John Willard White (1847 - 1920)

Born Oct 1847 in Jonesport, Washington, Maine, United States

Husband of Mary L. (Caler) White — married 4 Mar 1871 in Centerville, Washington, Maine, USA

Husband of Fannie D (Kelley) Tibbetts — married 15 Feb 1902 in Jonesport, Washington, Maine

Descendants

Died 8 Oct 1920 at about age 73 in Togus, Chelsea, Kennebec, Maine, United States

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Biography

John Willard was born in Jonesport, Maine, in October of 1847, the son of William Flagg and Susan (Johnson) White.

He enlisted in the Civil War on 29 February 1864. He served in Company C of the Coast Guard, Maine Infantry, and was discharged on 6 September 1865.

Back in Jonesport, he married Martha Ann Farnsworth in 1869. She died a year later, in 1870.

In 1871 he married Mary L. Caler and the couple settled at Centerville, where John was a farmer. They were living in Columbia Falls, Maine, in 1900, when Mary passed away.

He married a third and final time to Fannie D. Kelly in 1902.

He was admitted to the Soldiers Home in Togus, Maine, on 14 October 1919, for senile dementia, among other issues. He died there a year later and was buried at the Bayview Cemetery in Jonesport, Maine.

Sources

• Early Pleasant River Families of Washington County Maine, by Leonard F Tibbetts and Darryl B Lamson; Picton Press, Rockport ME; 1997
• U.S. National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, 1866-1938; Ancestry.com; Original data - Historical Register of National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, 1866-1938
• FindAGrave.com, Willard White, Bayview Cemetery, Jonesport, Maine Find A Grave: Memorial #74214044 accessed 2 Apr 2017
• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFQ4-FJR : 14 July 2016), Willard J White, Centreville, Washington, Maine, United States
• "Maine, Veterans Cemetery Records, 1676-1918," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/KXQZ-RNX : 4 December 2014), Willard White, 08 Oct 1920
• Tibbetts, Leonard & Lamson, Darryl. Early Pleasant River Families of Washington County, Maine. Camden, ME, Picton Press, p. 70 [1]

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