✦ A story has been written about this person: How I Met My Great-Great-Great Grandparents — A memoir of finding the Essex County, Virginia people in person.
✦ A story has been written about this person: Henry Waring Latané Temple and Susan Jones — The Essex County parson generation.
✎ This person appears in a case file: № 5 — The father who would have been three years old — The tree gave Thomas Jones of Essex County a birth year that made him three when his first daughter was born, and a wife who never existed. Two courthouse books put both right.
Records behind this page
1860 U.S. Federal Census - Slave Schedules
The National Archives in Washington, DC; Washington, DC, USA; Eighth Census of the United States 1860; Series Number: M653; Record Group: Records of the Bureau of the Census; Record Group Number: 29
1860 United States Federal Census
Year: 1860; Census Place: Essex, Virginia; Roll: M653_1343; Page: 714; Family History Library Film: 805343
1870 United States Federal Census
Year: 1870; Census Place: Essex, Virginia; Roll: M593_1644; Page: 209A; Image: 421; Family History Library Film: 553143
American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI)
Godfrey Memorial Library; Middletown, Connecticut; American Genealogical Biographical Index; Volume Number: 175
Ancestry.com, Arkansas, Death Certificates, 1914-1969 (Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2019)
Arkansas Department of Vital Records; Little Rock, Arkansas; Death Certificates; Year: 1935; Roll: 4
Arkansas Department of Vital Records; Little Rock, Arkansas; Death Certificates; Year: 1939; Roll: 3
Ancestry.com, Essex County, Virginia, Marriage Index, 1655-1900 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 1999)
Book: Book 1,; Page: 257
Ancestry.com, U.S., School Catalogs, 1765-1935 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012)
Ancestry.com, U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015)
Ancestry.com, Virginia, U.S., Birth Registers, 1853-1911 (Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2022)
Library of Virginia; Richmond, VA; Virginia Births, 1853-1911
FamilySearch ↗free accountLibrary of Virginia; Richmond, Va, Usa; Virginia, Birth Registers, 1853-1911
FamilySearch ↗free accountAncestry.com, Virginia, U.S., Compiled Marriages, 1740-1850 (Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999)
Dodd, Jordan R., Et Al.; Early American Marriages: Virginia to 1850; Publication Place: Bountiful, UT, USA; Publisher: Precision Indexing Publishers
Ancestry.com, Virginia, U.S., Death Records, 1912-2014 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015)
Virginia Department of Health; Richmond, Virginia; Virginia Deaths, 1912-2014
Virginia Department of Health; Richmond, VA, USA; Virginia, Deaths, 1912-2014
Ancestry.com, Virginia, U.S., Select Marriages, 1785-1940 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, 2014)
Latane Family Bible
Births: Henry Waring Latane Temple, 6 Apr 1812
Henry Waring Latane son of John and Mary Temple was born April 6th 1812
Deaths: H.W.L. Temple, 13 Feb 1871
H.W.L. Temple departed this life Feb 13th 1871
U.S. IRS Tax Assessment Lists, 1862-1918
The National Archives and Records Administration; Washington, D.C.; Internal Revenue Assessment Lists for Virginia, 1862-1866; Series: M793; Roll: 1; Description: District 1; Monthly and Special Lists; June-Dec 1866; Record Group: 58, Records of the Intern
U.S., College Student Lists, 1763-1924
American Antiquarian Society; Worcester, Massachusetts; College Student Lists
Research notes
Working notes from the research, kept verbatim — what was read, what it proved, what stays open. Many open with a line grading the parentage; what the grades mean.
Research note · 5 Sep 2026
PROOF CLASS: BOTH PARENTS = DIRECT - the Latane Family Bible family register names him "Henry Waring Latane son of John and Mary Temple", read on the manuscript image (K171).
AUDITED 5 Sep 2026 - NOTE CREATED, NO NEW RESEARCH. This person carried ProofFather=1 and ProofMother=1 with NO Audited event at all, so the basis for the flags was unreadable from the database. It was not missing: it was registered under a job about his SIBLINGS.
THE EVIDENCE - Latane Family Bible, RootsMagic SourceID 339, LVA Bible Records 52218, "Family Record - BIRTHS", READ ON THE MANUSCRIPT IMAGE 12 Aug 2026 (register K171; job record ancestry/f52-f258-register-2026-08-12.md, JOB A). The citation transcript on this person reads in full: "Henry Waring Latane son of John and Mary Temple was born April 6th 1812". The same page states the filiation of three of his siblings by name - [88] Arthur, [87] Lucy, [86] John - and JOB A set [86] and [87] to 1/1 from it; [70] was ALREADY 1/1 and was therefore untouched, which is why no note was written for him.
WHY THE READING MEANS SOMETHING - the page carries its own control and counter-control: the left column is the LATANE family ("John son of William and Ann Latane") and the lower right a THIRD family ("William Lewis the son of Henry Waring & Susanna Latane"). "son of John & Mary Temple" is therefore NOT a formula the scribe applied to every entry; it varies by family.
GRADE AND ITS LIMIT - a family register read on the manuscript is a record, so DIRECT. But it is ONE INFORMANT (one page, one hand), and narrative-sources.md rule 5 applies to this exact corpus: a transcription is not the record, and this Bible's transcript has already been caught presenting the transcriber's arithmetic as Bible text. The reading above is from the IMAGE.
SCOPE - this proves HIS parents. It says nothing about [78] John Temple's own parents; that link stays 0/0 and untouched.