In your query about Elisha
Whitten and Sarah
Greathouse, I do have the names of their children in a copy of part of a book entitled "
Whitten and Allied Families" Second Edition by
Virginia Wood Alexander and William C. Whitten, Jr. I would be happy to send you what I have if you are interested. I have
Chapter 7 which has information about the Whitten's of
Illinois. Many of them are from
Montgomery Co., IL. The parents of Elisha are named as
Elijah b. 13 Jan 1734 and d. during the Rev. and his wife was
Charity Duckett b. 1734. m. in 1760 and the children were:
Easton md. Wilma Johnson;
Elijah died young; Elisha md. Sarah Greathouse; Josiah md. Sarah Rector;
Austin md. Keziah Casey; Sarah md. Stephen Claypool;
Charity md. John Duckett; Elizabeth md. Lemuel Mosely; Peggy md John
Evans. There is other information about these families. The author of the book has questioned accuracy of the dates of some of the births and marriages which came from a Mrs. Weaver, but he says that the information can be helpful. I am related to the
Whitten descendants through
Elza Sanders who married first Ruth
Whitten a daughter of
Austin Whitten and
Keziah Casey. After Ruth's death, he married Sarah Ann
Sturgeon. My line is through Sarah Ann, but we would still be 1/2 cousins because of
Elza Sanders.
Ilene
Jones