BIO: William Whitledge JR., Bullitt Co., KY ********************************************************************** USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net Transcribed by: Doris dcox360 Date: 06 Feb 20001 ********************************************************************* I had this in my file, have no idea where I got it and do not know how correct it is. Very interesting and food for thought. WHITLEDGE, William Jr. was the first Whitledge to emigrate to Bullitt County, Ky, from Prince William Co., Va. in October 1792. His great-great grandfather, William Whitledge had emigrated to Norfolk, Va. in 1631 from England. In 1657 William Jr's great-grandfather Robert Whitledge moved the family north up the Chesapeake Bay and Potomac River to what is today Prince William County, where the family lived for the next 130 years. William Jr's grandfather, Thomas Whitledge, married Sibel Harrison, the daughter of Burr Harrison a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, the Justice of Stafford County and the Ambassador to the Piscataway Indians. In 1710 Thomas Whitledge moved the family west in Prince William County, Va. next to the Hugeuenot's Brentown Grant. It was here the Whitledges began to marry into many of the families that would eventually become the first settlers of Bullitt County, the Renos, Grants, Coppedges and the Overalls. The Whitledges and Overalls have married each other so many times that they are known as country cousins. William Jr's mother was Frances Overall. His wife's mother was Elizabeth Overall and one of their sons, John married Frances Overall. Another son named Overall Whitledge had a son John Leeright Whitledge who married Catherine Melvina Overall. William Jr. had a sister Frances, who married John Overall, Jr. The Whitledges began their westward move from Virginia to Ky. in 1775, when Robert Whitledge moved to Boonesboro with Daniel Boone. The next year. 1776, Roberts brother, Thomas moved to Bourbon County, just north of Boonesboro, and Robert moved north with his brother. Their last brother John Whitledge, Jr., was captain in the Prince William County Militia during the Revolutionary War. At the end of the war, in 1782, John also followed his brothers and moved to Bourbon County Ky., where he was killed by a lone marauding Indian in 1788. Robert, Thomas and John had a sister Sibby, and she married the subject of this article, William Whitledge, Jr. her double first cousin. They remained in Virginia until after the death of William Whitledge, Sr., in 1782. William Jr., with his three sisters and their families moved west to Bullitt Co. William Jr.'s wife Sibby , must have died about the time of the move, for there is no record of her in Kentucky and she is not listed in her brothers' wills. Because of the Whitledge's (Sibby's brothers) ties with Daniel and Squire Boone and their Transylvania Land Co., Thomas and Robert Whitledge both had land claims in what would become Bullitt Co., but William Whitledge, Jr. was the only Whitledge ever to live in the county. He obtained , in October 1792 a 948 acre piece of land west of Mt. Washington on Floyd's Fork where he was killed by Indians in 1819. William, Jr. remarried in 1810 to a girl named Jerriah, who was the widow of Richard Baughn. William, Jr. had eight children born in Virginia that he brought with him to Bullitt County: Mary, John, Overall, Frances, Caty, Thomas, WilliamIII, and Nancy. John Took his family to Missouri in 1816. Thomas took his family on to Henderson Co., Ky about 1825. William III died before his father, leaving no children, but a widow, Miriah Ann. All the Whitledges who stayed in Bullitt Co., were children of son Overall Whitledge. Over two or three generations, they have all moved north to Illinois. There are very few Whitledges left today in Bullitt Co.