Major Calvin Whiteside
Author: Kay Ward
Surnames: WHITESIDE, ROBINSON, BRIDGES, GREGG, COOLEY, LAMAR, PETSICK, BUCK,
DARDEN, JOHNSON, ASBURY, RHODES, HIGHTOWER, FERGUSON, THORNTON, McDANIEL,
TOLBERT, SMITH
Major Calvin Whiteside, b July 9, 1851 in Lee County, Mississippi, d August 9,
1923 and buried in Phillips Cemetery at Travis, Falls County, Texas-was the
youngest of nine children of Major Whiteside, b 1812 in York County, South
Carolina who was married ca 1836 in South Carolina to Ann Robinson, b 1814 in
South Carolina. The family moved to Mississippi about 1847 via Tennessee,
where their seventh child was born. In 1850, the family was living in Itawamba
County, Mississippi, where Major declared a $3,000.00 estate. Major Calvin
Whiteside's siblings were: Mary I., Thomas, John R., Jane Catherine, Samuel,
Sarah I., James R., and Ann E. Whiteside.
Major Calvin Whiteside was married ca 1872 in Lee County, Mississippi to Mary
Middlebrook Bridges, b January 12, 1853 in Harris County, Georgia.
In the 1890's, Calvin moved his family of ten children to Falls County, Texas,
where-in 1895-he purchased fifty acres of land in the Samuel Gregg survey near
Travis. He farmed and operated a grocery store at Travis until his death.
Their children included:
Caroline Whiteside, called "Callie", b 1873 in Mississippi, d 1911, married
John Franklin Cooley and had two sons: J. C. and Hoyle Cooley.
Margaret Ella Whiteside, b 1875 in Mississippi, d 1950, married James
Sylvester Lamar and had J. S. Lamar and Lorraine Lamar who married Odis
Petsick.
Lurah Dorinda Whiteside, b 1878 Lee County, Mississippi, d March 3, 1959 in
Denton, married July 30, 1901 at Travis to James Bayliss Buck, b March 30,
1875 Montgomery County, Tennessee, d June 16, 1959, Denton, both buried in
Roselawn Memorial Park. James had come to Falls County in 1899, purchasing a
hundred acres of land near Travis on November 14, 1904. Lurah had taught
school for five years-three years with Rhoda Darden at Travis, one year at
Jena, and one year at Knob in Milam County. They had two daughters: Reba Buck,
b July 10, 1902, Texas, was educated at Texas Woman's University in Denton
where the parents had moved in 1919. She married Hubert Johnson who became
Superintendent of the Waco Methodist Home, and they lived in Waco until his
retirement. The second daughter of James and Lurah was Vita Buck, who received
her degree at Texas Woman's University and married Paul Hamilton.
Henry Clinton Whiteside, b 1880 Mississippi, d 1927, married Laura Oma Asbury
and had Ailene Whiteside who married February 3, 1939 to L. F. Rhodes, and
Willia Burl Whiteside.
Della Whiteside, b 1882 in Mississippi, d 1964 in Falls County, married June
13, 1905 to George Hamilton Storey. They reared "Callie's" two children, J. C.
and Hoyle Cooley.
Grover Cleveland Whiteside, b 1884, Mississippi, d 1952, married Jimmie
Hightower and had Paul and Dan Jennings Whiteside.
Flossie Myrtle, b 1890, d 1966, married Della's widower, George Hamilton
Storey.
Roy Augustus Whiteside, b 1893, d 1977, married Adeline Ferguson and had Mary
Jo (Whiteside) Thornton, Evelyn (Whiteside) McDaniel, and John Richard
Whiteside.
Joseph Calvin Whiteside, b 1896 Falls County, d 1972, married first Hazel
Smith Tolbert and had Zula Whiteside; married second Dorothy Mae Smith of Hunt
County, and had two sons: Joseph Calvin, Jr. who married and had Dan
Whiteside; and Claude who married Ima Jeane Murray of Big Spring and had David
Whiteside. When Claude and Ima were divorced, David lived with his uncle,
Joseph Calvin, Jr., who was a merchant at Blue Ridge, Marlin, and Rosebud.
Copyright Permission granted to Theresa Carhart for printing these bio of
these Falls County Families to this Web page
"Families of Falls County", Compiled and Edited by the Falls County Historical
Commission,
page 480, column 1 and column 2
Member of Falls County Historical Commission
This book can still be obtained from the Falls County Historical Commission.
Contact Theresa Carhart for details.
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