The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-06-18
For the Farmer and Mechanic
The Within ell Family and Its Dc :
rIvativeS
Continued from 1ast ,cetk.

served until Isl. He married Winni-
fred Blount. his first cousin. the daugh-
of Thomas Blount and Elizabeth Whit
NELL, and left large family. Among
his children were Thomas Blount Hi
and Elizabeth, who was married to John
Anthony. of Philadelphia. Thomas
Blount married Rebccca Norfleet, and
among their issue, were Whitmell j.
Hill, Esq Of fIalifax Thos. B. Hill, OF
EIillsborough, Mrs. George + Spruill,
Mrs. Charles Urquhart and Mrs. James
B. Urquhart, Of Virginia, all Of whom
have left prominent representatives,
who are among the best people of Caro-
lima and Virginia. A lso among the des-
cendants of Hon. Whtmell Hill. is
Thos. y. Hill, Esq, the distinguished
ljurst of Halifax county, y. {. John
and Elizabeth Anthony also left large
number of descendants to perpetuate an
honored name. Another daughter OF
John Hill and Martha Whitmell was
Elizabeth, who was married to Hon.
Jonathan Jacocks, Of Bertie county, y.
g., also distinguished patriot OF the
Revolution, and who has left large
number of descendants, one of them
VIM. Henry Rhodes, the distinguished
poet of San Francisco, California, the
son of Col. Elisha A. Rhodes. (who was
United States Consul to Galveston,
when Texas was Republic) and Maria
Jacocks, both of Bertie county, n. c..
OF Rhodes, it was said by one fully able
to judge that ''as a poet he was the equal
of Whittier and the superior Of Sims.
and as writer of purely imaginative
fiction, and of fiction with mixture of
science, he was only equalled by Jules
Verne.' Another daughter of John
Hill and Martha Whitmell, was Mary,
who was married to Thomas Bollard,
another Revolutionary patriot, and whose
descendants we have yet been unable to
trace. Another daughter Of John Hill
and Martha was married to VIM. Scott
Pugh, great-grandfather of the writer,
who was the son of Col. Thos. Pugh,
referred to above These left a large
number Of children whose descendants
now people almost every Southern State.
We will here mention that the only
daughter of VIM. Scott Pugh and Wini-
fred Hill was married TO Col. William
Tunstafl of Pittsylvania county, Va,
where they left large family, that DIS
tinguished gentleman, Whitmell Pugh
Tunstall, being their youngest son. This
last left a large family. among whom is
Miss Mamie Whitmell Tunstall, who is
we'll known to readers of fiction as the
author of several Dovels of American
society.
Lastly. among the daughters of Col.
Thomas Whitmell a Id Elizabeth Blount.
were Mary and Elizabeth. The former
was married first to Major Theophilus
Pugh, and after his death to Mr.. Thomp-
son. BY Pugh, she had, Col. Thomas
: Whitmell Pugh (whose name is men
: toned in Wheeler as Ensign Major
Francis Pugh and John Pugh. By
Thompson, she had Thomas, Hezekiah
and Lewis. Thomas Thompson, mar
ried Mary Bond, and had several chill
dren, among whom was Hon. Lewis
Thompson of Bertie, who could have
occupied the Governors chair, had he
chosen to accept it. This last, was a
gentleman IF great wealth and high So
cial position, as we have been informed
; by an ex-otficer of the late bank Of this
town, that it was the custom of Mr.
Thompson to invest yearly $4,000 OF
$4,000 income from his large landed
estates. Mary Whitmell has large
|, number of descendants of both name.
scattered over the South, among whom
was the wife of Hon John Branch, Gov.
ernor of North Carolina. We allude tc
the last wife of this dis tinguished gen
tleman. Her maiden-name was Jordan
granddaughter of Thos. Whitmel
Pugh. The only issue of Col. Whitmell
not noticed in this sketch, as Elizabeth
who was married first to Thos. Blount
and left daughter, Winifred, who was
, married to Hon. Whitmell Hill, above
! mentioned. A second marriage will
Major George Pollock, was productive
; Of no issne BY third marriage viii
Col. William Williams, aforementioned
! she had three children. First, Samue
who married Charity Dawson daughter
OF the distinguished John Dawson o
Williams burg, Virginia, descendant o
William Randolph, the founder of the
family Of Turkey Island, Virginia, anC
of Col. John Slith, all of which will be
found in Meade's ''Old Families of Nir
: ginia" y Second William Williams who
married his first Cousin Elizabeth VIII
lams, and third, Elizabeth Whitwel
, Williams, (who was married to JohT
!, Johnston. brother of Gov. Samuel John.
, ston and nephew Of Gabriel Johnston
, Royal Governor of y. C.) and who left
: large number of descendants. Ir
! writing of the descendants Of Sarah
] Whitmell and Henry Hunter, we should
have mentioned the late DR.. David E
Tayloe. of Washington, n. c., and his
no less lamented sister, the wife of DR.
John Kirkland Ruffin. of Wilson, the las
, being a son of the late Hon. Thomas
Ruffin, who though dead yet speaketh il
Carolina Jurisprudence, and whose
memory and actions will ever blossom il
the dust.
E Also, an important thing to notice
) and which is very tiattering to the pride
, OF the Whitmell connection. is that Sc
i many of the family were distinguished
E IN the Revolutionary times. In the As
i sembly at llillsboro' in IT'S. Bertie SEN
2 Jonathan Jacocks, Thomas Ballard ant
E John Johnston, all of whom married
/ grand daughters of Col Whitmell. Will,
: Col Whitmell himself and his relative
o Thomas Pugh We're elected officers for th,
f county. She also sent to State Con
. gress, at Halifax. which formed our Con
: stitution Johnston and Thomas Pugh
. Martin county to Hillsboro' sent Col
: Whitmell'S grandson, Whitmell Hill ant
his son-in-law William Williams. II
Halifax in April 1776, she sent tien
again.
u To Halifax again in 1776. sent Whit
O nell Hill. VIM. Williams and Thoma
ii Hunter, this last being a so .randso
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