Linda MARTIN

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Obituary
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
June 10, 2010


WYTHEVILLE, Va. Pansy Marie Martin, age 89, of Wytheville, Va., passed away Tuesday, June 8, 2010. She was the daughter of the late Thomas Lee and Cecilia Whitaker Short. She was preceded in death by her husband, James B. Martin; and her first husband, Howard Owens; grandson, Brian Keene.

She is survived by her daughters and sons-in-law, Darlene and Homer Bandy, of Tazewell, Rachel and Robert Harris, of Frazeyburg, Ohio, Linda Meadows, of Sugar Grove, Judy Taylor, of Sarasota, Fla., Cathy Martin, of Roanoke; sons and daughters-in-law, Jim and Wanda Martin, of Seymour, Tenn., Jeff and Loretta Martin, of Ashland, Ohio, Charles and Jane Martin, of Abingdon; twelve grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; and three great-great-grandchildren also survive.

Funeral service will be Thursday at 7:00 p.m. in the Grubb Funeral Home Chapel conducted by Pastor Magers. Family will receive friends at Grubb Funeral Home, Thursday from 5:00 p.m. until service time. Graveside service will be Friday at 2:00 p.m. at Greenhills Memory Gardens, Cedar Bluff, Va. Grubb Funeral Home of Wytheville, Va., is in charge of arrangements.

Linda married Roy MEADOWS. [Group Sheet]

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James married Pansy Marie SHORT. Pansy (daughter of Thomas Lee SHORT and Cecilia (Celia) Day WHITAKER) was born 4 Jul 1920; died 08 Jun 2010, Wytheville, VA; was buried , Greenhills Memory Gardens, Cedar Bluff, VA. [Group Sheet]

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Obituary
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
June 10, 2010


WYTHEVILLE, Va. Pansy Marie Martin, age 89, of Wytheville, Va., passed away Tuesday, June 8, 2010. She was the daughter of the late Thomas Lee and Cecilia Whitaker Short. She was preceded in death by her husband, James B. Martin; and her first husband, Howard Owens; grandson, Brian Keene.

She is survived by her daughters and sons-in-law, Darlene and Homer Bandy, of Tazewell, Rachel and Robert Harris, of Frazeyburg, Ohio, Linda Meadows, of Sugar Grove, Judy Taylor, of Sarasota, Fla., Cathy Martin, of Roanoke; sons and daughters-in-law, Jim and Wanda Martin, of Seymour, Tenn., Jeff and Loretta Martin, of Ashland, Ohio, Charles and Jane Martin, of Abingdon; twelve grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; and three great-great-grandchildren also survive.

Funeral service will be Thursday at 7:00 p.m. in the Grubb Funeral Home Chapel conducted by Pastor Magers. Family will receive friends at Grubb Funeral Home, Thursday from 5:00 p.m. until service time. Graveside service will be Friday at 2:00 p.m. at Greenhills Memory Gardens, Cedar Bluff, Va. Grubb Funeral Home of Wytheville, Va., is in charge of arrangements.

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Died from a bullet wound inflicted by Bliss Altizer during a card game. Joan Banner, a daughter of Celia, said that Tom drew on Bliss, but the bullet hit the holster so Bliss then fired at Tom, mortally wounding him. Tom as taken by the other participants into a field of cut corn, propped him up against cornshucks, unconscious and bleeding. The nex morning he was found dead. He is buried in the Whitaker Cemetery on Whitaker Ridge.

16 Dec 1921 Clinch Valley News
Tom SHORT, a well known citizen of the Whitaker Ridge Community, was shot and killed Saturday afternoon last about 2 o'clock, on "Grassy Spur" by Bliss ALTIZER, who is also well known in that community. The shooting, according to information reaching this office, was the result of a poker game, in which the men had been engaged prior to the shooting. At the conclusion of the game the men separated, going in opposite directions, when without warning, SHORT shot ALTIZER with a pistol, the bullet penetrating his body. ALTIZER immediately turned and emptied a load load of bird shot into SHORT'S body, inflicting a wound from which he died a short time afterwards. ALTIZER was given a preliminary hearing, Magistrate HEAVERS, presiding, and released on a $1,000 bond for appearance here in court. From the information we have received it appears the shooting of SHORT was justifiable. SHORT is survived by a wife and one child, and was about 25 years old. He served five years in the US Army.

23 Dec 1921 Clinch Valley News
Bandy, Va. December 17. Editor the News: Please correct the mistake of the poker game and killing of Tom SHORT, as it was done on the Altizer Ridge, a distance of three or four miles from Whitaker Ridge. Give the Whitaker Ridge justice. M.S. WHITAKER.


CENSUS RECORDS

1900 Census
Name: Thos Short
Age: 5
Birth Date: Sep 1894
Birthplace: Virginia
Home in 1900: Maiden Spring, Tazewell, Virginia
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Great Grand Son
Marital Status: Single
Father's Birthplace: Virginia
Mother's Birthplace: Virginia
Household Members:
Name Age
Zachariah Ward 67
Nancy Ward 70
Sallie Ward 47
Victoria Ward 27
Thos Short 5

1910 Census
Name: Thomas Short
Age in 1910: 15
Birth Year: abt 1895
Birthplace: Virginia
Home in 1910: Maiden Spring, Tazewell, Virginia
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Grandson
Marital Status: Single
Father's Birthplace: Virginia
Mother's name: Sallie Chambers
Mother's Birthplace: Virginia
Household Members:
Name Age
Zach Ward 77
Nancy Ward 83
Sallie Chambers 52
Thomas Short 15

Thomas married Cecilia (Celia) Day WHITAKER 16 Jul 1920, Richlands, Tazewell Co. VA. Cecilia (daughter of Thomas W. WHITAKER and Mary L. ALTIZER) was born 22 Sep 1901, Tazewell Co. VA; died 14 May 1929, Canebreak, McDowell Co. WV; was buried , Vallscreek, McDowell Co. WV. [Group Sheet]

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Children were taken in by various families in the Squire, WV area.

CENSUS RECORDS

1910 United States Federal Census
Name: Celia Whiteaker
Age in 1910: 9
Birth Year: abt 1901
Birthplace: Virginia
Home in 1910: Maiden Spring, Tazewell, Virginia
Race: White
Gender: Female
Relation to Head of House: Daughter
Marital Status: Single
Father's Name: Thomas W Whiteaker
Father's Birthplace: Virginia
Mother's name: Mirtie S Whiteaker
Mother's Birthplace: Virginia

1920 United States Federal Census
Name: Alice Whitaker [Celia]
Age: 18
Birth Year: abt 1902
Birthplace: Virginia
Home in 1920: Jeffersonville, Tazewell, Virginia
Race: White
Gender: Female
Relation to Head of House: Daughter
Marital Status: Single
Father's Name: Thomas Whitaker
Father's Birthplace: Virginia
Mother's name: Myrtle Whitaker
Mother's Birthplace: Virginia
Able to read: Yes
Able to Write: Yes

1920 United States Federal Census
Name: Celia Whitaker
Age: 18
Birth Year: abt 1902
Birthplace: Virginia
Home in 1920: Maiden Spring, Tazewell, Virginia
Race: White
Gender: Female
Relation to Head of House: Niece
Marital Status: Single
Father's Birthplace: Virginia
Mother's Birthplace: Virginia
Able to Read: Yes
Able to Write: Yes
Household Members:
Samuel G Altizer 25
Josie Altizer 24
Alice N Altizer 5
Noah Altizer 4
Carl R Altizer 2 years 8 months
Phillis A Altizer 2 months
Celia Whitaker 18

Died:
West Virginia Death Certificate
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Married:
Virginia, Marriages, 1785-1940
Name: Thos. N. Short
Birth Date: 1894
Birthplace:
Age: 26
Spouse's Name: Celia Whitaker
Spouse's Birth Date: 1901
Spouse's Birthplace:
Spouse's Age: 19
Event Date: 16 Jul 1920
Event Place: Richlands, Tazewell, Virginia
Father's Name: Everett Short
Mother's Name: Allie [Alafair Chambers]
Spouse's Father's Name: T. W. Whitaker
Spouse's Mother's Name: Nancy [Mary Altizer]
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M01695-5
System Origin: Virginia-EASy
GS Film number: 34214
Reference ID: P265 L126

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Everett married Alafair CHAMBERS. Alafair (daughter of Thomas Douglas (Red Tom) CHAMBERS and Sarah (Sallie) WARD) was born ca 1875, Virginia; died Aft Sep 1894, Virginia. [Group Sheet]

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1880 Census
Name: Alafim Chambers
Age: 5
Birth Year: abt 1875
Birthplace: Virginia
Home in 1880: Garden, Buchanan, Virginia
Race: White
Gender: Female
Relation to Head of House: Daughter (Child)
Marital Status: Single
Father's name: Thomas Chambers
Father's Birthplace: Virginia
Mother's name: Sallie Chambers
Mother's Birthplace: Virginia
Household Members:
Name Age
Thomas Chambers 23
Sallie Chambers 27
Alafim Chambers 5
Thomas C. Chambers 1

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CENSUS RECORDS

1910 United States Federal Census
Name: Thomas W Whiteaker
Age in 1910: 28
Birth Year: abt 1882
Birthplace: Virginia
Home in 1910: Maiden Spring, Tazewell, Virginia
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Self (Head)
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name: Mirtie S Whiteaker
Father's Birthplace: Virginia
Mother's Birthplace: Virginia
Household Members:
Thomas W Whiteaker 28
Mirtie S Whiteaker 23
Henderson Whiteaker 11
Celia Whiteaker 9
Nannie Whiteaker 6
Doak Whiteaker 4
Ray Whiteaker 2

1920 United States Federal Census
Name: Thomas Whitaker
Age: 38
Birth Year: abt 1882
Birthplace: Virginia
Home in 1920: Jeffersonville, Tazewell, Virginia
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Head
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name: Myrtle Whitaker
Father's Birthplace: Virginia
Mother's Birthplace: Virginia
Home owned: Own
Able to read: Yes
Able to Write: Yes
Household Members:
Thomas Whitaker 38
Myrtle Whitaker 33
Alice Whitaker 18
Nannie Whitaker 16
Doak Whitaker 14
Ray Whitaker 11

NEWSPAPER ARTICLE

Clinch Valley News, 15 Dec 1922, Page 1

MAN KILLED ON WHITAKER RIDGE

Another Tragedy in the Moonshine District
Reward Offered for Arrest of Bill Brewster.

Thomas Whitaker was shot und killed by Bill Brewster on Whitaker Ridge last Thursday. It is believed that Brewster thought Whitaker had given information that he was operating a still. Add Harman had been raiding on Whitaker Ridge on that morning and it is reported that some one followed him through the woods past Dan Dunford's place, where Brewster had been staying and making whiskey.

On returning, Harman met Whitaker near his (Whitaker's) home and stopped and ate dinner. Immediately he started home, Whitaker came with him to the gate, where Alex Barnett was shucking corn, in a few minutes Dan Dunford, Bill Brewster and a boy by the name of Smith, came up. Brewster carried a shotgun and passed on into a briar patch with the remark, ?I?ll kick _____ out of a rabbit.? Harman talked with the men for a few minutes and started home, soon he heard the report of a shot gun and one of Tom Whitaker's boys came running and called to him,"come back they've killed papa."

On arriving on the scene of the tragedy, we found that Brewster had escaped to the woods into which he followed him, but after spending some hours searching he gave up the hunt, went to Richlands and brought a blood hound to the scene. The dog followed the trail to Dan Dunford's house and lost it The officers, having previously searched the house, were forced to give up the chase.

Brewster is still at large. A reward of $100 was placed in a Tazewell bank for his arrest, by Whitaker's family.

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He died intestate and the heirs listed were Henderson Whitaker, Nannie Whitaker, Dock Whitaker, Ray Whitaker, and Celia Day, and Mertie his wife.

Thomas married Mary L. ALTIZER 30 Aug 1898, Tazewell Co. VA. Mary (daughter of James Bliss ALTIZER and Sarah Jane Christian) was born Apr 1881, Tazewell Co. VA; died Bef 1904, Tazewell Co. VA. [Group Sheet]

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She was the d/o James Biss and Sarah Christian Altizer. Noah Altizer, her brother, married Tom Whitaker's neice, Mollie, d/o of Hiram. This marriage increased the boiling point for the feud.

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Virginia, Marriages, 1785-1940
Name: Thomas Whitaker
Birth Date: 1880
Birthplace: Tazewell, Va
Age: 18
Spouse's Name: Mary L. Altizer
Spouse's Birth Date: 1882
Spouse's Birthplace: Tazewell, Va
Spouse's Age: 16
Event Date: 30 Aug 1898
Event Place: Tazewell, Virginia
Father's Name: John
Mother's Name: Nancy
Spouse's Father's Name: James
Spouse's Mother's Name: Sarah J.
Race: White
Marital Status: Single
Spouse's Race: White
Spouse's Marital Status: Single
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M01695-4
System Origin: Virginia-EASy
GS Film number: 34214
Reference ID: P130 L135