J.G. and Elizabeth Bres Marable Witherspoon, Mom's parents

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Our maternal grandfather was J. G. Witherspoon (James Hamilton Gordon Witherspoon). He married Elizabeth Bres Marable our maternal grandmother on Oct. 27, 1907 which was also J.G.'s sister Rosa Adela's birthday.

Their 5 Children Were

 1. Mary Adella Witherspoon

2. Gordon Marable Witherspoon

Bernice Johnson Witherspoon

wife of Gordon Witherspoon

 3. Joe Ray "Bunny" Witherspoon

4. Phillip Edgar Witherspoon

5. Dorothy Elizabeth Witherspoon Price our Mom

Orval Price our father

 1. Lizzie Roane Bres Marable Giles our Maternal Great Grandmother

John Benjamin Marable, Sr. our Maternal Great Grandfather

2. Catherine R. "Katie or Kate" Bres Chatham

Catherine's husband Joseph Chatham, DDS

Roger Paul Chatham, Sr. son of Catherine and Joseph

Callie Marie Chatham, daughter of Catherine and Joseph

3. Callie (Clara) Marie Bres

4. Samuel P. Bres

William C. Marable, son of Dr. George John Boswell and Martha Whetstone Marable - picture as a child - scroll down more on that picture page to see William C. and wife Bertha Mae Coe

Children of John Benjamin Marable Sr. our Great Grandfather and Lizzie Roane Bres Marable (Giles) our Great Grandmother Were

1.  Elizabeth Bres Marable Witherspoon our Maternal Grandmother

Spouses and Children of the Persons Above

Anderson H. Taylor, husband of Mary Agnes "Mollie" Marable Taylor

William Marion Taylor, husband of Georgie "Honey" Boswell Marable Taylor.  They had a daughter Elizabeth  T. Taylor Kemmerer and her husband Charles R. Kemmerer.

Norman Joseph Lenhart, Sr. ex-husband of Kathryn "Kathleen" Marable Lenhart

Dudley Conner, husband of Callie Bres Marable Montgomery Conner.  Callie's first husband was Robert Clarance Montgomery.  They had a son Robert Clarance Montgomery.

Nettie Odile Moore Marable, wife of Joseph McGuire Marable

For a complete history of the Marable Family listed back to Jamestown, VA by James L. Marable click here.  This is a huge, impressive work by Mr. Marable.

More Witherspoon Descendents

Mary Medora "Dora" Lucas Witherspoon, second wife of Rev. James Hamilton Witherspoon.  Dora was our Maternal Great Grandmother and mother of James Gordon Witherspoon and Rosa Adela Witherspoon.  They had two children:

James Hamilton Gordon Witherspoon our grandfather

Rosa Adela Witherspoon his sister

Dora Lucas Witherspoon's parents were James Y. Lucas and Pauline Harwell Lucas.

Rev. James Hamilton Witherspoon's parents were David (from N. Carolina--born 1758) and Elizabeth Gordon Witherspoon.  They married in Kings Mountain, PA on June 16, 1791. Her father was Revolutionary War Captain George Gordon.

 Captain David Witherspoon also fought in the Revolutionary War. He was in the battle of Kings Mountain. David's father was John Witherspoon (great grandfather of J.G. Witherspoon--my grandfather). John died September 1778.  John was a lateral descendant (cousin) of Rev. John Witherspoon, President of Princeton University and a signer of the Declaration of Independence.  David Witherspoon also had a brother John who died in 1760.  John was also in the battle of King's Mountain.