Jerome News - 30 May 1932

Centerville Daily Iowegian and Citizen - 1 June 1932

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JEROME NEWS

  May 30--Mrs. Edris Ward and daughter Donna Jean of Council Bluffs, are visiting relatives here.

  Mr. and Mrs. James Miller and children, of Centerville, spent Sunday evening at the Ernest Fry home.

  Richard Kurg of Elmer, Mo., is visiting this weekat the Lester King home.

  Mr. and Mrs. Dick Anderson and daughter Maxine of Numa, were visiting Sunday at the parental Joe Ponsetto home.

  Mr. and Mrs. Joe Cousins of Centerville, visited at the home of their daughter, Mrs. Theo. Sedgwick, Sunday.

  Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fox, jr. and sons of Numa spent Thursday evening with his sister, Mrs. D. E. More [Moore] and family.
  Mr. and Mrs. Ollie Olson and son of Ottumwa, visited Sunday and Monday with her other, Mrs. O. Dooley, and other relatives.
  Mr. and Mrs. James Cathcart of Centerville and Mrs. Chas. Burns visited Sunday with their mother, Mrs. Ella McKern.

  Mr. and Mrs. Ed Sexton of Numa were in Jerome Friday to meet her sister, Mrs. Warren Davis of Cranston, Ia., who come to visit the grave of her father, Geo. King.
  Miss Imogene Shontz of Kansas City, Mo., came Friday for a visit with her mother, Mrs. E. L. Shontz.
  Mr. and Mrs. Gail Shock and nephew, Andy Shick visited at the parental W. M. Hardy home Sunday. Billie Rash returned home with them for a visit.
  Mr. and Mrs. Joe Mulvania and baby and two more friends, of Lineville, Mo., visited Sunday with Mrs. Maude Cathcart and Mrs. Chas. Mulvania.
  Mrs. Geno Sebbon and baby of Seymour, visited at the parental Chas. Fox home Sunday and Monday.
  Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Cathcart, of Elmira, Mo., visited Sunday at the parental James Cathcart home.
  Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Haught were visiting in Numa, Sunday.
  Mr. and Mrs. Albert Matovich and two children, Mr. John Polick and son of Melcher visited Sunday and Monday at the parental Rudolph Bujan [Buyan] home.
  Mr. and Mrs., Lee Phelps and daughters of Rathbun visited with his sister, Mrs. Clay Dooley and family Sunday. 
  Mr. and Mrs. Gilkison and children, Mrs. Wm. Bolton and son Billie and Robert of Elmer, Mo., Mrs. Chas. King and daughter Wanda of Lawson, Ia., Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Bolton and family, Mrs. Mott Kennel and children of Jerome, took dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Everett Christy and Grandma Fisher, Monday In the afternoon Mrs. Frank Thomas and children, Mrs. Charlotte Curtis and daughter Nadine and Ed Hill of Centerville, came to visit with them.
  Mr. and Mrs. Bill Williams is visiting at the parental O. L. Fry home Monday.
  Mr. and Mrs. John Rash of Des Moines visited with Mrs. A. S. Gillespie, Sunday.
  Mr. and Mrs. Henry Noble and daughter Mr. and Mrs. Tom Williams and son of Centerville Mr. and Mrs. Joe Cassossi visited at the Marco Cassossi home Monday.
  Dugie Moore, Wm. Hardy, Orvile Dooley, James Lawton, Zora Rash, Reuben and Melvin Dooley, Harry, Johnnie and Louis Maletsky and Gilbert Mickels, who are employed on a railroad gang at Craston, spent Sunday and Monday here with their families.
  Mrs. Ben Sellers, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Sellers of Mystic, visited Sunday at the D. E. Moore, Amos Stiles and Lester King home.
 Geno Sebbins, Misses Lena and Jena Sebbins visited at the Chas. Fox home, Sunday evening.
  Mr. and Mrs. Ed Dooley and children of Diamond, visited at the home of their sister Mrs. Henry Purdy, Sunday.

Mary Hutchings Hadsell, 1884-1934

Centerville Daily Iowegian and Citizen - 11 April 1934
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Thought Sleeping at Noon

She Was Found to Have Died 10:00 A.M.

Later In Day

  Mrs. Mary Hadsell, for the past three years a resident of this city, was found dead in bed at her rooming place on West Maple street at 6 o'clock last evening, evidently the victim of a heart failure during an epileptio seizure.

  Her daughter Dorothy, who attends school here, had left the home in the morning as usual, after her mother had explained that she would stay in the bed. Dorothy returned home at noon to find her mother apparently sleeping. She did not awaken her and after eating lunch, left again for school.
  In the evening she returned from school and on finding her mother in the same position she was in, when she had left at noon she sought to awaken her and becoming frightened, called Dr. J. C. Donahue. On making an examination the physician determined that she had probably been dead since 10 a. m. of that day. Mrs. Hadsell had been in ill health for some time.
  She is survived by three daughters, Dorothy, of this city, Mrs. Robert Best of Cincinnati, and a daughter, Ruth, of Hiteman, Ia.  She was a member of the Christian church of this city and was known to many people here who morn her death. Funeral and obituary announcements will be made later.

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Centerville Daily Iowegian and Citizen - 13 April 1934

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CINCINNATI - Mrs. Edna White, Correspondent

  April 13.--Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Hadsell who died quite suddenly Tuesday evening at her home in Centerville, will be held from the Methodist church in Jerome at 2 p.m. Friday conducted by Rev. Childs, with interment in the Jerome cemetery.

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Centerville Daily Iowegian and Citizen - 24 April 1934

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OBITUARY

 Mary Hutchings, daughter of George and Mildred Hutchings, was born in Kensington, Kansas, October 20, 1884. She grew to womanhood in Kansas and on July 10, 1906 she was united in marriage to Edwin J. Hadsell at Kansas City, Mo. Three daughters and one son were born to this union; the son dying in infancy.  In 1916 Mr. and Mrs. Hadsell and family came from Kensington, to Jerome, Iowa.  In 1929 the family moved from Jerome to Centerville and have resided here for the past five years.

  Mrs. Hadsell departed this life very suddenly at her home on 629 West Maple St., Tuesday morning, April 10, 1934 age 49 years, 5 months and 20 days. In her early life she fulfilled the commands of God, accepting Him as her own personal Savior and baptized into the Christian church at Kensington. She transferred her membership to the Central Church of Christ in this city after moving here. She was also a member of the Loyal Women's Sunday School class. It can be truthfully said of her that she was a lover of God's house and delighted to attend its services.

  She was also a good mother to her three daughters and was much loved by her numerous friends. She possessed a pleasing personality and greeted those whom she met with a smile. The impressions that she has left will never be forgotten. 

  In death she is survived by three daughters, namely, Mrs. Elmer Barker of Hiteman, Iowa, Mrs. C. R. Best of Cincinnati, and Dorothy at home, also one grandson, Robert Lee Best. Her parents, one sister, two brothers and two grandchildren preceded her in death.

  Funeral services were held Friday afternoon at two o'clock in the Jerome M. E. church conducted by the Rev. Luther W. Childs. Interment was made in the Jerome cemetery.
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Oscar Merritt Hadsall - 1919-1919

  Oscar Merritt Hadsall, son of Edwin Jay Hadsell and Mary Hutchings, was born and died on 13 September 1919.  He was buried in the Jerome Cemetery, Lincoln Township, Appanoose County, Iowa, in an unmarked grave in Block 13, Lot 8, Row 2.

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The Modesto Bee - 15 June 2002y
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  [Editor's Note:  Dorothy M. Hadsell Hawkins was born 24 August 191d 6 in Kensington, Kansas, and died 27 May 2002 at Doctors Medical Center, Modesto, California. She married Donn Blanchard Hawkins who was born 25 January 1890 in New York, and died 1 December 1978 in Santa Clara County, California.  Dorothy was Donn's second wife.]

  Dorothy M. Hawkins, 85, of Modesto died of natural causes May 27 [2002] at Doctors Medical Center. Mrs. Hawkins was a native of Kensington, Kan. She had lived in Modesto two years. She was a waitress for Dallas Colony Restaurant, San Jose, for 52 years. She loved animals and cooking. A funeral will be 2 p.m. Monday at Oak Hill Cemetery, San Jose.  Lakewood Funeral Home, Hughson, in charge of arrangements.

Donn Blanchard Hawkins' and Dorothy M. Hadsell's Gravestone 

in Oak Hill Memorial Park, San Jose, Santa Clara County, California

Wilsonia (Fry) Shanahan, 1924-1992 ............... David Clifford Shanahan, 1921-1985

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Nina E. (Walker) Phillips, 1913-1994

Ad-Express/Iowegian - 31 May 1994

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  Nina E. Phillips, 81, of Centerville died Friday, May 27, 1994, in a car accident.

  She was born April 6, 1913, in Numa, the daughter of Monroe and Ethel (McCoy) Walker.

  She married Oren Phillips in Kemmerer, Wyo., Nov. 19, 1932. He preceded her in death Aug. 15, 1993.

  Survivors include three brothers, Raymond of Centerville, Cecil of Albuquerque, N.M., and Marion of Norco, Calif.; and other relatives.

  She was preceded in death by her parents and two brothers, Loyd and Victor Walker.

  She was a homemaker.

  A joint service with Alexander Warnick will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, June 1, at the Lange Funeral Home with the Revs. John Lewis and Walter King officiating. Burial will be in the Jerome Cemetery. Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. at the funeral home.

  A memorial has been established to the Gospel Chapel and may be left at the funeral home.

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Centerville Iowegian - 15 March 1968
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Divorce

  Judge Edward P. Powers today granted a divorce to Oren E. Phillips vs. Nina E. Phillipson the grounds of willful desertion. There were no children. The couple married Nov. 30, 1932 in Kemmerer, Wyo. 

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Gravestone in the Jerome Cemetery for
Oren E. Phillips and Nina E. (Walker) Phillips
[Block 13, Lot 8]
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Ad-Express/Iowegian - 31 May 1994

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3 dead after wreck Friday

  Three persons have died as the result of a two-car collision north of Centerville Friday afternoon, and a 15-year-old girl remains hospitalized in Des Moines.

  Jacob K. Phillips, 88, of rural Appanoose County, and Nina E. Phillips, 81, of Centerville were killed when the cars they were driving collded on the northbound shoulder of Highway 5 about 3.5 miles north of Centerville at about 4:35 p.m. Friday, according to the Appanoose County Sheriff's Office. The 1983 Ford LTD driven by Jacob Phillips was northbound; the 1944 Oldsmobile Cutless driven by Nine Phillips was southbound.

  Alexander Warnick, 1, of rural Moravia, a back seat passenger in the Nina Phillips' vehicle, sustained multiple injuries and ws transported by air ambulance to Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines where he was pronounced dead at 11:55 a.m. Sunday.  

  Warnick's mother, Valerie White, 15, of rural Moravia was a front seat passenger in the Nina Phillips' vehicle and ws also injured. She was taken to St. Joseph's Mercy Hospital in Centerville and then transported by air ambulance to Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines. On Monday, she was listed in critical condition with multiple injuries in the Des Moines hospital's pediatric intensive  care unit.

  The Centerville Fire Department's jaws of life was used to extricate both Phillips from their vehicles.

  Nena Phillips was wearing a lap and shoulder seat belt, and air bag was deployed on impact, the Appanoose County Sheriff's Office said. Neither Jacob Phillips nor Valerie White were found wearing any restraints. White's son ws found secured in a child restraint device in the back, the sheriff's office sdded. Both vehicles were totaled and received extensive front end damage.

  Authorities determined that the two Phillips drivers of the vehicles were no related to each other.

  A seven-mile strip of Highway 5 was closed for more than an hour as a result of the accident. Traffic was rerouted by the sheriff's office, Iowa State Patrol and Department of Natural Resources.

  Nine persons have now been killed in the past five years in multiple-fatality accidents within a half-mile of Friday's crash.

  A 71-year-old Centerville woman, two 18-year-old men from Exline and Cincinnati, and a 17-year-old woman from Kirksville, Mo., were killed in a two-car collision in July 1989.

  In January 1990, a 50-year-old Centerville woman and her 3-year-old grandson died in a two-car crash.

  Obituaries for Jacob Phillips, Nina Phillips and Alexander Warnick are on Page 2.

Oren E. Phillips, 1905-1993

Ad-Express/Iowegian - 17 August 1993

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  Oren E. Phillips, 87, of Centerville, died Sunday, Aug. 15, 1993, at the St. Joseph's Mercy Hospital in Centerville.

  He was born in Appanoose County, Nov. 19, 1905, the son of William E. and Etta Jane (Moore) Phillips.

  He married Nina Walker in Kemmerer, Wyo., Nov. 19, 1932. She survives.

  Also surviving are several nieces, nephews and cousins.

  Preceding him in death were his parents; three brothers, Delmer, James and Woodrow; and a sister Grace McQueen.

  He worked in the mines in Wyoming until 1947 when they moved to the Centerville area. He then farmed and worked on road construction. He was a member of the United Mine Workers of America.

  Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 18, 1993, at the Lange Funeral Home, with John Lewis officiating. Burial will be in the Jerome Cemetery. There will be a visitation Tuesday evening from 7 to 8.

  A memorial has been established to the American Lung Association or the Gospel Chapel Church and may be left at the funeral home.

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Centerville Iowegian - 15 March 1968

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Divorce

  Judge Edward P. Powers today granted a divorce to Oren E. Phillips vs. Nina E. Phillipson the grounds of willful desertion. There were no children. The couple married Nov. 30, 1932 in Kemmerer, Wyo. 

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Gravestone of Oren E. and Nina E. (Walker) Phillips

in the Jerome Cemetery [Block 13, Lot 8)

History of Brethren [Believers] Movement

 History of Brethren Movement

By Robert L. Peterson

South Central Iowa

  Christian coal miners from Scotland immigrated to the coal mining area of southeast Iowa perhaps as early as 1885. They formed little assemblies and began to preach the gospel to fellow miners and farmers. Forbush and What Cheer were among the early assemblies; then Rathbun, Mystic, Numa, Jerome, Hocking, Melcher, and Williamson; then Centerville and Albia. By removals these pioneers or their descendants became the nuclei of assemblies in Des Moines, Eddyville, Ottumwa, and Davenport. The last named had an earlier history, on a different basis, but its later strength was largely due to influx from Centerville. At one time, the assembly at Ottumwa was the largest and most influential in the state of Iowa; it disbanded in the mid 1990s.

  The What Cheer Assembly was formed some time prior to 1888, making it the first or second in Iowa (see Berea). It quickly grew to a company of fifty or more Christians. When work in the mines ran out at What Cheer some of these brethren moved to Carbondale and Excelsior. They continued their Gospel activity and worked underground to pay expenses. When the mines closed in those places, they moved further afield into southern Iowa.

  Around 1890, a few of the coal miners from What Cheer came to Forbush to work in the mine there, establishing an assembly there. Among them were James Whittem, John Moffat, and W.A. Wilson. They worked in the mine during the winter months, saved their money, then rented tents to use for Gospel meetings during the summer, in many small towns. As people trusted the Lord, small meetings were started. A feature of the work in these towns were joint quarterly meetings consisting of  one-day ministry.

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  When these towns lost population with the loss of industry, these assemblies moved to Centerville. They bought the Swedish Baptist Mission for meetings, calling it the Centerville Gospel Hall. In 1904, the old Methodist building on the corner of Main and Washington was purchased and became their meeting place until the present building was built in 1950, at 828 South 12th Street.

  The Centerville assembly was a fairly large group for a small town; it was a leader among several other assemblies in the area. Their Labor Day conferences were highlights of the year, with several hundred people in attendance. In the late 1990s, only a handful of adults were in the fellowship.

  Among those who worked and preached there were William Sommerville, John Moffat, W.A. Wilson, John McGee, John K. Wilson, John Hargrave, James S. White, W.W. White, and Thomas McCully. These men carried on for a long time before any of those giving their whole time to the Lord’s work arrived on the scene. Mr. Sommerville was a true shepherd and a good gospeller. John Moffat and W. A. Wilson were gifted men and spent their later years in full-time service. They were used in establishing the original testimony in Centerville in about 1897. W. W. White helped Mr. Moffat and others in tent work at Centerville, Numa, Jerome, and other places. The Welshmen David Lawrence and his brother-in-law were prominent in the assembly later; David Lawrence was an itinerant preacher who traveled often with Arthur Rodgers. John Lewis was another itinerant preacher who was associated with Centerville. George Jones is the current leading elder in the Centerville assembly, now called the Centerville Gospel Chapel.

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  Williamson was an active mining town in South Central Iowa when its coal mine was in operation, but scarcely exists today. The assembly meeting at the Williamson Gospel Hall was started in about 1929. The group met first in the Williamson High School auditorium and had about 45 to 50 people in fellowship. Two years after the meeting was started, the group moved a building from Numa to Williamson for their fellowship. Mark Avitt’s truck was used to move the building. The Gospel Hall had a large sign on the outside with John 3:16 in bold letters.

  Most of the brothers in the assembly were coal miners. Some had moved from Albia and other area meetings when those mines were closed. The Williamson Gospel Hall closed in the mid 1950s after the Williamson mine closed.

  Speakers that helped in the meeting included David Lawrence, W.W. White, Albert Orcutt, James Stell, and David and John Horn.

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  This excerpt from History of the Brethren Movement by Robert L. Peterson is taken from the web site of Emmaus Bible College.

William Wallace White, 1869-1949

  William Wallace White was born 9 September 1869 in Turtle Creek, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, son of John G. White and Catherine Smith.  He married 19 November 1890 at What Cheer, Keokuk county, Iowa, Florence Adella Sturdevant who was born 24 March 1871 in What Cheer, Keokuk county, Iowa, daughter of James K. Sturdevant and Susannah Walter who are buried in the Jerome Cemetery.  William died 3 May 1949 at St. Joseph's Hospital in Centerville, Appanoose County, Iowa and was buried in the Jerome Cemetery, Lincoln Township, Appanoose County, Iowa. Florence died 14 March 1954 in Centerville, Appanoose County, Iowa, and was buried in the Jerome Cemetery, Lincoln Township, Appanoose County, Iowa.
  W. W. White was a coal miner who was active in the United Mine Workers of America serving as President of District 12 in Iowa in 1908 and working later as an international organizer of the union.  He was also an active leader and preacher in theBrethren [Believers] movement.
  To this union were born six children:
  1.  William Arthur White was born 28 December 1894/5 in Centerville, Appanoose County, Iowa and died 28 January 1977 in Miami, Dade County, Florida. He married 24 December 1914 in Reno, Washoe County, Nevada, Lucinda M. "Lou" Zugg who was born 29 December 1894 in Schuyler County, Missouri, daughter of Addison Sherman Zugg Jr. and Nancy Hetta Ayer, died 15 August 1984 at St. Luke's Hospital in Davenport, Scott County, Iowa, and was buried in Davenport Memorial Park, Scott County, Iowa.  He married, second, Cecile _____, a French Canadian who moved back to Canada after William died. William served in the Navy during World War I.
  2.  Mae Lois White was born 28 June 1897 in Appanoose County, Iowa, died 25 June 1961 in Midland, Midland County, Michigan. She married in Appanoose County, Iowa, on 4 July 1916 Charles Dewey Swan who was born 10 March 1898 in Bay City, Bay County, Michigan, son of Kirk Swan and Ida Robinson, died 1 August 1973 in Red Bluff, Tehama County, California.  To this union six children were born. 
  3.  Florence Elizabeth White was born in Washington Township, Keokuk County, Iowa, on 15 July 1900, died in October 1989 in Sterling, Logan County, Colorado, and was buried in Sunset Memorial Gardens, Sterling, Logan County, Colorado.  She married in Centerville, Appanoose County, Iowa, on 25 March 1922, Harlan Newton Barton who was born 11 November 1900 in Jerome, Appanoose County, Iowa, son of William Joseph Barton and Viola Butler, died in April 1990 in Sterling, Logan County, Colorado, and was buried in Sunset Memorial Gardens, Sterling, Logan County, Colorado.  To this union were born two children.
  4.  Rufus J. "R.J." White was born 20 August 1902 in Iowa, died 18 December 1959 in Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa.  He married c1927 Geraldine F.______ who was born 29 January 1905 in Missouri and died 21 December 1993 in Iowa.  Two sons were born to this union.
  5.  Faye Bertha White was born in Jerome, Appanoose County, Iowa, on 20 February 1905, died 16 July 1981 in New Sharon, Mahaska County, Iowa, and was buried in the New Sharon Cemetery in New Sharon, Mahaska County, Iowa. She married in Centerville, Appanoose County, Iowa, on 14 June 1924 Roy Franilin Howell who was born in Moulton, Appanoose County, Iowa, on 24 February 1903, son of William Craven Howell and Sarah Elizabeth Mitchell, died 13 May 1986 in Bettendorf, Scott County, Iowa, and was buried in the New Sharon Cemetery in New Sharon, Mahaska County, Iowa. Two daughters and one son were born of this union.
  6.  Jessie Edward White was born in Jerome, Lincoln Township, Appanoose County, Iowa, on 13 August 1907, died 9 March in El Reno,m Canadian County, Oklahoma, and was buried in Little Rock, Arkansas. He married, first, Esther ______ and, second, Florence Irene McCarthy who was born in Stirling, Logan County, Colorado, and was buried in St. Joseph, Missouri.  One son was born of this second marriage.

William Wallace White and Florence Adelle Sturdevant

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Centerville Daily Iowegian and Citizen - 3 May 1949

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W. W. White Succumbs Today

  W. W. White, 79, long time resident of Appanoose County, died this morning at 4:00 a.m., at the St. Joseph hospital in this city.  Mr. White had been ill the past three years, and had been in the hospital for the past ten days.

  He was born in Lucerne County, Pennsylvania but came to Appanoose County when a very small child.  He lived in Numa twenty four years, and had  lived at 910 South 18th Street in Centerville for the past year.

  Surviving are his wife, Florence Sturdavent White, and six children: William A. White, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Mrs. Mae Swan, who has lived here the past year, helping care for her father; Mrs. Florence Barton, Sterling, Colorado; R. J. White, Des Moines; Mrs. Fae Howell, New Sharon; and J. E. White of Fairbury, Nebraska. Twelve grandchildren, eight great grandchildren, and three sisters, Mrs. Lizzie Watson of Centerville, who is now visiting in California; Mrs. Jane Green, Des Moines, and Mrs. Mary Butler, Des Moines, also survive.  

  His parents, one infant daughter, and three brothers preceded him in death. One sister, Mrs. Margaret Jones also preceded him in death on February 2, 1949.

  Funeral arrangements are pending arrival of relatives, and will be announced later. The body is at the Miller Funeral Home.

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Centerville Daily Iowegian and Citizen - 4 May 1949
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White Funeral Will Be Thursday

  Funeral services for W. W. White, long time Appanoose County resident, will be held Thursday, May 5, at 2:00 p.m. at the Miller Funeral Home.  Rev. David Lawrence will officiate, and burial will be in the Jerome Cemetery

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Gravestone in the Jerome Cemetery for
William Wallace and Florence Adelle (Sturdevant) White
[Block 5, Lot 7]
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Iowa Unionist - 28 June 1907
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  W. W. White of Jerome, Iowa, vice president of the United Mine Workers, district No 13, was chosen by the recent convention of Iowa State Federation of Labor, as a delegate from that body to attend next year's session of the A.F. of L.  The choice is a good one. Mr. White is thoroughly posted on labor topics.

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The Mixer and Server - 15 July 1907
Official Journal of Two Unions
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  W. W. White of the United Mine Workers of America, vice president and resident of Oskalooa, Iowa, responded to the toast, "Organized Labor." Mr. White is a forcible speaker and he told the guests in word pictures of the life of a miner and what organization has done for that class of workmen and that he at 12 yearsof age, went to work in the mines, and that the unions are trying to keep other little children from going to work at such an early age, as the school is the proper place. Mr. White was elected to the next meeting of the American Federation of Labor as delegate to represent the Iowa State Federation of Labor.

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Des Moines Daily News - 27 March 1908
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W. W. White Now Heads Iowa Miners

  A slate of officers, headed by W. W. White for President, were elected by the members of District 13, United Mine Workers of America.

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The Centerville Daily Citizen - 15 April 1908
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Make But Few Changes in the New Mine Agreement
President White of the Mine Workers Is Optimistic
Shorter Work Day Pay Day

  Des Moines, April 15.--The joint scale committee of coal miners and operators yesterday adopted a resolution to be included in the new agreement which makes a five hor workday on the two pay days of each of each month. A number of other resolutions were adopted and the agreement is now complete except for the consideration of about a dozen of the resolutions of the expired agreement.ag

  The joint committee expects to have the new agreement complete by tonight or tomorrow noon and will be presented to the joint convention of miners and operators which has been called for tomorrow afternoon. As soon as the agreement is approved by the convention it will be put into force and operations at the mines resumed.

  The members of the committee feel that the matter will be entirely settled by the end of the week.

  "I feel sure that the agreement made by the committee, when completed, will be acceptable to the mine workers, said President W. W. White of the Iowa district of mine workers. "The terms and scale of wages, with a few minor changes are practically the same as they were in the agreement which expired March 31." 

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The Centerville Daily Citizen - 1 April 1909

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  Oskaloosa Herald: --The term of office of W. W. White, as president of the Iowa Mine Workers, expired today, and the gentleman and his family terminated their residence here, returning to their former home at Jerome. Mr. White has made many warm friends during his stay of a little over one year. They wish him success in his future undertakings on employment. Friends had hoped that Mr. White would locate in Oskaloosa but he returns  to Jerome where he has property interests.

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Centerville Daily Citizen - 14 April 1910

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There May Be Two Candidates

Thought Probable Another Appanoose County Man for Governor

  W. W. White, a well known labor leader in the state, is slated to head the party prohibition ticket to be named at the state convention to be held in Des Moines on April 26 and 27 says the Register and Leader.

  Mr. White has been an ardent advocate of temperance and has been a temperance lecturer before the labor organizations of the state. He is now in Washington, D.C., in the interest of national labor measurers but it is believed by the prohibition party leaders that he will accept the nomination. Because the party ticket failed to poll the required two per cent of the total vote cast at the general election two year ago, the names of the state candidates will have to go upon the official state ballot by petition.

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Centerville Daily Iowegian and Citizen - 5 April 1941

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  Will and Rufus White, of Des Moines; Mrs. Ray Howe, of Oskaloosa; Mrs. Harlan Barton, of Colyar, Kansas; and Jess White, of Denver, Colo., have been called here by the critical illness of their mother, Mrs. W. W. White, who is in St. Joseph's Hospital.

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