John and Mildred Whitten Wansley
of Albemarle County Virginia and Elbert County Georgia and their children
by Jim B. Evans
Dallas, Texas
May 2017
Abstract
John and Mildred Whitten Wansley of Albemarle County Virginia and Elbert County Georgia and their Children documents two generations of the Wansley family, from Colonial Virginia beginning in the 1730s, through the Revolutionary Era, early Republic into the 1860s when the last of the Wansley children died.
John Wansley, Sr. was born in Hanover County, Virginia in 1738. John Wansley and his wife, Mildred Whitten, lived in Albemarle County, Virginia during the last few decades of the 18th Century. Previously, the Wansley family had lived in Louisa County, Virginia. Economically and socially the Wansleys lived modestly, in sharp contrast to members of the planter class, such as Thomas Jefferson, also from Albemarle County. During the last two decades of the 18th Century, John Wansley and his sons owned a few horses and cattle but no land. John Wansley, Sr. served three 3-month service tours during the Revolutionary War for which he received a pension in the 1830s.
Ca 1800, the John Wansley, Sr. family moved from Virginia to Elbert County, Georgia, settling on Coldwater Creek. Sarah Wansley, daughter of John Wansley, Sr., and her husband, John Beck, had arrived in Elbert County, in the 1790s. Most of the Wansley children moved to Elbert County, including John Wansley, Jr., Reuben Wansley, Thomas Wansley, Millie Wansley Jenkins and Nathan Wansley. Mildred [Millie] Whitten Wansley died in 1829. By the time of John Wansley’s death in 1835, he was relatively prosperous with an estate valued at $2000.
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John Wansley, Sr. and Mildred Whitten
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Children of John Wansley, Sr. and Mildred Whitten
Sarah Wansley and John Beck
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Nancy Wansley and her husbands John Perry Patterson and William Young
(Nancy, Elizabeth, William, Nathan, Mildred and John Jr are in the same report (PDF file) because they individually are smaller reports. There are bookmarks within the report to take you to each individual.)
Elizabeth Wansley and Abraham Elliott
(Scroll down to page 76)
William Wansley
(Scroll down to page 80)
Nathan Wansley and his wives Susannah Watts and Elizabeth Cleveland
(Scroll down to page 83)
Also see the Nathan Wansley book.
Mildred [Millie] Wansley and her husband Samuel Jenkins
(Scroll down to page 100)
John Wansley, Jr. and his wife Sally Greenway
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(Scroll down to page 104)
Reuben Wansley and his wife Elizabeth Cunningham
(NOTE: Reuben and Martha are in the same report.)
Martha [Patsy] Wansley and Benjamin Davis
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(Scroll down to page 136)
Thomas Wansley and Jemima Means
Also see the Thomas Wansley Book
Larkin Wansley
(NOTE: Larkin Wansley and Walter Goldsmith are in the same report.)
Walter Goldsmith and Elizabeth [Eliza]
(Scroll down to page 212)
Mildred “Milly” Wansley Wife of John Wansley
of Albemarle County, Virginia and Elbert County [Previously known as Amelia Barber] Fictions and Facts in Wansley Family Genealogies. Horsley, Joan, 2009.
Fictions and Facts in Wansley Family Genealogies by Joan Horsley
Research questions, answers, and continuing problems with related to Wansley genealogy research