Lindley Hoag Whitaker

8 Lindley Hoag Whitaker son of Jacob and Barbara (Webb) Whitaker was born 24 February 1841 in Troy Maine. He entered the Civil War 8 August 1862 19th Infantry in Company C. Lindley was with the 19th Maine at the battles of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Bristow Station, Mine Run, and was wounded at Gettysburg and in the leg at the Wilderness battle. He was sent to the Mower General Hospital in Philadelphia a 4000 bed hospital on Chestnut Hill the largest hospital in the world at that time. He was there from May of 1864 to June of 1865. He married Marcia McKenney Aug 12 1865. They purchased a farm on the Back Troy Road in Unity also in 1865.

                                  Lindley and Marcia had the following children

                                           Edwin Stanton born 4 May 1867 Unity

                                              Emma L           born            1869 Unity

                                              Edith                born            1876 Unity

                                              Lindley Clyde  born  3 Mar 1879 Unity

In 1874 they sold the farm and built a new store by the train Depot in Unity. They lived over the store. In 1883 they moved to the Dakota Territory and purchased a ranch. This area was known for it very productive wheat crops. The area the ranch was located in became Ludden in 1886 and Dakota Territory became North and South Dakota in 1889. Daughter Emma married John E Stevenson around 1887. Lindley died 5 Dec 1894 age 53. He probably never fully recovered from his civil war wounds. 	In 1903 Marcia, her daughter, Edith, and her son, Clyde, came to Wyoming, finally settling in Newcastle, where Clyde was engaged in the livery business until his death 29 May 1912, at which time Marcia moved to Cambria to be with Edith, who has been employed by the Cambria Commercial company ever since.. 	Marcia died Jul. 27, 1922 in Newcastle Wyoming. Edith married George Powell Sept 6 1927. Lindley Whitaker Obituary

Lindley Hoag Whitaker died Dec 5 1894 at his home east of town in Ludden North Dakota last Sunday morning from complication of diseases of which inflammatory rheumatism was one.

The deceased was in his 53th year and a native of Maine. He was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and left a war record of which any veteran might be proud.

Before leaving Maine Mr. Whitaker joined the Free Masons and upon learning of the death of one of the order the members of the different lodges near here united in conducting the last services over one of their number.  The Heclar Lodge conducted the funeral at the special request of the bereaved wife and family and the beautiful and impressive ceremony of that order’s burial service was transformed into the sublime by it’s eloquent and impressive delivery by F.W. Smith of Hecla, chaplain of that lodge, assisted by the master Mr. Wagner. 

Mr. Whitaker was a man of singular uprightness of character who deserved the trust and confidence his friends reposed in him.

The funeral was held Tuesday in the M. E. church and was very largely attended and much sympathy was expressed for the wife and two children left without the protecting care of their loved one.