Gaines Gaius Whitfield, Sr.

• Gaine's birth, portrait, biographical, and death information are available at https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/67161877/gaius-whitfield
• Gaines' portrait is used courtesy of Ray Isbell, Find A Grave ID 47188697.
  • "Gaines Gaius Whitfield is the son of Needham Whitfield and Penelope Lane Bush Whitfield. He married 15 July 1834 in North Carolina his cousin Mary Ann Whitfield, daughter of Bryan Whitfield and Winifred Bryan Whitfield.
  • "Gaius died 1870-80. The book Alabama Portraits Prior to 1870 (1969) by The National Society of the Colonial Dames, Alabama Chapter, gives the death date as 1879.
  • "Ref.: Whitfield, Bryan, Smith, and Related Families,Volume 1 by Theodore Marshall Whitfield (1948), p.105;

Masters of the Big House (2006) by William Kauffman Scarborough,pp.130-131; A family Venture: Men and Women on the Southern Frontier by Joan E. Cashin, p. 173.