspoon was the fourth child born to Miles Rankin Witherspoon and Sarah "Sallie" Elizabeth Aderholdt. Thomas was born 02 Mar 1852 at the family home in eastern Catawba County, NC, on Hagans Fork Creek.
The Descendants of John Witherspoon (b. 1650, SCOTLAND)
Compiled by H. Glenn Williams, 1997
At an early age, he became a blacksmith apprentice at the shop of Miles Wike, near Balls Creek. From a yearly compensation of room, board and fifty dollars, he was able to save money, and in 1874, opened his own blacksmith shop in Hickory, a trade he followed for more than 60 years. For the greater part of that time his shop was located in a small building on Fourteenth Street, adjacent to the old Abernethy Stables.
On 28 Dec 1876, he married Florances Arkansas "Cancy" Miller of the Highland section of Catawba County.
At a frame home he built at 613 Main Avenue, N E in Hickory, he and his wife raised a family of eight children. The house was razed in 1972 to make way for a new Masonic Lodge building. It was located about 200 fee southwest of St. Andrew's Lutheran Church, adjacent to the Lenoir Rhyne College campus. The house was constructed of heart pine.
Thomas Aderholt Witherspoon and Florances Arkansas Miller's children were:
Name Birth Date Death Date Spouse Robert Leroy Witherspoon 04 Oct 1878 30 Aug 1926 Mary Luola White
m. 28 Dec 1905Sara Elizabeth Witherspoon 05 Jan 1880 10 Jan 1968 (Unmarried) Charles Edward 02 Mar 1883 02 Oct 1937 Mary Douglass
m. 18 Dec 1907Dora Anna Witherspoon 1886 1944 (Unmarried) Thomas Talmadge Witherspoon 1889 1906 (Unmarried) Burgan Lloyd Witherspoon 14 Feb 1895 16 Mar 1959 (Unmarried) Adrian Ernest Witherspoon 02 Feb 1897 11 Feb 1969 Louise Rowe Mary Elizabeth Carpenter Witherspoon died 24 Dec 1917. John Hart Witherspoon died 31 May 1924. Both are buried in the cemetery of Shady Grove Baptist Church in Cherryville, NC.
The Descendants of John Witherspoon (b. 1650, SCOTLAND)
Compiled by H. Glenn Williams, 1997
In the Shady Grove Baptist Church Cemetery, near Cherryville, NC, are buried the following: David Miles Witherspoon and wife; John Hart Witherspoon and wife; William Thomas "W.T." Witherspoon; Moses L. Witherspoon.
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.netIf you have additional information or photos of John Witherspoon, please contact me.
