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Biography of Henry & Boland Whiteside

Robert Henry Whiteside (b 31 Oct 1801 in KY) and William Bolen Whiteside (b 1806 in Pulaski County, KY) were sons of Jonathan Whiteside and Thankful Anderson 1. Jonathan Whiteside was a younger brother of William and James Whiteside, both old 300 colonists. At the encouragement of their Uncle James, Henry and Boland Whitesides journeyed to Texas in 1824 and paired together to obtain a land grant. They received title to a grant on August 10th, 1824 for a league laying in present day Grimes and Brazos Counties 2,3, but their deed should also have contained the name of Jack C. Davis, and some difficulty over the title arose in 1825, when Henry Whitesides sold his land to William T. Millican 4. Eleven Fannin 1st Land Grant claims totaling 4428 acres were filed 1862-1875 in Clay, Cooke and Montague counties by the heirs of Zippora and Henry Whitesides.

According to family history, Henry left Texas in 1830. On 19 Jan 1832 he married Zippora Skillen in Tennessee 5, but she died prior to 1850. In 1835 Henry Whiteside's returned to Texas and his character certificate, made out at San Augustine on 10 August 1835, stated that he was native of Kentucky, a man of family, with a wife and two children and lived in Texas six years commencing in 1824 6. Henry Whitesides is listed as one of the members forming a new Methodist church in Austin’s colony, under the leadership of John Wesley Kenney 7. In 1840, Henry is living in Bledsoe, TN with the following: males 2(1-5), 1(5-10), 1(15-20) and females 1(15-20), 1(30-40) 18. The widower married Letha Hanna on 20 Feb 1850 in Camden County, Missouri 17 and in 1852 they had their first child – a daughter, Julia, in Missouri 8. Henry and Letha had three more children, all born in Kansas: Henry Clay (b: abt 1857), Margaret R (b: abt 1859) & Albert Colfax (b: abt 1868) 8,9,10. Henry died in Kansas on 6 June 1889, and Letha also died there in 1915 after living her last years with son, Albert. Both are buried in the Mount Pleasant Cemetery, 3-1/2 miles NW of Waterville, Kansas.

Boland married Nancy Thurman (9 April 1833 in Tennessee), but she died in October 1848 with no known children 1. Afterwards, Boland married Narcissa Frances Massengale and in November 1850 they are living in Spadra, Arkansas 11. Boland’s profession is listed as a Physician. His brother, Col. James Anderson Whiteside 1,16 was a founder of Chattanooga and by 1860 they are living there where Boland is working as a hotel keeper, and his father, Jonathan, is living with them 12. In the 1870 Census he is listed as a retired Physician 19. Boland died in Chattanooga, Tennessee on 24 March 1875 with no known children.

"Boland" is referred to in family records 1 as "Bolen", but in the original 1824 Texas Land Grant is referred to as "Bowlin" and signs as "Boland" 2,3. Also, three mentions of a William B Whiteside occur in Colony records after his Uncle William Whiteside’s death in 1824 13,14,15. These are most likely are references to William Bolen Whiteside who was listed in the 1850 U.S. Census as William B Whiteside 11.

REFERENCES

1 Dr. Don Whiteside, “The first four (4) generations of descendants of William (cl 710-1777) and Elizabeth (Stockton) Whiteside of Ireland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and North Carolina.”, Nepean, ON, November 1990, 28 pages

2 Grimes County; Abstract 508; District/Class: Title; Grantee: Whitesides, H and Whitesides, B; Texas General Land Office Land Grant Database

3 Brazos County; Abstract 56; District/Class: Title, File :SC 000003:49

English Field Notes 1-69; Original Grantee: Whitesides, Henry and Whitesides, Bowlin; Texas General Land Office Land Grant Database

4 Handbook of Texas online, , “WHITESIDES, HENRY”

5 19 January 1832, Davidson, Tennessee, Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002. Nashville, TN, USA: Tennessee State Library and Archives. Microfilm.

6 District/Class: Character Certificate; File Number: SC 000092:48; Grantee: Whiteside, Henry; Texas General Land Office Land Grant Database

7 Phelan, Macum, A history of early Methodism in Texas, 1817-1866, Nashville: Cokesbury Press c1924.

8 1860 U.S. Census, Shannon, Pottawatomie, Kansas Territory

9 1870 U.S. Census, Waterville, Marshall, Kansas

10 1880 U.S. Census, District 165, Blue Rapids, Marshall, Kansas

11 1850 U.S. Census, Spadra, Johnson, Arkansas

12 1860 U.S. Census, District 17, Hamilton, Tennessee

13 Austin County Deed Records, Vol. A, Microfilm Reel 1017503 of Early Austin County records in State archives.

14 The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Vol. XXI, July 1917 to April 1918, “Minutes of the Ayuntamient of San Felipe de Austin, 1828-1832, edited by Eugene C. Barker, page 419

15 The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Vol. XXII, 1918 to 1919, “Minutes of the Ayuntamient of San Felipe de Austin, 1828-1832, edited by Eugene C. Barker, page 191

16 Armstrong, Zella; The history of Hamilton County and Chattanooga, Tennessee; The Overmountain Press, Johnson City, TN; 1992

17 Whiteside family records, maintained by Wm R Whiteside, revised 23 July 2006

18 1840 U.S. Census, Bledsoe, Tennessee

19 1870 U.S. Census, Chattanooga Ward 3, Hamilton, Tennessee

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