Martha "Mattie" Luma Whittlesey

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Looking for any further info on Mattie Luma Whittlesey who married Lewis Norman "Napolean" "Poly" Crawford on 4-3-1879 in Sabine County Texas. Mattie was born 2-28-1859 in Sabine County, and died on 3-17-1898. She was the daughter of Joseph Adolphus Whittlesey and Annie Newton Bullock. If you are related to this family or have anything at all, please contact me. Thanks.

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Martha married Lewis Norman Napolean "Poly" Crawford on 3 Apr 1879 in Sabine County, Texas. Lewis (son of Joseph Moore Crawford and Elizabeth F. McWilliams) was born on 2 Feb 1854 in Sabine County, Texas; died on 31 Jan 1941 in DeSoto Parish, Louisiana; was buried in Shelbyville Cemetery, Shelbyville, Shelby County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Married:
Nancy Mayo Bishop also shows them as the parents of Wyatt S. Crawford, dates unknown.

1. Rupert Lloyd Crawford was born on 23 Mar 1880 in Shelby County, Texas; died on 17 Mar 1923 in Louisiana; was buried in Shelbyville Cemetery, Shelbyville, Shelby County, Texas.
2. Margaret "Maggie" Blanche Crawford was born on 9 Sep 1882 in Texas; died on 11 Aug 1932; was buried in San Augustine City Cemetery, San Augustine County, Texas.
3. Claude Marcelle Crawford, Sr. was born on 11 Aug 1883 in Texas; died on 3 Jan 1946 in Dallas County, Texas; was buried in Hillcrest Mausoleum, Dallas, Dallas County, Texas.
4. Leonard Norman Crawford was born on 9 Jun 1885 in Texas; died on 28 Nov 1954 in Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana.
5. Herbert Vance Crawford was born in Nov 1887 in Texas; and died.
6. Earl Crawford was born on 30 Aug 1892 in Shelby County, Texas; died on 31 Oct 1972 in Shelby County, Texas; was buried in Joaquin Cemetery, Joaquin, Shelby County, Texas.
7. Averil Winnifred Crawford was born on 30 Jul 1895 in Shelby County, Texas; died in Oct 1962 in Grant Parish, Louisiana.

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"Records of the WHITTLESEY family have been traced to 664 A.D. in Whittlesey Mere, County of Cambridge, England. William Whittlesey (1300-1374) was the 57th Lord Archbishop of Canterbury (1368-1374). John Whittlesey came to America in 1623, and is a direct ancestor of Joseph Adolphus Whittesley b 1820. He was in Texas before 1840. In 1841, he was co-editor of the REDLANDER in San Augustine. He taught school, served in the Mexican War, was County Judge of Sabine County, and Postmaster of Sabinetown." (White and Toole, p 82).

The death certificate of his eldest son, Oscar, instead showed that Joseph was born in Virginia.

Joseph married Anne "Annie" Newton Bullock on 19 Apr 1849. Anne (daughter of Lemuel Bullock and Martha L. Day) was born about 1833 in Mississippi; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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The daughter of Lemuel Bullock and Martha Day. Dale Rubel shows that she was born in Holmes County, Mississippi, and died ca 1912 in Short, Texas.

The death certificate of her eldest son, Oscar, instead showed that Anne was born in Virginia.

Lemuel married Martha L. Day. Martha was born about 1794 in Mississippi; died after 1870 in Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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She was living with her daughter and son-in-law, Ann and Jospeph A. WHITTLESEY in Sabine County, Texas at the time of the 1870 census, listed as Widow Bullock, age 76, born in Mississippi.