William Adolph Wyatt (1828 - 1916)

Born 2 Oct 1828 in Warren, Missouri, United States

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Died 9 Mar 1916 at age 87 in Arkansas, United States

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Biography

William Adolph Wyatt was born on 2 October 1828 in Warren County, Missouri, son of Lewis Luncford Wyatt and Ann Caroline (Tutt) Wyatt.

William married Louisa Emely Hensley in 1848. Their children were:

1. Emma T (Wyatt) Baker
2. Percy Lunsford Wyatt
3. Caroline Pocahontas (Wyatt) Arnold
4. Mary Powhatton (Wyatt) Cash
5. Lillie Bell (Wyatt) Treadwell
6. Alice (Wyatt) Hensley.

He fathered at least one child, Newt Wyatt, with their slave Parthenia Hensley.

William died on 9 March 1916 in Arkansas aged 87. He is buried in Hall Cemetery, Eula, Arkansas.^[1][2]

There is a cenotaph in Texas: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVLQ-KPC8 : 13 December 2015), William A. Wyatt, 1916; Burial, Harleton, Harrison, Texas, United States of America, Liberty Cemetery; Find A Grave: Memorial #82404497, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.

Fowler's Journal

Curt and Alice Baker (William Wyatt's youngest daughter), raised Caldonia Hale, an orphan girl that was left with a McCutcheon family on Cave Creek. We have heard that the family was mean to her and really didn’t want her. When Grandad Curt heard about it, he rode a mule across Richland Creek above Eula and brought her home with him to live.

Caldonia married Steve Watts, a brother to P.D. Watts, who married Pencie Wyatt.

Perry David Watts and Steven Decatur Watts were left orphans, in 1881 after both parents died, and they were raised by Pencie’s grandparents, William A. and Louisa (Hensley) Wyatt.

(This Information came from, Waldo Fowler’s Journal on the Wyatt Family) Waldo is the great-grandson of William A. Wyatt, and the grandson of Alice Baker ...

Find A Grave: Memorial #128766727 Caldonia Hale married Steven Decatur Watts, they were my great-grandparents ... I have always wondered, who raised the boys, after the parents died ... Don Watts.

Thanks to, Waldo Fowler’s Journal, we finally have the answer .... Waldo is buried in Jasper, Newton county, Arkansas ... I read the book, Waldo Fowler Journal on the Wyatt Family, at the Boone County Library in Harrison, Arkansas.

The journal describes William A. Wyatt' "Bill", as a prominent resident of Richland Township, after his discharge from the Army, he spent 18 months in Springfield, Missouri, and 10 years in Marshall, Arkansas ... He was a lifelong democrat, and owned some 800 acres of the Richland bottoms ... In 1847 he represented Searcy County in the State Constitutional Convention ... he also owned race horses and had a race course ...

William Wyatt was a first cousin of George G. West, U.S. Senator from Missouri ...

It says after Louisa died in 1902, he married Sarah Woody of Harrison, Ark. May 5, 1905.

Sources

1. ↑ "Arkansas Death Index, 1914-1950," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VJTQ-9VM : 27 November 2014), William A Wyatt, 09 Mar 1916; derived from "Arkansas, Death Index, 1914-1950," database and images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2005); a multigenerational derivative citing Division of Vital Records, Arkansas Department of Health, Arkansas Death Index, 1914-1950 (Arkansas: Arkansas Genealogical Society).
2. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (www.findagrave.com/memorial/29425209/william-adolph-wyatt : accessed 10 June 2021), memorial page for Capt William Adolph “Billy” Wyatt (2 Oct 1828–9 Mar 1916), Find a Grave Memorial ID 29425209, citing Hall Cemetery, Eula, Searcy County, Arkansas, USA ; Maintained by Lolita Cunningham (contributor 46809682) .

• 1880 United States Federal Census

URL: https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-10129-46997131/william-wyatt-in-1880-united-states-federal-census

• 1900 United States Federal Census

http://www.usgwarchives.net/ar/searcy/census/1900/124-07a.gif

• URL: https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-10131-3210818/william-a-wyatt-in-1900-united-states-federal-census

• URL: https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-40001-98979184/william-adolph-wyatt-in-familysearch-family-tree

Acknowledgements

Thank you to Kathleen Stoughton for creating Wyatt-1797 on 30 Nov 13.