“Memorial and Biographical History of Dallas County,” published:  Dallas;
  Walsworth Publishing Company, 1892.

L.B. WHALEY,  farmer, was born February 12, 1836, in De Kalb county, 
Tennessee, the son of Elijah and Rebecca (Dougherty) Whaley, the former a 
native of Maryland and the latter of Virginia.  Of their seven children five 
are still living, L.B. being the youngest.  Two of the brothers and a sister still 
remain in Tennessee, while one brother resides in Lawrence county, 
Missouri.  Elijah Whaley was the son of Thomas and Margaret (Bratten) 
Whaley, natives of Maryland, who moved to Tennessee in 1800, locating in 
what was known as the "waters of the Cumberland river," near where the 
town of Liberty now stands.  Elijah was brought up on the farm until of age, 
a few years after which he married and entered the mercantile business on 
his farm near Liberty; afterward he moved into town, where he continued 
merchandising, in connection with farming.  He was a merchant in both 
Liberty and Smithville most of the time until his death, in 1859.

Mr. L.B. Whaley was reared in the mercantile business.  When eighteen 
years of age, in 1854, he went to Missouri, and in Mt. Vernon worked for 
wages for different firms until 1856, when he and his brother, T.R. Whaley, 
began business for themselves.  December 5, 1861, he married Miss Mattie 
Hash.  During the next year the dangers of the war became so great that he 
brought his family to Texas.  Returning to Missouri he enlisted in the 
Eleventh Missouri Infantry, under General Parsons.  He was in Company G, 
commanded by Captain Howard, in Colonel Burns’ Regiment, previously 
Hunter’s, in the Trans-Mississippi Department.  He was paroled at 
Shreveport, Louisiana, with the brigade, in May, 1865, when he returned to 
Texas to look after his family.

Here he was first employed by Dr. Kilburn for some time, and then rented a 
farm for several years.  In 1874 he bought eighty acres of wild land, which 
he at once began to improve, and he has added to this until he now has 165 
acres of fine land, well improved; 115 acres are in a fine state of cultivation.  
Mrs. Whaley is the daughter of John and Millie (Elkins) Hash.  She was 
born in Missouri, but her father was a native of Kentucky.  Mr. and Mrs. 
Whaley have five children, namely:  Millie H., the wife of R.M. Brotherton;  
Charles S., Alfred L., Anna R. and Mattie M.

Submitted by: L. Pingel