Born before in North Carolina
Ancestors 
Daughter of William Whitehead
and Abigail (Bynum) Whitehead
Sister of
Rachel Whitehead [half], Sarah (Whitehead) Merritt [half], Martha (Whitehead) Atkinson [half] and Priscilla (Whitehead) Joyner
Wife of
John Booker
— married
1790 in Westmoreland, Virginia, United States
Descendants 
Mother of
James Arvus Booker
Died
after age 75
in East Feliciana, Louisiana, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 20 Dec 2017
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Biography
Temperance's father William Whitehead d. 24 Jan 1765 so she had to have been born prior to 1766.
William's 24 Jan 1765 will named his wife and children. William Whitehead . .. son Arthur Whitehead land on Beech Swamp joining the land of Elias Fort and 1 tract on south side of Deep Creek joining Tempty ... son Cullen Whitehead manor plantation and all the lands joining on both sides of Deep Creek (my still excepted) ... son Lewis Whitehead and daughter Sarah Marriott (Merritt) cow and calf and nothing else. Residue of estate including the still and live stock to be equally divided between wife Abby Whitehead and children Martha Whitehead, Rachel Whitehead, Rebeckah Whitehead, Cullen Whitehead, Temperence Whitehead, Priscilla Whitehead, Arthur Whitehead. Witnesses: John Whitaker Minr., Robert Whitaker, Robert Whitaker Jr. Extrs: my wife Abby, my brother Tobias Whitehead and James Smith and I hereby invest Tobias Whitehead, James Smith and Robert Whitaker with authority to sell and divide estate. (Margaret M. Hofmann, Genealogical Abstracts of Wills 1758-1824 - Halifax Co, NC, #111, p. 162)
Research Notes
- MyHeritage Family Trees (https://www.myheritage.com : accessed 20 December 2017), Person #177327732:1586982 for Temperance "Tempy" Booker.
Sources
- see will of her father noted above
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Temperance by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Temperance:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Temperance by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Temperance:
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~1.56%
Daniel Dillman
:
23andMe
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AncestryDNA, Ancestry member ddillman160
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch RB9567918 [compare], yourDNAportal DAN7163082f, FTDNA kit #B200139
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MyHeritage DNA
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Living DNA, yourDNAportal DAN7163082f
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~1.56%
Margaret Elgin :
23andMe, GEDmatch M614336 [compare]
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch M614336 [compare], Ancestry member maelgin
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~1.56%
~6.25%
Jackie (Harris) Zimmerer :
23andMe, GEDmatch KQ4293768 [compare]
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~0.39%
Martin Atkinson :
23andMe
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~0.39%
Carolyn (Atkinson) Martin :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A984863 [compare], Ancestry member cmartinAnc
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~0.39%
Mel (Gilbert) Lambert :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A068971 [compare], Ancestry member ljlmcl
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder, FTDNA kit #B188642
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~0.39%
~1.56%
Verna (Liles) Nutt :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member vernarnutt
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~0.39%
N Burney :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member bligala1
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~0.39%
James Langdale :
AncestryDNA
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MyHeritage DNA
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Rejected matches › Priscilla (Whitehead) Joyner (1759-1799)
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William Whitehesd’s 24 Jan 1765 will named his wife and children. William Whitehead . .. son Arthur Whitehead land on Beech Swamp joining the land of Elias Fort and 1 tract on south side of Deep Creek joining Tempty ... son Cullen Whitehead manor plantation and all the lands joining on both sides of Deep Creek (my still excepted) ... son Lewis Whitehead and daughter Sarah Marriott cow and calf and nothing else. Residue of estate including the still and live stock to be equally divided between wife Abby Whitehead and children Martha Whitehead, Rachel Whitehead, Rebeckah Whitehead, Cullen Whitehead, Temperence Whitehead, Priscilla Whitehead, Arthur Whitehead. Witnesses: John Whitaker Minr., Robert Whitaker, Robert Whitaker Jr. Extrs: my wife Abby, my brother Tobias Whitehead and James Smith and I hereby invest Tobias Whitehead, James Smith and Robert Whitaker with authority to sell and divide estate. (Margaret M. Hofmann, Genealogical Abstracts of Wills 1758-1824 - Halifax Co, NC, #111, p. 162)