Whitesell-Somers Family Web Project - Person Sheet
Whitesell-Somers Family Web Project - Person Sheet
NameCatherine WHITESELL (Weitzel) 
[54801]
[54801]Birth1775, Lincoln County, North Carolina [54801]
Death1845, Rabun County, Georgia [54801]
BurialUnknown [54801]
Flags Research Pending
FatherJacob WHITESELL (Weitzel) (1759-1824)
MotherMargaret SUMMERS (1760-1832)
Spouses
Obituary Online notes for Catherine WHITESELL (Weitzel)
Catherine is the daughter of Jacob Wetzel and Margaret Summey.
Jacob and Margaret settled in Lincoln County, North Carolina, and later moved to what is now Transylvania County, North Carolina on a farm adjoining and now known as Glen Cannon Falls.
They were buried in a private cemetery near Brevard across the Elm Bend Bridge on the home farm which now belongs to the Maxwell heirs.
Jacob voted in the boundary dispute known as the Hawkins County Petition of 1813 with other relatives and friends.
Margaret is on the oldest existing membership list for the Davidson River Presbyterian Church in Transylvania County, North Carolina.
Their daughters Rebecca Wetzel Hefner, Susannah Wetzel Clayton, as well as Rebecca's daughter Sarah "Sally" Hefner Weese were also members. [54801]
Jacob and Margaret settled in Lincoln County, North Carolina, and later moved to what is now Transylvania County, North Carolina on a farm adjoining and now known as Glen Cannon Falls.
They were buried in a private cemetery near Brevard across the Elm Bend Bridge on the home farm which now belongs to the Maxwell heirs.
Jacob voted in the boundary dispute known as the Hawkins County Petition of 1813 with other relatives and friends.
Margaret is on the oldest existing membership list for the Davidson River Presbyterian Church in Transylvania County, North Carolina.
Their daughters Rebecca Wetzel Hefner, Susannah Wetzel Clayton, as well as Rebecca's daughter Sarah "Sally" Hefner Weese were also members. [54801]
Obituary Online notes for Samuel (Spouse 1)
Samuel voted in the boundary dispute known as the Hawkins
County Petition of 1813.
Others who voted were Benjamin Allison, Francis Allison, John Clayton, Benjamin Davidson, George D. Davis, Rev. Samuel Davis, David Fain, Ebenezer Fain, David Haddon, Daniel Hefner, David Hefner, Frederick Hefner, George Hefner, Samuel Johnston, Capt. John Murray, Joseph E. Patton, Javan Trammell, Robert Trammell, Jacob Wetzel, Sr., and Jacob Wetzel, Jr. [54802]
County Petition of 1813.
Others who voted were Benjamin Allison, Francis Allison, John Clayton, Benjamin Davidson, George D. Davis, Rev. Samuel Davis, David Fain, Ebenezer Fain, David Haddon, Daniel Hefner, David Hefner, Frederick Hefner, George Hefner, Samuel Johnston, Capt. John Murray, Joseph E. Patton, Javan Trammell, Robert Trammell, Jacob Wetzel, Sr., and Jacob Wetzel, Jr. [54802]