Hercules Whaley (abt. 1824 - abt. 1864)

Born about 1824 in Rhea, Tennessee, United States

Husband of Julia Emily (Frazier) Whaley — married 18 Jul 1850 in Rhea County, Tennessee

Husband of Mary Jane (McAdoo) Whaley — married 1855 in Tennessee

Descendants

Died about 1864 at about age 40 in Louisiana, United States

Biography

Hercules was born about 1815,the son of the Rhea Co pioneer Rev John Whaley and Mary Airheart. He served in Comp W of the Tennessee Mounted Infantry during the Mexican War, and became a large livestock dealer after the war. He and Emily Frazier where married in July of 1850 and lived near her parents. Emily died in 1853 - they had no children. ^[1]

He then married Mary Jane McAdoo in 1855 and they had four children. The book Nicholas Gibbs has Hercules dying of cholera aboard a New Orleans train in 1851 but I find no results in searching for a different Hercules Whaley that Mary Jane marries in 1855, and numerous family trees have him dying in 1864 also on the train of cholera. Have not found any documentation of his death. ^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Nicholas Gibbs and His Descendants 1733-1977 by Nicholas Gibbs Historical Society, 1977, Ohio Historical Society Library
2. ↑ History of Tennessee from earliest Time to Present . . .Volume 4, page 1121

See also:

• History of Tennessee from the Earliest Time to the Present, Volume 4 page 1121, Anderson County
• United States Census, 1840," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHT1-GVF : accessed 26 February 2016), John Whaley, Rhea, Tennessee, United States; citing p. 44, NARA microfilm publication M704, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 535; FHL microfilm 24,549.
• Tennessee Marriages, 1796-1950," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XD39-MJH : accessed 24 February 2016), Hercelin Whaley and Emley Frazier, 18 Jul 1850; citing , Rhea, Tennessee, reference ; FHL microfilm 589,468.
• United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCDF-R11 : accessed 24 February 2016), Hurcules Whaley, Hamilton county, Hamilton, Tennessee, United States; citing family 826, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
• "United States Mexican War Pension Index, 1887-1926", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K8HH-PLM : 3 October 2018), Hercules Whaley, 1889.