From a Barbour County Scrapbook
Clippings from the Barbour Democrat
submitted by Linda Graham.
Obituary: Whitescarver Funeral
Pruntytown, May 27 1940 -- Last rites will be conducted at 3 o'clock Wednesday
afternoon at the Beulah Baptist church, in Pruntytown, for Edward M. WHITESCARVER,
65, for 36 years an official of the Pruntytown Industrial Home, who died in a
Clarksburg hospital after an illness of eight weeks. Mr .WHITESCARVER, a member of
a prominent Taylor county family, had been senior deacon of the Beulah Baptist
church, of which he had been a member for 48 years. He began service in the
Industrial school as head of the day school in 1897, and served as a farmer of the
institution and as commander until 1933, after which he devoted his time to
farming and to employment in the Flesher and Stoops store here. He was born in
Taylor county, September 1, 1874, the son of the late John T. And Sarah E.
SINCLAIR WHITESCARVER, and is survived by his widow, Lenora BARTE
WHITESCARVER, whom he married in 1912, two sons, Edward A. WHITESCARVER, a
teacher in Flemington high school, and Robert S. WHITESCARVER, an electrical engineer
employed at Pittsburgh by Westinghouse, and the following brothers and sisters: Miss Grace
WHITESCARVER, Miss Mary WHITESCARVER, both of Pruntytown; George
WHITESCARVER, Charleston; James W. WHITESCARVER, Pruntytown; Frank
WHITESCARVER, Buckhannon; C.C. WHITESCARVER, Grafton; Fred E.
WHITESCARVER, High Point, N.C.; and Mrs. Elizabeth WILLIS, Lumberport. The Rev. Henry
LOVING, pastor of the Beulah Baptist church, assisted by the Rev. Millard STUMP, will officiate
at the last rites. Interment is at the family lot in the [sic]
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