David Clay Whitten, Sr., was born in 1823 to George Washington Whitten and Elizabeth Amanda Cox in Lauderdale County, near Florence, Alabama, but he spent almost all his life in Wayne County, Tennessee, where he was honored and well respected by his friends and neighbors.
David married Malinda Ann (Linnie) Faires in Lauderdale, Alabama in 1848, and the couple lived in Wayne, Tennessee. In 1865 he was converted and joined the Church. He and Linnie were godly people who always welcomed to their home the itinerant Methodist preachers on their travels. They reared their six children in the Church, and two sons, Leander Faires Whitten and Otis Edgar Burr Whitten, became Methodist ministers. Their other four children were Mary Leona, Alice Eudora, Wiley Boone, and David Clay Whitten, Jr.
David married Malinda Ann (Linnie) Faires in Lauderdale, Alabama in 1848, and the couple lived in Wayne, Tennessee. In 1865 he was converted and joined the Church. He and Linnie were godly people who always welcomed to their home the itinerant Methodist preachers on their travels. They reared their six children in the Church, and two sons, Leander Faires Whitten and Otis Edgar Burr Whitten, became Methodist ministers. Their other four children were Mary Leona, Alice Eudora, Wiley Boone, and David Clay Whitten, Jr.
David Clay Whitten, Sr., was born in 1823 to George Washington Whitten and Elizabeth Amanda Cox in Lauderdale County, near Florence, Alabama, but he spent almost all his life in Wayne County, Tennessee, where he was honored and well respected by his friends and neighbors.
David married Malinda Ann (Linnie) Faires in Lauderdale, Alabama in 1848, and the couple lived in Wayne, Tennessee. In 1865 he was converted and joined the Church. He and Linnie were godly people who always welcomed to their home the itinerant Methodist preachers on their travels. They reared their six children in the Church, and two sons, Leander Faires Whitten and Otis Edgar Burr Whitten, became Methodist ministers. Their other four children were Mary Leona, Alice Eudora, Wiley Boone, and David Clay Whitten, Jr.
David married Malinda Ann (Linnie) Faires in Lauderdale, Alabama in 1848, and the couple lived in Wayne, Tennessee. In 1865 he was converted and joined the Church. He and Linnie were godly people who always welcomed to their home the itinerant Methodist preachers on their travels. They reared their six children in the Church, and two sons, Leander Faires Whitten and Otis Edgar Burr Whitten, became Methodist ministers. Their other four children were Mary Leona, Alice Eudora, Wiley Boone, and David Clay Whitten, Jr.
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