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Jasper Green McWhirter
18 Aug 1867 – 1902
| Birth | 18 Aug 1867 |
| Death | 1902 |
| Added by | GMT on 05 Jan 2014 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/122784004 |
Bio
Jasper Green McWhirter married Mary Silvania Tucker, a first cousin January 5, 1881, in Marion Co., AL. She was the daughter of Martha Ann Harper, daughter of Thomas Harper and Mary Jane Griggs. After her death, he married Mollie E. Voorheese Jan 20, 1901. Jasper and Mary Silvania had about 12 children. Jasper Green was killed by a train in Winnsboro, TX. It is not known why he was on the railroad tracks, however, walking was very much a method of getting where you needed to go in 1901. Jasper Green and Mary's children were reared by their relatives, as they petitioned the Court for their guardianship. The Harbin relatives reared them. Mary Caroline McWhirter Harbin was Jasper Green McWhirter's half sister. Jasper Green McWhirter followed the share crop work and went more or less where Kimber Foster Tucker and Martha Ann Harper, his sister, went. He and Mary Silvania left Marion and Fayette Counties in Alabama with their relatives, George Washington Harbin and his wife, Mary Caroline McWhirter, d/o Andrew Ferrier McWhirter and Sarah Harper, and Kimber Foster Tucker and his wife, Martha Ann Harper, to Texas in the last decade of the 1800's. Jasper followed his father-in-law and mother-in-law wherever they could find work. The fields were larger and more productive in Oklahoma and Texas. The Tuckers moved to Wichita Falls, Texas, then to Hunt County, Texas. They later moved to Atoke, Oklahoma. By 1910, they were living in Hunt Co., TX again. Kimber Foster and Martha Ann moved to LaFlore Co., OK where Kimber Foster died in 1922. After Jasper Green McWhirter was killed by a train, Mary Caroline McWhirter Harbin, daughter of Sarah Harper McWhirter, applied for guardianship of the McWhirter children in Wood Co., TX. They had several married children who helped take care of them. 1910 Census showed Jasper's children LaFayette, Andrew and Laura in the home of George W. Harbin and Mary Caroline McWhirter Harbin in Wood Co., TX. 1910 census showed Edgar was with Alonzo A. and wife Mazie in Wood Co., TX Jasper Green McWhirter is buried in Winnsboro, Wood County, Texas in a pauper's grave but the name of the cemetery, if there was one, is unknown to submitter. He was killed by a train in 1902, about a year after his wife died in childbirth. The baby died also.
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- Thomas Andrew McWhirter 1843–1917 FaG
- PVT George Washington McWhirter 1844–1862 FaG
- Andrew Jackson McWhirter 1847–1922 FaG
- Robert McWhirter 1848–1855 FaG
- William Hamilton McWhirter 1852–1907 FaG
- Mary Caroline McWhirter Harbin 1855–1934 FaG
- John Madison McWhirter 1858–1907 FaG
- Nancy Ann McWhirter Miles 1865–1892 FaG
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