Rev. Valentine Rettig Jr.1

Male, #62313, (May 1865 - )
Father*Valentine Rettig1
Birth*May 1865 He was born in May 1865 at Germany.2 
Immigration*1885 He immigrated in 1885 to New York.2 
Marriage*circa 1892 He married Isabelle Dahlman circa 1892.3 
1900 Census*1 Jun 1900 Valentine was listed as the head of a family on the 1900 Census at West Seneca, Erie Co., New York.3 
1920 Census*1 Jan 1920 Valentine was listed as the head of a family on the 1920 Census at Oak Grove, Dodge Co., Wisconsin.4 
Biography*2011 Lee Culpepper writes: "Rev. Valentine Rettig, Jr. was the only sibling of Richard Rettig, my maternal grand-mother's father. Nanny loved her uncle, a minister for the Reformed Evangelical Church in Buffalo, NY. He led his services in German until the laws disallowed that and he moved his family to Wisconsin. He was married to Isabelle Dahlman."1 

Family

Isabelle Dahlman
Last Edited4 Apr 2011

Citations

  1. Cathryn Lee Burton Culpepper, 1021 Arbor Trace, NE, Atlanta, GA 30319, e-mail address, Phone: (404) 660-3762.
  2. 1900 Federal Census, United States.
    West Seneca, Erie, New York; Roll: T623_1034; Page: 7B; Enumeration District: 264.
    Valentine Rittig, Head, White, Male, May 1865, md 8 yrs, GER/GER/GER, immigrated 1885
    Isabelle Rittig 31
    Hulda Rittig 7
    Hugo Rittig 5
    Valentine Rittig 3
    Richard Rittig 10/12.
  3. 1900 Federal Census, United States.
    West Seneca, Erie, New York; Roll: T623_1034; Page: 7B; Enumeration District: 264.
    Valentine Rittig, Head, White, Male, May 1865, md 8 yrs, GER/GER/GER, immigrated 1885
    Isabelle Rittig, Wife, White, Female, Jun 1868, md 8 yrs, OH/GER/GER
    Hulda Rittig 7
    Hugo Rittig 5
    Valentine Rittig 3
    Richard Rittig 10/12.
  4. 1920 Federal Census, United States.
    Oak Grove, Dodge, Wisconsin; Roll: T625_1983; Page: 10A; Enumeration District: 46; Image: 24.

Isabelle Dahlman1

Female, #62314, (Jun 1868 - )
Birth*Jun 1868 She was born in Jun 1868 at Ohio.2 
Marriage*circa 1892 She married Rev. Valentine Rettig Jr. circa 1892.2 
Married Namecirca 1892  As of circa 1892, her married name was Rettig.2 

Family

Rev. Valentine Rettig Jr.
Last Edited4 Apr 2011

Citations

  1. Cathryn Lee Burton Culpepper, 1021 Arbor Trace, NE, Atlanta, GA 30319, e-mail address, Phone: (404) 660-3762.
  2. 1900 Federal Census, United States.
    West Seneca, Erie, New York; Roll: T623_1034; Page: 7B; Enumeration District: 264.
    Valentine Rittig, Head, White, Male, May 1865, md 8 yrs, GER/GER/GER, immigrated 1885
    Isabelle Rittig, Wife, White, Female, Jun 1868, md 8 yrs, OH/GER/GER
    Hulda Rittig 7
    Hugo Rittig 5
    Valentine Rittig 3
    Richard Rittig 10/12.

George Kling1

Male, #62315, (circa 1830 - )
Birth*circa 1830 He was born circa 1830 at Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany.1 
Marriage*say 1852 He married Barbara (?) say 1852.1 
Descendant* See footnote for the name and contact info of a descendant of George Kling who would like to communicate with other descendants.1 

Family

Barbara (?)
George and Barbara Kling had at least four children:
     1. George, born 1858, possibly with children (1) Harry, married to Eleanor Miller, (2) Edwin, (3) Cora, married to George Roth, (4) Clara, (5) Hazel, married to Jack Reukauf
     2. Barbara (has her own page)
     3. Michael, born 1863, possibly with children Florence and Elsie.
     4. Charles, born 1872, possibly married to bearing Ruth Haines.1 
Child
ChartsCLBC / Cathryn 'Lee' Burton Culpepper: Ancestral Chart
Last Edited30 Apr 2011

Citations

  1. Cathryn Lee Burton Culpepper, 1021 Arbor Trace, NE, Atlanta, GA 30319, e-mail address, Phone: (404) 660-3762.

Barbara (?)1

Female, #62316, (between 1825 and 1831 - 1892)
Birth*between 1825 and 1831 She was born between 1825 and 1831 at Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany.1 
Marriage*say 1852 She married George Kling say 1852.1 
Married Namesay 1852  As of say 1852, her married name was Kling.1 
Death*1892 She died in 1892.1 

Family

George Kling
Child
ChartsCLBC / Cathryn 'Lee' Burton Culpepper: Ancestral Chart
Last Edited30 Apr 2011

Citations

  1. Cathryn Lee Burton Culpepper, 1021 Arbor Trace, NE, Atlanta, GA 30319, e-mail address, Phone: (404) 660-3762.

August Linkner1

Male, #62317, (1826 - )
Birth*1826 He was born in 1826 at Danzig, Germany.1 
Marriage*say 1858 He married Anna (?) say 1858.1 
Descendant* See footnote for the name and contact info of a descendant of August Linkner who would like to communicate with other descendants.1 

Family

Anna (?)
August and Anna Linkner had at least six children: MinnaLinkner, born 1859; Jatte Linkner, born 1860; Hermann Linkner, born 1862; Pauline Linkner, born 1866; Anna Linkner, born 1867; and Robert Linkner, born 1874.1 
Child
ChartsCLBC / Cathryn 'Lee' Burton Culpepper: Ancestral Chart
Last Edited30 Apr 2011

Citations

  1. Cathryn Lee Burton Culpepper, 1021 Arbor Trace, NE, Atlanta, GA 30319, e-mail address, Phone: (404) 660-3762.

Anna (?)1

Female, #62318, (1832 - )
Birth*1832 She was born in 1832 at Danzig, Germany.1 
Marriage*say 1858 She married August Linkner say 1858.1 
Married Namesay 1858  As of say 1858, her married name was Linkner.1 

Family

August Linkner
Child
ChartsCLBC / Cathryn 'Lee' Burton Culpepper: Ancestral Chart
Last Edited30 Apr 2011

Citations

  1. Cathryn Lee Burton Culpepper, 1021 Arbor Trace, NE, Atlanta, GA 30319, e-mail address, Phone: (404) 660-3762.

William Mathus1

Male, #62319, (say 1880 - )
Birth*say 1880 He was born say 1880.1 
Marriage*say 1905 He married Margaret Rettig say 1905.1 

Family

Margaret Rettig
Last Edited4 Apr 2011

Citations

  1. Cathryn Lee Burton Culpepper, 1021 Arbor Trace, NE, Atlanta, GA 30319, e-mail address, Phone: (404) 660-3762.

(?) Sauls1

Male, #62323, (say 1920 - )
Birth*say 1920 He was born say 1920.1 
Marriage*say 1945 He married Kathryn M. Tackitt say 1945.1 

Family

Kathryn M. Tackitt
Mathryn and her first husband, Mr. Sauls, had three children: Clarence Wayne Sauls, Gary Sauls, and Patsy Sauls Sullivan.1 
Last Edited5 Apr 2011

Citations

  1. Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Little Rock, AR, http://www.ardemgaz.com/.
    Obituary of Kathryn M. Culpepper (#62268), published 27 Mar 2011.

(?) Woods1

Male, #62324, (say 1920 - )
Birth*say 1920 He was born say 1920.1 
Marriage*say 1965 He married Kathryn M. Tackitt say 1965.1 

Family

Kathryn M. Tackitt
Last Edited5 Apr 2011

Citations

  1. Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Little Rock, AR, http://www.ardemgaz.com/.
    Obituary of John B. Culpepper (#62267), published 1 Sep 2000.

William Fitzpatrick

Male, #62325, (say 1746 - )
Birth*say 1746 He was born say 1746. 
Research note1798 [Richard Fitzpatrick] Born in 1792 in Columbia, South Carolina, Richard Fitzpatrick was, in
his own words, "brought up a planter." His father was William Fitzpatrick,
one of the leading members of the planter class in the Columbia
area. William Fitzpatrick served as a Captain in the Revolutionary War,(3)
and was a member of the General Assembly of South Carolina from
1787-1794, and again in 1798-1799.(4) A wealthy cotton planter, at his death
in 1808 William's estate was worth over $80,000. Included were sixty-six
slaves, his main plantation known as Bell Hall, and another separate tract
of land including a mansion and over ten thousand acres.(5)

In contrast to his economic and political success, William's family
life was a disaster. Sometime soon after Richard's birth, William Fitzpatrick
and his wife Elizabeth Lenon Fitzpatrick separated. Thereafter, the
two battled each other in the courts over Elizabeth Lenon Fitzpatrick's
claim for compensatory damages after William left her. Though William
and Elizabeth never divorced, the Court of Equity did award Mrs.
Fitzpatrick the sum of sixty pounds sterling to be paid her yearly for the
rest of her life.

By 1798, William Fitzpatrick had taken a mistress,
Elizabeth Gillespie, with whom he moved away from Bell Hall to his
other tract of land.(6)

William Fitzpatrick's union with Elizabeth Gillespie must have been
quite scandalous, for not only was William still legally married, court
papers at the time said that "(William) Fitzpatrick was an old and ugly
man and... Miss Gillespie was young and very handsome," a woman of
"good moral character... previous to her acquaintance with Fitzpatrick,"
who "had lost her good character by the visits of said Fitzpatrick. (7)

Soon after William began living with Elizabeth Gillespie, they had a son whom
they named William Gillespie Fitzpatrick. William's mistress and bastard
son made it impossible for him to run for another term in the South
Carolina General Assembly; he served his last legislative term in the 13th
General Assembly of 1798-99, not coincidentally the first two years of his
relationship with Elizabeth Gillespie.

Columbia society must have made William Fitzpatrick and his whole family, including Richard and
Richard's older sister, Harriet, into social pariahs because of William's
illicit relationship with Elizabeth Gillespie. The Fitzpatrick family, for
example, does not show up on the church lists of the time, including the
First Presbyterian Church were Harriet later was buried.
After William began his association with Elizabeth Gillespie, he
tried to arrange his affairs so that both Elizabeth Gillespie and William
Gillespie Fitzpatrick would inherit most of the Fitzpatrick property. A
South Carolina law prohibited mistresses and their bastard children from
inheriting more than one-quarter of the testator's estate. Through a complicated
arrangement of gifts and third-party purchases, however, William
tried to circumvent the law. Although William did not try to cut his
natural children completely out of his will, (8) we can only speculate that
Richard's and Harriet's affection for their father must have dwindled as
they saw him trying to give away what the law said should belong to
them, and as Richard was dropped in a second will from being named one
of William's executors. At the very least, Richard's ties to his family in
South Carolina must have been somewhat more tenuous than was common among planter families of the day.
In 1808, William went mad, and in April of 1808 a Declaration of
Lunacy was declared by the Court and the administration of William's
business affairs was taken over by his son-in-law, Harriet's husband,
Joseph English. Richard was sixteen at the time, and thus was not old
enough to take over. In June of 1808, William died, leaving his huge estate
to be fought over by his inheritors. Ultimately, through court actions
lasting into the 1820's, Elizabeth Gillespie and William Gillespie Fitzpatrick
had to turn over all the property William had given them and settle
for a cash payment of $20,000, one quarter of William's estate. Richard
and Harriet were joint heirs of the remainder of the estate worth over
$60,000. In addition, Richard received ten slaves given to him as a gift by
his father years before William's death, but which William had never
released to Richard? The long court battle by no means deprived Richard
of his inheritance during the time actions in the court took place. By 1810,
Richard had turned eighteen and was listed in the South Carolina census
as the head of household of a plantation which had sixty slaves in the
Lexington District near Columbia. Richard Fitzpatrick was at the age of
eighteen one of the largest slaveholders in the Columbia area.
For whatever reason, sometime around 1816 or so, Richard left
South Carolina.' We can only guess about the reasons Richard Fitzpatrick
left South Carolina and his plantation. The state of his family's reputation
undoubtedly played its part, and perhaps Fitzpatrick's childhood in a
broken home lessened endearing attachments that might normally have
kept him near his birthplace. Perhaps he just wanted to see the world and
had the wealth to allow himself to do so. We do not know where
Fitzpatrick went, but for whatever reasons, from this point on in his life,
he "became a man of moving habits," as his grand-nephew later deRichard
Fitzpatrick's South Florida 51
scribed him." One of Fitzpatrick's nieces remarked in 1854 that 'Uncle
Fitzpatrick ... has seen so much of the World that he is very pleasant
company.(12)
We know little else about the effect of Fitzpatrick's South Carolina
background on his later life. Quite likely Fitzpatrick's parents' marital
difficulties contributed to the reasons why Fitzpatrick never married.
Fitzpatrick's childhood also evidently made him quite a liberal on
divorce, for he later supported nearly every divorce bill he ever had to
vote on in the Florida Legislative Council. Fitzpatrick left no personal
papers, however, that spoke directly of his personal values and attitudes
that may have developed as he grew up in South Carolina. But although
the innermost thoughts of Fitzpatrick are inaccessible to us, we may
reasonably assume that he adopted the ideology and habits of mind that
were characteristic of the planters of the South. His later actions are those
of a man with the planter ideology outlined below by Eugene Genovese,
an ideology characterized by:
... an aristocratic, antibourgeois spirit with values and mores
emphasizing family and status, a strong code of honor, and aspirations
to luxury, ease, and accomplishment. In the planters'
community, paternalism provided the standard of human
relationships, and politics and statecraft were the duties and responsibilities
of gentlemen. The gentleman lived for politics, not
like the bourgeois politician, off politics.
The planter typically recoiled at the notion that profit should
be the goal of life; that the approach to production and exchange
should be internally rational and uncomplicated by social values;
that thrift and hard work should be the great virtues; and that the test
of the wholesomeness of a community should be the vigor with
which its citizens expand the economy. The planter was no less
acquisitive than the bourgeois, but an acquisitive spirit is compatible
to capitalism. The aristocratic spirit of the planters absorbed
acquisitiveness and directed it into channels that were socially
desirable to a slave society: the accumulation of slaves and land and
the achievement of military and political honors."
As the Florida peninsula opened up to American settlement in the
1820's, men from the South like Fitzpatrick brought their ideology with
them. The manner in which these Southerners coexisted with Northern
bourgeois, lower-class whites of both the South and the North, people
from the Bahamas, blacks, and Indians - all part of the South Florida
population- is the core of South Florida's early

1. Fitzpatrick was listed as 58 years old in the 1850 U.S. Census for Brownsville,
Texas of Oct. 11, 1850, 33rd Congress, 2d Session, U.S. House Reports, and as 62 in
Report No. 7 Committee on Military Affairs, Reports of Committees of the House of
Representatives, Made During the Second Session of the Thirty-Third Congress, 1854-
55. (Washington D.C., A.O.P Nicholson, Printer, 1855).
2. Richland County Probate Records, Estate of Richard Fitzpatrick, Oct. 13, 1883,
Box 117, package number 3025, South Carolina State Archives, Columbia, S.C.
3. S.R. Mallory to Chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs, in Claim of
Richard Fitzpatrick, U.S. Court of Claims Reports, Vol. 3,35 Congress, 1st Session, No.
175 (Washington D.C.: James Steedman, Printer, 1858).
4. House of Research Committee, Biographical Directory of the South Carolina
House of Representatives, Vol. 1, 1692-1973. (Columbia: University of South Carolina
Press, 1974).
5. Richland County Chancery Records, Bill for Relief of Elizabeth Denton vs.
Joseph English, Roll 159, South Carolina State Archives. Columbia, South Carolina.
6. Richland County Chancery, Denton vs. English.
7. Richland County Chancery, Denton vs. English.
8. Richland County Chancery, Denton vs. English.
9. Richland County Chancery, Denton vs. English.
10. Richland County Chancery, Denton vs. English.
11. Richland County Probate, Richard Fitzpatrick.
12. Maria E.P English (Mrs. John English) to her sister, May 15. 1854. Means-
English-Doby Papers, Unpublished Letters, 1828-1917. University of South Carolina.
South Carolina Collection, Manuscripts Division, Columbia, South Carolina.
13. Eugene Genovese, The Political Economy of Slaverv (New York: Vintage,
1967). p. 28.1 
Last Edited3 Jun 2018

Citations

  1. Richard Fitzpatrick's South Florida 1822 - 1840 by Hugo L. Black III
    digitalcollections.fiu.edu/tequesta/files/1980/80_1_04.pdf.

James Denton

Male, #62326, (circa 1785 - )
Birth*circa 1785 James was born circa 1785. 
Marriage*say 1808 He married Elizabeth Gillespie say 1808. 
1810 Census*6 Aug 1810 James was listed as the head of a family on the 1810 Census at Richland District, South Carolina.1 

Family

Elizabeth Gillespie
Last Edited29 Apr 2011

Citations

  1. 1810 Federal Census, United States.
    Richland, South Carolina; Roll: 61; Page: 313; Family History Number: 0181420; Image: 00309.
    Adjacent to John Culpepper:

    Males
    1 10-15
    1 16-25
    Females
    1 26-44.