bfh.8.8 - Person Sheet
Birth Date8 Mar 1870
Birth PlaceBumcombe County, NC
Death Date27 Nov 1962 Age: 92
Death PlaceMountain Home, NC
Burial PlaceShepherd’s Memorial Park, Naples, NC
OccupationFarmer
ReligionBaptist
FatherJohn WHITAKER (1825-1894)
MotherSarah Ann (Sallie) WILLIAMS (1828-1917)
Spouses
1Nora Grey (Dollie) MORROW 
14, Grandmother
14, GrandmotherBirth Date13 Aug 1877
Death Date8 Mar 1965 Age: 87
Death PlaceMountain Home, NC
Burial PlaceShepherd’s Memorial Park, Naples, NC
ReligionBaptist
FatherJames Pinkney MORROW (1853-1929)
MotherTinsey Jane HUNTLEY (1851-1892)
Marr Date27 Feb 1898
ChildrenJohn Edward (1899-1972)
Lillian Estelle (1902-1988)
Lee Roy (1904-1963)
Joseph Samuel (1906-1977)
Gladys Levon (1908-1922)
Velda Cleo (1912-1973)
Ruth Lane (1915-1999)
Sidney Paul (1917-1940)
Notes for Oscar Pinkney (Doc) WHITAKER
After leaving Bearwollow Mountain in about 1917 Oacar and his family live in several homes north of Hendersonville. The first was near the community of Hill Girt. After that they live in a log home near where Mountain Home Independent Baptist Church stands today. They also live for a short time at the Noles house on Stony Mountain Road. Oscar also took care of the Henderson County Home for a short time but the dates are not certain. In 192217 he purchase 13.5 acres from the Mountain Home Company on what is now Mountain Road in the community of Mountain Home. The 13.5 acres were later sub-divided and each of the children were give building lots. 18