WHITE, Earl

Date of birth:  2 Jan 1883
Date of death: 14 Oct 1899 – Needham, Johnson County, Indiana

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, October 20, 1899,
Volume XL Number 15, page 1 column 6

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OBITUARY.

Death is a reaper whose sickle leaves no sheaf ungathered; a prince whose power over this world is absolute, and whose mandate all must obey. Surely, in the midst of life we are in death! How true and yet how sad! Again the death angel has entered the home of Thomas and Nora White and called their eldest son, Earl, from this world of pain and sorrow, after an illness of almost four weeks of typhoid fever. All that willing hands and loving hearts could do was done, and yet his disease baffled medical skill.

Although he was not a member of any church, yet he loved to attend church and Sabbath school.

Earl was born January 2, 1883, and departed this life Oct. 14, 1899, aged 16 years, 9 months and 12 days. He leaves father, mother, three sisters, one brother and other relatives and friends to mourn their loss. Not in the first shock of parting is our suffering keen­est but as we move on over the solitary way each sight, each sound calls up a fresh memory that saddens the first sadness, even while this sadness sweet­ens and endears the memory of other days. Every trial, like every enjoyment, has it special lesson to the child of God, but what that lesson is does not always appear on the surface. You have the assurance that if you live right that in the sweet bye and bye there will be a happy reunion in that mansion not made with hands.

Funeral services were conducted by Rev. P. O. Duncan at 2nd Mt. Pleasant church, Oct. 15. Burial at same place.

Emma Gross.

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The Franklin Democrat, Friday, October 20, 1899,
Volume XL Number 15, page 5 column 2

LOCAL and PERSONAL.

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Earl White, sixteen years, son of Thomas White, living near Needham, died Saturday from typhoid fever.

Link to Earl White’s grave

Note: The Johnson County Indiana WPA Death Index, 1882–1920, page 227, referencing Book H-19, page 1, records that Earl White, a sixteen-year-old white male, died 14 Oct 1899 in Needham.

Submitted by Mark McCrady and Cathea Curry