✦ 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.
Life as they lived it
Not the dates — the person. What the records happen to show of work, habits, possessions and the odd episode. Each line says where it comes from.
1825 At thirteen, away at school with his brother John, he was teased in a letter from his eldest brother Arthur for never writing home: Henry, Arthur wrote, seemed to have forgotten that it was customary for persons to write to each other so that they might learn how they were.
episode · Arthur John Temple to his brother John, 15 September 1825, in the Wayland letters
1829 He was a freshman at Harvard in 1829 and roomed in Massachusetts Hall.
episode · Education fact in the tree
1852 He became rector of South Farnham Parish in Essex County in 1852.
work · Employment fact in the tree
His son remembered him as a hard master and had few happy memories of childhood, according to his great-grandson's recorded recollections, which mention a paddle.
habit · Latané Temple's oral history, interview 83a–b, family archive
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.