Whitmire (Family : Whitmire, George Frederick, 1743-1829)

The Whitmore Family from South Carolina includes Drucilla Whitmire Apperson (1816-1904) and Phoebe Elizabeth Apperson Hearst (1842-1919), the mother of newspaper publisher and politician William Randolph Hearst. A native of Franklin County (Missour), Phoebe Apperson Hearst was the daughter of Randolph Walker Apperson (1809-1900), a native of Culpepper County (Virginia) and Drucilla Whitmire Apperson (1816-1904), who was born in the town of Whitmire (Newberry County, South Carolina).