Individual Details

Edgar Wickliff Wilhite

(21 Apr 1880 - 23 Nov 1962)

Seymour Daily Tribune, Seymour, Indiana, Monday, November 26, 1962, Page 9, Col. 4: Rites Conducted For Mrs. Cummins' Father. Funeral services for W. E. Wilhite, of Raub, Ind., father of Mrs. E. C. Cummins of Seymour, were conducted Sunday afternoon from the Towers and McMullan Funeral Home in Kentland. Burial was in the Fleming Cemetery, near Kentland. Mr. Wilhite, 82, had been a barber in Raub for 61 years and was still active at the time of his death.

He was a past master of the Masonic lodge and had been a Mason for over 50 years. He was a member of the Raub Methodist Church. Mr. Wilhite was born April 21, 1880, in Monrovia, the son of the late John and Eliza Mason. In 1905 at Raub, he married Adeline Kirkpatrick, who preceded him in death in 1956.

Survivors Include three daughters, Miss Leota Wilhite, Mrs. G. A. Bartlett of West Lafayette and Mrs. E. S. Cummins, of Seymour; one son, Gordon Wilhite of Lafayette; one sister, Mrs. Janie Rightnour of Jamestown, four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Events

Birth21 Apr 1880Monrovia, Morgan Co., Indiana
Marriage5 Nov 1905Raub, Benton Co., Indiana - Adaline "Addie" Kirkpatrick
Death23 Nov 1962Brook, Newton Co., Indiana
BurialFleming Cemetery, Benton Co., Indiana

Families

SpouseAdaline "Addie" Kirkpatrick (1884 - 1956)
ChildLeota Fae Wilhite (1906 - 1989)
ChildIola May Wilhite (1908 - 1982)
ChildDoris Arlene Wilhite (1912 - 1980)
ChildGordon Edgar Wilhite (1923 - 1970)
ChildBarbara J. Wilhite (1925 - 2013)

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