John "Uncle Jim" Murphy Whitman

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John Murphy Whitman

Also Known As: "Jim", ""Uncle Jim"", "Tillamook", "OR", "homestead # 367; 7/30/1866; 160 acres"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Monmouth, Warren, Illinois, United States
Death: September 26, 1886 (44)
Rosalia, Whitman, Washington, United States (locomotive ran over him in hand car when he went to meet the newly arriving train)
Place of Burial: Rosalia, Whitman, Washington, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of Squire Staton Whitman and Elizabeth Thornton Whitman
Husband of Emeline Lucinda Calhoun
Father of Franklin 'Frank' J. Riggs and Lewis William 'Willie' Riggs
Brother of Mary Ann Murphy; Margaret Adarine Clark; Hezekiah Davidson Whitman; Christopher Columbus Whitman and Elijah Alexander Whitman

Occupation: keeper of store & way station where horses were changed on stagecoaches
Managed by: Gibson 'Gibby' Brack
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About John "Uncle Jim" Murphy Whitman

Tillamook County, Oregon homestead # 367 on July 30, 1866, 160 acres in SE Tillamook, adjoining the Dougherty land claim. Sold in 1870.

divorced from Emeline in 1881, Washington Territory

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John "Uncle Jim" Murphy Whitman's Timeline

1842
September 8, 1842
Monmouth, Warren, Illinois, United States
1865
1865
ID, United States
1873
January 22, 1873
Idaho, United States
1886
September 26, 1886
Age 44
Rosalia, Whitman, Washington, United States
September 1886
Age 43
Riggs Cemetery, Rosalia, Whitman, Washington, United States