The Battle of Fort Fisher, N.C.

Monday, June 9, 2014

Was Alice Whiting Waterman Related to Gen. W.H.C. Whiting?

Her maiden name being Whiting sparked my interest.  Could she have been the sister of Gen. W.H.C. Whiting of Fort Fisher?

She was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 1820.  Gen.Whiting was born March 22, 1824, in Biloxi, Mississippi.

Gen. Whiting's father was Levi Whiting an officer in the 1st U.S. Artillery Regiment who was stationed in the south in the 1820s and was at Fort Pickens, guarding Pensacola, Florida, which was commanded by William Henry Chase.  (perhaps that accounted for W.H.C.'s name?

His father was transferred back north and I did read that Whiting's sister, brother and mother attended his funeral in New York City in 1865.

Maybe I'll Find Out a Family Connection?  --Old Secesh

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