This tree, created in 2002, and revised 2004-2006, is based on information parents and grandmother obtained from letters and research, and on some on-line research I did. I have been to date unsuccessful in tracing this ancestry back to anyone but persons who appear to be--or even are of--European ancestry. But there is a paucity of records of non-Europeans in the United States in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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Sarah Who? (Last Name Unknown), Married Name Whitehead is Richard Malone Whitehead's presumed mother. A Sarah Whitehead of approximately the right age is listed as living with Richard Malone Whitehead on the 1870 Clarke County census. In 1823, A Sarah Whitehead enrolled a Richard Whitehead in the "Poor School" (created for the community's poor) while an Elizabeth Whitehead enrolled a Sandford Whitehead there -- according to records located at Bob Whitehead's Winterhawke Genealogy site. A Sarah Whitehead is listed as living alone on the 1850 census for Jackson County, Georgia (adjacent to Clark County), but she claims to have been born in North Carolina in 1785. She is nevertheless a possibility. I do not know where she is prior to 1850.
One possible identity for "Sarah," is Sarah Bodie or Boddie, born 23 January, 1783, North Carolina, son of William Boddie and a Martha or Mary Jones! Sarah married Nathan Whitehead, Jr. (the son of Rachel Rahab Culpepper Whitehead and Nathan Whitehead, Sr.-- a descendant of Arthur Whitehead who landed in Virginia in the 17th Century), and was believed to have later married a "Lottie" or perhaps "Elijuh Lott." There are some problems with postulating this Sarah as the mother--most people believe Sarah Boddie married Elisha (Elijuh) Lott after Nathan Whitehead Jr's death and moved to Mississippi, and is listed with Lott on the 1820 census (whether she was there cannot be verified as the 1820 census only lists the name of the head of household)--thus how would she have lived in Clarke County at the same time. Another problem is that Richard M. Whitehead was supposedly born in 1813 while Nathan Whitehead Jr., husband of Sarah Boddie, supposedly died in 1811.
I am not sure whether Richard Malone was the son of Nathan definitely or of someone else -- Nathan would have been about fifty when Richard was born. Another Sarah Whitehead lived in Hyde County, North Carolina--with another Nathan Whitehead, but the latter couple was both already over forty-five years old in 1790 apparently and so are unlikely to have had another son in 1813. Other options are a Richard Whitehead one generation back who had an unknown son, and who moved to the Georgia area. He is the descendant of Sarah Tomlinson and Charles Whitehead whose lineage listed on-line only goes back a few generations, though it may go back to seventeenth-century Maryland ultimately. I also note that some of the Whiteheads descended from Arthur Whitehead, including Stephen Tipton Whitehead, apparently took -- though the original Whiteheads in Virginia at least grew affluent -- common law wives in some cases, and there is little information about the wives' lineage available. Slaves of the Whiteheads may have also taken the name Whitehead. Some of the Whitehead's may have been Quakers according to one on-line source.
Several Whitehead-headed household are located in the Clarke County, Georgia census in 1820 -- including those of George Whitehead, Charles Whitehead, James Whitehead, Richard Whitehead (older than our Richard Malone of course who was only seven then), Reason Whitehead, and Rachel Whitehead. Of these Whiteheads, Richard, Reason, and Rachel are listed with children that include boys under 10. Reason appears to be living with his wife, Celia Ball. Rachel is living in a household with another woman. One of the two women in Rachel's household is an adult over 25, and one is older. The Richard Whitehead household is the remaining possible household; its patriarch died around 1825. He and Reason were neighbors. Reason Whitehead may be a descendant of Sarah Tomlinson and Charles Whitehead. The 1820 census is at http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/clarke/census/1820/1820clrk.txt
On the 1824 tax list for Clark County we see a number of Whiteheads, including Samuel, James, Elizabeth, Reason, Rachel, and J. T.
Interestingly, a new name appears on the 1830 census who is not listed on the 1820 -- Peggy Whitehead. Since both Rachel Whitehead and the elder Richard Whitehead are no longer listed on this census, perhaps Peggy Whitehead is a heir to one of these. Two Elizabeth Whiteheads are the remaining new names on this census -- and probably one of these is a heir to the Richard Whitehead household that was indexed in 1820; however one of these Elizabeth Whiteheads appeared in 1824 as well, prior to Richard's death?
Samuel Whitehead may be of interest too -- he is perhaps the son of the Samuel Whitehead of Oglethorpe County, the elder of two Samuel Whiteheads listed in the index for Oglethorpe's 1820 census. (I think there are also later Samuel Whiteheads in Jackson County -- Clarke's parent county!), who was originally from Caswell (which maybe also included Person County -- have to find a link on this though -- Person County was formed later) County, North Carolina; to view my cropped pirated* 1820 Oglethorpe County, GA census image, in two lovely sections, see DocumentsImages/OglethorpeSamuelWhitehead1820__side1_ancestry_crop.gif and DocumentsImages/OglethorpeSamuelWhitehead1820_otherhalf_ancestry_crop.gif); this Samuel Whitehead may have had a daughter or relative who married into a Malone family and this may be the source of Richard Malone Whitehead's middle name.
In 1837, our Richard Malone Whitehead married Anne Glasson (also spelled "Glason" or "Glosson") in Clarke Country, Georgia. He's listed on the 1840 census as living with two women and another man, all about the same age.
In 1850, our Richard M. Whitehead and his wife Anne are listed on page 56b of the 1850 Clarke County Georgia Census posted in Roots Web's U.S. Gen Web archives (lines 13-19; #675; or for the entry transcribed by me, see DocumentsImages/RichardWhitehead_1850ClarkeCoGA_census_ancestry.txt ). Listed with Richard and Ann are all children born before 1850, including our ancestor, Jesse Francis Whitehead. Several Glossons (elsewhere listed as "Glason," but they signed documents with an "X" according to another source)--including Clarke, a likely relative of Anne, are listed on the 1850 census as well. Richard and his older sons give "farming" as their occupations. Nearby as noted are other Whiteheads, as well as Beasleys (around the same time Richard married Anne, a Jesse Whitehead had married a Beasley so there may be marital and birth relationships between those listed).
Our Richard M. Whitehead appears again on the 1860 census. This time he is listed as a "teacher," and there has been a substantial increase in the personal property and land values listed. His older sons are still listed as farmers. By the 1870 census (on which the elder Sarah Whitehead now also appears listed in Clarke County -- remember names of household members did not start appearing on the census until 1850 so Sarah might have been included as a household member on some earlier Clarke County censuses but we cannot yet ascertain where), Richard's occupation is again "farmer" and a number of his older children have left.
Back to the lines we are investigating for Richard Whitehead's ancestors. First, the Nathan Whitehead family: Nathan Whitehead, Jr. died around 1811 or 1812 perhaps. It is not known when Rachel Rahab Culpepper Whitehead -- the daughter of Elizabeth (last name not known) and Benjamen Ferryman Culpepper -- died -- possibly around 1825.
Nathan Whitehead, Jr. is known to have only had one or two sons -- Nathan Boddie Whitehead and possibly a William Boddie Whitehead. He last appears on th 1810 Nash County, North Carolina census with more children than that. Since there was considerable migration from North Carolina to the frontier areas of Georgia when Carolina's land was destroyed by the over-farming of rice and tobacco, and the new counties opened up, it is possible that Nathan Whitehead, Jr.'s family -- wife, mother, and children -- migrated after Nathan's death to Clarke County, then at the edge of Georgia's territory. I have no evidence for this however.
Samuel Whitehead was born in 1760 to a Samuel and Ursula Whitehead. The will of the elder Samuel Whitehead (husband of Ursula) was filed in Person County, North Carolina. The younger Samuel (born 1760) married a Susannah Sims, the daughter of Joel and Christian Sims, and the couple lived in Oglethorpe and Jackson counties, Georgia. Jackson County is one of the parent counties of Clarke County! The younger Samuel also had a son, Samuel, and it may be he who is indexed on Clarke County's 1824 tax roster.

According to some sources (unoconfirmed by me) Joseph Glawson is the son of possibly a James Glawson of Orange County, North Carolina. This name may or may not be related to the name Glisson, which is found in the Rootsweb and Ancestry data base. The earliest record I can locate of the latter surname, Glisson, "Glisson," is "Obediah Glisson," born around 1700--or just before--in the U.S., parentage unknown. The name itself may be French originally, though the Glisson tree creator traces it to England in the 1500's--the time of the Hundred Years' War. Obediah's descendant Abraham is recorded in a number of land sales according to a listing by a descendant at Roots Web. By 1800, many of the members of Abraham's family are listed as living in Burke County, Georgia. A John Glasson, another possible descendant of Obediah Glisson and also a possible relative of Anne Glasson, is living for a while in Clarke County, Georgia in the 1800's, where Anne was married. However his Will indicates that she is not his offspring; her brother may have been Clarke as Clarke Glasson signed many documents for Anne's husband; other records say Anne's father was "Hugh Glasson."

William Hardy Bedingfield or "Hardy," apparently with his wife Nancy and four children, are listed on the 1830 Walton County census, in section 170a (my transcription of the Bedingfield entry from the ancestry census image at: DocumentsImages/HardyBedingfield_1830WaltonCoGA_census_ancestry.txt . The couple was probably married in Walton (or Gwinnett) County by or before January, 1822 when Hardy received land from Nancy's father Joseph Rodgers or Rogers. (One online source says they were married in 1812; there is a marriage certificate online as well with no marriage date). Nancy Rodger's was possibly Hardy's second wife, but I have nothing definite on this. In any case, Hardy Bedingfield's last wife was Ferribe McCullough whom he married in 1858 according to Wayfarers in Walton. (Nancy may have died around 1850.) Hardy may have also been Nancy's second husband, according to descendants who state that she was first married to a "Faulkner" perhaps. (Alternately, I suggest that the name Falkner or Faulkner could have been her mother's maiden name.) Her father Joseph, may or may not have been born in the Gwinnett County area; he had property there, including some property on the Walton County line which he had won in a lottery and which he gave to Hardy and Nancy in 1820 as noted above. Gwinnett and Walton Counties were at that time counties newly formed out of Cherokee and Creek lands. The counties were both formed in 1818 although Georgia had sufficient land cesssions from the Cherokee and Creek (many still living in Georgia although some relocated in Oklahoma immediately) to establish its western boundary in 1802. (See the county formation maps for those years at rootsweb.)
Several Rogers and Rodgers are listed also in the Walton and nearby Gwinnett County censuses for 1820 and 1830, including an older James, a younger James, a Charles, a Robert, an Ephraim, and a John. The younger James, Robert, and Ephraim are indexed in the Walton County 1830 census. Some of these may be relatives of Nancy. For more information on our search for the Rogers/Rodgers line, check out Some Notes on Joseph Rogers/Rodgers.
A Hardy Bedingfield is also listed on the 1830 Twiggs County census (right age, no family is listed; this may be another property or another family) and on the 1820 Greene County census (Greene County is located between Walton and Clarke Counties) with a family (again the age of Hardy checks out as does that of his apparent wife).
William Needham Bedingfield, Hardy Bedingfield's father, is indexed in the 1790 and 1800 Wake County, North Carolina census.

Solomon Bedingfield married Susanna Housch on January 6, 1846 (information on Housch genealogy is based on information on grave markers and on the information provided by Phyllis Davis in Barrow County, Georgia Cemetaries which indexes grave markers in Barrow County, GA; see BedingfieldPhotos; there are two markers each for Susan Housch Bedingfield [buried in the Concord Methodist cemetary in downtown Winder] and Solomon Lorenzo Bedingfield [buried in the Corinth Methodist cemetary next to the Church]; I only photographed one of the two markers for Susan as the other was not really legible). Solomon later married Frances Ridgeway--shortly after daughter Frances Camma Bedingfield was born, we think but the dates are uncertain. My Aunt Edith believes that Frances Camma was Susanna's and not Frances' daughter but we need to verify this. Frances Ridgeway was the daughter of Christina Ridgeway. I simply wonder because of the name "Frances," and the dates we have for the birth of Frances.

Housch's ancestors included John Hill, a revolutionary war soldier and early settler to the Winder, Georgia area, who was involved in the building of Fort Yargo.