William Henry Franklin Waite, Esq.

Clarke County Historical Society Quarterlies

1. v2n1:36
2. v3n3:8-9
3. v16n1:22 illegible
4. v22n1:26, 28, 32
5. v25n2:21. Note: Appointed by the Standing Beat Committee for the County Convention, held 4 July, 1870 from McLeod's Beat are: [Seth Joseph Parker], [John Calhoun], E. K. Dubose, [William Henry Franklin Waite, Esq.], and [Neal McLeod Calhoun].
6. v25n3:41. 30 March 1871, "appointed inspectors and Returning officers with Jesse P. Chapman, Wesley Robinson, and William McVay.
7. v28n3:12
8. v30n4:28, 31,
9. v31n1:40, Sent a 5+pound potato to the Clarke County Democrat
10. v32n4:24, - Rev. T. H. Ball, Miss Addie Woodward & two sons of MR. W. H. F. Waite left this county last Sunday for Indiana [circa 600 miles]. Mr. Ball will soon return. The others will remain for a time.
11. v33n1:31 - 16 February 1880: 240 +- Acres of land was auctioned to the highest bidder with W. H. F. Waite listed as Mortgagee on a mortgage made by Mrs. Margaret Mitch made 15 February 1879. Also: daughter Lillian married L. A. Porter.
12. v33n4:32, (mentions the return of his two sons and that he is W. H. F. Waite, Esq,)
13. v34n1:24 - 25 May 1881 (an obituary or announcement of his death ten days earlier)

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• Residence - 1860 US Census Clarke County, Alabama

Dwelling/Family 1408/1604

• Henry Waite wm25 Monroe County Alabama (farmer)
• Matilda Waite wf25 Clarke County Alabama

1. Ulreca Waite wf3 Clarke County Alabama
2. John C. Waite wm1 Clarke County Alabama

• Jane Summers wf17 Clarke County Alabama [Jane A. McVay] (niece: daughter of Mary Ann Summers (Waite) & Eldridge Simpkins Summers.)

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• Residence 1880 US Census Clarke County Alabama

W. H. F. Waite is living in dwelling/family 1/1 with his second wife Rebecca McLeod, his sons from his first marriage with Matilda Chapman: William (16) and Maynard (14), and two children he and Rebecca had: Roscoe (3) and Tennie (1). Next door in dwelling/family 2/2 is Christian Mcleod, the mother of WHF's daughter Elizabeth's husband Lionel Erastus McLeod. Living with Christian are her children William Allen (26), Archibald Lonzo (20), Mary Alice (18) and Christian's 24 year old sister (possibly sister-in-law) ??ni McLeod.

• Reference: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/2736-RQR

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