Name: White, John Andrew
Burial Date: 1918, 02/24
Age at Death: 73
Plot Location: 586 E
Notes: husband of Mary Isabelle (Smith)
10th Ill. Cav, Co. E
War: Civil War
Complete Obituary STERLING BULLETIN 02/21/1918
JOHN ANDREW WHITE
John Andrew White was born in Christian county, near Decatur, Ill., Jan. 13, 1845. Passed peacefully away at his home on Van Buren St., Feb. 21, 1918, after an illness of seven weeks. On Jan. 3rd, he fell and broke his hip and for some time it was thought he would recover but three weeks before his death complications set in from which he never rallied. Mr. White was married to Mary I. Smith in Ill. in 1867, having celebrate his 50th wedding anniversary on the 5th of last Sept. To this union was born seven children, six of whom are living, one daughter, Alice B. having died in infancy, J.O. and W. C. of Sterling, A.E. of Bucklin, and R. E. of Hugoton, Kan., Mrs. Sadie Current of Mangum, Okla., and Mrs. Myrtle Midkiff of El Dorado, Kan.
Mr. White came to Kansas from Illinois in 1870, locating in Montgomery county. In 1881 he moved to Sterling and since that time has made his home in and around Sterling except for a short time that he spent in Montgomery county. During his illness it was the privilege and pleasure of all his children to be with him up till the last and share in loving ministrations, for which he never forgot to express his appreciation. Mr. White was always a kind and loving husband and father and will be sorely missed by a loving wife and his children as well as by his brother Douglas, and sister, Mrs. Jane Burk, of Sterling and sister Mrs. Ollie Helm, of Santa Clara, Calif. The friends who through long years of acquaintance have learned to value his friendship have left to them many sweet memories of happy days spent wit him.
Mr. White was a veteran at the Civil War, having enlisted in the 10th Ill. Cavalry, Co. E. and was always proud of the fact and even during his sickness talked of present conditions and wished that he might again fight for his country.
He was converted when a young man and at the time of his death was a member of the M. E. church of this city, from which church funeral services were conducted by Rev. E. F. Buck, the pastor Sunday afternoon at 2:30.
Rev. Buck spoke words of comfort to the bereaved family, taking his text from Job 14:14 “If a man die, shall he live again”. Miss Helen Potter sang his favorite hymn, “Will There be any Stars in My Crown?” The choir sang “My Jesus as Thou Wilt and Asleep in Jesus.
The church was crowded with friends and relatives who came to pay their last respects to the departed. relatives and friends from out of town who were here for the funeral were: Mr. and Mrs. Floyd White of Wichita; Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Boes of Alden; W. A. Midkiff and son Orville, of Eldorado; T. E. Smith and family, of Nickerson; Mr. and Mrs. Carl Smith, of Hutchinson; Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Hegeda, of Hutchinson; Mr. and Mrs. D. O. Skeen,, of Dodge City; Mrs. R. E. White, of Hugoton, Kansas. “Those that he loved so long and see no more, Loved and still loves, not dead but gone before.:
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