GILMER COUNTY, GA - BIO  Starks, Thomas & Catherine

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Thomas & Catherine Starks Family of Gilmer County 



Starks, Thomas Jefferson   b. abt 1815 VA, d. aft June,
1870 Starks, Catherine Nelson   b. abt 1820 SC, d. aft
1910   Maiden name shown as NELSON on the death
certificate of son, William Jefferson Starks.
Information was provided by Lewis F. Starks.

Children:

1.Starks, William Jefferson  Born NC, August 26, 1838--
June 11, 1923. Died in Gilmer Cty. Buried New Hope
Baptist Church Cemetery. First married Nancy A.
Unknown. One child, Laura C. Starks, born October 1863.
Believe that Laura married Elisha T. Rittenhouse.
William Jefferson Starks' 2nd marriage was to Matilda
Elliott, daughter of Lakey Elliott, Jr. and Mary C.
'Polly' Griggs.  Matilda "Tildy' applied for and
received the pension due from her husband's service in
the Civil War. He served with the Georgia State Line
Troops. Co. H, 1st Reg., Gilmer Browns. Captured July
10, 1864 at a creek outside Atlanta that is variously
listed as Nickajack Creek, Chattoochee Creek and
various spellings of Chattahoochee.  Released May 12,
1865 from Camp Douglas, Illinois. 

2.Starks, John P.  b. abt 1843 in NC. Died abt 1878 in
Gilmer County. Supposed to be buried at New Hope
Baptist Church Cemetery. Headstone not yet found.
Married Nancy E. Whisenant/Whisenhunt, daughter of
George and Holly Hoppis Whisenant. One son, William
Pinkney Starks, born December 10, 1868 in Gilmer
County, Ga. Died March 13, 1957 in Whitfield County,
Ga. Buried at Concord Baptist Church Cemetery in
Whitfield County. John Starks was in the same unit as
his brother William Jefferson and captured the same
day. Both were transferred to Camp Douglas, Illinois
where they managed to survive the harsh conditions.
Also released on May 12, 1865.

3.Starks, Adaline  b. abt 1845 in NC

4.Starks, Lydia A.  b. abt 1846 in NC. Lydia suffered
from Dropsy. Last records found are from 1880 and show
her living with her brother, Lewis Starks.

5.Starks, Lewis F.   b. NC, Oct. 14, 1848--d. May 11,
1931, Gilmer County. Buried New Hope Baptist church
Cemetery. Married first, Nancy L. Whisenant, daughter
of John Calloway Whisenant & Kemley Carter. Second
marriage was to Mary Jane Sumner.  Lewis is buried
between Nancy L. and Mary Jane at New Hope Baptist
Church Cemetery, Gilmer County, GA. Most if not all of
the later Starks families in Gilmer County were
descendants of Lewis Starks.

6.Starks, Sarah E.  b. abt 1849 in Georgia. Married
George W. Whisenant, son of George and Holly Hoppis
Whisenant.

7. Starks,Catherine Louisa,  b. abt 1853 in Georgia.
daughter of Thomas Jefferson & Catherine Nelson Starks,
married John R. Whisenant who was the son of John Calloway
and Kemmley Carver Whisenant of Gilmer County.

John R. Whisenant was born June 1856 in South Carolina and
Louisa was born in June 1854 in Georgia.
They had the following children:

Laura C. Whisenant born Abt. 1877
Virgil Holman Whisenant (b. May 22, 1879--d. June 1948)
Christopher C. Whisenant born May 1886..  Married Fannie Turner
Robert C. Whisenant born October 31, 1889