Mary (Ernst) Whittenburg (1793 - 1861)

Born 6 Nov 1793 in Greene, Southwest Territory, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Peter Whittenburg — married 24 Jan 1809 in Greene, Tennessee, United States

Descendants

Died 1 Dec 1861 at age 68 in Greene, Tennessee, United States

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Biography

Born 6 NOV 1793 TN and died 27 DEC 1861 MO.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #65928282

• "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XZ7L-KXN : 18 October 2017), Peter Whittenberg and Polly Earnest, 23 Jan 1809; citing Greene, Tennessee, United States, Marriage, p. 1326, Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville and county clerk offices from various counties; FHL microfilm 1,148,701.
• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDZH-GP8 : 3 March 2020), Mary Whittenburg in household of Peter Whittenburg, Cass, Greene, Missouri, United States; citing family 1632, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
• "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHZ7-859 : 19 March 2020), Mary Whittenberg in entry for Peter Whittenberg, 1860.

Peter Whittenberg and his wife Mary Polly Earnest brought their family to Greene County, Missouri, and were among the first to settle in Case Township. A portion of the township in an area extending from south of Cave Springs up to Walnut Grove was called Whittenberg Prairie, so named for Peter Whittenberg. Their large log house was built in the Cave Springs area, not far from Walnut Grove, in the northwest corner of the county. According to the Greene County History by Holcombe, "When the first settlements were made in this township the pioneers often shot deer from their own door-yards. Wolves were very plenty and gave the settlers no little trouble by carrying off their sheep and pigs." At the present time we are unsure of the exact year Peter and Mary came to Missouri. Some researchers say 1833 and 1834. Their daughter, Lavina was married in Tennessee on February 2, 1832 to Jesse Kelley, which would place the family still in Tennessee at that time. We have record of Tennessee land sales by Peter in March and September of 1834. On October 11, 1835, his daughter, Polly Ann, was married in Greene County, Missouri to Archabald Morris, so it would seem they left Tennessee sometime between September 1834 and October 1835.

Sources

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65928282/mary-whittenberg

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Jack Robinson for creating this profile through the import of export-Armstrong.ged on Nov 9, 2013.