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| Keywords: Matoaka Whittle Sims.jpg en The daughter of Virginia State Senator James Murray Whittle and his second wife and cousin Cornelia Skipwith of Mecklenburg County Virginia Motoaka Whittle was descended from Pocahontas through both her father and her mother In the fall of 1865 Motoaka Whittle married William E Sims and lived at the Whittle plantation Eldon in Pittsylvania County Virginia In 1875 her father had built for her and her husband a new home now known as the Sims-Mitchell House still standing in Chatham Virginia She died at her home in Chatham in 1901 Photo courtesy of Mark Edward Waldo Sr http //www victorianvilla com/sims-mitchell/history/sims_matoaka htm Author ca 1884 Pocahontas History of Virginia Pittsylvania County Virginia PD-old | ||||
