∼OBITUARY OF E. L. WHIPPO
E. L. WHIPPO on of the few remaining early pioneers of Ochiltree County, died Thursday afternoon at the Perryton Hospital after an illness of several weeks. Funeral Services were held Sunday afternoon from the First Christian Church with Rev. Ward H. N. Gregg, pastor, officiating, assisted by Rev. H. L. Thurston, pastor of the First Methodist Church. Burial was in the family plot at the Ochiltree Cemetery.
A male quartet composed of Roy Hoghland, Rufus Bolerjack, Robert Lawrence and Omar Truax sang one number; Mr. Truax gave a vocal solo. Mrs. Louis Jaxquot was at the piano.
Pallbearers were grandsons of Mr. WHIPPO; they were Charles WHIPPO, Jr., Robert Thurman, Leland WILSON, Max CLARK, Alfred PITTMAN, Jay OXFORD, John STROOPE and Rex CLARK. Honorary pallbearers were J. B. CARTWRIGHT, Sr., W. B. DENNISON, George JACKSON, George DIETRICH, H. C. BRILLHART, Freeman GARRETT, Carl ELLIS, Jack ALLEN, Woods KING, Horace GLASGOW, George SEITZ, M. M. CUDD, Henry CUTTER, Dee EUBANKS and Claude BROWN.
Edmund L. WHIPPO was born near Terra Haute, Indiana, 1861. When a small boy hos parents moved to a farm near Fountain City, Indiana.
He attended school in the little red school house in District No. 3. Attended high school in Fountain City and finished his schooling in Dublin, Indiana. In 1881, he married Luella TEAS. Three children were born in Indiana, Robert, who died in infancy; Mattie, now Mrs. W. E. McMILLEN; and Theresa, now Mrs. E. R. THURMAN.
He and his family came to Medicine Lodge, Kansas in 1881. The family remained there while he, accompanied by Ben BATES, a brother-in-law, purchased a spring wagon and a team, started west in search for a suitable place to establish a home. They arrived in Mobeetie and were informed by W. J. TODD of the beautiful, green prairies or plains which no one owned and they came to Ochiltree County in the spring of 1887. He "Squatted" on a section of land and returned in July for his family. He and his family lived in their covered wagon until their first home was built or dug, as it was a small one-roomed dug-out.
They hauled all their water from the springs now known as Jines Springs. He and Sam BRILLHART dug the holes at the springs, making it possible for the "nesters" to dip up the water, put it in barrels and haul it home some 10 to 15 miles.
Later Mr. WHIPPO dug a well by hand, the third well in the county. It was 252 feet deep, and they were compelled to dig through 100 feet of rock, line stone and shale.
Mr. WHIPPO rendered many services to the pioneer families in capacity of family doctor. His wife always accompanied him on these trips, and administered to the suffering in her kind and comforting way.
He hauled the first cedar posts from the Canadian river; this was a very laborious task as these posts had to be carried on one's back out of the steep valleys. He sold the posts to the ranch men to obtain money to provide for his family.
Mustangs roamed the prairies, and he would run them for days at a time and finally roped, clogged and branded them with a "W" turned them free only to repeat the same procedure the following year. Later he sold these horses to the cowboys and to the people who were at that time settling up "No Man's Land." No Man's Land is now Beaver, Texas and Cimarron Counties, Oklahoma.
Carrie, now Mrs. R. T. CORRELL and Charles were born in Texas.
Word was received of the death of Mr. WHIPPOS's father so the family drove back to Indiana in a big wagon, making trip in six weeks. They remained on his mother's farm helping her for four years. Here Spencer was born in 1899. The WHIPPO family and Mr. and Mrs. C. T. JACKSON, now deceased, drove back to Texas in their covered wagons making the trip in three months. In 1901, Dorothea WHIPPO, now Mrs. A. K. WILSON, was born.
E. L. WHIPPO was one of the sturdy pioneers who helped to organize Ochiltree County. In 1890 he hauled some of the lumber from Liberal, Kansas to build the court house at Ochiltree. He taught the first school in the town of Ochiltree. He also was the county's first mail carrier as he freighted from Dodge City, Kansas, and it took 13 days to make the round trip.
Mrs. WHIPPO died April 04, 1933, and was buried in the Ochiltree Cemetery. On August 01, 1937 he married Mrs. Hattie Lou STROOPE at Amarillo.
Survivors besides his wife, include two sons, C. E. and Spencer WHIPPO; four daughters, Mrs. R. T. CORRELL, Mrs. W. E. McMILLEN, Mrs. E. R. THURMAN and Mrs. A. K. WILSON; two sisters, Mrs. L. L. TEAS, Corvallis, Washington, and Mrs. Pauline PEACOCK, Cochran, Georgia; a brother, James WHIPPO, Corvallis, Washington, twelve grandchildren and sixteen great-grandchildren.
(Published in The Ochiltree County Herald (Perryton, TX), Thursday, April 12, 1945.)
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E. L. WHIPPO on of the few remaining early pioneers of Ochiltree County, died Thursday afternoon at the Perryton Hospital after an illness of several weeks. Funeral Services were held Sunday afternoon from the First Christian Church with Rev. Ward H. N. Gregg, pastor, officiating, assisted by Rev. H. L. Thurston, pastor of the First Methodist Church. Burial was in the family plot at the Ochiltree Cemetery.
A male quartet composed of Roy Hoghland, Rufus Bolerjack, Robert Lawrence and Omar Truax sang one number; Mr. Truax gave a vocal solo. Mrs. Louis Jaxquot was at the piano.
Pallbearers were grandsons of Mr. WHIPPO; they were Charles WHIPPO, Jr., Robert Thurman, Leland WILSON, Max CLARK, Alfred PITTMAN, Jay OXFORD, John STROOPE and Rex CLARK. Honorary pallbearers were J. B. CARTWRIGHT, Sr., W. B. DENNISON, George JACKSON, George DIETRICH, H. C. BRILLHART, Freeman GARRETT, Carl ELLIS, Jack ALLEN, Woods KING, Horace GLASGOW, George SEITZ, M. M. CUDD, Henry CUTTER, Dee EUBANKS and Claude BROWN.
Edmund L. WHIPPO was born near Terra Haute, Indiana, 1861. When a small boy hos parents moved to a farm near Fountain City, Indiana.
He attended school in the little red school house in District No. 3. Attended high school in Fountain City and finished his schooling in Dublin, Indiana. In 1881, he married Luella TEAS. Three children were born in Indiana, Robert, who died in infancy; Mattie, now Mrs. W. E. McMILLEN; and Theresa, now Mrs. E. R. THURMAN.
He and his family came to Medicine Lodge, Kansas in 1881. The family remained there while he, accompanied by Ben BATES, a brother-in-law, purchased a spring wagon and a team, started west in search for a suitable place to establish a home. They arrived in Mobeetie and were informed by W. J. TODD of the beautiful, green prairies or plains which no one owned and they came to Ochiltree County in the spring of 1887. He "Squatted" on a section of land and returned in July for his family. He and his family lived in their covered wagon until their first home was built or dug, as it was a small one-roomed dug-out.
They hauled all their water from the springs now known as Jines Springs. He and Sam BRILLHART dug the holes at the springs, making it possible for the "nesters" to dip up the water, put it in barrels and haul it home some 10 to 15 miles.
Later Mr. WHIPPO dug a well by hand, the third well in the county. It was 252 feet deep, and they were compelled to dig through 100 feet of rock, line stone and shale.
Mr. WHIPPO rendered many services to the pioneer families in capacity of family doctor. His wife always accompanied him on these trips, and administered to the suffering in her kind and comforting way.
He hauled the first cedar posts from the Canadian river; this was a very laborious task as these posts had to be carried on one's back out of the steep valleys. He sold the posts to the ranch men to obtain money to provide for his family.
Mustangs roamed the prairies, and he would run them for days at a time and finally roped, clogged and branded them with a "W" turned them free only to repeat the same procedure the following year. Later he sold these horses to the cowboys and to the people who were at that time settling up "No Man's Land." No Man's Land is now Beaver, Texas and Cimarron Counties, Oklahoma.
Carrie, now Mrs. R. T. CORRELL and Charles were born in Texas.
Word was received of the death of Mr. WHIPPOS's father so the family drove back to Indiana in a big wagon, making trip in six weeks. They remained on his mother's farm helping her for four years. Here Spencer was born in 1899. The WHIPPO family and Mr. and Mrs. C. T. JACKSON, now deceased, drove back to Texas in their covered wagons making the trip in three months. In 1901, Dorothea WHIPPO, now Mrs. A. K. WILSON, was born.
E. L. WHIPPO was one of the sturdy pioneers who helped to organize Ochiltree County. In 1890 he hauled some of the lumber from Liberal, Kansas to build the court house at Ochiltree. He taught the first school in the town of Ochiltree. He also was the county's first mail carrier as he freighted from Dodge City, Kansas, and it took 13 days to make the round trip.
Mrs. WHIPPO died April 04, 1933, and was buried in the Ochiltree Cemetery. On August 01, 1937 he married Mrs. Hattie Lou STROOPE at Amarillo.
Survivors besides his wife, include two sons, C. E. and Spencer WHIPPO; four daughters, Mrs. R. T. CORRELL, Mrs. W. E. McMILLEN, Mrs. E. R. THURMAN and Mrs. A. K. WILSON; two sisters, Mrs. L. L. TEAS, Corvallis, Washington, and Mrs. Pauline PEACOCK, Cochran, Georgia; a brother, James WHIPPO, Corvallis, Washington, twelve grandchildren and sixteen great-grandchildren.
(Published in The Ochiltree County Herald (Perryton, TX), Thursday, April 12, 1945.)
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∼OBITUARY OF E. L. WHIPPO
E. L. WHIPPO on of the few remaining early pioneers of Ochiltree County, died Thursday afternoon at the Perryton Hospital after an illness of several weeks. Funeral Services were held Sunday afternoon from the First Christian Church with Rev. Ward H. N. Gregg, pastor, officiating, assisted by Rev. H. L. Thurston, pastor of the First Methodist Church. Burial was in the family plot at the Ochiltree Cemetery.
A male quartet composed of Roy Hoghland, Rufus Bolerjack, Robert Lawrence and Omar Truax sang one number; Mr. Truax gave a vocal solo. Mrs. Louis Jaxquot was at the piano.
Pallbearers were grandsons of Mr. WHIPPO; they were Charles WHIPPO, Jr., Robert Thurman, Leland WILSON, Max CLARK, Alfred PITTMAN, Jay OXFORD, John STROOPE and Rex CLARK. Honorary pallbearers were J. B. CARTWRIGHT, Sr., W. B. DENNISON, George JACKSON, George DIETRICH, H. C. BRILLHART, Freeman GARRETT, Carl ELLIS, Jack ALLEN, Woods KING, Horace GLASGOW, George SEITZ, M. M. CUDD, Henry CUTTER, Dee EUBANKS and Claude BROWN.
Edmund L. WHIPPO was born near Terra Haute, Indiana, 1861. When a small boy hos parents moved to a farm near Fountain City, Indiana.
He attended school in the little red school house in District No. 3. Attended high school in Fountain City and finished his schooling in Dublin, Indiana. In 1881, he married Luella TEAS. Three children were born in Indiana, Robert, who died in infancy; Mattie, now Mrs. W. E. McMILLEN; and Theresa, now Mrs. E. R. THURMAN.
He and his family came to Medicine Lodge, Kansas in 1881. The family remained there while he, accompanied by Ben BATES, a brother-in-law, purchased a spring wagon and a team, started west in search for a suitable place to establish a home. They arrived in Mobeetie and were informed by W. J. TODD of the beautiful, green prairies or plains which no one owned and they came to Ochiltree County in the spring of 1887. He "Squatted" on a section of land and returned in July for his family. He and his family lived in their covered wagon until their first home was built or dug, as it was a small one-roomed dug-out.
They hauled all their water from the springs now known as Jines Springs. He and Sam BRILLHART dug the holes at the springs, making it possible for the "nesters" to dip up the water, put it in barrels and haul it home some 10 to 15 miles.
Later Mr. WHIPPO dug a well by hand, the third well in the county. It was 252 feet deep, and they were compelled to dig through 100 feet of rock, line stone and shale.
Mr. WHIPPO rendered many services to the pioneer families in capacity of family doctor. His wife always accompanied him on these trips, and administered to the suffering in her kind and comforting way.
He hauled the first cedar posts from the Canadian river; this was a very laborious task as these posts had to be carried on one's back out of the steep valleys. He sold the posts to the ranch men to obtain money to provide for his family.
Mustangs roamed the prairies, and he would run them for days at a time and finally roped, clogged and branded them with a "W" turned them free only to repeat the same procedure the following year. Later he sold these horses to the cowboys and to the people who were at that time settling up "No Man's Land." No Man's Land is now Beaver, Texas and Cimarron Counties, Oklahoma.
Carrie, now Mrs. R. T. CORRELL and Charles were born in Texas.
Word was received of the death of Mr. WHIPPOS's father so the family drove back to Indiana in a big wagon, making trip in six weeks. They remained on his mother's farm helping her for four years. Here Spencer was born in 1899. The WHIPPO family and Mr. and Mrs. C. T. JACKSON, now deceased, drove back to Texas in their covered wagons making the trip in three months. In 1901, Dorothea WHIPPO, now Mrs. A. K. WILSON, was born.
E. L. WHIPPO was one of the sturdy pioneers who helped to organize Ochiltree County. In 1890 he hauled some of the lumber from Liberal, Kansas to build the court house at Ochiltree. He taught the first school in the town of Ochiltree. He also was the county's first mail carrier as he freighted from Dodge City, Kansas, and it took 13 days to make the round trip.
Mrs. WHIPPO died April 04, 1933, and was buried in the Ochiltree Cemetery. On August 01, 1937 he married Mrs. Hattie Lou STROOPE at Amarillo.
Survivors besides his wife, include two sons, C. E. and Spencer WHIPPO; four daughters, Mrs. R. T. CORRELL, Mrs. W. E. McMILLEN, Mrs. E. R. THURMAN and Mrs. A. K. WILSON; two sisters, Mrs. L. L. TEAS, Corvallis, Washington, and Mrs. Pauline PEACOCK, Cochran, Georgia; a brother, James WHIPPO, Corvallis, Washington, twelve grandchildren and sixteen great-grandchildren.
(Published in The Ochiltree County Herald (Perryton, TX), Thursday, April 12, 1945.)
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E. L. WHIPPO on of the few remaining early pioneers of Ochiltree County, died Thursday afternoon at the Perryton Hospital after an illness of several weeks. Funeral Services were held Sunday afternoon from the First Christian Church with Rev. Ward H. N. Gregg, pastor, officiating, assisted by Rev. H. L. Thurston, pastor of the First Methodist Church. Burial was in the family plot at the Ochiltree Cemetery.
A male quartet composed of Roy Hoghland, Rufus Bolerjack, Robert Lawrence and Omar Truax sang one number; Mr. Truax gave a vocal solo. Mrs. Louis Jaxquot was at the piano.
Pallbearers were grandsons of Mr. WHIPPO; they were Charles WHIPPO, Jr., Robert Thurman, Leland WILSON, Max CLARK, Alfred PITTMAN, Jay OXFORD, John STROOPE and Rex CLARK. Honorary pallbearers were J. B. CARTWRIGHT, Sr., W. B. DENNISON, George JACKSON, George DIETRICH, H. C. BRILLHART, Freeman GARRETT, Carl ELLIS, Jack ALLEN, Woods KING, Horace GLASGOW, George SEITZ, M. M. CUDD, Henry CUTTER, Dee EUBANKS and Claude BROWN.
Edmund L. WHIPPO was born near Terra Haute, Indiana, 1861. When a small boy hos parents moved to a farm near Fountain City, Indiana.
He attended school in the little red school house in District No. 3. Attended high school in Fountain City and finished his schooling in Dublin, Indiana. In 1881, he married Luella TEAS. Three children were born in Indiana, Robert, who died in infancy; Mattie, now Mrs. W. E. McMILLEN; and Theresa, now Mrs. E. R. THURMAN.
He and his family came to Medicine Lodge, Kansas in 1881. The family remained there while he, accompanied by Ben BATES, a brother-in-law, purchased a spring wagon and a team, started west in search for a suitable place to establish a home. They arrived in Mobeetie and were informed by W. J. TODD of the beautiful, green prairies or plains which no one owned and they came to Ochiltree County in the spring of 1887. He "Squatted" on a section of land and returned in July for his family. He and his family lived in their covered wagon until their first home was built or dug, as it was a small one-roomed dug-out.
They hauled all their water from the springs now known as Jines Springs. He and Sam BRILLHART dug the holes at the springs, making it possible for the "nesters" to dip up the water, put it in barrels and haul it home some 10 to 15 miles.
Later Mr. WHIPPO dug a well by hand, the third well in the county. It was 252 feet deep, and they were compelled to dig through 100 feet of rock, line stone and shale.
Mr. WHIPPO rendered many services to the pioneer families in capacity of family doctor. His wife always accompanied him on these trips, and administered to the suffering in her kind and comforting way.
He hauled the first cedar posts from the Canadian river; this was a very laborious task as these posts had to be carried on one's back out of the steep valleys. He sold the posts to the ranch men to obtain money to provide for his family.
Mustangs roamed the prairies, and he would run them for days at a time and finally roped, clogged and branded them with a "W" turned them free only to repeat the same procedure the following year. Later he sold these horses to the cowboys and to the people who were at that time settling up "No Man's Land." No Man's Land is now Beaver, Texas and Cimarron Counties, Oklahoma.
Carrie, now Mrs. R. T. CORRELL and Charles were born in Texas.
Word was received of the death of Mr. WHIPPOS's father so the family drove back to Indiana in a big wagon, making trip in six weeks. They remained on his mother's farm helping her for four years. Here Spencer was born in 1899. The WHIPPO family and Mr. and Mrs. C. T. JACKSON, now deceased, drove back to Texas in their covered wagons making the trip in three months. In 1901, Dorothea WHIPPO, now Mrs. A. K. WILSON, was born.
E. L. WHIPPO was one of the sturdy pioneers who helped to organize Ochiltree County. In 1890 he hauled some of the lumber from Liberal, Kansas to build the court house at Ochiltree. He taught the first school in the town of Ochiltree. He also was the county's first mail carrier as he freighted from Dodge City, Kansas, and it took 13 days to make the round trip.
Mrs. WHIPPO died April 04, 1933, and was buried in the Ochiltree Cemetery. On August 01, 1937 he married Mrs. Hattie Lou STROOPE at Amarillo.
Survivors besides his wife, include two sons, C. E. and Spencer WHIPPO; four daughters, Mrs. R. T. CORRELL, Mrs. W. E. McMILLEN, Mrs. E. R. THURMAN and Mrs. A. K. WILSON; two sisters, Mrs. L. L. TEAS, Corvallis, Washington, and Mrs. Pauline PEACOCK, Cochran, Georgia; a brother, James WHIPPO, Corvallis, Washington, twelve grandchildren and sixteen great-grandchildren.
(Published in The Ochiltree County Herald (Perryton, TX), Thursday, April 12, 1945.)
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