Chester Leon Whitnah and Elizabeth G. Frazier

Chester Leon Whitnah Elizabeth G. Frazier
Birth: 12 Jul 1868 Buckheart Township, Fulton, Illinois(1) Birth: 27 Jul 1868 Abingdon, Illinois(2)
Marriage: 14 Feb 1889 Canton, Fulton, Illinois(3)
Death: 20 Apr 1941 Peoria, Illinois Death: 12 Oct 1959 Peoria, Illinois
Burial: 22 Apr 1941 Greenwood Cemetary, Fulton, Illinois(4) Death: 14 Oct 1959 Greenwood Cemetary, Fulton, Illinois(5)
Father: Hiram A. Whitnah Father: Theopolis L. Frazier
Mother: Mary Elizabeth Snider Mother: Victoria Durham

Chester and "Libby" Whitnah lived in Peoria Illinois. They owned property on Duck Island in the Illinois River. See Sketches of My Childhood by Mary Heald Heindel for a description of life on the Illinois River with the Whitnahs.

The following link shows a letter written by Chester recommending the service of a particular train. (Letter of Recommendation)

Chester Leon Whitnah and Elizabeth G. Frazier are the parents of:
  1. Mildred Whitnah(6)
  2. Dorothea Whitnah, born 19 Sep 1896 in Canton, Fulton County, Illinois. On May 7, 1919 in Los Angeles California she married George R. Barton. He was born 1 Jan 1892 in Chinook, Montana, and passed away on May 18, 1976. Dorothea passed away on Jun 11, 1979 in Canton and was buried June 13 in the Greenwood Cemetary in Fulton. Dorothea and George are the parents of one child, Whitnah Barton.(7)

Notes:

  1. Murphy-Sedgwick Funeral Home Records, Vol. 3 pg. 200.

  2. Murphy-Sedgwick, Vol. 4 pg. 251.

  3. Ibid., Illinois Statewide Marriage Records, Vol F. pg. 56.

  4. Murphy-Sedgwick, Vol. 3 pg. 200.

  5. Ibid., Vol. 3 pg. 335.

  6. Sketches of My Childhood by Mary Heald Heindel

  7. Ibid., Vol. 4 pg. 9.