Whiteaker, David Jesse LAST: Whiteaker FIRST: David MID: Jesse GENDER: M MAIDEN NAME:  TITLE:  BORN: 29 Oct 1824 DIED: 22 Oct 1902 BURIED: 23 Oct 1902 (Whiteaker Cemetery) OCCUPATION:  Farmer BIRTH PLACE:  West Virginia DEATH PLACE: Independence, Polk Co, Oregon NOTES:  1900 OR CENSUS - David Whiteaker, age 75, occupation farmer, b. Oct 1824 in West Virginia, is enumerated with his wife of 30 years, Lucy L., age 56, mother of no children, b. May 1844 in Indiana. BIOGRAPHICAL: (Source - Lang, Herbert O., History of Willamette Valley, Lang & Himes, 1885, pg 699) "Born in West Virginia, October 29, 1824; removed with his parents to Illinois in 1836, and came with his father, Benjamin Whiteaker, to Oregon twelve years after.  Went to the California mines in 1849, and returned in 1850.  In 1851 and 1852 was in the Rogue River county.  Served in the Yakima war.  IN 1859 went to the Upper Columbia region, and lived many years, returning to the valley in 1878, and settling in Polk Couny.  Resides now on a farm near Independence.  Married Miss Lucy L. Titus in 1871". DISCREPANCY - Marker gives year of birth as 1825, biographical sketch in Lang and 1900 census records give year of birth as 1824. OBITUARY:  Died at his residence in this city, on Wednesday, Oct. 22, 1902, David Jesse Whiteaker, aged 77 years, 11 months and 26 days. The circumstances leading to the death of “Uncle Davey” are too fresh in memory to be rehearsed at this time. Suffice it to say that he scarcely regained consciousness from the runaway accident of last week. Mr. Whiteaker was an honored pioneer of ’48 and a veteran of the Oregon Indian wars. He was a native of Virginia. In ’36 he, with his parents, removed to Illinois, they being pioneers to that state. His trip across the plains to Oregon is similar to those of all that heroic band, which braved the hardships and reclaimed Oregon to the Union. Funeral services were held today at 11 a.m. at the M.E. church, Rev G.H. Osborne officiating. Interment took place at the family burying ground on the B.F. Whiteaker farm, north of Monmouth.  Independence Enterprise & West Side, Thursday, 23 Oct 1902, 7:3 INSCRIPTION:  David J. Whiteaker 1825 - 1902 SOURCES:  Branigar Survey Saucy Survey & Photographs 1900 OR CENSUS (Polk Co., Monmouth, ED 177, sheet Lang, pg 699 IEWS 23 Oct 1902, 7:3 CONTACTS:  ROW:    IMAGES: