Elizabeth (Tarter) Whittle (abt. 1805 - abt. 1897)

Born about 1805 in Kentucky, United States [uncertain]

Ancestors

Wife of John Lewis Whittle — married 13 Sep 1823 in Pulaski County, Kentucky

Descendants

Died about 1897 at about age 92 in Edmonson, Kentucky, USA [uncertain]

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Biography

Elizabeth was born about 1805. She was the daughter of John Tarter and Catherine Logan. She passed away about 1897.

Biography

JOHN LEWIS (JACK) Whittle, was the firstborn son of Robert and Susannah Whittle, b. 1796 in East Tennessee; m. 3 or 13 September 1823 to ELIZABETH TARTER in Pulaski County, KY; d. 1866 in Edmonson County, KY.

Notes on the brothers John L. (Jack) Whittle and Joseph Whittle and their families:

“He (John L. “Jack”) was b. 1796 in East Tennessee, in the land south of the Ohio River. In 1808 at age 12, he came to Kentucky with his parents, brothers and sisters. He grew into young manhood on the banks of the Cumberland River south of Somerset, Kentucky, in an area known as Jahez Ridge. On 3 or 13 September 1823 in Pulaski County, Kentucky, John L. (Jack) married Elizabeth Tarter. She was born in 1805, the daughter of Johann and Catherine Tarter. Later, in the spring of 1837, John/Jack, his wife Elizabeth and six small children came to Edmonson County, Kentucky. In 1837, they raised a crop of corn and tobacco on the south side of the Green River, near the mouth of Honey Creek. By the next season, the family had settled permanently about one mile north of Cedar Springs on the south side of Cedar Sink Creek which runs underground from Rocky Hill to the Turnhole on Green River. The John/Jack Whittle family had followed his brother Joseph and his wife’s famly, the Kinsers, who had already moved to Edmonson County in 1825. Joseph and the Kinsers settled on the north side of Green River near the mouth of Honey Creek. Later, the Joseph Whittle family and some of the Kinsers moved to Miller County, Missouri in 1842 in a covered wagon train. John (Jack) Whittle and his family remained in Edmonson County, Kentucky. The children of John/Jack and Elizabeth (Betsy) Tarter Whittle helped populate the section of Edmonson County from Rocky Hill to Cedar Springs to Silent Grove during the late 1800’s John/Jack Whittle died in 1866 in Edmonson County, at the age of 70 years. His wife, Elizabeth/Betsy, better known as Granny Whittle, lived to the ripe old age of 94 years. She died in 1897. John/Jack and Elizabeth/Betsy are both buried under a grove of trees on a knoll on the old homeplace in the valley one mile north of Cedar Springs toward Chaumont.”

Sources

• "Kentucky Marriages, 1785-1979", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FWRF-Z5Z : 11 May 2022), Betsy Tarter in entry for John Whittle, 1823.
• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M65M-5Q5 : 19 December 2020), Elizabeth Whittle in household of John Whittle, Edmonson, Kentucky, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (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:MZBF-Z63 : 18 February 2021), Elizabeth Whitle in entry for John Whitle, 1860.
• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCC6-YCX : 14 January 2022), Elizabeth Whille in household of Isaac Cross, Edmonson, Kentucky, United States; citing enumeration district ED 40, sheet , NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm .