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David
Reeder Whitaker (____-1880) - Undertaker and member of the I.O.O.F.
- D. R. Whitaker (in business est. 1833 – circa 1874)
David Reeder “D.R.” Whitaker was the first
person listed as an undertaker in the Rose Hill Interment Register.
His first known burial was in the Pisgah Graveyard in 1833. He was consistently
listed as a carpenter in the census records. On 9 July 1880, his children
asked The Warren County, Ohio Probate Court to appoint a guardian for
him. His personal estate included “a hearse, set of carpenter
tools, notes, and book accounts”. Also, a lot in the Village of
Mason. Shortly before D.R. married Mary Ann Thompson, he with Daniel
H. Whitaker paid John and Martha Casseday $38.00 for lot #46 in Mason.
On 7 March 1846, Daniel H. Whitaker and Anna Mariah, his wife quit claimed
their interest in the same lot to D.R. for $200.00. This lot did not
transfer again until his heirs sold it to Peter Wikoff on 16 March 1881.
D.R. died in August 1880, and was laid to rest in Rose
Hill Cemetery Section 3, Lot 189 next to his wife who died earlier
the same year. On 7 November 1892, his family was removed from the Old
Mason Graveyard and interred on his lots in Rose Hill.
Source:
Candy Jo Tucker, Warren
County, Ohio, Funeral Records Volume 5: Mason Area Funeral Homes,
(Lebanon, OH: Warren
County Genealogical Society, 2013), page 8.
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by
Candy Jo Tucker
4 Aug 2014
courtesy of
the Mason Historical Society
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