Name: White, Sr.,  Rev. Obadiah Herschel
Burial Date: 1912, 04/27
Age at Death: 69
Plot Location: PF
Notes: husband of Sarah Frances(Gillmore) and Mary Jane(Lewis)

Civil War

Complete Obituary STERLING BULLETIN 05/021912

Obadiah Herschel White was born on February 24, 1843, in Jackson, Ohio, his father, Aaron, was 30 and his mother, Elizabeth, was 30. He was married three times and had three sons and two daughters. All children were born of his first wife, Sarah Frances (Gilmore) White. He died of heart failure on April 25, 1912, in Sterling, Kansas, at the age of 69, and was buried there.

Obadiah was a Methodist Minister and and Civil War Veteran, member of the GAR.

Obadiah Herschel White served in the military in 1863 in USA when he was 20 years old.

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OBADIAH H. WHITE

Obadiah  H. White was born in Jackson County, Ohio, February 24, 1843, where he grew to manhood. When 15 years of age he was converted and united with the Zion Baptist church. On June 16 , 1863 , he enlisted in the Union army and served until the close of the rebellion, being mustered out September 22, 1865. October 22, 1865, he was united in marriage to Miss Sarah F. Gillmore. To this union six children were born, two girls and four boys, two of whom died in infancy, while the others survive him. In 1875 his wife was called to the better world.

In July 1875 Mr. White was licensed to preach by Fremont Baptist church of Jackson county, Ohio, and in August of the same year was appointed Home Missionary. On August 22, 1878, he was again united in marriage to Miss Mary Jane Lewis. In the fall of 1888 he moved to Rice county, Kansas. In January 1905 he united with the A. M. E. church of Sterling and entered upon his first ministerial work with that church the same year. On January 26, 1906 he was called on to mourn the death of his second wife.

Rev. White passed away at his home in Newton, Kansas, last Thursday night. He had attended prayer services that evening after which he was taken suddenly ill, passing away in a few hours. The remains arrived at Sterling Saturday morning and were taken at once to the A. M.E. church.

Pall bearers were chosen from the G.A.R. of which Mr. White was a member. Rev. Reeves of Hutchinson, assisted by Elder Payne of Newton, conducted the funeral service at the close of which the remains were interred in Cottonwood cemetery. O. H. and N. White of the city are sons of the deceased.

Birth: Feb. 1843 Death: Apr., 1912 age 69,husband of Sarah F(Gillmore)/Mary Jane(Lewis)Civil WAR Veteran of: Civil War Burial: Sterling Cemetery Sterling Rice County Kansas, USA Plot: Potters Field Created by: Lawcas Record added: May 04, 2013 Find A Grave Memorial# 109988612

Name: White, Infant Son
Burial Date: 1943, 09/10
Age at Death: IN
Plot Location: CS 13-02
Notes: son of Cecil James & Inez M(Lowery)White

Inez is daughter of Robert Lowery  – lived and labored in Hutchinson, Reno, Kansas

Infant White

Name: White, Minnie (Gordon) Gill
Burial Date: 1911, 07/19
Age at Death: 26
Plot Location: CS 12-01
Notes: 1st wife Obediah Herschel White, Jr/?

Minnie Gorden Gill White

Birth: 1885 Death: Jul., 1911 age 26, 1st w/Obediah Herschel,Jr/? Burial: Sterling Cemetery Sterling Rice County Kansas, USA Plot: CS 12-01 Edit Virtual Cemetery info [?] Created by: Lawcas Record added: May 04, 2013 Find A Grave Memorial# 109988379

Name: White, Maudie May
Burial Date: 1896, 02/21
Age at Death: 7 months
Plot Location: 611 D
Notes: Daughter of Henry Michael & Dora Tobithia (Gable)

Name: White, Mary Jane (Lewis)
Burial Date: 1906, 01/27
Age at Death: 78
Plot Location: 109 J
Notes: 2nd wife 0f Obediah,Sr

Birth: 1828     Death: Jan., 1906
age 78, 2nd wife of Obediah,Sr
Burial:
Sterling Cemetery
Sterling
Rice County
Kansas, USA
Plot: 109 J
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Name:  White, Mary Isabelle (Smith)
Burial Date:  1929, 03/24
Age at Death: 82
Plot Location: 586 C
Notes: wife of John Andrew White

Mary Isabell Smith White

Birth:	Jul. 25, 1847 Franklin County Indiana, USA
Death:	Mar. 23, 1929 Rice County Kansas, USA
Mary Isabell was the wife of John A. White, She was the daughter of Mitchel & Sarah McClain Smith She was the mother of 7 seven children. Was a member of the Methodist Church.Family links: Parents: Mitchell Smith (1821 – 1873) Sarah Ann McClain Smith (1822 – 1883)  Spouse: John Andrew White (1846 – 1918)   Children: Richard Elmer White (1878 – 1948)* Olive B White (1880 – 1882)   *Siblings: Mahala A. Smith Herbert (1843 – 1907)* Mary Isabell Smith White (1847 – 1929) Jacob Franklin Smith (1848 – 1935)* James R Smith (1854 – 1911)* Thomas Ellsworth Smith (1861 – 1929)* *Calculated relationship
Burial: Sterling Cemetery Sterling Rice County Kansas, USA Plot: 586C
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Name: White, Mary Elizabeth (Griffith)
Burial Date: 1952, 01/20
Age at Death: 65
Plot Location: 809 E
Notes: wife of Samuel Marion White

Birth:	May 8, 1886  Ellsworth, Kansas
Death:	Jan. 17, 1952 Sterling Rice County Kansas, USA
Mrs Sam White Buried Here Sunday Funeral services for Mrs. Sam White, 65, were held Sunday afternoon at the Calvary Baptist church with Rev. A. E. Armstrong in charge. Burial was in the Sterling Cemetery. Mrs. White died at her home on East Monroe early Thursday morning. She had been in ill health for some time. ————————————- Mary Elizabeth Griffith, born May 8, 1886, was united in marriage to Samuel M. White March 20, 1906, at Kingfisher, Oklahoma. To this union were born5 girls and two boys as follows: Virgil M. White, Sunnyside, Washington; Mrs. Harvey Postier, Hutchinson, Kans; Mrs. C. D. Conn, Bakerfield, California; Mrs. I. A. Cantwell, Carlsbad, New Mexico; James E. White, Sterling and two girls who died in infancy. The family moved from Oklahoma to Kanopolis, Kansas, in 1923; later to Lyons, then to Saxman and in 1934 moved to Sterling. Mary Elizabeth early in life accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as her own personal Saviour and was baptized into fellowship with Calvary Baptist Church November 11, 1952. Mrs. White had suffered much in this life but through it always remained cheerful and steadfast in her faith in Christ. After a few weeks of illness she seemed to be regaining her strength and had planned on attending Church services Sunday, but Thursday, January 17, at 6:20 a.m. she answered the summons of her precious Lord to come home. Her departure came at the age of 65 years, 8 months, 9 days. Besides her immediate family, Mrs. White leaves to mourn her departure five sisters and two brothers: Mrs. Fred Countryman, Fairview, Oklahoma; Mrs. “Sarah Pierson, Kingfisher, Oklahoma, Mrs. Clara Carpy, Enid, Oklahoma; Mrs. Jake Johnson, springdale, Arkansas; Mrs. Pearl Stroud, Los Angeles, California; Mr Truman Griffith, Calumet, Oklahoma; Mr. Arthur Griffith, Topeka, Kansas. Twelve grandchildren, four great grandchildren, 38 nieces and nephews a host of other relatives and friends. Kansas Bulletin, Sterling, KS, Thursday, July 24, 1952, Pages 4 & 5.Family links: Parents: Michael John Griffith (1853 – 1930) Agnes Leticia Livingston Griffith (1860 – 1939)Spouse: Samuel M. White (1876 – 1959)Children: Emma Elizabeth White Hampton (1910 – 1989)* Agnes Adaline White Conn (1916 – 1979)* Ila Pauline White Cantrell (1924 – 1981)* James E. White (1932 – 1984)* Siblings: Maude Ellen Griffith Countryman (1879 – 1960)* Sarah Ann Griffith Pierson (1881 – 1966)* Clara L. Griffith Karpe (1884 – 1974)* Mary Elizabeth Griffith White (1886 – 1952) Pearl Mae Griffith Stroud (1891 – 1965)* Truman A Griffith (1893 – 1966)* James Michael Griffith (1897 – 1933)* Arthur Raymond Griffith (1899 – 1967)* *Calculated relationship
Burial: Sterling Cemetery Sterling Rice County Kansas, USA
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Name: White, Mable Bell (Funk) Miller
Burial Date: 1972, 01/22
Age at Death: 89
Plot Location: 447 A
Notes: wife of Richard Elmer/?

Name: White, Levi M
Burial Date: 1885, 01/19
Age at Death: 63
Plot Location: 119 B
Notes: husband of Frances Coleman (Harvey) and Rebecca Elizabeth (Royse) Conner

War: Civil War    Pvt, Co. E ,115th Ill. Vol. Inf.

Levi M. White was born on November 10, 1822, in Scioto County, Ohio, his father, William, was 42 and his mother, Margaret, was 16. He married Frances Coleman Harvey and they had five children together. He then married Rebecca Conner on April 2, 1884, in Hutchinson, Kansas. He died on January 19, 1885, in Rice County, Kansas, at the age of 62.

Birth:	Nov. 10, 1822 Scioto County Ohio, USA
Death:	Jan. 20, 1885 Sterling Rice County Kansas, USA
History of the 115th Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry By Isaac Henry Clay Royse: discharged August 6, 1863. He was born in Ohio in 1823. After returning from the army he lived on a farm in Macon County, Ill., till 1872, when he removed to Reno County, Kan., and lived on a farm till his death January 20, 1885.   Family links: Spouse: Frances  Coleman(Harvey) Rebecca Elizabeth Royse Conner White Smith (1834 – 1917)**Calculated relationship
Burial: 1885 Unknown  Sterling, KS
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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.:

Birth: 1846, USA Death: 1918, USA John was the spouse of Mary Isabel Smith White He was a veteran of the Ill. Co. E during civil war.Family links: Spouse: Mary Isabell Smith White (1847 – 1929)*Children: Richard Elmer White (1878 – 1948)* Olive B White (1880 – 1882)**Calculated relationship Burial: Sterling Cemetery Sterling Rice County Kansas, USA Plot: 586E Created by: busyonetoday@aol.com Record added: Nov 30, 2011 Find A Grave Memorial# 81237802

Name: White, James Omer
Burial Date: 1938, 11/20
Age at Death: 70
Plot Location: 673 H
Notes: husband of Hannah Cornelia (Guttery)

James was an auctioneer in auto sales. Later worked as a local officer of the law.

Birth:	1868
Death:	1938
Family links: Spouse: Hannah Cornelia Guttery White (1871 – 1944)* *Calculated relationship
Burial: Sterling Cemetery Sterling Rice County Kansas, USA Plot: 673 H
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Name: White, Ila Selina (Lagree)
Burial Date: 1990, 07/16
Age at Death: 82
Plot Location: 673 E Cremains
Notes: wife of Orville James

Died 1990, 04/28  Hutchinson, KS.

Ila Selina Lagree White

Birth: 1908   Death: 1990

Family links:
Spouse:
Orville James White (1898 – 1963)*

*Calculated relationship
Burial:
Sterling Cemetery
Sterling
Rice County
Kansas, USA
Plot: 673 E Crems
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Name: White, Henry Michael
Burial Date: 1926, 02/10
Age at Death: 65
Plot Location: 611 D
Notes: husband of  Dora Tobithia(Gable)

 

Birth: 1860 Death: 1926
Burial:
Sterling Cemetery
Sterling
Rice County
Kansas, USA
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Name: White, Hattie Bell (McDaniel)
Burial Date: 1957, 07/16
Age at Death: 82
Plot Location: 808 E
Notes: wife of William Coleman White

Name: White, Harry Millard
Burial Date: 1934, 12/23
Age at Death: 30
Plot Location: 611 C
Notes: son of Henry Michael & Dora Tobitha(Gable)

Harry Millard White

Birth:	1904
Death:	Dec. 23, 1934
Son of Henry M. and Dora Tabitha (Gable)
Burial: Sterling Cemetery Sterling Rice County Kansas, USA
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