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 1845 - 1933 (87 years)
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| Name |
Mary (Polly) WHITT |
| Born |
8 Aug 1845 |
| Gender |
Female |
| _UID |
69AE1F2A3F894F6E8DD6EDFF77D9702D21A0 |
| Died |
5 Jun 1933 |
| Notes |
- The following was written by Alma Reed and copied verbatim By Juanita Collinsworth Oney.
July 1, 1957 Midland, Ohio.
To the best of my rememberance, my grandmother, Mary "Polly" Whitt Reed if she had lived up until now would have been 113 years old the 8th day of August 1957. She took me in when I was five days old after my mother died. She was a dear and loving grandmother to me. The Whitt generation about one hundred and twenty-five years ago came from Tazewell County, Virginia. He and his wife, Rebecca Day Whitt two years later was fixing for a working. He was cutting stove wood and supposedly a friend came along and gave him a few drinks of whiskey and so he was dead in four or five hours. Susannah Allen (was call "Sukey" by all) and a good neighbor was putting on his gloves after he was dressed for burial and he gripped her hand and she was so upset some one else had to put the gloves on him. So a few days latershe mentioned it to some one and they raised the casket and he had turned on his face in the casket. So the whiskey supposedly had put him in a coma for a time.
Note By Juanita Collinsworth Oney
I have heard this story from my father-in-law, George Kelly Oney, the great grandson of James Madison Whitt and Rebecca Day Whitt. James Madison Whitt and Rebecca owned all the land including the Kelly Oney, George Oney, and probably the Bowel Whitt farm on left hand fork of White Oak Creed at the time he died. Elisha Oney, who married James' daughter, Elizabeth Whitt bought out most of the heirs.
Elisha and Elizabeth had several children. One son, James Madison was named after James Madison Whitt. James Madison Oney married a daughter of Susannah (Sukey) Allen and Daniel W. Allen. Her name was Rosa Belle Allen and the land was handed down through the generations. James Madison Whitt and Rebecca Day Whitt are buried in the old garden spot on the bank of White Oak Creek fairly close to the Morgan and Magoffin county line. After James Madison Whitt died the children that were still at home were taken in by relatives. Elisha and Elizabeth took in two or three and James and Rhoda Day Oney took James according to the census. Rhoda and Rebecca were sisters.
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| Person ID |
I4827 |
Master File |
| Last Modified |
26 Mar 2010 |
| Father |
James Madison (Matt) WHITT, b. 1815, Tazewell Co VA  , d. 28 Mar 1855, Morgan Co., KY (Age 40 years) |
| Mother |
Rebecca DAY, b. 1815, Grayson Co. VA , d. 24 May 1854, Morgan Co., KY (Age 39 years) |
| Married |
1835 |
Tazewell Co VA |
| Family ID |
F3457 |
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