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Carney & Wehofer Family
Genealogy Pages
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 1783 - 1868 (84 years)
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| Name |
Samuel A. WHITESIDE |
| Prefix |
Brig. General |
| Born |
12 Apr 1783 |
Rutherford County, North Carolina  [1] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Affiliation |
[2] |
| Freemason - symbol on headstone indicates such |
| Residence |
1850 |
Madison county, part of, Madison, Illinois [2] |
| Residence |
1860 |
Christian, Illinois [2] |
| Alt. Burial |
1866 |
Hunter Cemetery, Mosquito Township, Christian, Illinois [2] |
| FamilySearch ID |
LVPN-KBX |
| _UID |
C456BCD6B80F45E28A2562E7AC0B65A250B8 |
| Died |
3 Jan 1868 |
Mount Auburn, Illinois [1] |
| Buried |
Hunter Cemetery, Mount Auburn, Illinois |
| Person ID |
I25 |
Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
16 Apr 2024 |
| Father |
John D. WHITESIDE, b. 13 Apr 1746, Albemarle, Virginia, British Colonial America , d. 23 Mar 1815, Whiteside, Monroe, Illinois (Age 68 years) |
| Mother |
Judith TOLLY, b. Unknown, d. Unknown |
| Married |
Virginia [1] |
| Family ID |
F1920 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Nancy MILLER, b. 1789, Virginia , d. 1 Jul 1851, Madison, Illinois (Age 62 years) |
| Married |
28 May 1804 |
Madison, Illinois [2] |
| Children |
| | 1. Michael M WHITESIDE, b. 7 Jul 1805, Illinois Territory , d. 21 May 1881, Madison, Illinois (Age 75 years) |
| | 2. Judith WHITESIDE, b. 28 Apr 1806, Illinois , d. 4 Apr 1876, Madison, Illinois (Age 69 years) |
| | 3. Nancy WHITESIDE, b. 1808, Illinois , d. 1825, Illinois (Age 17 years) |
| | 4. Sarah WHITESIDE, b. 1810, IL , d. 1825, IL (Age 15 years) |
| | 5. Joel WHITESIDE, b. 21 Mar 1811, Illinois , d. 8 Aug 1882, Shelby, Illinois (Age 71 years) |
| | 6. William Modrel WHITESIDE, b. 7 Nov 1812, Illinois , d. 3 Sep 1864, Macon, Illinois (Age 51 years) |
| | 7. Thomas WHITESIDE, b. 1815, Illinois , d. Yes, date unknown |
| | 8. Corp. Samuel Ray WHITESIDE, b. 13 Mar 1820, Edwardsville, Madison, Ill , d. 15 Oct 1866, IL (Age 46 years) |
| | 9. John Perry WHITESIDE, b. 1822, Illinois , d. 25 Apr 1848, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia (Age 26 years) |
| | 10. Elizabeth Ann WHITESIDE, b. 11 Apr 1825, Troy, Madison, Illinois , d. 27 Nov 1910, Mount Auburn, Christian, Illinois (Age 85 years) |
| | 11. Mary Ann WHITESIDE, b. 29 Mar 1830, Illinois , d. 23 Jul 1900, , Logan, Illlinois (Age 70 years) |
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| Last Modified |
16 Apr 2024 |
| Family ID |
F536731169 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Birth: Apr. 12, 1783 Rutherford County North Carolina, USA
Death: Jan. 13, 1866 Mount Auburn Christian County Illinois, USA
Military Hero
Samuel A Whiteside was the son of John D Whiteside and Judith Tolley.
In 1811, Captain Whiteside was the commander of the Illinois 17th Infantry. He distinguised himself in the War of 1812 and the Winnebago War. In 1814, he pursued Native Americans who killed a woman and six children near Alton, Illinois, finding and killing one of them. He was one of the signers of the Kickapoo and Osage Treaties of 1815. He was named to a commission to select a new state capital for Illinois, selecting Vandalia, and served in the Illinois General Assembly from 1819 to 1821.
In the Black Hawk War of 1832, he led the First Brigade of the Illinois milita as a Brigadier General. Captain Abraham Lincoln led a company under his command. Whiteside County, Illinois was named in his honor.
See:
http://illinois1812warsociety.org/samuel.html
Family links:
Parents:
John D. Whiteside (1747 - 1815)
Spouse:
Nancy Miller Whiteside (1789 - 1851)*
Children:
Michael Whiteside (1805 - 1881)*
Judith Whiteside Waddell (1806 - 1876)*
Joel Whiteside (1811 - 1882)*
William Modrel Whiteside (1812 - 1864)*
Samuel Ray Whiteside (1820 - 1866)*
Elizabeth Ann Whiteside Henderson (1825 - 1910)*
Siblings:
William Lot Whiteside (1770 - 1846)*
Margaret Whiteside Judy (1780 - 1816)*
Samuel A. Whiteside (1783 - 1866)
*Calculated relationship
Burial: Hunter Cemetery Mount Auburn Christian County Illinois, USA
Created by: Sue Hawk Ridgley
Record added: Jun 12, 2008
Find A Grave Memorial# 27512000
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Biography:
Samuel Whiteside was born on April 12, 1783, in Rutherford County, North Carolina. He was the son of John D. Whiteside and grandson of Willian Whiteside. Samuel was the nephew of Davis, James, John D., William F., Thomas, Samuel, and Adam Whiteside who fought the British at the Battle of Kings Mountain, 1780, during the American Revolutionary War. Davis died of wounds suffered in that battle. Both William Sr. and his son, Davis Whiteside, were signers of the Tryon Resolves.
Around 1792, the Whiteside family settled near Columbia, Illinois, on the abandoned Flannery Fort site on the Kaskaskia to Cahokia Trail. William F. Whiteside was a militia captain and lived at the fort, called Whiteside Station,until his death in 1815. Thomas died at the fort in 1785 and John moved his family to Bellefountaine, now Waterloo, Illinois. Around 1800 many Whitesdie descendents moved to the Goshen Settlement, near modern Edwardsville, Illinois.
In 1811, during Tecumseh's War, Whiteside was placed in command of an Illinois company of the newly formed 17th Infantry. Captain Samuel Whiteside commanded a company of mounted infantry in the Illinois militia during the War of 1812 and served from August to November 1812. This company was drawn from St. Clair County, which comprised most of the modern State.
In August 1813 he was commissioned in the Regular Army as a captain in the Rangers. In 1814, a woman and six children were killed near modern Alton, Illinois by Native Americans. A party led by then Capt. Whiteside pursued the killers, and killed one of them who was hiding in a tree. He was discharged from the Army on July 30, 1814.
As a captain Whiteside was a signatory to the Kickapoo and Osage Treaties in 1815. In 1819, Whiteside served on the commission to select a new site for the Illinois State Capital, selecting Vandalia, Illinois. He served in the Illinois General Assembly from 1819 to 1821.
He served as a brigadier general in the Illinois militia during the Black Hawk War from April 26 to June 30, 1832. He commissioned 23-year-old Abraham Lincoln as a captain in the militia. Lincoln led a militia company for one month under command of General Whiteside.
Whiteside was married to Nancy Miller and had nine children: Thomas, Nancy, Michael, Judith, Sarah, Joel, William Modrel, Samuel Ray and Elizabeth Ann. Brigadier General Samuel Whiteside died at his daughter Elizabeth Whiteside Henderson's home in Mt. Auburn, Christian County, Illinois on January 3, 1866. He is buried at Hunter Cemetery, in Christian County.
Whiteside County, Illinois was named in honor of Samuel Whiteside.
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| Sources |
- [S3] Don Whiteside, Ph.D.
- [S1160] FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 16 Apr 2024), entry for Samuel A. WHITESIDE, person ID LVPN-KBX. (Reliability: 3).
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