Munro and Whittenton Genealogy

My Grammy was Lillie Belle Munro (also spelled Munroe), and her mother was Mary Jane Whittenton. I have done a lot of research into the Whittington (also spelled Whittenton) family. My posts on Grammy as an adult are listed on the Read page, and on this page are my posts about her family and her ancestors.

The Munroes

• The Munroe Great-Grandparents of Lillie Belle. This is about Leicester and Lurana Munroe and their family, the family of their son William Orlando Munroe and his wife Ann Charlotte Flanders, and the family of William and Ann’s son William Lester Munroe and his wife Mary Jane Whittenton (the parents of Lillie Belle Munroe).
• My Earliest Immigrant Ancestors—Lillie Munro’s ancestors who came to New England in 1651
• Aunt Agnes Had a Wild Side—Lillie Munro’s sister was an interesting lady
• Sketch of the Life of Lillie Belle Munroe Read, part 1—I wrote this sketch a long time ago and decided it needed to be updated a little and made available to all my cousins online
• Sketch of the Life of Lillie Belle Munroe Read, part 2
• The 1983 Interview with Lillie and Dodie
• Sketch of the Life of Jessie Jane Munroe
• Sketch of the Life of Allie May Munroe
• Chester Phillips Wants a Family
• Nora Quackenbush Could’ve Been My Grandma—She was married to William Lester Munro, and also to at least four other men . . .
• How My Family Came West—includes the story of how the Munro family ended up in Oregon

The Whittingtons

• Gone with the Whittingtons, Part 1. Solomon’s parents, James and Frankie Whittington of North Carolina, and their large family.
• The Whittingtons, Part 2: William and Richard. James and Frankie’s two eldest sons, William Maynard Whittington and Richard Merrit Whittington, and what happened to them.
• The Whittingtons, Part 3: Agatha and Telitha. James and Frankie’s two eldest daughters, Agatha Bless Whittington Collins and Telitha Cumi Whittington, and their lives.
• The Whittingtons, Part 4: Gibson and Weston. James and Frankie’s fifth and sixth children, Gibson Whitenton and Weston Whitenton, and their lives and families in Texas.
• The Whittingtons, Part 5: George, Solomon, and Othaneil. James and Frankie’s seventh, eighth, and ninth children, George Arthur Whitenton, Solomon Yancy Whittenton, and Othaneil Whittenton, and their lives and families in Tennessee. (This is the first version of a life sketch of Solomon and is not as complete as the second one that appears in Part 7.)
• The Whittingtons, Part 6: Cason Coley, James Henderson, Quintillian, and Frances Ann. James and Frankie’s tenth, eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth children.
• Solomon Yancy Whittenton and Mary A Hogins, An Expanded View. This is about my Grammy’s grandparents and their family. This is sort of Part 7 of the series. But really Part 7 and Part 8 can be read as a two-part series without going into the more distant past.
• What Happened to Solomon’s and Mary’s Children? This is sort of Part 8 of the series.
• The Slave-Owner Ancestor. James Whittington and slavery. An appendix to the series.
• The Whittingtons’ Slaves. A closer look at the slaves of the Whittington family. Another appendix.
• A Spider and the Lost $500 Bond. The divorced husband of Agatha Whittington, Alexander S. Collins, and the curious things in his probate file. Still another appendix.
• I’m Too Tired to Do My Job, So I’ll Just Invent the Report. The curious things found in the 1870 Census for District 17, Madison County, Tennessee, where three of the Whittenton families were living. And yet another appendix. Really, there was just too much interesting stuff that didn’t fit into the series that I couldn’t resist writing about!
• John Peebles Whittenton, A Confederate Soldier. This is the sad tale of the son of Richard Whittenton (James & Frankie’s second son), and what happened to him in the Civil War.
• Uncle Quince and the Civil War. This is about Quince Tilian Whittenton, James & Frankie’s twelfth child, a soldier in the Confederate Army.
• The finding of Mary Ann Hogan, the wife of Solomon Whittenton.
• How My Family Came West—includes the story of how the Whittington family moved westward from Virginia/North Carolina Territories.