Individual Details

Children of Reuben and Dicey were James Menees, William Heth, John Berryman, Margaret Blakey, Reuben Ewing.

Reuben is believed buried in the family plot at Mill Creek Baptist Church Cemetery, his grave unmarked. A plaque is placed in the cemetery listing those believed to be there.
http://davidsoncocemeterysurvey.com/Cemeteries/M/mill_creek_baptist_church.htm

1850 Census. District 9, Davidson Co TN
Reuben Whitsett, age 36, b. TN as was all his family
Dicie A., age 32
Jas. age 10, Wm age 8, Jno age 6, Margt age 3, Hamilton age 6 months.
LaFaye. Whitsett, age 18, student
Jos Gubbins, 40, labourer, b. Ireland
Hugh McVay, 48, ditto
Jos Hanaley, 26, ditto

1860 Census. District 9, Davidson Co TN
D. A. Whitsitt, age 41 [female]
James age 20, William H. age 18, John 16, Margaret 13, Reuben E., age 11 [I think Dicey may have changed this child's name when her husband died in 1853 - he was Hamilton in 1850.]

Two of the listed but unmarked graves in the Mill Creek Baptist Church Cemetery seem to be sons of Reuben & Dicey.
James Meness Whitsitt II, b. 1840, d. 1868 [Cannot be Rev. James son of the same name. However, Reuben had a son James, shown in the 1850 & 1860 censuses as born in 1840.]
Hamilton Whitsitt, b. 1849, d. 1868 [Reuben also had a son who was Hamilton in the 1850 census, but shown as Reuben in 1860 - his father had died in 1853 and his mother may have changed his name.]



http://sidneyrigdon.com/wht/whitidx0.htm
William H. Whitsitt
(1841-1911)
Author of: "Sidney Rigdon,
The Real Founder of Mormonism"

Very Brief Biography of Dr. Whitsitt
C. S. A. Army Chaplain
Professor of Divinity
Seminary President
and
First Biographer of Elder Sidney Rigdon
William Heth Whitsitt was born near Nashville, Tennessee on Nov. 25, 1841 and was the son of Reuben Ewing Whitsitt and Dicey McFarland Whitsitt. Reuben's father, Rev. James Whitsitt, was a Scotch-Irish pioneer who helped establish the Baptist denomination in post-colonial Tennessee.
As a youth William H. Whitsitt attended Juliet Academy and then studied for the Christian ministry Union University, in Jackson Tennessee, graduating in 1861. Shortly thereafter he joined the Confederate army and was ordained as a Baptist minister within its officer ranks in 1862. He served the remainder of the Civil War as a Condeferate chaplain. After the end of hostilities William resumed his higher education in attending first the University of Virginia and then the Southern Baptist Seminary, where he studied between 1866 and 1869.

In August of 1908, Whitsitt wrote the following letter to Dr. Worthington C. Ford, the Chief of the Manuscripts Division of the Library of Congress:
Dear Doctor Ford:
I am the author of an elaborate work in manuscript, entitled: The Life of Sidney Rigdon, the Real Founder of Mormonism; which is an effort to demonstrate from original documents and history, that Mormon theology and church constitution were conceived and produced by Rigdon and not by Joseph Smith.
It was completed in 1885, with the expectation of publishing it immediately. But such a large amount of money was required to produce the work that I was compelled to desist, and it is still retained in manuscript.
During the year 1891 I wrote an outline of my course of treatment in an article on Mormonism that was published in the Dictionary of Religious Knowledge by Dr. Samuel M. Jackson of New York. A degree of attention was excited by that article; letters were sent to me by many persons in differing portions of the country who had perused it. Moreover, Bishop John F. Hurst in his Short History of the Christian Church, New York, 1893, mentioned it in terms of special favor and anticipation (History, pp. 583-4).
I suppose it will never be in my power to issue the work in print, but I should be glad to leave it in some library where it could be consulted in manuscript by any who might feel a particular interest in it, and I beg leave to inquire of you whether the Library of Congress would take charge of it and preserve it in manuscript so that it might always be open to inspection.
I should be very thankful for any information and advice which it might be in your power to bestow, and I desire to thank you in advance for your kindness.
Yours very truly,
William H. Whitsitt [sig.]

Although Whitsitt earlier mentioned having "810 pages" of this biography "ready for the printer" early in 1886, the work never saw publication.

Birth	Abt 1813
Marriage	1839	Dicey Ann McFarland
Death	12 Feb 1853

Spouse

Dicey Ann McFarland ( - )

Father	Rev. James Whitsitt (1771 - 1849)
Mother	Jane Cardwell Menees (1776 - 1840)
Sibling	James Meness Whitsitt ( - )
Sibling	William D. Whitsitt ( - )
Sibling	Samuel Dawson Whitsitt MD ( - )