His death certificate and his Social Security Claims Index record have two different birth dates. One is 04 Dec 1890, and the other is 19 Dec 1889.
There is also a US Veterans Administration Master Index record for Buck Whitaker, who died on 10 Feb 1960. His birthday is 10 Dec 1888.[5]
To further muddy things, his daughter Dora married a man also named Lucious Whitaker.[6]
Sources
↑Ancestry Record 60901 #9974350 Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.
↑ "North Carolina Deaths, 1931-1994," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FGQV-MJ1 : 18 July 2017), Buck Whitaker, 10 Feb 1960; citing Wilson, Wilson, North Carolina, v 10B cn 10619, State Department of Archives and History, Raleigh; FHL microfilm 1,953,030.
↑ "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KWQG-JT1 : 9 January 2021), Buck Whitaker, Enfield Township, Halifax, North Carolina, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 42-9, sheet 1A, line 22, family 4, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 2923.
↑ "United States, Veterans Administration Master Index, 1917-1940," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:WQ3M-PN6Z : 26 October 2019), Buck Whitatker, 5 Mar 1919; citing Military Service, NARA microfilm publication 76193916 (St. Louis: National Archives and Records Administration, 1985), various roll numbers.
Whitaker-6345 and Whitaker-6353 appear to represent the same person because: Birth date is different but otherwise appears to be same person. Please merge if so.