Alonzo Watson Whitt Sr. (1881 - 1945)

Biography

This profile is part of the Witt Name Study.

Descendant of St. Patrick.

Descendant of Aliénor (Aquitaine) of Aquitaine.

Descendant of Guillaume (Normandie) de Normandie..

Descendant of Lettice (Knollys) Blount..

Alonzo Watson was a Carpenter for a Coal Mine Company.

Alonzo Watson Whitt Sr. was born in Appalachia, in Virginia.

Alonzo Watson Whitt Sr. was born in Virginia.

Alonzo Watson Whitt Sr. was a West Virginian.

Alonzo Watson Whitt was born on April 22, 1883 in North Tazewell, Tazewell, Virginia, United States, son of Thomas A. Whitt (1850–1897) and Patsy Ellen Mercer (1851–1929).^[1]

In 1900, Lonzo (17) W. Whitt was in the household of Ellen P Whitt. ^[2]

Alonzo (21) married Mary Belle Candill (21) (born on March 30, 1883 in Tazewell; daughter of Enoch Reeves Caudill and Rebecca Jane (Johnson) Caudill) on February 23, 1905 in McDowell, McDowell, West Virginia, West Virginia.^[3]

Their children were:

• Raymond Sidney Whitt (1901–1943)
• Carl W. Whitt (1913–>1940)

He lived in Pocahontas, Tazewell, Virginia, United States in 1920 until his first wife died. Mary was ill, and Gladys V. Thompson was in the household to take care of the ailing wife and watch over the 2 children.^{[4] [5]}

When Mary died,estimated in 1925, Alonzo (43) married Gladys Virginia Thompson (16) (born on April 22, 1910 in Boissevain, Tazewell; daughter of Rufus Walter Thompson and Martha Florence (Brooks) Thompson) in 1927 in Mercer, West Virginia, United States.^[6]

Their children were:

• Roy Edward Whitt (1928–2015)
• Benny Allen Whitt (1929–2002)
• Dorothy A Whitt (1930–2000)
• Edith Elizabeth Whitt (1932–>2001)
• Alonzo Watson Whitt (1934–2005)
• Lamon Elwood Whitt (1935–2003)
• Walter Rufus Whitt (1937–2010)
• Herbert Porter Whitt (1938–1996)
• Fred Earl Whitt (1941–1943)
• Virginia Ruth Whitt (1942–>2024)
• Dolores Jane Whitt (1942–<2020)

They lived in Clear Fork District, Tazewell, Virginia, United States for about 20 years.^[7][8]

He died on 7 March 1945, in Mercer, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 63,^[9] and was buried in Mathena Cemetery, Tip Top, Tazewell County, Virginia,USA^[10]

Sources

1. ↑ "Virginia Births and Christenings, 1584-1917", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XTW1-5BL : 28 January 2020), Lawn W. Whitt, 1881.
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1900", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:66N8-QZYD : 23 January 2022), Lonzo W Whit in entry for Ellen P Whit, 1900.
3. ↑ "West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FT5L-ZTL : 11 February 2018), Lonnie W Whitt and Mollie Bell Candill, 1905; citing McDowell, West Virginia, United States, , county clerks, West Virginia; FHL microfilm 806,427.
4. ↑ Kimberly Whitt Lindsay
5. ↑ "United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MJN8-77H : 4 February 2021), Mary Belle Whitt in entry for Alonzo W Whitt, 1920.
6. ↑ "West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FTZX-YMQ : 11 February 2018), Alonzo W Whitt and Gladys V Thompson, 1927; citing Mercer, West Virginia, United States, , county clerks, West Virginia; FHL microfilm 800,737.
7. ↑ "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:CJH8-13Z : accessed 15 June 2021), Lou W Whitt, Clear Fork Magisterial District, Tazewell, Virginia, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 5, sheet 13B, line 93, family 248, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 2462; FHL microfilm 2,342,196.
8. ↑ "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VR1D-VBN : 4 February 2020), Alonzo W Whitt, Clear Fork Magisterial District, Tazewell, Virginia, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 93-5, sheet 17B, line 49, family 288, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 4298.
9. ↑ "West Virginia Deaths, 1804-1999," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NMH2-8JW : 10 March 2018), Mrs. L.W. Whitt in entry for Lonzo Watson Whitt, 07 Mar 1945; citing Mercer, West Virginia, County Records, 3030, county courthouses, West Virginia; FHL microfilm 1,983,802.
10. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #9174949