The Family of
John H.L. Whitten and Laura Sanderson

This page created June 5, 2002.

[Note: The information below was shared with me by the fellow researchers listed in the Resources section below. The research is not mine but is included here to provide a more complete picture of this family.]

John Hayes Littleton Whitten
Born:  December 17, 1843 in Aberdeen, Monroe County, Mississippi
Married:  1889 in Winfield, Marion County, Alabama
Died:  March 23, 1926 in Verona, Lee County, Mississippi
Burial: Palmetto Cemetery, Verona, Mississippi
Father:  Littleton Augustus Whitten
Mother:  Lucinda Pearlee (Paralee) Whitten
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Laura Patience Catherine Sanderson
Born:  July 30, 1858 in Detroit, Marion County, Alabama
Died:  January 15, 1928 in Tupelo, Lee County, Mississippi
Burial: Palmetto Cemetery, Verona, Mississippi
Father:  Unknown
Mother:  Unknown
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1. Josephine King Whitten
   Born: January 22, 1890 in Marion County, Alabama or Verona, Lee County, Mississippi
   Married:  About 1906 in Fulton, Itawamba County, Mississippi
   Spouse:   Perkins Lee Justice
   Died:  June 2, 1933 in Verona, Lee County, Mississippi
   Burial: Palmetto Cemetery, Verona, Lee County, Mississippi
2. Tylitha Virginia Whitten
   Born:  November 17, 1891 in Hamilton, Alabama
   Married:  (1) October 8, 1911
   Spouse:   (1) Clovis Brigman
   Married:  (2) November 21, 1920 in Tupelo, Lee County, Mississippi
   Spouse:   (2) Thomas Franklin Smith
   Died:  1988 in Amory, Monroe County, Mississippi
3. General Dewey Whitten
   Born:  May 17, 1898 in Booneville, Prentiss County, Mississippi
   Married:  May 17, 1919 in probably Lee County, Mississippi
   Spouse:   Heston Tomlin
   Died:  June 18, 1971 in Tupelo, Lee County, Mississippi
   Burial: Palmetto Cemetery, Verona, Lee County, Mississippi
 

• Lorraine Hatcher Almsted, family group sheet from September 1995.  Descendant of John Robert Littleton Whitten.  E-mail me for contact information.
• W.A. Whitten, GED-COM file from August 1994, updated April 2000.  Descendant of Henry Millshullen Whitten.  E-mail me for contact information.
• Virginia Haren, family file from June 1999. Descendant of Jasper Marion Whitten. E-mail me for contact information.
• Toni Brahier, GED-COM file from August 1994.  Descendant of Littleton Whitten and Cornelia Ruark.  Toni also has all of her information on-line at this address:   Check it out!
  http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/b/r/a/Toni-J-Brahier/index.html
• Virginia Wood Alexander and William C. Whitten, Jr.  Whitten and Allied Families, second edition. 1984.  p. 441.