Henry C. Whitnah and Samantha Pickering

Henry C. Whitnah Samantha (Mattie) Pickering
Birth: 1842 Illinois(1) Birth: 27 Sep 1846 Ohio(2)
Marriage: 12 May 1864 Fulton County, Illinois(3)
Death: 1924(4) Death: 27 Aug 1934
Burial: 29 Aug 1934 Oak Hill Cemetary, Fulton County, Illinois(5)
Father: Joseph Chester Whitnah Father: Dillon Pickering
Mother: Sarah Ann Anderson Mother: Ann Reynolds

Henry and Mattie (Samantha) Whitnah lived in Lewistown, Illinois. The 1880 Census shows that Henry owned a billiard hall in Lewistown.

Henry apparently had some health or mental problems in later years. In 1916, the will of his father, Joseph Chester, appoints Henry's daughter (Birdie Campbell) as Trustee of Henry's inheritance, to "be expended by my grandaughter for my son Henry C. Whitnah or paid to him as she deems necessary." Henry and Mattie also lived apart in these latter years, he living with their daughter Bertie Campbell, and she with their daughter Lulu Turner.(6)

Henry and Mattie are the parents of the following children:
  1. Frank Whitnah, born 1865 in Illinois.(7) Frank was listed in the 1880 Census (age 15). He may have died soon after as there are no other records that mention him.
  2. Alberta (Berdie) Whitnah
  3. Lulu Faye Whitnah, born 2 Feb 1877 in Lewistown, Fulton, Illinois. She married Carl G. Turner, and died 15 May 1921 in Peoria Illinois. She was buried on the 18th at the Bushnell Mausoleum, Canton, Fulton, Illinois.(8)

Notes:

  1. 1880 Census, Lewistown, Fulton, Illinois.
  2. Saul R. Zimmerman Funeral Home Records, pg. 54. 1880 Census shows state of birth.
  3. Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, Vol. D pg. 40.
  4. Margie Whitnah.
  5. Saul Zimmerman Funeral Home, pg. 54.
  6. 1920 Census, Canton, Fulton, Illinois.
  7. 1880 Census.
  8. Murphy-Sedgwick Memorial Home Records, pg. 251. In addition, the 1920 Census shows Lulu Turner and husband living with Mattie Whitnah.