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IRWIN

Mary Elizabeth Irwin was the daughter of Jared Irwin and Isabella Pace? Irwin.  Jared Irwin served as Governor of Georgia and as a representative to the Georgia Congress from Washington County. 

Mary Elizabeth Irwin, my GGG Grandmother, married Simon T. Whitaker 07 May 1812. They had nine children before her death in 1830.  She and Simon T. Whitaker are buried in an abandoned cemetery off Mudd Bridge Road in Woolsey, Fayette County, Ga. 

Her children were  -

John Irwin Whitaker

Isabella Irwin Whitaker

Hudson Whitaker

Jared Irwin Whitaker

Simon Thomas Whitaker

Elizabeth Whitaker

Willis Rutherford Whitaker

William Whitaker

Benjamin Thomas Whitaker

After Mary Elizabeth Irwin's death, Simon T. Whitaker remarried to Nancy Pearce, daughter of John Pearce.  They had six children together -

Richard Whitaker

Algernon Sydney Whitaker

Edwin Whitaker

Samuel Hardy Whitaker

Ann Whitaker

James Boykin Whitaker


Willis Rutherford Whitaker, my GG Grandfather, married Mary Elizabeth Martin on 04 April 1854 in Coweta Co., GA.

Mary Elizabeth "Betty" Martin was the daughter of Elijah & Amanda F. Amis Martin.

They had two daughters, Ella A. Whitaker & Mattie Belle Whitaker.  Mattie Belle married Matthew Fletcher Jones on 10 Dec 1882 in Fayette County, Ga.

Mattie Belle & Matthew Fletcher Jones had six children -

Katie Lenora Jones

Francis Whitaker Jones

Mary Jones

Ella Mae Jones

Clara Jane Jones

Annie Belle Jones


Ella Mae Jones & Oliver Thomas McLean were married on 18 Oct 1914 in Fayette County, Ga.  They had eight children together before Ella Mae died in 1937. 


Whitaker Family Cemetery -

Woolsey, Fayette County, GA

Burial Site/Tombstone of

Simon T. Whitaker & Mary Elizabeth Irwin Whitaker

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