Wasco County OR Archives Photo Tombstone.....White, Homer (headstone) 
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Cemetery:           Kelly Cemetery
Name:               Homer (headstone) White

Date Of Photograph: July 17, 2005
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Homer White tombstone in Kelly Cemetery, near Maupin, Wasco County, Oregon, USA.
Photo taken 17 July 2005 by Kirsty Haining.

Tombstone transcription:
HOMER WHITE.
Died
Sept. 11,
1899.
Aged 
48, Years
3, Months
22, Days.
Parted below
and united
above

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HOMER WHITE was born 20 May 1851 in Warsaw, Kosciusko County, Indiana, USA.  He
was the first son of Ozias Preston White with his second wife, Julia Ann
Calkins.  On 28 September 1876 Homer married his wife, Nancy Anna Powell,
daughter of Andrew Powell and Mary Jane Tetrick.  Four children were born to
them -- Della Alice White (who married John Melvin Powell), Laura Dale White
(who married Shirley Everett Parker), Ira Willis White (who married Vesta Alma
Parker, but then died young in the 1918 Flu), and Clarence Austin White (who
married Sarah Marguerite Withee).

The Homer White family worked their way west on the railroad between 1879 and
1885, probably on the Canadian Pacific Line which was completed in 1885.  The
first two children were born in Iowa, but the sons were both born in Oregon.  

They had a homestead up on Juniper Flat, farming in the Wapinitia area.  Homer
died on 11 September 1899 of cancer of the nose and throat.  He was buried on
Kelly Cemetery on the 13th of September.  

Della had married a few years before Homer's death, and she stayed in Wasco
County, Oregon.  But sometime after 1905 (probably around 1908), Homer's widow
Nancy, their daughter Laura and her family, and their son Clarence moved down to
California and settled there.  Nancy died in 1917.  Ira stayed in Oregon for a
time, but went up to Vancouver, Washington to work in the shipyards, and it was
there he died of influenza in 1918.


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