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Ozias Preston WHITE
(1815 –1899)
Julia Ann CALKINS
(Abt 1830 – Bef 1874)
Andrew POWELL
(1835 –1858)
Mary Jane TETRICK
(1835 –1920)
Homer WHITE
(1851–1899)
Nancy Ann POWELL
(1857 –1917)
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Ira Willis WHITE
(1885 –1918)

 

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1. Vesta Alma PARKER

Ira Willis WHITE 2 3
  • Born: 23 November 1885, Grant County, Oregon, USA 2 4
  • Marriage (1): Vesta Alma PARKER in May 1904 in prob Oregon, USA 1 2
  • Died: 7 December 1918, Vancouver, Clark County, Washington, USA at age 33 5 6
  • Buried: 9 December 1918, Juniper Flat, Wasco County, Oregon, USA

bullet   Cause of his death was influenza.

bullet   Another name for Ira was Ira W. WHITE.4 7

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bullet  General Notes

IRA WILLIS WHITE was born 23 November 1885 in Grant County, Oregon, the son of Homer White and Nancy Ann Powell.  He grew up as a farm laborer in Oregon.  In May 1904 he married his wife, Vesta Alma Parker, the daughter of Daniel Woodson Parker and Celia Caroline Wright.  Vesta was the younger sister of Ira's brother-in-law, Shirley Everett Parker, who had married Ira's older sister Laura in 1900.

In 1909 their son Carol Homer White was born in Oregon.  In the 1910 census, the family lived in the Grass Valley Precinct in Sherman County, Oregon.  Ira was a farm laborer.  Their second son, Leo Ira White, was born in 1912 in Oregon.  In the WWI draft registration card that Ira filled out on 12 Sep 1918, he worked as a band sawyer for wooden ship yards in Vancouver, Washington.  He was described as tall with a medium build, with blue eyes and brown hair.  He had a total loss of vision in his right eye.  Only a few months later, on 07 Dec 1918, Ira died of influenza in Vancouver, Clark County, Washington, USA.  He was only 33 years old, a victim of The Great Flu of 1918.  He left behind two young sons.  His widow, Vesta, married again several years later to William John Kennedy from Scotland.

His tombstone was carved by his great-nephew, Elden Richmond.

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Tombstone inscription:

IRA W WHITE
  1885    1918

bullet  Burial Notes

Kelly Cemetery, on Juniper Flat near Maupin, Oregon (Block 15, Lot 4, Grave 9)

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bullet  Recorded Events in His Life

  • He worked as a farm laborer on 9 May 1910 in Grass Valley Precinct, Sherman County, Oregon, USA. 4

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  • He appeared on the 1910 US Federal Census on 9 May 1910 in Grass Valley Precinct, Sherman County, Oregon, USA. 4
     
Arthur R. Rebmen       52     Head
Ira W White       23     Hired Man
Vesta White       20     Housekeeper
Carrel White       1 1/12     Boarder

  • He was described as tall, medium build, with blue eyes and brown hair. He had a total loss of vision in his right eye. On 12 September 1918 in Vancouver, Clark County, Washington, USA. 2

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  • He resided at 511 W. 9th Street in Vancouver, Clark County, Washington, USA on 12 September 1918. 2
  • He worked as a band sawyer for wooden ship yards; employed by G. M. Standifer on 12 September 1918 in Vancouver, Clark County, Washington, USA. 2

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  • He was buried at the Kelly Cemetery in Juniper Flat, Wasco County, Oregon, USA on 7 December 1918.
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Ira married Vesta Alma PARKER, daughter of Daniel Woodson PARKER and Celia Caroline WRIGHT, in May 1904 in prob Oregon, USA.1 2 (Vesta Alma PARKER was born on 6 September 1889 in Oregon, USA,4 8 9 10 died on 21 May 1953 in Los Angeles County, California, USA and was buried on 23 May 1953 in Redondo Beach, Los Angeles County, California, USA.)


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bullet   Sources   bullet

  1. Personal knowledge of Elden Eugene Richmond (1924 – 2017), family historian. Email Kirsty Haining for contact info for Elden.
  2. Ancestry.com, U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917 –1918 [database on-line] (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005. Original data: United States, Selective Service System. World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917 –1918. Washington, DC: National Archives and Records Administration. M1509, 4,582 rolls. Imaged from Family History Library microfilm.), Ira Willis White registration, Vancouver, Clark County, Washington, Roll 1991536.
  3. Kirsty M. Haining.
  4. Ancestry.com, 1910 United States Federal Census [database on-line] (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. Original data: Thirteenth Census of the United States, 1910. NARA microfilm publication T624, 1,178 rolls. Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, DC), Arthur R. Rebmen household, Grass Valley Precinct, Sherman County, Oregon, USA.
  5. Washington Death Certificates, 1907 –1960.
  6. Death Certificate (digital or paper copy of official death record privately held by Kirsty M. Haining), 1918 Ira W. White in Vancouver, WA.
  7. Gertrude Brown Smith and Beulah M. Springstead, Our Colonial Lines: Powell, Eaton, Rice, Pettengill, Collver, White (c) 1992, p. 101. This is the 3rd edition of a family-published book on genealogy.
  8. Ancestry.com, 1900 United States Federal Census [database on-line] (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004. Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1900. T623, 1854 rolls), Daniel W. Parker household, Oak Grove Precinct, Wasco County, Oregon, USA.
  9. Ancestry.com, 1920 United States Federal Census [database on-line] (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Original data: Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920. NARA microfilm publication T625, 2076 rolls. Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, DC), Vesta White household, 511 W. 9th Street, Vancouver, Clark County, Washington, USA.
  10. Ancestry.com, 1930 United States Federal Census [database on-line] (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2002. Original data: Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930. NARA microfilm publication T626, 2,667 rolls. Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, DC), William J. Kennedy household, 726 Harney Street, Vancouver, Clark County, Washington, USA.


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