Person:Sampson Wilhoit (1)

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Sampson WILHITE [Parents] was born on 2 Mar 1769 in , Culpeper Co., Virginia. He died on 26 Nov 1837 in Rocheport, Boone Co., Missouri. Sampson married Hannah Elizabeth JACKMAN on 22 Dec 1793.

Came to MO from VA in 1818. Got the following email from Louise Douglas Hudspeth rhudspeth@@trib.net in 3/99:

John, Wilhite is not one of my lines, but Fielding and Sampson Wilhite are Boone county names. In fact, Boone county was and is full of Wilhites, some of which married into various lines of mine. I would recommend looking at Switzler's History of Boone County, MO. On p. 996, Fielding Wilhite is mentioned as the first pastor of Walnut Grove church, who first began his labors in Old Bethel in 1829, and closed them in Walnut Grove church (Baptist-northeast of Rocheport) in 1844. [At some point, members of Old Bethel church split over the question of sending missionaries, and some of them--pro missionary--started Walnut Grove church.] Old newspapers at the Historical Society on campus here in Columbia will have lots of Wilhite information, too. The McQuitty name appears throughout Switzler's book, as well.

PP. 980-981 of Switzler: "Among the first settlers of this township [Missouri Township, Boone County--[still in Howard County until 1820] were members of the Wilhite family. Sampson Wilhite and his three sons, William, Stephen and Fielding Wilhite, came from Kentucky to this township (then Howard county) as early as the year 1818. They located in the neighborhood of Rocheport, where many of their descendants yet live [written in 1882]. They were all farmers. Stephen Wilhite was a blacksmith as well as a farmer; Fielding Wilhite was a farmer and a Baptist minister. All of them lived reputable lives and died full of years and honors. Probably the first loom was brought into the township by Mrs. Sampson Wilhite in 1818. The greater part of the clothing for families was carded, spun and woven by the female members, and was usually made up of wool and flax; the latter being among the first crops raised. The first brick house in the township was built by Sampson Wilhite in the year 1822. It is still standing and is the housenow occupied by J. E. Hart, four miles from Rocheport, on the Sturgeon road."

Kate Stamper Wilhite gave his wife as Alice McKinney, but I have changed it to the current one on the word of a couple of others.

Hannah Elizabeth JACKMAN was born about 1770. She married Sampson WILHITE on 22 Dec 1793.

Nickname of "Fanny."

They had the following children:

  M i Fielding WILHITE Rev.