Children of Nancy Whitlock (1778 – 1863) and Husband Abner Bryson: Sarah Whitlock Bryson

David Lander, History of the Lander Family of Virginia and Kentucky (Chicago: Regan, 1926), p. 142

Or, Subtitled: Family Members Migrating from Kentucky to Missouri and Points West

The last two children of Nancy Whitlock and Abner Bryson, their daughters Sarah Whitlock Bryson and Nancy H. Bryson, both moved from Christian County, Kentucky, to Missouri in the 1850s with their husbands and families. Sarah was Abner and Nancy’s sixth child and Nancy their seventh and last child. Nancy moved to Missouri in 1851 or 1852 with husband William Bryan Sutton, and Sarah moved to Missouri in 1856 or 1857 with her second husband James Franklin Thompson. William B. and Nancy Bryson Sutton settled initially in Johnson County in west-central Missouri not far east of Kansas City. James F. and Sarah W. Bryson Thompson settled in Cooper County in central Missouri, some 70 miles east of Johnson County. The Thompsons remained in Cooper County, with the Suttons moving to southwest Missouri, first to Newton and then to Polk County. In the following posting, I’ll track Sarah’s life, and then will publish a linked posting about Nancy.

Thomas Whitlock (abt. 1745 – 1830) of Louisa and Wythe Counties, Virginia, and Cumberland County, Kentucky: Montgomery County, Virginia, Records, 1777 – 1781

Mary B. Kegley, Early Adventurers on the Western Waters, vol. 3 (Wytheville: Kegley Books, 1995), pp. 334-5

As the previous posting told you, I’ll now begin sharing the information I have about Thomas Whitlock’s years in Montgomery and Wythe Counties, Virginia, from 1776 to 1805, when he and wife Hannah moved to Cumberland County, Kentucky, from Wythe County, Virginia. Wythe was formed from Montgomery in 1790, and Thomas’s land fell into Wythe County at that point.