Wilhite - Hubert
Source: Crawfordsville Journal-Review 3 APril 1935 p 2
Hubert Wilhite, 63, native of Crawfordsville, and former
teacher in the local high school, died at 11 o'clock Wednesday
morning at his home in Muncie, according to word received in this
city. Mr. Wilhite was critically ill a yar ago and recuperated,
but he again became serioulsy ill recently and failed to recover
from the second attack of sickness.
He was born August 26, 1871, in Crawfordsville, the son of
John S. and Esther Swant Wilhite. He attended schools of this
city and was a student at Wabash college with the class of 1892
for several years. He alter received his bachelor of arts degree
from Ball State Teachers college at Muncie after attending
Indiana State Teachers college at Terre Haute and a Michigan
college during summer vacations.
Mr. Wilhite taught sevreal years at Kokomo and Logansport
before returning to Crawforsville to teach manual training,
mechanical drawing and wood work in the high school here for a
number of years. SInce leaving here in the middle twenties he had
been a tech in the vocational department of Ball State college at
Muncie.
He was first married in 1895 to Sarah Long, of this city,
February 5, 1931 in Muncie. He later married Effie Lee, also of
Crawfordsville, who survives. A duaghter, Doris Wilhite, teacher
at Ohio State University, died in July, 1933.
The only survivors are a number of distant cousins living in
this city, among who are Mrs. Dumont Kennedy, Roy WIlhite, Ben
Wilhite, Mrs. Font Eastlack and Mrs. Autumn Muriette. - transcribed by kbz