Catherine Wilhoit Eastham

Catherine Broyles
Female 1722 - 1801 (~ 82 years)
Name Catherine Broyles [1, 2]
Born Between 1718 and 1722 Virginia [3]
"[3] Catherine was born after the family arrived in Virginia as no record of her appears in Germany and she does not appear on the importation record with the family of her parents. Her first grandchild was born in 1757. Catherine would have to have been born soon after the family arrived in Virginia to have a child old enough to have a child born in 1757"
Died Between 1800 and 1801 Madison County, Virginia [4, 5]
Person ID I063567 Germanna Genealogy
Last Modified 24 May 2023

Father Johannes Breyhel or Breiel, b. Abt 1 May 1679, Dußlingen, Württemberg (now Baden-Württemberg, Germany), d. Between 7 Mar 1731 and 5 Feb 1734, Spotsylvania (now Madison) County, Virginia (Age ~ 51 years). He was a "Member of the 1717 or Second Germanna Colony from Ötisheim (Germany)"
Mother Ursula Ruop, b. Between 1680 and 1685, d. Between 1738 and 1744, Virginia (Age ~ 58 years)
Married 6 Nov 1703 Ötisheim, Württemberg (now Baden-Württemberg, Germany) [6, 7, 8]

Catherine was their youngest child and the only one born in the new world.

Family 1 Adam Wilhoit, b. Abt 1719, Virginia, d. Between 30 Mar and 21 Jul 1763, Culpeper County, Virginia
Married Between 1734 and 1739 [9]
Children
1. Mary Wilhoit, b. Between 1735 and 1740, Virginia, d. Bef 22 Apr 1830, Madison County, Virginia (Age ~ 95 years)
2. John Wilhoit, b. Between 1740 and 1745, Culpeper (now Madison) County, Virginia, d. Between 3 Dec 1814 and 13 Mar 1815, Jefferson (now Oldham) County, Kentucky (Age ~ 74 years)
3. Michael Wilhoit, b. Abt 1747, d. Bef 28 Mar 1805, Madison County, Virginia (Age ~ 58 years)
4. Elizabeth Wilhoit, b. Abt 1748 [natural]
5. George Wilhoit, b. Abt 1752, Virginia, d. Bef 23 Apr 1840, Madison County, Virginia (Age ~ 88 years)
Last Modified 24 May 2023
Family ID F10023 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Family 2 William Eastham, d. Bef 22 Mar 1821, Madison County, Virginia
Married Bef 12 Aug 1769 [10]
Last Modified 24 May 2023
Family ID F19334 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Sources

1. [S0044842] The Broyles Family, Part 1, Arthur Leslie Keith, (Chicago: Newberry Library, 1970 [typescript from c1940 manuscript]), 8-9.
2. [S0047976] Culpeper County, Virginia Will Book A, (County Clerk's Office, Culpeper, VA), 338-339. wife Catharine named in Adam Willhoit's will
3. [S0040042] Estimated date. Catherine was born after the family arrived in Virginia as no record of her appears in Germany and she does not appear on the importation record with the family of her parents. Her first grandchild was born in 1757. Catherine would have to have been born soon after the family arrived in Virginia to have a child old enough to have a child born in 1757
4. Elbert County, Georgia Will Book C: 116; "Georgia, Wills and Probate Records, 1742-1992," database with images, Ancestry, (http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=8635: accessed 26 September 2015). Elbert County, Georgia Inferior Court, Adam Wilhoit Estate File, Elbert County, Georgia Estate Records, "Georgia, Wills and Probate Records, 1742-1992," database with images, Ancestry, (http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=8635: accessed 13 September 2015), Receipt of Adam Garr that he received his father's part of the estate of Adam Wilhoite which was $464.08 1/2 on 8 December 1801.
5. Madison County, Virginia 1800 Tax List, (images, FamilySearch, (http://www.familysearch.org: accessed 17 August 2020), Catalog > Place > United, Virginia, Madison > Taxation > Personal property tax lists, 1793-1850 > Personal property tax lists, 1793-1807, 1809-1818 (A-J), Film 2031285, DGS 7836233 > Image 214 of 758), 8 and Madison County, Virginia 1801 Tax List, (images, FamilySearch, (http://www.familysearch.org: accessed 17 August 2020), Catalog > Place > United, Virginia, Madison > Taxation > Personal property tax lists, 1793-1850 > Personal property tax lists, 1793-1807, 1809-1818 (A-J), Film 2031285, DGS 7836233 > Image 242 of 758), 11. William Eastman taxed for less property starting in 1801. Either he died about 1800-1801 and this is the William Eastman noted as William Eastman Jr on an earlier tax tist, or his wife died and the dower from her first husband Adam Wilhoit was distributed to Wilhoit's heirs. .
6. [S0041584] Before Germanna #6: The Ancestry of the Broyles, Paulitz, Moyer and Motz Families, Gary J. Zimmerman and Johni Cerny, (Bountiful, UT: American Genealogical Lending Library, 1990), 19, 21.
7. [S0043808] Broyles/Briles Database, Steve Broyles, ((http://users.rcn.com/deeds/broyles/html/: accessed 10 February 2010 new URL http://www.directlinesoftware.com/BroylesBriles/index.html: accessed 21 May 2017)). cites Church records of Ötisheim, Württemberg, Germany, LDS Film 1184989
8. [S1956546] Ötisheimer Taufbuch 1691-1729, Ehebuch 1691-1731, Totenbuch 1691-1729: unpaginated, sections in chronological order, ("Württemberg, German, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials 1500-1985," database with images, Ancestry, (http://www.ancestry.com: accessed 2 April 2021), Tisheim > Taufen, Konfirmationen, Heiraten u Tote 1691-1851), > Image 123 of 798.
9. [S0040042] Estimated date. based on estimated birth of oldest child
10. [S0047825] Culpeper County, Virginia Deed Book E, (County Clerk's Office, Culpeper, VA), 714-715.

Date William Eastham and wife Catherine deeded 150 acres to son-in-law George Wilhoit. [The more I look into this, the more convinced I am that William Eastham was in fact the step-father of George Wilhoit rather than the father of his unknown first wife.]

http://germannafamily.org/getperson.php?personID=I063567&tree=tree1

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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/118361439/catherine-willheit

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Updated source information for Catherine Broyles:
Cathi Clore Frost, Germanna Record No. 22: The Broyles Family, the First Four Generations, (Locust Grove, VA: The Memorial Foundation of the Germanna Colonies in Virginia, Inc., 2022), 10-11.
This source includes land records and also records from the Hebron Lutheran Church in Madison, Virginia showing that Catherine Eastham received Communion there on 27 Mar 1796.

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This is Catherine Broyles who married first Adam Wilhoit and second William Eastham.

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"Notes
12 August 1769 George Wilhoite received 150 acres from William Eastham "for divers Good Causes and Considerations himself there unto moving and also for the Natural Love and Fatherly Affection which he hath for his said Son in Law George Wilhoite" and 5 shillings. Witnesses Richd Vawter, Michael Gaar, John Finks. (Culpeper County, Virginia Deed Book E: 714-715; County Clerk's Office, Culpeper, VA.). [Note from Cathi: Based on this land transaction, others have concluded that George Wilhoit was married first to ___ Eastham. At the time of the deed, the term "son-in-law" was also used to denote the relationship we would now term "stepson." William Eastham witnessed Adam (George’s father) Wilhoit’s will. It is entirely possible that William Eastham married George’s mother and was in fact the step-father of George Wilhoit rather than the father of his wife. The more I look into this, the more convinced I am that William Eastham was in fact the step-father of George Wilhoit rather than the father of his wife.]"
See http://germannafamily.org/getperson.php?personID=I097910&tree=tree1

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