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'''William Whitson''' (-1838) Founder of Whitsontown, Crawford County, Arkansas. In Dec 1837, the Arkansas State Legislature created [[Franklin County, Arkansas]] out of the eastern half of Crawford. William Whitson was killed by John Lasater over a dispute as to where the county seat for Franklin should be located. Lasater was acquited of murder and Harriet, William's widow moved back to Tennessee with her children. William died intestate and due to what I'm assuming to be Harriet's reluctance to administer and the minority of the heirs, Jesse Turner was called to be administrator "de bonis non" on the estate of William Whitson. The bond by Jesse Turner with Jesse Miller and Arthur Hicks was signed 17 Apr 1838. At the time of his death, William Whitson was in a business partnership with Charles Whitson. Although Charles was of an age to possibly be his nephew, no firm documentation has yet come-to-light to specify how they were related. ===Primary documentation=== *[http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=arcen&so=2&rank=0&tips=0&gsfn=William&gsln=Whitson&sx=&gs1co=1%2cAll+Countries&gs1pl=1%2c+&year=&yearend=&sbo=0&sbor=&ufr=0&wp=4%3b_80000002%3b_80000003&srchb=r&prox=1&db=&ti=0&ti.si=0&gss=angs-c&o_iid=21416&o_lid=21416&o_it=5910 ''Arkansas Census, 1819-70''], at Ancestry showing that William Whitson was on the Tax list of Crawford County, Arkansas 1832, 1833, 1834, and 1835 *[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wjhonson/FranklinARK/ProbateWilliamWhitson.html Loose Probate Packet of William Whitson] ===Secondary sources=== *[http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=view&r=an&dbid=7931&iid=HistBenton-AR-0615640&rc=1281,740,1416,773;1436,740,1576,774&fn=william&ln=whitson&st=d&ssrc=&pid=615 ''History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas.''] Chicago, IL, USA: Goodspeed Publishing, 1889. "History of Franklin County", Page 611 where in a "list of persons who entered land in Franklin County before 1840" we find "...William Whitson, 1834, 6-10-28..." which means that in 1834, he entered on Section 6 of Range 10 North in Township 28 West. *[http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=view&r=an&dbid=7931&iid=HistBenton-AR-0514640&rc=863,856,1026,897;1039,856,1211,897&fn=william&ln=whitson&st=d&ssrc=&pid=514 ''History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas.''] Chicago, IL, USA: Goodspeed Publishing, 1889. "History of Crawford County", Page 511 mentioning that in the Eighth Arkansas Territorial Assembly (1835), William Whitson was Representative from Crawford County.
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