The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. White died
yesterday at their home on East Adams Street. Interment
will be made this morning at 8 o'clock in the Catholic Cemetery.
ELLA WHITE
August 15, 1909
Many hearts are sorely distressed becasue of the sad news
that Miss Ella White has departed this life. Dwight Buck
received a letter yesterday bearing the sad news that Miss
White died on July 20. While she was not in robust health,
yet her friends are greatly shocked. She was one of the
most popular girls in Tempe while visiting here. She made
her home with Mrs. Buck for nine months.
L.S. WHITE
September 13, 1909
A letter received by a Phoenix friend from Aaron P. White, who
is now in Springfield, Oregon reports the death of his father,
L.S. White at Waterville, Oregon on Sept. 3. Concerning that
incident the facts of his last illness which confined him to
the bed for six weeks and a short sketch of his life are given
below.
The family made this valley its home for many years and all
its members are well known here. In that connection it will
be of interest to friends to know that Aaron has been employed
in a saw mill there during the summer but expects to teach
school the coming winter as also will his sister, Mary, well
known in this valley as a school teacher. His brother Joel,
who lives in Oakland had returned to that city after a visit
to the family, only a few days before the passing of the
father, L.S. White.
L.S. White was born near Aberdeen, Miss. October 19, 1834.
Previous to the Civil War he removed to Texas and at the
outbreak of the rebellion joined Company I of the Third Texas,
serving in the capacity of orderly sergeant. Throughout the
entire war he was in active service on the side of the
Confederates. At the close of the struggle he returned to
Texas becoming a saddle and harness maker. Miss Mary French
Pancoast of San Antonio became his wife in 1872. For a
number of years, Mr. White as county judge of Frio County,
Texas and later became postmaster under the Cleveland
administration, also holding this position during
Cleveland's second term.
After selling his farm in Texas in 1893, L.S. White came to
the Salt River Valley where he was followed in 1895 by his
family, the home being made close to Phoenix. A small ranch
was bought in the Creighton district where he lived thirteen
years.
In 1907 failing health because of old age caused Mr. White to
move to Waterville Oregon where another small ranch was
bought. Here the remaining part of his life was spent, death
ensuring from heart and bladder complications on Sept. 3.
Mr. White was 75 years of age. Five children and a wife
mourn his death: three sons, Joel, Aaron and William and
two daughters, Mary and Margaret.
NED WHITE
March 2, 1909
Ned White, a prospector, last Saturday committed suicide in
his tent at Beckman's Well in Cunningham Pass, by shooting
himself in the left temple with a 38 Colt revolver. The roof
of his mouth was blown out by the explosion. His body was
found by a young man by the name of Mayer, who had been
prospecting with him.
The shot was heard by Mayer and John Agard but no attention
was paid to it as there were several prospectors in the
vicinity and a great deal of hunting and target-shooting
had been going on.
Coroner Briggs, accompanied by a jury, composed of William
Wilkinson, Thomas Reed, W.B. Capman, A. Furrer, Raphael
Navarez, Frank Graham and Charles Fleming, viewed the body
on Sunday morning and brought in a verdict of suicide
caused by despondency.
White was about 45 years old and a native of Texas. He had
been in this locality about a year, having formerly lived
in Kingman. Very little is known about him, but it is
believed that he had a brother by the name of Pete White,
a noted lion hunter who lives somewhere in Mohave County.
White was a hard drinker and he had been heard to say that
he intended to commit suicide sometime. The funeral will
take place at 4 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. The interment
will be in Wendendale Cemetery. The Kingman papers are
requested to copy.
MISS STELLA WHITEHURST
May 26, 1909
The New Orleans Times -Democrat contains the following
account of the death last Tuesday of Mrs. Charles Tessier,
better known in Phoenix as Miss Stella Whitehurst, who was
for a long time a prominent figure in local musical circles.
Miss Whitehurst came here when quite young about eighteen
years ago. She was a niece of Malcolm McNair, a former real
estate dealer of this city.
The Times Democrat says:
"Mrs. Charles A. Tessier Sr. was laid to rest yesterday
afternoon and another of New Orleans most prominent and
admired women was gone forever.
The news of Mrs. Tessier's death came as a distinct shock
to those who knew and admired her. Mrs. Tessier's mother,
Mrs. Clarence Whitehurst, was taken ill during the early
part of last week and on Friday last she died. During this
time, Mrs. Tessier had been her most devoted nurse. On
Monday morning, just two days after her mother's burial,
she took to her bed. She soon developed alarming symptoms
and Mr. Tessier immediately summoned several physicians but
she rapidly grew worse and died.
Mrs. Tessier, formerly Miss Stella Whitehurst was born in
Galveston, Texas, thirty four years ago, the daughter of
Clarence Whitehurst and Margaret McNair. On both sides of
her family she was a descendant of old colonial stock. Her
paternal grandfather, Colonial Whitehurst was an officer in
Washington's army and her maternal grandfather was an officer
in the confederate army and was killed at the battle of
Corinth. Her grandmother was the first president of St.
Anna's Home of this city and her other relatives included
Colonel Snydor of Galveston and Mrs. Octave Morel of New
Orleans.
When a girl of twenty years, she came to New Orleans and here
added to her already highly cultivated musical talent by
study under several local artists. She will be sadly missed.
MARTIN WHITNEY
August 2, 1909
S.H. Easterling yesterday received a telegram from his partner,
J.T. Whitney stating that his brohter, Martin Whitney died at
his home in Los Angeles at five o'clock on Saturday evening.
He had been ill jsut two weeks. He was suddenly seized two
weeks ago yesterday. The family was preparing to have a group
photograph taken on the lawn in front of the house and shortly
before the group was arranged he went into the house intending
to return in a moment.
After some delay a servh was made for him and he was found in
the bathroom in ocnvulsions. It was supposed that he was
suffering from an affection of the stomach and the remedies
nearest at hand were administered without result. A physician
was sent for and he said that Mr. Whitney was suffering from
appendicitis. Mr. Whitney was taken to the Pacific Hospital
where an operation was performed.
The appendix was found to be normal but a further operation
disclosed a hole in the stomach. It was said by the physician
that this was a rare case and that chances of recovery were
not more than one in a million. There was nothing to do but
wait the result which came on Saturday evening.
ELI WILLET
September 20, 1909
Eli Willet, one of the boys attending the Normal Training
School was drowned yesterday afternoon about 3 o'clock at Salt
River while in swimming near the point of Rocks. The young man
was in the company of a number of other boys from the Normal and
town. There were probably as many as twenty at different points,
along the river within a hundred yards. The river was not
unusually high but right at the point is quite deep and there
is a considerable current. From all that could be learned
through the examination of witnesses at the coroner's inquest,
the lad was unable to swim and was caught in the current and
carried down the stream. Before his body was recovered life
was extinct.
The story told by his companions was to the effect that Eli was
swimming in the shallow water above the point, but drifted down
out of his depth. He cried out as he went down and one or two
of the smaller boys some distance away, noticed his predicament
but before they could get to him or attract the attention of
the older boys of the party, he had been carried down stream.
The boys present hurried down stream and the body was recovered
about two hundred yards below the point. Several of the older
boys at once commenced work on the lad while others were sent
for a doctor. They did all they could before the arrival of
doctors Brechan and Rubel and the doctors worked for half an
hour but to no effect.
A coroner's jury was at once impaneled by Justice Carr; the
body was viewed and half a dozen of the boys companions in
the river were examined. The jury brought in a verdict
finding that the lad met his death accidentally while swimming
near the point.
The lad was fourteen years of age and arrived from Sasco just
a week ago last evening to attend school. He took up quarters
in the boys dormitory and was making satisfactory progress.
September 21, 1909
Joe Willett, of Sasco, the father of Eli Willett who met death
in such a tragic manner while swimming Sunday afternoon,
arrived here yesterday morning in response to a telegram sent
out the evening before by President Matthews advising him of
the distressing accident.
Mr. Willett concluded that it would be better to hold the
funeral here and Mrs. Willett came in on the evening train.
The funeral was accordingly held yesterday afternoon at four
o'clock from St. Marys Catholic Church and the interment was
made at the Catholic Cemetery.
