Bessie Alice Brown had a daughter out of wedlock, Hortense V. "Corty" Pryor Brown, raised by her grandparents as their own child. Corty married Welty C. Brown. Bessie Alice later married the child's father Walter Robert Pryor Aka Charles David Pryor son of David Prior and Josephine Elizabeth Sleasman, they had a daughter Beulah M. Pryor around 1898 and a son Howard Clayton Pryor about 1901. These two children appear in the 1910 Census in Charles A. Whitmore's household at Rocky Ridge and bearing the surname "Whitmore." Then they drop from sight, and most online trees ignore them. They clearly were born before Bessie married Whitmore and before she obtained her divorce from Pryor, that marriage ended in divorce (second) marriage Charles Alvin Whitmore son of George Reuben Whitmore and Maey Jane Newcomer.

Children of second marriage:
(1.) Clarence Washington Whitmore b. 22 February 1904 d. 27 April 1983,
married in Baltimore, MD., 1925, Dorothy Blanche Phillips b. 28 July 1904 d. March 1975 in Baltimore, MD. the daughter of Samuel Phillips and Dorothea Amellia removed Hartfield, Middlesex County VA. and married (second) Edna S. maiden not established.
(2.) Roy Alvin Whitmore b. 12 June 1905 d. 27 March 1991, married Evelyn Carroll Welsh.
(3) Charles Frank Whitmore b. 14 Aug 1909 d. 05 February 1917
(4.) Helen M. Ruth Whitmore b. 1910 d. 16 November 1953 married Frank Rainey (second) Anthony J. Brender of Baltimore, Maryland.
(5.) Hazel Irene Whitmore b. 10 August 1912 d. 11 September 1982 married (first) George David Keilholtz, (second) Earl J. W. Bagent, and (third) Richard Seachrist.
(6.) Evelyn Ruth Whitmore b. 20 July 1915 d.27 June 2974 married Reno Worthington Eaton.

Source: Antietam Ancestors.
Volume V. Number 1, November 1992
The Brown Family.
Todd Andrew Dorsett, Editor and Publisher
Waynesboro Historical Society
138 West Main Street
Waynesboro, PA. 17268
Compiled by Mike Hahn 46770538

Source: Descendants of George Reuben Whitmore, author not established.
Compiled by: Mike Hahn 46770538