Wade & Webb Family History

Edmund Carlile1776–1828

Edgecombe · Capt Shaws

Edmund Carlile, born in North Carolina in 1776, married Elizabeth Ann Whatley in Georgia in 1796 and raised a large family there, five of his sons carrying their mother's surname, Whatley, as a middle name. The census of 1820 found him in Morgan County, Georgia, and his estate was in the Morgan County probate records in April 1828.

On this page
  1. Family Record
  2. Life
  3. Documents (1)
  4. Places
  5. Timeline
  6. Open questions
  7. Searches made
  8. Notes

Birth

  1. 1776 Edgecombe, North Carolina

Marriages

  1. 1796 Elizabeth Ann Whatley, at Jackson, Georgia

Death and burial

  1. 1828 Burial: place not recorded
  2. 13 Apr 1828 Death: Morgan, Georgia 7, 8

Family

Parents
Not recorded
Spouse, 1796
Elizabeth Ann Whatley 1779–1854
Children
Malinda Carlisle 1804–1828

Line of descent Webb line

  1. Edmund Carlile
  2. Robert Whatley Carlisle, son
  3. Clarrissa Jane Carlisle, daughter
  4. James Pleasant Webb, son
  5. Hilda Webb, daughter
  6. William Albert Webb Wade, son

3rd great-grandfather of Webb Wade, from whom this history is traced. Why Webb Wade?

Life

Edmund Carlile was born in 1776 in Edgecombe County, North Carolina, according to the FamilySearch tree, which gives no source for the year or the place.1 His surname appears in the records as both Carlile and Carlisle, and the tree also records "Edwin" as a name he was known by.2 A user-supplied source, carried into FamilySearch from older family files, gives his name at birth as Edmund Griffith Carlisle; it cites no original record, and the middle name is not found in any record attached to him.3 A second attached source is a compiled online family tree, the Geni World Family Tree on MyHeritage, which is not itself evidence.3

The tree records his marriage to Elizabeth Ann Whatley in 1796 in Jackson County, Georgia, again without a source.4 She was born on 27 January 1779 in Wilkes County, Georgia, according to the tree.4 The tree credits the couple with nine children, born between 1798 and 1818: William Whatley (1798), Christian (about 1800), James Whatley (1802), Malinda (1804), Robert Whatley (1806), Edmond Whatley (1808), Green Whatley (1810), Michael Andrew Jackson (1816) and Elizabeth Strickland (1818).5 Inference Five of the sons carry Whatley, their mother's maiden name, as a middle name, a common way of honouring a mother's family; the naming pattern supports the tree's grouping of these children as hers, though it is not proof of it.5

The federal census of 1820 lists Edmund Carlisle in Captain Shaw's district of Morgan County, Georgia.6 Georgia counties were divided into militia districts, each known by the name of the captain of its militia company, and the early censuses and tax digests were taken district by district.6 Inference The censuses of 1820 recorded only the head of each household by name, with the others counted by age and sex, so the entry does not by itself show which of the children were then at home.6

He died in Morgan County, Georgia.7 The tree gives the date of death as 13 April 1828, and an index entry in "Georgia, Probate Records, 1742–1990" for Edmund Carlisle carries the same date; probate is the court process by which a dead person's will is proved or, where there is no will, an administrator is appointed to settle the estate.7 Inference Because the death date and the probate date are identical, the tree's date of death was probably taken from the probate record, and he may have died some time before 13 April 1828; the probate file itself, which has not been examined, should show what the court did that day and may name his widow and heirs.8 The tree records a burial in 1828, without a place, and the Find a Grave index has an entry for him under the name Edmund Carlile.9 His daughter Malinda, by then the wife of William Graggs, is also recorded by the tree as dying in Morgan County in 1828.10

His widow lived on into the 1850s.11 The census of 1850 lists an Elisabeth Carlisle, and the tree records her death on 15 November 1854 at Milltown, Chambers County, Alabama, and her burial in the Mount Hickory Cemetery there.11

Documents

  1. 24 March 2013 Find a Grave memorial: Edmund Carlile Find a Grave · memorial

Places

  1. 1776Edgecombe
  2. 1796Jackson
  3. 1820–1828Capt Shaws

Timeline

  1. 1776BirthEdgecombe, North Carolina
  2. 1796Marriage, Elizabeth Ann WhatleyJackson, Georgia
  3. 1820ResidenceCapt Shaws, Morgan, Georgia
  4. 1828Burial
  5. 13 Apr 1828DeathMorgan, Georgia
  6. 13 Apr 1828ProbateMorgan, Georgia

Open questions

His will and family (raised 2026-11-09)

A 1959 query calls him "Edmund Griffith Carlisle," a Revolutionary soldier born 1750 in North Carolina, died in Morgan County, Ga., will probated 1828 (unsourced; his tree birth year 1776 rules out Revolutionary service). His Morgan County will (1828) is the record to find. A will of Robert Carlile, Edgecombe County, N.C., 1808–1815, naming several Carlile daughters (Marriages of Early Edgecombe County), may belong to his father's family (lead).

Searches made

  1. 2026-11-09Find a Grave search: Edmund Carlile, b. 1776 ±3, d. 1828 ±3: 1 resultsbest: [Edmund Carlile (1776 – 13 Apr 1828), Burial Details Unknown, ](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/107239504/edmund-carlile); score 15 (high, before review)
  2. 2026-11-09Find a Grave memorial recorded[memorial 107239504](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/107239504), high confidence: [record](../documents/findagrave/107239504-edmund-carlile.md); 0 headstone photo(s)
  3. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "Edmund Carlile", Georgia2 pages; first: [Collections for a history of Staffordshire, 1880, p. ](https://archive.org/details/collectionsfo1912stafuoft?q=%22Edmund%20Carlile%22); [collections for a history of staffordshire, 1912, p. ](https://archive.org/details/bwb_KU-999-925?q=%22Edmund%20Carlile%22)
  4. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "Edmund Carlisle", Georgia75 pages; first: [The John Douglas family of Mississippi / by Edgar Lamar Douglas., 1962, p. ](https://archive.org/details/johndouglasfamil00doug?q=%22Edmund%20Carlisle%22); [Drawer 237: Atl to Bah, Subject Files, Rubenstein Library, n.d., p. ](https://archive.org/details/rubenstein_sub_cards_237_atl_bah?q=%22Edmund%20Carlisle%22); [Purdue University one hundredth commencement, June 1, 1952, 1952, p. ](https://archive.org/details/purdue100th1952grad?q=%22Edmund%20Carlisle%22)
  5. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "Edwin", Georgia1557449 pages; first: [1946-1954 Copyright Registration Cards (A-N), 1946, p. ](https://archive.org/details/CopyrightCards1946-1954?q=%22Edwin%22); [Commencement Programs 1960-1970, 1960, p. ](https://archive.org/details/commencement70unse?q=%22Edwin%22); [Commencement Programs 1910-1959, 1910, p. ](https://archive.org/details/commencement1059unse?q=%22Edwin%22)
  6. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "Carlile", inside historyofedgecom00turnno matches; 0 with the given name (Edmund)
  7. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "Carlile", inside earlyhistoryofta00lichno matches; 0 with the given name (Edmund)
  8. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "Carlile", inside earlysociallife01lichgoogno matches; 0 with the given name (Edmund)
  9. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "Carlile", inside earlyhistoryofja00wilsno matches; 0 with the given name (Edmund)
  10. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "Carlile", inside jacksoncountygeo0000possnot searchable: jacksoncountygeo0000poss (Jackson County, Georgia early court records, 1796-1831 ) is a lending-library book: borrow it on archive.org and search it in a browser
  11. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "Carlile", inside jacksoncountygeo0000hardnot searchable: jacksoncountygeo0000hard (Jackson County, Georgia marriage records, 1805-1910 ) is a lending-library book: borrow it on archive.org and search it in a browser
  12. 2026-11-09Internet Archive assessment: "Edmund Carlile", Georgia (2 pages); "Edmund Carlisle", Georgia (75 pages)Not him: a sixteenth-century Staffordshire tenant, a Bishop of Carlisle list, a Purdue graduate of 1952, a Navajo-frontier rancher of 1884; a South Carolina DAR roster entry "Edmund Carlisle" (a Revolutionary soldier, so not him, born 1776, but possibly a relative: lead).
  13. 2026-11-09Internet Archive assessment: "Edwin", Georgia (1,557,449 pages)Unusable search: the planner sent a bare given-name variant with no surname; nothing to assess. Reported as a planner fault.
  14. 2026-11-09Internet Archive assessment: *The Genealogical Helper*, December 1959 (found by his wife's "Elizabeth Ann Whatley" search)Match (high), but only a 1959 query: "Elizabeth Ann Whatley … d 1856 Miltown, Ala m 1795? Edmund Griffith Carlisle a RW sol, b 1750 NC, d Morgan co, Ga, will probated 1828." The 1828 Morgan County will agrees; "Griffith," the Revolutionary service and 1750 birth are unsourced and do not fit his 1776 birth. [Genealogical Helper record](../documents/1959-genealogical-helper-whatley-carlisle-query.md). Also *Handbook of American Genealogy* (1943): Anne Mae Mims wanted the parentage of "Elizabeth Ann Whatley (m. Edmond Carlisle)" ([Handbook record](../documents/1943-handbook-american-genealogy-whatley-mims.md)).
  15. 2026-11-09Internet Archive assessment: "Carlile" inside histories of Jackson County, Ga. (Wilson), Tallapoosa, Edgecombe County, early social life (all none); two Jackson County, Ga., books (lending library)No hits; the lending-library Jackson County books are to-dos (he married in Jackson County in 1796).
  16. 2026-11-09Internet Archive hits assessed: 9 searchesTwo matches through his wife's searches (1959 query, 1943 directory; records written). Lead: will of Robert Carlile, Edgecombe County, N.C., 1808–1815, and the Morgan County, Ga., will of Edmund (probated 1828).
  17. 2026-11-09DPLA: "Edmund Carlile"no matches
  18. 2026-11-09DPLA: "Edmund Carlisle", Georgiano matches
  19. 2026-11-09DPLA hits assessed: 2 searchesNo hits; nothing to assess.

Notes

  1. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LDTB-JRD: birth 1776, Edgecombe, North Carolina, no source attached back to the text
  2. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LDTB-JRD: alternate names Edmund Carlisle and Edwin "United States, Census, 1820", FamilySearch, Edmund Carlisle, 1820. Record: Edmund Carlisle, 1820 "Find a Grave Index", FamilySearch, Edmund Carlile. Record: Edmund Carlile, Find a Grave Index back to the text
  3. Legacy NFS Source: Edmund Griffith Carlisle - Government record: birth-name: Edmund Griffith Carlisle: Legacy NFS Source: Edmund Griffith Carlisle, Government record: birth-name, migrated from a user-supplied source citation Legacy NFS Source: Edmond Carlisle - Government record: birth-name: Edmund Griffith Carlisle: Legacy NFS Source: Edmond Carlisle, birth-name Edmund Griffith Carlisle Geni World Family Tree MyHeritage.com [online database], MyHeritage Ltd. Edmund Carlisle: Geni World Family Tree, MyHeritage back to the text
  4. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LDTB-JRD: marriage 1796, Jackson, Georgia, no source attached FamilySearch Family Tree, profile 2MJQ-8GC (their page): Elizabeth Ann Whatley, born 27 Jan 1779, Wilkes, Georgia back to the text
  5. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LDTB-JRD: children: William Whatley (1798), Christian (1800), James Whatley (1802), Malinda (1804), Robert Whatley (1806), Edmond Whatley (1808), Green Whatley (1810), Michael Andrew Jackson (1816), Elizabeth Strickland (1818) FamilySearch Family Tree, profile 9VHL-QT9 (their page): birth about 1800 back to the text
  6. "United States, Census, 1820", FamilySearch, Edmund Carlisle, 1820. Record: Edmund Carlisle, United States, Census, 1820 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LDTB-JRD: residence 1820, Capt Shaws, Morgan, Georgia back to the text
  7. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LDTB-JRD: death 13 Apr 1828, Morgan, Georgia "Georgia, Probate Records, 1742-1990", FamilySearch, Edmund Carlisle, 13 Apr 1828. Record: Edmund Carlisle, 13 Apr 1828, Georgia, Probate Records, 1742-1990 back to the text
  8. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LDTB-JRD: death 13 Apr 1828; probate 13 Apr 1828, Morgan, Georgia "Georgia, Probate Records, 1742-1990", FamilySearch, Edmund Carlisle, 13 Apr 1828. Record: Edmund Carlisle, 13 Apr 1828 back to the text
  9. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LDTB-JRD: burial 1828, no place "Find a Grave Index", FamilySearch, Edmund Carlile. Record: Edmund Carlile, Find a Grave Index back to the text
  10. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile K8RQ-8PL (their page): death 1828, Morgan, Georgia; spouse William Graggs back to the text
  11. "United States, Census, 1850", FamilySearch, Elisabeth Carlisle, 1850. Record: Elisabeth Carlisle, 1850 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile 2MJQ-8GC (their page): death 15 Nov 1854, Election Precinct 3 Milltown, Chambers, Alabama; burial Mount Hickory Cemetery, Milltown "Find a Grave Index", FamilySearch, Elizabeth Ann Whatley Carlisle, 1854. Record: Elizabeth Ann Whatley Carlisle, 1854, Find a Grave Index back to the text
Every FamilySearch record attached to Edmund Carlile (6)
  1. 1820Edmund Carlisle, "United States, Census, 1820"
  2. 13 Apr 1828Edmund Carlisle, "Georgia, Probate Records, 1742-1990"
  3. Edmund Carlile, "Find a Grave Index"
  4. Edmund Carlisle, 'Geni World Family Tree' on MyHeritage
  5. Legacy NFS Source: Edmond Carlisle - Government record: birth-name: Edmund Griffith Carlisle
  6. Legacy NFS Source: Edmund Griffith Carlisle - Government record: birth-name: Edmund Griffith Carlisle