James Ervin Whitman and his family moved from Jackson County, Ohio, to Ralls County, Missouri then to Appanoose County, Iowa and finally to Pleasanton, Kansas. James' son by his first wife Mary Wills Savage, George Washington Whitman married Phoebe Elizabeth Thomas in Appanoose County, Iowa. Their eldest daughter Nellie Valentine Whitman married James Riland McLeland in Pleasanton, Kansas in 1893. When Nellie was in the mood she used to tell stories of crossing the Kansas prairie in a covered wagon with her siblings. James E. Whitman and his sons Frank, Robert Wells and George W. Whitman ran a general store in Pleasanton, Linn County, Kansas 
Maree Whitman, c. 1893 |
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Etta Whitman family, from right to left Alice, Elvas, Bobby, Gary and Betty Harmon |
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Glen Whitman, 1928 |
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Probably the Ball family, Mattie Whitman Ball/Bahl and her husband |
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Maree Whitman Brown 1921 |
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George and Carolyn McLeland with Quintilla and Bruce M Brown 1960 |
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George Brown and son (George?) 1921 |
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Maree Whitman Brown with George Brown jr and Bruce Hunter, 1925 |
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Girls, from left to right Alice Arunsby, Nellie Perrin, Myrtle Lightfoot, Cordelia Blue. Their relationship to the Whitman family is not known at this time. |
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