Willhite, Wilhoit Surname

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Alternate Spellings

1. Willheit
2. Willert
3. Willhoit
4. Willhoite
5. Wilhoyte
6. Wilhite
7. Willhite
8. Willhide
9. Wilhyde

Origins of the Surname

ORIGINS: Germany

MEANING: Americanized spelling of Willert - A topographic name from Middle High German - wil ‘small settlement’ + leite ‘slope’

Lutheran Church in the Village of Schwaigern, Württemberg, Germany

Schwaigern, Baden-Württemberg, Germany - Evangelical Lutheran Church - Parish records begin in 1600, making this the effective starting point of the Willheit, Willert, Willhoit, Willhoite, Wilhite, Willhite, Willhide, Wilhyde ancestry.

Georg Willert - German Patriarch

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Family Crest - Wilhite or Willhite

The Wilhite DNA Project: Patriarchs

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North American Patriarchs

Immigrated to Virginia with the Second Germanna Colony in 1717 - from which all the "Germanna" Wilhites and Wilhoits (and other spellings) descend:

• Johann (John) Michael Willheit and his sons:
• Tobias Willheit
• Johann (John) Christian Wilhoit

Immigrated to Pennsylvania in 1731 - from which Pennsylvania and Maryland Wilhides and Willhides (and other spellings) descend:

• Johann Fredrich Willheit

Descendants with Military Service

French and Indian Wars

• Johann (John) C. Wilhoit Sr
• John Wilhoit

Revolutionary War

• Ambrose Willhite (Wilheit)
• Lewis Wilhite (Wilheit)
• Gabriel Wilhite
• John G Wilhite
• Conrad R Wilhoit
• Jacob Wilhoite (Wilhoit) Sr
• Jesse Wilhoit
• Johann (John) C. Wilhoit Sr
• Solomon Wilhoit
• Tobias Wilhoit
• Nicholas Wilhoite
• John M Wilhoit (Willhoite)
• John Wilhoit

War of 1812

• John Wilhoit
• Philip Wilhoit
• Joshua Wilhoit (Wilhoite)
• James Wilhite
• Joseph Wilhite

Mexican-American War

• Smith Wilhite

American Civil War - Union

• Willis Wilhoit - 39th Illinois Volunteer Infantry
• Napoleon Wilhoit - 150th Regiment, Illinois Infantry
• Wesley C Wilhoit - 11th Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry
• Jeptha Willhoit - 30th Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Mounted Infantry
• John Kilis -Achilles- Willhoite - 30th Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Mounted Infantry
• Sanford Willhoite - 30th Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Mounted Infantry
• Tobias Willhoite - 30th Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Mounted Infantry
• Jepthah Willhoite - 54th Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Mounted Infantry
• Winfield Willhoite - 18th Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Infantry
• Jeremiah Wilhoit - 4th Regiment, Tennessee Infantry
• Samuel Stuart Wilhoit - 4th Regiment, Tennessee Infantry
• Samuel Wilhoit - 10th Regiment Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry
• Samuel Luther Wilhoit - 12th Regiment, Tennessee Infantry
• John P Wilhite - 1st Alabama Cavalry
• John Wily Wilhite - 9th Regiment Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry
• George Wilhite - 118th Regiment, Illinois Infantry
• Leander Wilhoit - 1st Regiment, Oregon Infantry
• Albert Wilhite - 11th Regiment, Kansas Cavalry
• Meridith Walker Wilhoit - 62nd Enrolled Missouri Militia
• Jacob Willhite - 69th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment
• Charles Willhite - 65th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment
• Volney Wilhite - 24th Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Infantry (KIA)
• Lewis Willhite - Webster County Regiment Home Guard, Missouri
• George Willhite - 150th Regiment, Indiana Infantry
• Lafayette Willhite - 16th Missouri Volunteer Cavalry
• John Willhite - 14th Missouri State Militia Cavalry
• James Willhite - 16th Missouri Volunteer Cavalry, US Civil War

American Civil War - Confederate States

• John H Willhite - 3rd Missouri Battalion
• Thomas F Wilhoite - 3rd Missouri Infantry (KIA)
• Gamedion Wilhoit - 42nd Regiment, North Carolina Infantry
• William Wilhoit - 42nd Regiment, North Carolina Infantry
• Francis M Wilhoit - 42nd Regiment, North Carolina Infantry
• Churchill Wilhite - Company A, 2nd Texas Cavalry
• John Hardin Wilhite - 22nd Texas Cavalry
• Daniel Willhite - 29th Tennessee Infantry (KIA)
• James Wilhite - 18th Texas Infantry
• Sidney Wilhoite - 41st regiment, Tennessee Infantry
• Thomas Phillip Wilhoite Sr - 41st regiment, Tennessee Infantry
• Ozro Marsvan Wilhite - 18th Infantry, Georgia
• William Henry Wilhoite - 4th Kentucky Calvary

Spanish-American War

World War I

• Thomas Wilhoite
• Walter Willhite
• Seth Wilhite
• George Wilhoit (KIA)
• Clinton Wilhoit
• Charles Willhite (KIA)
• Watt Willhite
• Austin Willhite
• William Willhite
• Girstle Wilhite
• Harry Wilhite
• Joseph Wilhite

World War II

• Buford Wilhoit
• Jack Willhite (KIA)
• Fred Willhoite, Jr
• Fred Wilhoit (Wilhoite)
• Thomas Wilhoite
• Charles Willhoite
• Earl Willhoite
• Harold Wilhoit
• Garland Wilhoite Jr
• Joe Wilhoite
• George Willhoite
• Lyle Willhoite
• Frank Wilhoite
• Wilson Wilhoit
• James Wilhoit
• Darrel Wilhoit
• Homer Willhite
• John Kenneth Willhite
• Perry Wilhite
• Warren Willhite
• Lynn Wilhoit
• Francis Wilhoit
• William Wilhoit
• James Wilhoit
• Jesse Wilhoite
• Charleton Wilhoit Sykes
• Ezekial Wilhoit
• Clarence Wilhoit
• Stanley Wilhoit
• James Wilhoit
• Morris Willhite
• Murrell Wilhite
• James Wilhite
• Grover Wilhite
• Cody Wilhite
• Donald Willhite
• William F Wilhoite
• Noel Willhite
• Theodore E Willhite (KIA)
• Frank Wilhite
• Robert Wilhite
• James Wilhoit
• Ivan Wilhite
• Clarence Wilhite
• Charles Willhite
• Paul Willhite
• Robert Wilhoite
• Dwight Wilhoit
• Emmett Wilhoit
• Wilber Willhoite
• Gordon Willhoite
• Charles Willhoit

Korean War

• Fred Willhoite, Jr
• Maurice Wilhoit
• Jed Willhite
• Lowell Wilhoit
• Robert Willhite
• Kelly Wilhite
• David Willhoite

Vietnam War

• Fred Willhoite, Jr
• Elzie Wilhoite
• Floyd Wilhite
• Larry Willhite

Military Service

• Max Eugene Wilhoit Sr
• Robert Dean "Bob" Wilhoit
• Carrol Wilhoit
• Frank R Wilhoite
• Kathleen Wilhite
• Dan Wilhite
• Wilburn Wilhite
• Harry Wilhite
• Thomas Wilhite

North American Geographic Centers

• Alabama
• Arkansas
• California
• Georgia
• Illinois
• Indiana
• Iowa
• Kentucky
• Category: Maryland, Willhite Name Study|Maryland
• Missouri
• North Carolina
• Ohio
• Oklahoma
• Tennessee
• Texas
• Utah
• Virginia
• West Virginia

Contemporary Notables

• James Howell Wilhoit II - placekicker for the University of Tennessee football team between 2003 and 2006
• Lisa Marie Wilhoit - an American actress. She is best known for playing Danielle Chase in My So-Called Life and for voicing Connie D'Amico in Family Guy
• Jonathan Wilhite, former American football cornerback. He played college football at Auburn and was drafted by the New England Patriots in the fourth round of the 2008 NFL Draft
• Jud Wilhite - an American pastor and author
• Mary Holloway Wilhite, a 19th-century American physician and philanthropist
• Steve Wilhite of CompuServe invented the GIF file format
• Debbie Willhite - America Democratic political consultant and activist
• Gerald William Willhite, U.S. football player selected by the Denver Broncos
• Kevin Willhite, U.S. football player. He was one of the greatest running backs in California prep history
• Nellie Zabel Willhite, was the first deaf woman to earn a pilot's license.
• Jon Nicholas "Nick" Willhite - American professional baseball player, a left-handed pitcher from Tulsa Oklahoma
• Elmer Wilhoite - an American football player and boxer
• Kathleen Wilhoite - an American film and television actress, as well as a singer-songwriter
• Michael Wilhoite - an American football linebacker
• Thomas Mack Wilhoite - United States Naval Reserve and recipient of the Silver Star
• Michael Willhoite - artist and writer who is best known for his children's books depicting families with gay parents

Places and Things

• Wilhoit, Arizona - Yavapai County, Arizona, United States Google Maps
• Wilhite, Louisiana - Union Parish, Louisiana, United States Google Maps
• USS Wilhoite (DE-397) - Edsall-class destroyer escort built for the United States Navy during World War II; named in honor of Thomas Mack Wilhoite
• James Wilhoite House - is a historic Italianate style house in Allisona, Tennessee

WikiTree Index

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Wilhite Willhite Whilhite

Wilhoit Wilhoite Wilhoyte

Wilheit Willert

Willhide Wilhyde

Sources

Books and Publications

• Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
• The Germanna Record Number 13 The Blankenbaker, Weaver and Wilhoit Families ISBN 978-1940945101
• Johni Cerny and Gary J Zimmerman, Title: Before Germanna, The ancestry of Johann Michael Willheit and Anna Maria Hengsteler, No. 1 January 1990
• Schwaigern, Baden-Württemberg, Germany - Evangelical Lutheran Church - Parish records
• John Willhoite (1745-1837) : and his descendants in Kentucky and elsewhere; Willhoite, Earl, Willhoite, 1913, Leona (Leona Davis Hurt), 1916
• Wilhite/Wilhoit & allied descendants of Johann Michael Willheit and Anna Maria Hengsteler 1671-1994 Mickey, Mary Frances, 1924
• "Germanna Families (1st & 2nd Colonies)," supplied by Durman, 10-9-2008; compiled by George Durman Knoxville, TN 37923
• Ancestors & descendents of Jacob Wilhoite by Jacob and Faye Wilhoite
• U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900, Yates Publishing
• Willhite 1825-1982 Wilhoit, copyright 1982 by Cathy B. Broyles, Chukey Tennessee
• A History of Northwest Missouri by Walter Williams, Vol. 1, Publ 1915. Transcribed by Melody Beery
• William and Mary Quarterly, Historical Magazine, Volume XXVI - Richmond Virginia, published 1918
• The founding of Wilhoit, AZ : as told by Barbara Betty Shields and Eleanor Christine Henry
• Some descendants of Martin and Julianna Hoover Kehrbach/Carbaugh, 1798-2000
• National Park Service - Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System (CWSS)
• History of Boone County, Missouri: Written and Comp. from the Most Authentic Official and Private Sources; Including a History of Its Townships, Towns, and Villages. Together with a Condensed History of Missouri; the City of St. Louis ... Biographical Sketches and Portraits of Prominent Citizens
• The History of Gentry and Worth Counties, Missouri: Containing a History of these counties, their cities, towns, St. Joseph Mo.; National Historical Company 1882
• List of the revolutionary soldiers of Virginia. Special report of the Department of Archives and History for 1912 (1913)
• Revolutionary War Payment Vouchers, Numbered Record Books, War Pensions, Rolls, Service Records
• Genealogical and historical notes on Culpeper County, Virginia (1900) - Index W

U.S., Federal Census

• All U.S. Federal Census Collection results for Wilhite
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• All U.S. Federal Census Collection results for Wilhoit
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U.S., Social Security Death Index

• 1935-2014 results for Wilhite
• 1935-2014 results for Willhite
• 1935-2014 results for Wilhoit
• 1935-2014 results for Wilhoite

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