Wasco County OR Archives Photo Tombstone.....White, Ira Willis 
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Cemetery:           Kelly Cemetery
Name:               Ira Willis White

Date Of Photograph: July 17, 2005
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Gravestone for Ira Willis White in Kelly Cemetery, on Juniper Flat, near Maupin,
Wasco County, Oregon, USA. The stone was carved by Ira's great-nephew, Elden
Richmond, a number of years after Ira's death.  Some family members believe that
Ira is not actually buried in Kelly Cemetery, and that this is just a memorial
marker for him; however, cemetery records include Ira White.  Photo taken 17
July 2005 by Kirsty Haining.


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.



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