I have William Whiddon cal. 1755, son of Lott Whiddon and
William Whiddon cal. 1755, son of William Sr Whiddon...
According to various online trees and webpages, they both were married to Mary Davis Eason... And findagrave gives her name as Mary davis Barwick ?

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William Whiddon
Birth: 1755
Death: Feb. 3, 1818
Note: Husband of Mary Davis Barwick. Father of Eli, Mary Polly, Dempsey, Elizabeth, Sherrod, Eleaner, William E, Jr., John, Lott, Winnie, Feraby and Suzannah. Soldier in Revolutionary War. Moved to the Ohoopie of GA area in 1815.
Burial:
Barwick Cemetery, Norristown, Johnson Co, GA
Norristown
Emanuel County
Georgia, USA
Edit Virtual Cemetery info [?]
Record added: May 30 2008
By: Susan Barwick Elliott
Photo: No

Who married who ? and what became of the William Whiddon cal. 1755, that did not marry Mary Davis Eason Barwick

William, son of William Sr. was married to Mary Eason. There is no absolute proof of this, but there is much circumstantial evidence. I have outlined this evidence in my book "The Whiddon Heritage" published in January.

William, son of Lott may have married Mary Davis, but there is no evidence to that effect.

The name Mary Davis Eason has been generated out of confusion and has assumed a life of its own. There is no such person. They are two separate people. You have added to the confusion with the name Mary Davis Eason Barwick.

The Barwick's were neighbors of William & Mary Eason Whiddon in S.C. Four of their children married Barwicks.

Regards,
Lou

Mary Davis vs. Mary Eason controversy:
Some researchers feel that Mary Eason was William Whiddon's wife because of William Eason of North Carolina's will dated March 1783.. It names his granddaughter Mary Wheddon as an heir. That coupled with several names frequently used by the family have led many to this conclusion. My ggreat-grandfather was Jared Eason Whiddon , my great uncle was Reopard Eason Whiddon and my grandmother was Mary Winfred Whiddon. These are familiar names for both families. I believe that we are related to the Eason family, but I am not sure of connection.
The Will of Benjamin Davis (1790 Cheraws Dist. census) deeds 47 acres to Daniel Davis (1790 Cheraws Dist. census)....Mary Whiddon, wife of William Whiddon (1790 Cheraws Dist. census) , releases to Daniel Davis all her estate.... This information makes me feel that Mary Davis is William's wife. We need further documentation to confirm Mary's real name. I feel sure that the Cheraws group is our family especially with the addition of William Barwick (1790 Cheraws Dist. census). My ggggreat-grandmother Martha Rhoda Barwick who married Dempsey Whiddon of Washington County (William and Mary's son) was William Barwick's daughter who was born in the Cheraws Dist. around 1785. The 1790 Census list the following:
Daniel Davis
Benjamin Davis
William Whiddon
William Barwick
This puts the families in the same area at the same time.
*Other info. There was a Wm. Eason and wife Sarah Mattox that were from Barnville, SC. and died in Tattnall County, Georgia. (Wm. b. 5/22/1771-d. 10/1/1831).
Nancy Fuller

Check the South Carolina archives and you will see that it leans toward Davis. It is still undecided since there is no definitive proof at this time:
Davis theory justification???
South Carolina ARCHIVES ***NOTE BARWICK AND WHIDDON
Series: S165015
Year: ND00
Item: 03801
ignore: 000
Date: No date
Description: INHABITANTS OF DARLINGTON DISTRICT, PETITION FOR A BRIDGE AT SKINNERS LANDING AND A ROAD FROM THE LANDING TO THE ROAD FROM DARLINGTON COURT HOUSE TO MCCULLAMS FERRY ON SPARROW SWAMP. (2 PAGES)
Names indexed: ALEXANDER, JOHN; BARWICK, WILLIAM; BESLE, JOHN; BESLE, RUBEN; GALLOWAY, ABRAHAM; GALLOWAY, GEORGE; HODGES, JOHN; HUDSON, JOSEPH; JONES, JOSHUA; LESINBE, HENNERY; PIPKIN, ARTHUR; REGETER, JESSE; SKINNER, BENJAMIN; THOMSON, STEPHEN; VICK, SIMON; WADDILL, A.; WALTERS, MOSES; WHIDDON, WILLIAM; WOODHAM, ARISS; WOODHAM, EDWARD SR.
Locations: DARLINGTON; DARLINGTON DISTRICT; LYNCHES CREEK; SPARROW SWAMP
Document type: PETITION
Topics: BRIDGES; FERRIES; LANDINGS; MILLS; STREETS, ROADS, AND HIGHWAYS
This puts the families in the same area at the same time.

Series: S213190***NOTE BENJAMIN Davis
Volume: 0004
Page: 00212
Item: 000
Date: 1784 C.
Description: Davis, BENJAMIN SR., PLAT FOR 200 ACRES ON NORTH WEST SIDE OF LITTLE PEEDEE RIVER, GEORGETOWN DISTRICT.
Names indexed: Davis, BENJAMIN SR.; Davis, DAVID; SAVAGE, CHARLES
Locations: GEORGETOWN DISTRICT; LITTLE PEE DEE RIVER

The SC archives are unclear on this matter. The Darlington Courthouse fire of 1806 caused the loss of many important records. The available records are hard to decipher, partly because of the duplication of names. The 1790 census has 2 William Berwicks(Barwicks) in Cheraw. Two and maybe three William Whiddons were in the county. Mary Davis may have married William Whiddon, but which one.

The North Carolina records are the ones we need to look at to unravel this mystery. William R. S. married about 1780 and didn't go to SC until about 1790.

The evidence in favor of Mary Eason is as follows:

Mary Eason was the daughter of William Eason Jr. and Sarah Manning. Mary's father died in 1763 and her mother married Thomas Richardson who, in 1779, owned land on the north side of Sapony Creek. This put Mary Eason in close proximity to William who also owned land on the north side of Sapony Creek. A Benjamin Davis did live Nash County, but he was on Fishing Creek in the north of the county. His land was not near William's land and he may not even be the one with a daughter named Mary.

Also, a long connection existed between the Eason and Whiddon families; William Eason, Sr., William Eason Jr., and William's father and brother Lott all served together in the NC militia in the 1750s.

The most telling evidence may be the 1912 article in the Tifton Gazette by Gus Adams in which he identified William's wife as Mary Eason. His information came from first person interviews with family members.

I, like the late Edward Whiddon, believe the most likely husband of Mary Davis is William, son of Lott.

Regards,
Lou Whiddon

Lou: I have "collected" some data on Whiddon/Whitten/Whidon and when I saw your post to the Emanuel list, I wanted to send you what I found. I have not researched your Wm. Whiddon and possible wife Mary Eason, but did find this info on the internet which mentions Mary Eason at: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~elw827/b27...

Not in Emanuel Co.: Whitten name appears in my TOLBERT line when Harvey Richard Whiten b.14 Jun 1887 marries Verlie TOLBERT(dau. of James Levi TOLBERT and Mary Alyce Black) b.9 May 1887 and had: Clellie Mae (Aunt Teddy), Grace, Harvy Richard (H.R.), Jr., Helen, Irene, Peter Robert Montgomery, Viola, Walter Lovick, William Howard (Bubba) and Nellie Kate.

Harvey's parents: Frazier Meeks Whiten b.1862 and Amanda Jane Bennett. They were in Clarksvile, Habersham and DeKalb Co., GA. I have an outline back to William Whitten b.1808 and Sarah Waters, married c.1823 Franklin Co., GA.

A researcher also posted to the Clarke Co., GA list, an outline of his Whitton: Doyle T. Brittain

Pioneer Woman

Thanks Lou for the response. I agree that it will be difficult to ever prove Mary's true identity. As I said, my great Uncle from Sandersville was Reopard Eason Whiddon and his grandfather was Jared Eason Whiddon.I have found Gus Adams's information fairly accurate, but Edward Whiddon's information has many mistakes. He and I were in contact concerning my Washington County family, but it was too late for corrections. I visited the cemetery in Emanuel County several times, but could not find any proof of her name.The Durden family that also married into the Barwick family, contends that it was Mary Davis, but I do not know what has led them to that conclusion. Also, there is speculation (no proof) that Benjamin Davis's wife was Mary Eason and that she was also married to a Whiddon. If you have any new connections, please let me know ORETA1@aol.com
Thanks again....Nancy

Nancy,

A word about Edward Whiddon. He like all of us struggled with wrong or incomplete information. His data contains some mistakes but mostly at the edges. He tried hard to get it right especially on issues that were central to Whiddon research. He was always open to correcting his data, but only after considering the validity of the new info. Ed was the single best source of Whiddon family history and we have no replacement.

I had the good fortune of working with Ed on several issues including finding a missing link, James son of Eli Green Whiddon that he included on his Website. Ed was a gentleman and scholar and we are the poorer for his passing.

Regards,
Lou

I agree. My contact with him was also very good. We need more people like him and his dedication toward finding the truth about our family. With his work and the work of others like Judy Anderson and Hazel Yarbrough Beatrous, researchers have been able to get a solid starting point for the Whiddon Family. I guess the only thing that is certainly correct in all research is that it is in a constant state of change.