From First 100 Years Nolan County Texas,page 397, published in 1985 by Nolan County Genealogical Society (no longer in print, but transcribed with permission):
JOSHUA BUTCHER WHITTENBURG-SALLIE MARGARET RIDOUT
SUE ELLA WHITTENBURG-JOHN SCALES WHITTENBURG
Joshua Butcher Whittenburg, a teacher, farmer, circuit-riding preacher, student of Greek, Latin, psychology and astronomy and an amateur horticulturist, was the eighth of twelve children of Andrew Whittenburg. The latter's father, Joseph Whittenburg, came from Germany to East Tennessee where Andrew was born in 1790. In 1816, Andrew married Annie Long and in 1819 moved to Missouri, but a few years later returned to Bedford County Tennessee. In 1832, they moved to Creek Purchase, Talladega, Alabama, where Joshua Butcher was born. The Whittenburg family remained there for twelve years as iron foundry workers and moved in 1852 in a family cavalcade to Williamson and Caldwell counties near the towns of Florence, Luling and Lockheart, Texas. Joshua's family settled on Plum Creek.
Joshua Whittenburg married one of his school pupils, Sallie Margaret Ridout, born in Alabama in 1835, daughter of Lewis Ridout and Mariah Louisa Scales. He is buried in Falfurrias, Brooks County, Texas, where he died in the field in 1910 as he plowed corn with a one-horse Georgia stock plow when the family was living there and operating a truck and melon farm for their daughter, Anna Louisa, and her husband, Dr. Henry Marshall Bennett. Sallie died in 1917 on the Whittenburg farm north of the city on the Roby Highway and is buried in the family plot in Odd Fellows Cemetery [Sweetwater Cemetery] west of Sweetwater.
In 1857 and 1860, Joshua Butcher Whittenburg served as deacon and elder, respectively, in Chappel Hill Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in Washington County near Brenham, Texas. However, he was affiliated with the First Christian Church before it was moved from its downtown location in Sweetwater.
Sometime after 1883 when the sale of property was recorded in Caldwell County, three Whittenburg families formed a westward caravan to San Angelo, Dublin and Joshua to Nolan County. In 1890, he bought a town lot from Andrew Long and his wife Queenie Boren, who with Frank Long were his cousins. The Longs were successful early day ranchers in the Longworth area and throughout West Texas.
The next year, J.B. Whittenburg bought a second lot from J.W. Crutcher. These pieces of land adjoined the campus of today's Phillip Nolan Elementary School. Sallie conducted a private kindergarten and Joshua, sons John Scales and Thomas Searcy operated a general store on the southeast corner of the square where today First Street exits into Highway 70 (toward San Angelo) next door to Newt Prince's home, which was filled with curios, collectibles and memorabilia of early days in West Texas. Because of the practice of extending unlimited credit, the store was forced to close only after a few years. Regrettably, the account books were burned, thus wiping clean the slates of all creditors when Joshua closed the store which had made little or no impression upon the early historians of Sweetwater.
Three Whittenburg brands were registered in Nolan County: in 1890, J.S.Whittenburg HUK; 1900, J.B. Whittenburg 7W; and 1901 XZ T.S. Whittenburg.
In 1901, Joshua Butcher, sons John and Tom purchased 640 acres, Section 32, Block 21, T&P Rwy. Co. Survey located north of Sweetwater on the Roby Highway. This land is still owned by the children of Tom Whittenburg.
Joshua Butcher Whittenburg, Sallie and six unmarried children settled in Nolan County. Marriage licenses for five of them are on file in the county courthouse. In 1896, Willie married a county teacher, Hattie Dribred, who was a niece of General Eidson, County Judge of Nolan County, moved to Brownwood where he ranched and farmed and drilled water wells until his unexpected death in 1953. He had a son, Charm, and two daughters. Emma Gordon married William Dobkins and moved to Fort Worth. They had three daughters. Lyde married Edwin Love and with their two sons lived in Corpus Christi. Sue Ella, who taught school in Nolan County in 1902 and 1901 at "Ole Grover" located at the north boundary of Nolan County and boarded at the Nunn Ranch, married C C. Campbell and moved to Merkel. Their one daughter, Sallie Mary Campbell, after her parents' deaths, lived with the Tom Whittenburg family and graduated from Sweetwater High School and West Texas State University and became a teacher in Clayton, New Mexico, where she still lives after her retirement and tutors Spanish-speaking students.
Tom Whittenburg married Lucy Nunn and lived the remainder of his life on the Whittenburg farm. His biographical sketch appears elsewhere in this history.
John Scales, who never married, lived his entire life on the Whittenburg farm where he and Tom were partners through the droughts, hails, grasshoppers, bank and crop failures until 1924 when they divided the section and Tom built his own home on the west half-section and Thomas Whittenburg, his nephew, bought John's east half-section. John Scales was found dead near his woodpile one morning in August of 1942 at the age of 79. With his passing went a caring, loving, sensitive, talented old man so beloved as "Uncle John". He played the fiddle, banjo, guitar, sang popular songs of the day and often original verses. He had been a good, hard-working farmer, enjoyed hunting, fishing and trapping. He was an avid reader and kept himself well informed of national and local news. He subscribed to periodicals like CAPERS WEEKLY, FARM AND RANCH and the FOR WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM, a daily newspaper, at a time when few people had a daily paper. He had in a sense assumed the father role to Tom's family after Joshua Whittenburg's death, but Tom was his little brother, being ten years his junior.
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TEXAS DEATH CERTIFICATE
Name: Sallie Whittenburg
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 18 Jan 1916
Event Place: Texas, United States
Cause of Death: Apoplexy
Gender:
Marital Status:
Birth Date: 1837
Birthplace: Alabama
Father's Name: Andrew
Mother's Name: Scales
Burial/Removal: Sweetwater
Date: 19 Jan 1916
Informant: T. S. Whittenburg
Certificate Number: 2594
GS Film number: 2051761
Digital Folder Number: 005145484
Image Number: 01405
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JOSHUA BUTCHER WHITTENBURG-SALLIE MARGARET RIDOUT
SUE ELLA WHITTENBURG-JOHN SCALES WHITTENBURG
Joshua Butcher Whittenburg, a teacher, farmer, circuit-riding preacher, student of Greek, Latin, psychology and astronomy and an amateur horticulturist, was the eighth of twelve children of Andrew Whittenburg. The latter's father, Joseph Whittenburg, came from Germany to East Tennessee where Andrew was born in 1790. In 1816, Andrew married Annie Long and in 1819 moved to Missouri, but a few years later returned to Bedford County Tennessee. In 1832, they moved to Creek Purchase, Talladega, Alabama, where Joshua Butcher was born. The Whittenburg family remained there for twelve years as iron foundry workers and moved in 1852 in a family cavalcade to Williamson and Caldwell counties near the towns of Florence, Luling and Lockheart, Texas. Joshua's family settled on Plum Creek.
Joshua Whittenburg married one of his school pupils, Sallie Margaret Ridout, born in Alabama in 1835, daughter of Lewis Ridout and Mariah Louisa Scales. He is buried in Falfurrias, Brooks County, Texas, where he died in the field in 1910 as he plowed corn with a one-horse Georgia stock plow when the family was living there and operating a truck and melon farm for their daughter, Anna Louisa, and her husband, Dr. Henry Marshall Bennett. Sallie died in 1917 on the Whittenburg farm north of the city on the Roby Highway and is buried in the family plot in Odd Fellows Cemetery [Sweetwater Cemetery] west of Sweetwater.
In 1857 and 1860, Joshua Butcher Whittenburg served as deacon and elder, respectively, in Chappel Hill Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in Washington County near Brenham, Texas. However, he was affiliated with the First Christian Church before it was moved from its downtown location in Sweetwater.
Sometime after 1883 when the sale of property was recorded in Caldwell County, three Whittenburg families formed a westward caravan to San Angelo, Dublin and Joshua to Nolan County. In 1890, he bought a town lot from Andrew Long and his wife Queenie Boren, who with Frank Long were his cousins. The Longs were successful early day ranchers in the Longworth area and throughout West Texas.
The next year, J.B. Whittenburg bought a second lot from J.W. Crutcher. These pieces of land adjoined the campus of today's Phillip Nolan Elementary School. Sallie conducted a private kindergarten and Joshua, sons John Scales and Thomas Searcy operated a general store on the southeast corner of the square where today First Street exits into Highway 70 (toward San Angelo) next door to Newt Prince's home, which was filled with curios, collectibles and memorabilia of early days in West Texas. Because of the practice of extending unlimited credit, the store was forced to close only after a few years. Regrettably, the account books were burned, thus wiping clean the slates of all creditors when Joshua closed the store which had made little or no impression upon the early historians of Sweetwater.
Three Whittenburg brands were registered in Nolan County: in 1890, J.S.Whittenburg HUK; 1900, J.B. Whittenburg 7W; and 1901 XZ T.S. Whittenburg.
In 1901, Joshua Butcher, sons John and Tom purchased 640 acres, Section 32, Block 21, T&P Rwy. Co. Survey located north of Sweetwater on the Roby Highway. This land is still owned by the children of Tom Whittenburg.
Joshua Butcher Whittenburg, Sallie and six unmarried children settled in Nolan County. Marriage licenses for five of them are on file in the county courthouse. In 1896, Willie married a county teacher, Hattie Dribred, who was a niece of General Eidson, County Judge of Nolan County, moved to Brownwood where he ranched and farmed and drilled water wells until his unexpected death in 1953. He had a son, Charm, and two daughters. Emma Gordon married William Dobkins and moved to Fort Worth. They had three daughters. Lyde married Edwin Love and with their two sons lived in Corpus Christi. Sue Ella, who taught school in Nolan County in 1902 and 1901 at "Ole Grover" located at the north boundary of Nolan County and boarded at the Nunn Ranch, married C C. Campbell and moved to Merkel. Their one daughter, Sallie Mary Campbell, after her parents' deaths, lived with the Tom Whittenburg family and graduated from Sweetwater High School and West Texas State University and became a teacher in Clayton, New Mexico, where she still lives after her retirement and tutors Spanish-speaking students.
Tom Whittenburg married Lucy Nunn and lived the remainder of his life on the Whittenburg farm. His biographical sketch appears elsewhere in this history.
John Scales, who never married, lived his entire life on the Whittenburg farm where he and Tom were partners through the droughts, hails, grasshoppers, bank and crop failures until 1924 when they divided the section and Tom built his own home on the west half-section and Thomas Whittenburg, his nephew, bought John's east half-section. John Scales was found dead near his woodpile one morning in August of 1942 at the age of 79. With his passing went a caring, loving, sensitive, talented old man so beloved as "Uncle John". He played the fiddle, banjo, guitar, sang popular songs of the day and often original verses. He had been a good, hard-working farmer, enjoyed hunting, fishing and trapping. He was an avid reader and kept himself well informed of national and local news. He subscribed to periodicals like CAPERS WEEKLY, FARM AND RANCH and the FOR WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM, a daily newspaper, at a time when few people had a daily paper. He had in a sense assumed the father role to Tom's family after Joshua Whittenburg's death, but Tom was his little brother, being ten years his junior.
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TEXAS DEATH CERTIFICATE
Name: Sallie Whittenburg
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 18 Jan 1916
Event Place: Texas, United States
Cause of Death: Apoplexy
Gender:
Marital Status:
Birth Date: 1837
Birthplace: Alabama
Father's Name: Andrew
Mother's Name: Scales
Burial/Removal: Sweetwater
Date: 19 Jan 1916
Informant: T. S. Whittenburg
Certificate Number: 2594
GS Film number: 2051761
Digital Folder Number: 005145484
Image Number: 01405
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From First 100 Years Nolan County Texas,page 397, published in 1985 by Nolan County Genealogical Society (no longer in print, but transcribed with permission):
JOSHUA BUTCHER WHITTENBURG-SALLIE MARGARET RIDOUT
SUE ELLA WHITTENBURG-JOHN SCALES WHITTENBURG
Joshua Butcher Whittenburg, a teacher, farmer, circuit-riding preacher, student of Greek, Latin, psychology and astronomy and an amateur horticulturist, was the eighth of twelve children of Andrew Whittenburg. The latter's father, Joseph Whittenburg, came from Germany to East Tennessee where Andrew was born in 1790. In 1816, Andrew married Annie Long and in 1819 moved to Missouri, but a few years later returned to Bedford County Tennessee. In 1832, they moved to Creek Purchase, Talladega, Alabama, where Joshua Butcher was born. The Whittenburg family remained there for twelve years as iron foundry workers and moved in 1852 in a family cavalcade to Williamson and Caldwell counties near the towns of Florence, Luling and Lockheart, Texas. Joshua's family settled on Plum Creek.
Joshua Whittenburg married one of his school pupils, Sallie Margaret Ridout, born in Alabama in 1835, daughter of Lewis Ridout and Mariah Louisa Scales. He is buried in Falfurrias, Brooks County, Texas, where he died in the field in 1910 as he plowed corn with a one-horse Georgia stock plow when the family was living there and operating a truck and melon farm for their daughter, Anna Louisa, and her husband, Dr. Henry Marshall Bennett. Sallie died in 1917 on the Whittenburg farm north of the city on the Roby Highway and is buried in the family plot in Odd Fellows Cemetery [Sweetwater Cemetery] west of Sweetwater.
In 1857 and 1860, Joshua Butcher Whittenburg served as deacon and elder, respectively, in Chappel Hill Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in Washington County near Brenham, Texas. However, he was affiliated with the First Christian Church before it was moved from its downtown location in Sweetwater.
Sometime after 1883 when the sale of property was recorded in Caldwell County, three Whittenburg families formed a westward caravan to San Angelo, Dublin and Joshua to Nolan County. In 1890, he bought a town lot from Andrew Long and his wife Queenie Boren, who with Frank Long were his cousins. The Longs were successful early day ranchers in the Longworth area and throughout West Texas.
The next year, J.B. Whittenburg bought a second lot from J.W. Crutcher. These pieces of land adjoined the campus of today's Phillip Nolan Elementary School. Sallie conducted a private kindergarten and Joshua, sons John Scales and Thomas Searcy operated a general store on the southeast corner of the square where today First Street exits into Highway 70 (toward San Angelo) next door to Newt Prince's home, which was filled with curios, collectibles and memorabilia of early days in West Texas. Because of the practice of extending unlimited credit, the store was forced to close only after a few years. Regrettably, the account books were burned, thus wiping clean the slates of all creditors when Joshua closed the store which had made little or no impression upon the early historians of Sweetwater.
Three Whittenburg brands were registered in Nolan County: in 1890, J.S.Whittenburg HUK; 1900, J.B. Whittenburg 7W; and 1901 XZ T.S. Whittenburg.
In 1901, Joshua Butcher, sons John and Tom purchased 640 acres, Section 32, Block 21, T&P Rwy. Co. Survey located north of Sweetwater on the Roby Highway. This land is still owned by the children of Tom Whittenburg.
Joshua Butcher Whittenburg, Sallie and six unmarried children settled in Nolan County. Marriage licenses for five of them are on file in the county courthouse. In 1896, Willie married a county teacher, Hattie Dribred, who was a niece of General Eidson, County Judge of Nolan County, moved to Brownwood where he ranched and farmed and drilled water wells until his unexpected death in 1953. He had a son, Charm, and two daughters. Emma Gordon married William Dobkins and moved to Fort Worth. They had three daughters. Lyde married Edwin Love and with their two sons lived in Corpus Christi. Sue Ella, who taught school in Nolan County in 1902 and 1901 at "Ole Grover" located at the north boundary of Nolan County and boarded at the Nunn Ranch, married C C. Campbell and moved to Merkel. Their one daughter, Sallie Mary Campbell, after her parents' deaths, lived with the Tom Whittenburg family and graduated from Sweetwater High School and West Texas State University and became a teacher in Clayton, New Mexico, where she still lives after her retirement and tutors Spanish-speaking students.
Tom Whittenburg married Lucy Nunn and lived the remainder of his life on the Whittenburg farm. His biographical sketch appears elsewhere in this history.
John Scales, who never married, lived his entire life on the Whittenburg farm where he and Tom were partners through the droughts, hails, grasshoppers, bank and crop failures until 1924 when they divided the section and Tom built his own home on the west half-section and Thomas Whittenburg, his nephew, bought John's east half-section. John Scales was found dead near his woodpile one morning in August of 1942 at the age of 79. With his passing went a caring, loving, sensitive, talented old man so beloved as "Uncle John". He played the fiddle, banjo, guitar, sang popular songs of the day and often original verses. He had been a good, hard-working farmer, enjoyed hunting, fishing and trapping. He was an avid reader and kept himself well informed of national and local news. He subscribed to periodicals like CAPERS WEEKLY, FARM AND RANCH and the FOR WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM, a daily newspaper, at a time when few people had a daily paper. He had in a sense assumed the father role to Tom's family after Joshua Whittenburg's death, but Tom was his little brother, being ten years his junior.
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TEXAS DEATH CERTIFICATE
Name: Sallie Whittenburg
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 18 Jan 1916
Event Place: Texas, United States
Cause of Death: Apoplexy
Gender:
Marital Status:
Birth Date: 1837
Birthplace: Alabama
Father's Name: Andrew
Mother's Name: Scales
Burial/Removal: Sweetwater
Date: 19 Jan 1916
Informant: T. S. Whittenburg
Certificate Number: 2594
GS Film number: 2051761
Digital Folder Number: 005145484
Image Number: 01405
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JOSHUA BUTCHER WHITTENBURG-SALLIE MARGARET RIDOUT
SUE ELLA WHITTENBURG-JOHN SCALES WHITTENBURG
Joshua Butcher Whittenburg, a teacher, farmer, circuit-riding preacher, student of Greek, Latin, psychology and astronomy and an amateur horticulturist, was the eighth of twelve children of Andrew Whittenburg. The latter's father, Joseph Whittenburg, came from Germany to East Tennessee where Andrew was born in 1790. In 1816, Andrew married Annie Long and in 1819 moved to Missouri, but a few years later returned to Bedford County Tennessee. In 1832, they moved to Creek Purchase, Talladega, Alabama, where Joshua Butcher was born. The Whittenburg family remained there for twelve years as iron foundry workers and moved in 1852 in a family cavalcade to Williamson and Caldwell counties near the towns of Florence, Luling and Lockheart, Texas. Joshua's family settled on Plum Creek.
Joshua Whittenburg married one of his school pupils, Sallie Margaret Ridout, born in Alabama in 1835, daughter of Lewis Ridout and Mariah Louisa Scales. He is buried in Falfurrias, Brooks County, Texas, where he died in the field in 1910 as he plowed corn with a one-horse Georgia stock plow when the family was living there and operating a truck and melon farm for their daughter, Anna Louisa, and her husband, Dr. Henry Marshall Bennett. Sallie died in 1917 on the Whittenburg farm north of the city on the Roby Highway and is buried in the family plot in Odd Fellows Cemetery [Sweetwater Cemetery] west of Sweetwater.
In 1857 and 1860, Joshua Butcher Whittenburg served as deacon and elder, respectively, in Chappel Hill Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in Washington County near Brenham, Texas. However, he was affiliated with the First Christian Church before it was moved from its downtown location in Sweetwater.
Sometime after 1883 when the sale of property was recorded in Caldwell County, three Whittenburg families formed a westward caravan to San Angelo, Dublin and Joshua to Nolan County. In 1890, he bought a town lot from Andrew Long and his wife Queenie Boren, who with Frank Long were his cousins. The Longs were successful early day ranchers in the Longworth area and throughout West Texas.
The next year, J.B. Whittenburg bought a second lot from J.W. Crutcher. These pieces of land adjoined the campus of today's Phillip Nolan Elementary School. Sallie conducted a private kindergarten and Joshua, sons John Scales and Thomas Searcy operated a general store on the southeast corner of the square where today First Street exits into Highway 70 (toward San Angelo) next door to Newt Prince's home, which was filled with curios, collectibles and memorabilia of early days in West Texas. Because of the practice of extending unlimited credit, the store was forced to close only after a few years. Regrettably, the account books were burned, thus wiping clean the slates of all creditors when Joshua closed the store which had made little or no impression upon the early historians of Sweetwater.
Three Whittenburg brands were registered in Nolan County: in 1890, J.S.Whittenburg HUK; 1900, J.B. Whittenburg 7W; and 1901 XZ T.S. Whittenburg.
In 1901, Joshua Butcher, sons John and Tom purchased 640 acres, Section 32, Block 21, T&P Rwy. Co. Survey located north of Sweetwater on the Roby Highway. This land is still owned by the children of Tom Whittenburg.
Joshua Butcher Whittenburg, Sallie and six unmarried children settled in Nolan County. Marriage licenses for five of them are on file in the county courthouse. In 1896, Willie married a county teacher, Hattie Dribred, who was a niece of General Eidson, County Judge of Nolan County, moved to Brownwood where he ranched and farmed and drilled water wells until his unexpected death in 1953. He had a son, Charm, and two daughters. Emma Gordon married William Dobkins and moved to Fort Worth. They had three daughters. Lyde married Edwin Love and with their two sons lived in Corpus Christi. Sue Ella, who taught school in Nolan County in 1902 and 1901 at "Ole Grover" located at the north boundary of Nolan County and boarded at the Nunn Ranch, married C C. Campbell and moved to Merkel. Their one daughter, Sallie Mary Campbell, after her parents' deaths, lived with the Tom Whittenburg family and graduated from Sweetwater High School and West Texas State University and became a teacher in Clayton, New Mexico, where she still lives after her retirement and tutors Spanish-speaking students.
Tom Whittenburg married Lucy Nunn and lived the remainder of his life on the Whittenburg farm. His biographical sketch appears elsewhere in this history.
John Scales, who never married, lived his entire life on the Whittenburg farm where he and Tom were partners through the droughts, hails, grasshoppers, bank and crop failures until 1924 when they divided the section and Tom built his own home on the west half-section and Thomas Whittenburg, his nephew, bought John's east half-section. John Scales was found dead near his woodpile one morning in August of 1942 at the age of 79. With his passing went a caring, loving, sensitive, talented old man so beloved as "Uncle John". He played the fiddle, banjo, guitar, sang popular songs of the day and often original verses. He had been a good, hard-working farmer, enjoyed hunting, fishing and trapping. He was an avid reader and kept himself well informed of national and local news. He subscribed to periodicals like CAPERS WEEKLY, FARM AND RANCH and the FOR WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM, a daily newspaper, at a time when few people had a daily paper. He had in a sense assumed the father role to Tom's family after Joshua Whittenburg's death, but Tom was his little brother, being ten years his junior.
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TEXAS DEATH CERTIFICATE
Name: Sallie Whittenburg
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 18 Jan 1916
Event Place: Texas, United States
Cause of Death: Apoplexy
Gender:
Marital Status:
Birth Date: 1837
Birthplace: Alabama
Father's Name: Andrew
Mother's Name: Scales
Burial/Removal: Sweetwater
Date: 19 Jan 1916
Informant: T. S. Whittenburg
Certificate Number: 2594
GS Film number: 2051761
Digital Folder Number: 005145484
Image Number: 01405
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