DeWhitt married LUSK MARTHA ADALINE on 3 Oct 1892 in Staples, Todd County, Minnesota. MARTHA (daughter of LUSK JAMES ANTHONY and SMITH LUCY ANN) was born on 1 May 1860. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Per Larry Herrin:
"James Anthony Lusk, served in Colonel Malone's Co. of the Alabama Confederate Calvary, but deserted with his brother Joe, to the Union side, across the Tennessee River on a railroad tie. He lost his little finger to the Confederate Sentry. Although he is listed in the War Department as a deserter (Union) and a horse thief, he was actually carried to the Missour i River steamboat on a streacher, months later, the results of a bullet wound in his lung, from which he never recovered. He and his cousin Allen Lea (Lee) organized a company of Unio n men to fight under the Confederacy until they could desert over. In 1863, three years later, he and his brother were about all that was left of the original company. Allen Lea was captain of the company." (This information was obtained from Monica Carlstrom, a descendant of James and Lucy Smith Lusk.)

JAMES married SMITH LUCY ANN in 1857. LUCY (daughter of SMITH HAMPTON WADE and FRYAR SABRA (SIBBY)) was born in 1837 in North Carolina. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Per Larry Herrin:
Wade Smith filed a claim with the Southern Claims Commision in Tn. and the file was allowed . This family was found on the 1850 Jackson Co. Tn. Federal Census and by 1860 they were in DeKalb Co. Al. living in the Head Springs District.

HAMPTON married FRYAR SABRA (SIBBY). SABRA was born about 1812 in North Carolina. [Group Sheet]