WHITESELL, David
Source: The Weekly Review, April 2, 1909
David Whitesell was born in Montgomery county, Ohio, December 9, 1819, and died at his home south of Crawfordsville March 19, 1909, aged 89 years 3 months and 10 days. He was one of a family of 14 children, only two of whom survive. His boyhood days were spent in Ohio and Indiana. He came to Vermillion county, Indiana, with his parents in 1823 and later, in 1825, removed to Fountain county, where he resided until 1893. Then he moved to Montgomery county with his son Jasper, with whom he had made his home after the death of his second wife. Here he resided until his death. He was married March 19, 1844 to Nancy Abolt, who departed this life April 14, 1847. To this union two children were born - George, who lived at home, and Mrs. Mary Akin, who resides at Bellingham, Washington. On October 23, 1853, he was married to Rebecca Booe, widow of Alexander Furr, who died August 26, 1883. To them two children were born - Jasper, of near Crawfordsville, and Mrs. Martha Handy, of Ethredge, Tennessee. He is survived by two brothers, two sons, and two daughters, one step-son, three step-daughters, eleven grandchildren, and eleven great-grandchildren. He has always lived an honest, upright, Christian life, having united with the Christian church at Union Chapel at the time of its organization, July 17, 1871. He attended the first Sabbath school ever held in Fountain county. It is at his request that the fourteenth chapter of revelations be read, beginning with the thirteenth verse. He was a charter member of Richland lodge, No. 205, A.F. and A.M. of which order he was always an active member. He had always lived an honest and upright life and his Bible was his daily companion, whose teachings he always tried to follow. Short services were held at the home by J.N. Britton, of New Market, on Sunday afternoon. Interment was made at Union Chapel cemetery west of Newtown, Monday, March 22, 1909, under the auspices of Richland lodge, No 205, A.F. and A.M. The Rev. Bailey, of Mellott Christian church, officiating. The funeral was largely attended by his host of friends and neighbors, both of this county and at his old home in Fountain county. – thanks to Kim H