Elijah Whitton.Elijah married Mary Jane Pugh.
WHITTON, TEXAS. Whitton (Whiton, Whitten), a rural community eight miles southwest of Canton in southwest Van Zandt County on Farm Road 1651, was named for Elijah Whitton, an early settler from Alabama who built a log house that was still standing at the site in the 1990s. Whitton deeded land for a school in 1886, and the Whiton, or Greenwood School as it came to be known, was consolidated with the Canton school in 1949. The town had a sawmill, a grocery, a blacksmith shop, a cotton gin, and two churches at its height near the turn of the century, but mail was delivered from Canton. Early Whitten residents farmed, then raised cattle. When farms were later broken into smaller tracts for more homes, the town's population increased. The population was estimated at twenty from 1939 to 1964. In 1978 the old school building was converted into a community center. State highway maps showed a single business, a school, and scattered dwellings at the townsite in 1936, but in 1987 only a church and several dwellings remained to mark the townsite.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Van Zandt County History Book Committee, History of Van Zandt County (Dallas, 1984).
Mary Jane Pugh.Mary married Elijah Whitton.
They had the following children:
M i James Marion Whitton was born on 9 Mar 1872. He died on 18 Mar 1906.
Eli Whitton.Eli married Sarah Gay on 5 Sep 1892 in Van Zandt Co., TX.
Sarah Gay [Parents] "Sallie" was born about 1871 in GA. She married Eli Whitton on 5 Sep 1892 in Van Zandt Co., TX.
They had the following children:
M i Lon Whitton. M ii Lidge Whitton. F iii Eva Whitton. F iv Ara Whitton. M v Spencer Whitton.
R.B. Teel.R.B. married Eva Whitton.
Eva Whitton [Parents].Eva married R.B. Teel.
N.W. "Dude" Gallaway.N.W. married Ara Whitton.
Ara Whitton [Parents].Ara married N.W. "Dude" Gallaway.
Spencer Whitton [Parents].Spencer married Houdeen.
Houdeen.Houdeen married Spencer Whitton.
Lon Whitton [Parents].Lon married never married.
never married.never married Lon Whitton.
Lidge Whitton [Parents].Lidge married Fannie Whitton.
Fannie Whitton.Fannie married Lidge Whitton.
Oliver Hazard Perry Deen was born on 6 Apr 1858. He died on 25 Feb 1947. He was buried in White Rose Cem., Van Zandt Co., TX. He married Mary Burnett.
Mary Burnett was born on 16 Jun 1864. She died on 17 Mar 1935. She was buried in White Rose Cem., Van Zandt Co., TX. She married Oliver Hazard Perry Deen.
They had the following children:
F i Dora Florence Deen was born on 18 Aug 1884. She died on 16 Apr 1962.
Jessie Calvin Wheeler.Jessie married Doris O'Nell Gallaway.
Doris O'Nell Gallaway [Parents] was born on 31 Oct 1922 in TX. She died on 2 Jul 1941. She was buried in Eubanks Cem., Canton, Van Zandt Co., TX. She married Jessie Calvin Wheeler.
They had the following children:
M i Roynold Wayland Wheeler was born on 11 May 1942 in Van Zandt Co., TX. M ii Johnnie Stephens Wheeler was born on 17 Mar 1944 in Dallas Co., TX.
Charlie Carlbut Tawater.Charlie married Lois Irene Gallaway.
Lois Irene Gallaway [Parents] was born on 3 Oct 1920 in TX. She died on 19 May 1993. She was buried in Eubanks Cem., Canton, Van Zandt Co., TX. She married Charlie Carlbut Tawater.
They had the following children:
M i Charlie Carlbut Tawater Jr. was born on 24 Sep 1943. M ii David Dewayne Tawater was born on 13 Apr 1945. M iii Kenneth Lynn Tawater was born on 11 Nov 1948 in Travis Co., TX.