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; [[Alt-1920s Covington]]

The Whetterhorn family came here in 1815.  They built a healthy plantation, with a good stock of slaves.  When the President emancipated the slaves, the Whetterhorn boys went to war.  After the failure of the South, times were hard on the Whetterhorns.

Alexander Whetterhorn (1785-1835) and Bernadette Lee (1803-1843) came to Covington in a flat boat.  They brought with them 20 slaves and sundry items.  Using local timber and slave labor, they built Whetterhorn Plantation.  They had Bernard David, Mary Catherine (1821), Thomas Steven (1822).<br>
Mary died of the fever in 1833.  Thomas was attacked by an alligator in the Bogue Falaya and drowned 1836.<br>
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Bernard Whetterhorn (1820-1865) married Silvia Curran (1826-1870), of the Mobile Currans, in the early spring of 1841.  Hamilton Whetterhorn was born December of that same year.  After him over the next eight years came Febe Segolene (1843), Bridger Marlon (1844), and Raylon Alan (1848). Quincy John and Emily Louise came together in the early months of 1850.  Silvia was badly ill after the birth of her twins, and always remained sickly.  Silvia passed in the winter of 1870.

Hamilton married Frederique Kidd (Mandeville)in the late summer of 1860. Hamilton was shot in the leg and wounded at Shiloh.  They had Nina Louise, Denis<br> 

Raylon Alan Whetterhorn died on the plantation.  Some said it was an accident, some said he was murdered.  The young man of 17 fell from a second story window in 1865.

Quincy John and Emily Louise were both pale and sickly growing up. Not really able to spend time with other kids, they never outgrew the twin speech they used.  They tended to be mean to other kids, and had a tendency to enjoy hurting animals. It was not surprising that they eventually decided to explore sex with each other.  The family worked hard to hide the incest, but the slaves talked, and soon the whole town was whispering about it.  In 1866 some of the freed slaves were found butchered in their shacks, though no one was ever brought to justice.  Systematically the remaining staff began to disappear a few at a time, running away from the unstable twins.