Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....McWHORTER, JR., Max Elwood February 2006
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THE SEBEWA RECOLLECTOR Newsletter from Sebewa, Volume 41  February 2006   Number 4; submitted with permission of Editor, Grayden D. Slowins
Max Elwood McWhorter, Jr., 86, husband of Joyce L. (Nelson) McWhorter, father 
of Tom McWhorter, Marsha Kincaid and the late John L. McWhorter, brother of the 
late Carrol McWhorter, son of Glycie (Chatfield) & Max McWhorter, Sr., son of 
Libbie (Bark) & Burt McWhorter, son of Richard O. McWhorter, who arrived at the 
Sunfield/Roxand town line in the late 1840s, & Rachel Ann (Tunison), daughter 
of William & Susan Tunison, who arrived in that neighborhood in 1838 to take up 
land adjacent to their brother-in-law, John Dow, who settled there in 1837.  
Richard & Rachel Ann were married in 1850 and came over into Sebewa in 1851 to 
settle W 1/2 of NW 1/4 Sec. 34 Sebewa, next to Benjamin McWhorter at E 1/2 of 
NE 1/4 Sec. 33 Sebewa, there being 80 acres for each man, probably brothers.  
These McWhorter farms in Sebewa were on the south side of Tupper Lake Road at 
the intersection with Shilton Road.  Both halves were later owned by E. D. 
Bishop and included the Bishop School lot on the southeast corner.  Later owned 
by Rachael Binns, Richard's land is now owned by Don Cunningham, and various 
portions of Ben's land, some of which once belonged to Voight Figg, now belong 
to Gerald & Janet Gilbert and Roy & Alice Spitzley.
Richard & Rachel Ann's log cabin burned in 1858 and all their possessions were 
lost.  They returned to Sunfield Township and took possession of what became 
the family homestead along Dow and McWhorter Roads.  Their children attended 
Dow School near their home as did future generations.  Then Richard was killed 
in the Civil War on June 18, 1864, at age 36, leaving the widow and daughters 
Susan & Loese, and son Burt, age one and a half years, who eventually married 
Libbie Bark.  Burt's son Max married Glycie Chatfield, who had attended 
Shaytown School, where their families were active in the Oddfellow Lodge above 
the Shaytown store, and in the life of that community.  Max & Glycie moved 
their family into Sunfield Village in 1934 to better survive the Great 
Depression by running a restaurant.  Max Jr. joined the U. S. Army in June 1941 
during WWII, in the spirit of his great-grandfather Richard, and served in New 
Guinea, Philippines, and Japan.  Discharged in 1946, he served in the reserves 
until 1951.  Married in 1947, he and Joyce moved back to his beloved boyhood 
farm home in 1948.  A longtime member and valued resource person to the 
Recollector, he was born September 20, 1919, died November 6, 2005, and was 
buried at Sunfield Cemetery with full military rites.

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