Chester Trewhitt

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• Residence: 1920, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA
• Residence: 1930, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA
• Residence: 1935, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA
• Residence: 1940, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA
• Residence: 1949, Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA

Chester married Marguerite (Margaret) Miller on 16 Aug 1930 in Marion County, Tennessee, USA. Marguerite was born on 25 May 1904 in Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA; died on 21 Aug 1980 in Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA; was buried in Fort Hill Cemetery, Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Living
2. Marguerite Jayne Trewhitt was born on 22 May 1932 in Bradley County, Tennessee, USA; died on 21 Sep 2000 in Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA; was buried in Flint Springs Cemetery, Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA.

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• Residence: 1880, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA
• Residence: 1900, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA
• Residence: 1918, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA
• Residence: 1920, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA

James married Minnie D Dooly in 1898. Minnie was born on 2 Dec 1879 in Georgia, USA; died on 4 Sep 1969 in Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA; was buried in Fort Hill Cemetery, Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1880, Tenth, Murray County, Georgia, USA
• Residence: 1900, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA
• Residence: 1920, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA
• Residence: 1930, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA; Widowed

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Birth:
Dau of Micajah (McCager?) C. Dooley & Eliza Jane Smith

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1850, Subdivision 26, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA
• Residence: 1860, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA
• Residence: 1870, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA
• Residence: 1880, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA

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Buried:
GRid=34651860; Tall head & extra shoulders lichen-covered stone, only partly legible in photo. Stone appears to say Thomas T Truewhitt. FindAGrave says Thomas Thompson.

Thomas married Jane Montgomery in UNKNOWN. Jane was born on 11 Aug 1840 in Blount County, Tennessee, USA; died on 23 Jan 1917 in Bradley County, Tennessee, USA; was buried in Red Hill Cemetery, Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1880, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA
• Residence: 1900, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA; Widowed

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• Occupation: Lawyer, Judge, Farmer
• Probate: Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA; Just an index, but suggests his will was filed in Hamilton County, not Bradley County
• Residence: 1830, Morgan County, Tennessee, USA; Males<5:2 (Andrew, Levi), <15:1 (James), 20-29:1 (??), 30-39:1 (Levi, age 33), Females <5:Sarah, 20:29:1(wife Harriet, age 27t), 50-59:1 (mother or m.i.l?)
• Residence: 1836, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA; Settled on his farm at about the same time that Bradley County was formed
• Civil: 1837, Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA; TN General Assembly chartered Cleveland and appointed Levi Trewitt as a commissioner.
• Residence: 1840, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA; Free White Males <5:1 (Wm), <10:1(Jesse), <15:2(Levi,Daniel), <20:1(James), <30:1(Levi;wrong), Female:<5:1(Mary A), <10:2(Lucinda,Harriett), <15:1(Sarah), <20:1(Susan). Wife Harriett(age 37) omitted.
• Residence: 1850, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA; 52, Lawyer. Real estate $5,000. Born in N.C. Wife Harriett(47); Children James(30), Andrew J(24), Sarah(22), Levi(21), Harriet(19), Lucinda(15), Mary Ann(14), Thomas(12;sic), Wm(9;sic), Rebecca(54), Caroline(2), Nancy(10).
• Residence: 1860, Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA; 63, Lawyer. Real estate $15,000. Born in N.C
• Possessions: 1862, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA; IRS Tax assessment: J.M. Trewhitt, admin of Levi Trewhitt Dec. Acres:389 Valuation $2880, Taxes:$10.08 Penalty:$5.04

Notes:

Judge Trewhitt was a civic leader in Bradley County. In 1861, though he was in his 60's, he was arrested and imprisioned by the Confederacy without trial after Union sympathizers burned several bridges in East Tennessee. Despite numerous appeals for his release and testimony that he actively discouraged participation in the rebellion againts the Confederacy, he was not released, and he died in prison camp in Mobile, Alabama. The "History" media items attached to this record give more details of his case. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Tennessee_bridge_burnings

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Judge Trewhitt's parentage is not documented, and various unsourced online trees differ about who his parents were.

The majority of Ancestry.com trees that include him say that his parents were James Madison Tewhitt and Elizabeth Mumford, and some list his grandparents as Levi Trewhitt (born 1725 in NC) and Mary West. There is a marriage record for Levi Trewhitt(1725) and Mary West, but I cannot find any contemporaneous documentation of James Madison Trewhitt or Elizabeth Mumford. A Jesse Mumford (age 80) was living with 63-year-old Levi Trewhitt and family in 1860.

Other trees and GRid=39690158 say that Judge Trewhitt was the son of Levi Truitt and Susanna Morgan. There is some weak documentation of both Levi Truitt and Susanna Morgan, primarily through generic marriage record sources (e.g. "International Marriage Records"), but only ambiguous information about their birth places. (See their profiles, both linked from this one)

FWIW, the online trees that report Judge Trewhitt's father to be James Madison Trewitt tend to list a brother named Jesse Trewhitt, a physician, who also lived in Morgan Co, TN, and migrated to Arkansas. (See his profile). On the other hand, the online trees that report Judge Trewitt's father to be Levi Truitt tend not to list Jesse Trewhitt as a brother, but do tend to list a brother named James Alford Truitt, who fought in the Texas War of Independence, and served as a justice of the peace and state legislator in Texas for many years.


Residence:
Wife Nancy (54) and children Madison(40;Farmer), Sally(33), Harriet(29), Wm(22), Thos(17), Rebecca(14), Caroline(12), Nancy(10). Also Jesse Mumford (80). Others who appear to be in the household: Levi's son A.J (34) and his wife Lousia(20) and Levi's dau Mary Ann (23) & her husb Benj F Bacon (25)

Buried:
GRid=39690158; headstone

Died:
Confederate Prison

Levi married Harriett Lavender before 1820 in Morgan County, Tennessee, USA. Harriett (daughter of Daniel Simeon Lavender and Elizabeth ?Koonce Adam Howard?) was born on 3 May 1803 in Morgan County, Tennessee, USA; died on 9 Jan 1855 in Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA; was buried in Fort Hill Cemetery, Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1850, Subdivision 26, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA

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Buried:
GRid=39690150; inscription: Consort of Levi Trewhitt; Small inscription at bottom not legible in photo

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Married:
Based on birth of first child