Martha C. "Patsy" Whitaker

Notes:

The daughter of Mark WHITAKER and Caroline BOONE.

Melba Gene McLemore notes she is referenced in Vol. 8 of the Lincoln County, Tennesse Pioneers #7 - Ball Fork Church of Christ Third Saturday in April, 1824 "Patsy McLemore rec'd letter from South Elkton, KY, Dimissed in order."

Melba also indicated that the widowed Martha is listed as the head of household at the time of the 1830 Lincoln County, TN census. She herself is shown as between the ages of 40 and 50, and her household consisted of 3 females between the ages of 10 and 15, one male between 15 and 20, and two males between ages 5 and 10.

Also provided by Melba was a transcription from Lincoln County, TN Deed records, 11---391, State of Tennessee, Lincoln County, Known by all men present as Martha Pegram, Formerly Martha McLemore and guardian of the heirs of S.C. McLemore...Dec 9 for and in consideration of fourty dollars to me in hand paid this day bargained and sold to Auguish? Johnson 27 acres of land.....

(Research):Census Information:

1850 Census
Tennessee, Lincoln County, Subdivision No. 2
Enumerated 6 Nov 1850 by Alfred Bearden
Stamped 56
989-989
Martha Pegrim 56 F $1000 Kent
George A. Pegrim 18 M Tenn
Columbus Pegrim 16 M Tenn Attended School during year
Martha C Pegrim 13 F Tenn Attended School during year

Martha married Sterling C. McLemore on 5 Oct 1811 in Fayette County, Kentucky. Sterling (son of Sterling McLemore and Rebecca ???) was born about 1790 in North Carolina; died on 23 Dec 1823 in Lincoln County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
Melba Gene McLemore notes this is actually the bond date, not marriage date.

Foide Williams, in a post to The McLemore Family Genealogy Forum, writes that "The 1820 census of Lincoln Co, Tn (pg 14) shows Sterling C. McLemore and (pg 30) Signer Allen (who married Rebecca McLemore), Benjamin Wright (who married Hannah McLemore), James R. Brown (who married Martha McLemore), and Joel McLemore. These are all from Fayette Co, KY and apparently traveled together to Lincoln Co, TN. Sterling C. McLemore appears in Lincoln Co court records numerous times and he died there and his estate is there dated March 1825. All of this matches the Goodspeeds story for the family of Sterling J. McLemore (Sr) except the father's name should have been S. C. The heirs of Sterling J. McLemore (Sr) can be found in Partition Case #1072 in Coffee County, TN County Court loose papers."

http://www.jenforum.org/mclemore/messages/768.html

1. Margaret McLemore was born on 28 Oct 1818 in Lincoln County, Tennessee; died on 12 Jun 1864 in Vicksburg, Warren County, Mississippi.
2. Eliza Jane McLemore was born on 6 Dec 1819 in Lincoln County, Tennessee; died on 23 May 1883 in Texas; was buried in Honey Creek Cemetery, Hico, Hamilton County, Texas.
3. Sterling J. McLemore was born on 29 Dec 1822 in Lincoln County, Tennessee; died on 20 Jun 1896 in Coffee County, Tennessee.

Martha married William Pegram about 1831. William was born on 26 Apr 1785 in Dinwiddie County, Virginia; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. George Pegram was born in May 1833 in Tennessee; died before 1880.
2. Columbus Pegram was born in Nov 1834 in Tennessee; died after 1920 in Bell County, Texas.
3. Martha C. Pegram was born about 1837 in Tennessee.