Thomas Mercer 1648 - 1718
A Chart of His Early Descendents
300 years Later
by Don Wayland Mercer
Updated 1995
page by Coyle@Whitten.com
page 21 James Mercer 1713 Descendants, page 9 thru 23
01 Christopher Mercer/16122
02 Thomas Mercer/16484
04 Joseph Mercer/1680D
4D James Mercer/1713
547 John Mercer/1776 (mo Sarah Simmons) (b 10-1776 Kiokee, Columbia-GA d 3-25-1852 Palmyra,Lee-GA m1 8-16-1802 Wilkes-GA
Sarah Chivers/1782 b 1782 d 1836 ( she is buried Cr’Ville-Ga ) d/o Thomas & Jane Chivers m2 1838 Lee-GA Mrs Sarah Towns (1786-1862) Lee-GA m1 Douglas Watson m2 Drury Towns548 Dr Leonidas Bennington Mercer/1804 b 9-11-1804 Wilkes-GA d 11-27-1859 Terrell-GA m19-21-1826 Taliaferro-GA Lovicia Janes by Hermon Mercer , J.P. b 3-12-1811 d 10-13-1841 Cedar Valley, Paulding-GA m2 9-20-1842 Hancock-GA Mary Ann Hilsman b 5-30-1822 d 3-28-1865 d/o Bennet & Mary Harvey549 William Janes Mercer/1828 (mo Lovicia Janes) b 1-13-1828 Taliaferro-GA d 2-12-1836 Lee-GA 550 John Thomas Mercer/1830 (mo Lovicia Janes), “One of Lee’s Colonels” C.S.A. b 2-7-1830 Taliaferro-GA Killed in Civil War leading his Regiment at Plymouth-North Carolina 4-18-1864 buried Episcopal Churchyard Tarboro, North Carolina as was his distant cousin Major General C.S.A. William Dorsey Pender ( see # 671 Page 26) 1854 Graduate of US Military Academy at West Point 551 Joel Edward Mercer/1832 (mo Lovicia Janes) b 3-6-1832 , Taliaferro-GA alive Terrell-GA on 7-29-1867 no further records552 Sarah Ann Hasseltine Mercer/1834 (mo Lovicia Janes) b 7-24-1834 , Taliaferro-GA d 11-12-1850 LaGrange-GA , Troup-GA of Typhoid Fever553 Selah Ann Rosamund Mercer/1836 (mo Lovicia Janes) b 7-24-1836 Lee-GA d 7-28-1897 Cumberland Island-GA buried Albany-GA m 2-24-1859 Terrell-GA Council B Wooten b 8-30-1832 Paulding-Ga d 4-9-1900 Albany-GA s/o Simon Burney Wooten & Elizabeth Roach554 John Mercer Wooten/1860 b 11-23-1860 Calhoun-GA d 12-1-1918 Shellman-GA m 11-11-1890 Emmie Virginia Crittenden b 2-22-1870 d 8-11-1948 d/o R.F. & Frances Reid Crittenden a. Gladys Roberta Wooten/1892 Shellman-GA d 8-4-1956m 12-16-1916 Stewart Griggs (1889-1927) s/o Judge J.M. Griggs (1861-1910) US Congress (1897-1910) GA b. Rosamond Frances Wooten/1894 b 7-13-1894 & d 10-15-1991 Shellman-GA Randolph-GA m Stanley Page Henderson (1884-1958)c. Emalyn Virginia Wooten/1897 b 5-1-1897& d 4-11-1899 Shellman-GA Randolph-GA d. John Mercer Wooten, Jr/1899 Shellman-GA m 5-23-1929 Joye Barber b 2-3-1907 lives Huntsville-AL e. Robert Council Wooten/1902 b 7-13-1902 & d 2-5-1939 Shellman-GA Randolph-GA m Johnnie Bell Lanier (1904-1946)f. Henrietta Wooten/1905 Shellman-GA Lives FL m 8-29-1929 Rev C..G. McClureh. William Edward Wooten/1911 b 6-29-1911 Shellman-GA m 12-26-1934 Mary Welch (1915-1987) Lives Augusta-GA 555 Lovicia E. “Minnie “ Wooten/1862 b 10-17-1862 d 4-12-1900 Albany-GA single556 William Edward Wooten/1866 b 12-18-1866 Dawson-GA d 1-28-1913 Albany-GA m 4-21-1892 Evelyn Page Carter b 3-12-1870 d 7-8-1942 d/o Thomas Carter557 Lula Wooten/1870 b 5-7-1870 d 7-27-1944 m 12-3-1890 Maurice Wheeler Tift b 12-13-1869 d 4-20-1961 s/o Nelson Tift Jr & Susan G Tift , grandson of Nelson Tift Sr.(1810-1891) Maria Mercer Tift (1822-1895) d/o Mt. Moriah Mercer & Ann Edge see # 838 page 11 a. Maurice Tift/1891 b 10-6-1891 d 10-31-1893 Albany-GA b. Asa Forsythe Tift/1896 b 4-20-1896 d 1-17-1925 (drowned in flood) Albany-GA m 11-24-1920 Vera Inman b 8-25-1899 d 5-15-19851. Asa Forsyth Tift/1924 b 5-30-1924 d 2-16-1984 Albany-GA m 11-25-1956 Jeanette Vandiviere b 8-25-1926a. Maurice Asa Tift/1960 b 10-6-1960 Albany-GAb. Micheal Lewis Tift/1963 b 5-3-1963 Albany-GAc. William Wooten Tift/1902 b 2-4-1902 d 1-17-1925 (drowned in flood) Albany-GA064 Vashti Mercer/1759 page 19
071 Sarah Mercer/1761 page 20
072 Mary Mercer/1765 page 20
073 James Mercer, Jr./1769 page 20
100 Caleb Mercer/1771 page 20
196 Chloe Mercer/1773 page 21
