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Reuben Lafayette WHITMIRE

1 MAR 1855 - 20 NOV 1913

  • BIRTH: 1 MAR 1855, Rabun, Georgia, USA
  • BURIAL: Pinnacle Cemetery
    Madison, Arkansas, USA
  • DEATH: 20 NOV 1913, Madison, Arkansas, USA
  • REFERENCE: 30841
Father: John Warren WHITMIRE
Mother: Frances Viana GAINES

Family 1 : Harriet DAVENPORT
  • MARRIAGE: 9 OCT 1872, Clay, North Carolina, USA

Family 2 : Cordelia Ashbrook GARDNER 
                                                  _Samuel WHITMIRE ____+
                                                 | (1770 - 1841) m 1795
                         _Stephen WHITMIRE ______|
                        | (1799 - 1883) m 1821   |
                        |                        |_Lillie HOLCOMB _____+
                        |                          (1774 - 1830) m 1795
 _John Warren WHITMIRE _|
| (1829 - 1909) m 1847  |
|                       |                         _John S COBB ________+
|                       |                        | (1759 - 1841)       
|                       |_Mary COBB _____________|
|                         (1802 - 1880) m 1821   |
|                                                |_Frances SMITH ______+
|                                                  (1770 - 1851)       
|
|--Reuben Lafayette WHITMIRE 
|  (1855 - 1913)
|                                                 _____________________
|                                                |                     
|                        _William Jordan GAINES _|
|                       | (1803 - 1879)          |
|                       |                        |_____________________
|                       |                                              
|_Frances Viana GAINES _|
  (1833 - 1907) m 1847  |
                        |                         _____________________
                        |                        |                     
                        |_Mary Ann BELL _________|
                          (1816 - 1884)          |
                                                 |_____________________

[N1254] This was alledgedly Reuben's first marriage. Considering he was only seventeen years of age at the time of his second marriage, this does seem unlikely. However, it is a fact that his "second" wife, Harriet, is buried with him in Arkansas.