Carrie Alice Withworth Rusk
August 8, 1891 - August 5, 1946
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Carrie Malinda Rusk was born on August 8, 1890 on the Rusk family farm in Jasper County, Missouri. She was a daughter of Walter B. "Bud" Rusk and Mary Alice (Woodrow) Rusk.
Carrie's mother died when she was only 17 months old.
Carrie's father had been a deaf mute from the age of 3, a result of typhoid fever during the Civil War. When Carrie was 5 years old her father married 34 year old Miss Frenchie H. Woods of Trenton, Missouri on July 16, 1896. Both Walter and Frenchie were deaf mutes, and graduates of the then known as *Fulton School for the Deaf & Dumb at Fulton, Missouri, where their acquaintance first began.
On November 21, 1908 Carrie Rusk, age 18, married William Benjamin Whitworth, age 22, in Webb City, Jasper County, Missouri. The marriage was solemnized by Rufus E. Holden, pastor of the Baptist Church.
Carrie and William had five children, son, Lynn Rusk Whitworth born on Oct 14 , 1909; son, Leland Willis Whitworth born on March 11, 1911; daughter, Nellie Alice Whitworth born on December 11, 1912; daughter, Dorothy Treva Whitworth born on November 5, 1915; and son, James Mitchell Whitworth who was born February 24 , 1929 and died that same day.
U.S. census records reveal Carrie and William kept a full house. The U.S. Census, enumerated on March 12, 1920 reports Carrie Whitworth is a 29 year old wife of a farmer, with a husband and four children, ages 10, 9, 7, and 4, listed in her household.
A year into the great depression, on April of 1930, the U.S. Census lists Carrie Whitworth at age 39, with husband William Whitworth, age 42, and her four children, Lynn age 20, Leland age 19, Nellie age 17, Dorothy age 14, and Frenchie Rusk age 69. The only employed person in the household was her son Leland, listed as a laborer in construction.
The U.S. Census enumerated May 6, 1940 we find a 49 year old Carrie Whitworth, in a household with her 52 year old husband who is employed as a laborer at a gravel company, and a 78 year old Frenchie Rusk. The children are all grown and gone. The next household on this census lists her daughter Dorothy [(Whitworth)] Richey with her growing family as living next door to her parents.
Carrie was a life-long resident of the Webb City, Stone's Corner and Fountain Road vicinity. For a number of years during her married life, her family lived on the Daugherty farm, at the west edge of Webb City. At the time of her death in 1946, the Rusk farm had become the Whitworth farm, the address of which was RR 3, Joplin, Missouri.
At some point during her life, Carrie dropped the middle name of Malinda. This name was given to her at birth and was recorded in the family Bible. She adopted and began using her mother's middle name of Alice as her own middle name. Thus her headstone was inscribed Carrie A. Whitworth.
On Sunday, July 28, 1946, Carrie Whitworth had been invited to the Snyder family reunion and dinner at Robert's Cafeteria in Joplin, and when the party left the floor, Mrs. Whitworth slipped, falling to the floor, suffering a fractured left hip, fractured left arm and other injuries. She died eight days later, at the age of 55, on Monday, August 5, 1946 at 2:15 p.m. at St. John's Hospital in Joplin, Missouri. Her death certificate states that the immediate cause of death was a "Diabetic Coma, due to Diabetes", the additional supplement to the death certificate specifically states "Death not due to fall". Several obituaries published in the local newspapers erroneously publish accounts that her death was due to injuries suffered in the above mentioned fall.
She was preceded in death by her mother, Mary (Woodrow) Rusk on January 25, 1892; infant son, James Mitchell Whitworth on February 24, 1929; and her father Walter "Bud" Rusk on May 8, 1929.
Carrie was survived by her husband of 37 years, William B. Whitworth; two daughters, Mrs. Nellie Murphy of Huston, Texas, and Mrs. Dorothy Richey of RR 3, Joplin, Missouri; two sons, Leland Whitworth of San Francisco, California, and Lynn Whitworth of St. Louis, Missouri; a sister, Mrs. Maude Ashmore of San Francisco, California; six grandchildren; and step-mother, Frenchie Rusk of RR 3, Joplin, Missouri. All the children, with the exception of Leland, were present at the funeral services.
Funeral services were conducted at 2:30 p.m. Thursday, August 8, 1946, at the Webb City Funeral Home chapel. The Rev. E. W. Love, Presbyterian minister of Joplin, officiated.
Burial was in the Ozark Memorial Park Cemetery in Joplin, Missouri
[bio by Teresa Richey - great-granddaughter of Carrie (Rusk) Whitworth]
*"Fulton School for the Deaf & Dumb" is now known as Missouri School for the Deaf.
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Daughter of Walter B. "Bud" Rusk and Mary Alice Woodrow Rusk.
Wife of William Benjamin Whitworth.
Mother of 5 children:
Lynn Rusk Whitworth (1909-1989)
Leland W. Whitworth (1911-1969)
Nellie Alice Whitworth Murphy (1912-1992)
Dorothy Treva Whitworth Richey (1915-2008)
James Mitchell Whitworth (1929-1929)
Burial was in the Ozark Memorial Park cemetery in Joplin, Missouri.
August 8, 1891 - August 5, 1946
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Carrie Malinda Rusk was born on August 8, 1890 on the Rusk family farm in Jasper County, Missouri. She was a daughter of Walter B. "Bud" Rusk and Mary Alice (Woodrow) Rusk.
Carrie's mother died when she was only 17 months old.
Carrie's father had been a deaf mute from the age of 3, a result of typhoid fever during the Civil War. When Carrie was 5 years old her father married 34 year old Miss Frenchie H. Woods of Trenton, Missouri on July 16, 1896. Both Walter and Frenchie were deaf mutes, and graduates of the then known as *Fulton School for the Deaf & Dumb at Fulton, Missouri, where their acquaintance first began.
On November 21, 1908 Carrie Rusk, age 18, married William Benjamin Whitworth, age 22, in Webb City, Jasper County, Missouri. The marriage was solemnized by Rufus E. Holden, pastor of the Baptist Church.
Carrie and William had five children, son, Lynn Rusk Whitworth born on Oct 14 , 1909; son, Leland Willis Whitworth born on March 11, 1911; daughter, Nellie Alice Whitworth born on December 11, 1912; daughter, Dorothy Treva Whitworth born on November 5, 1915; and son, James Mitchell Whitworth who was born February 24 , 1929 and died that same day.
U.S. census records reveal Carrie and William kept a full house. The U.S. Census, enumerated on March 12, 1920 reports Carrie Whitworth is a 29 year old wife of a farmer, with a husband and four children, ages 10, 9, 7, and 4, listed in her household.
A year into the great depression, on April of 1930, the U.S. Census lists Carrie Whitworth at age 39, with husband William Whitworth, age 42, and her four children, Lynn age 20, Leland age 19, Nellie age 17, Dorothy age 14, and Frenchie Rusk age 69. The only employed person in the household was her son Leland, listed as a laborer in construction.
The U.S. Census enumerated May 6, 1940 we find a 49 year old Carrie Whitworth, in a household with her 52 year old husband who is employed as a laborer at a gravel company, and a 78 year old Frenchie Rusk. The children are all grown and gone. The next household on this census lists her daughter Dorothy [(Whitworth)] Richey with her growing family as living next door to her parents.
Carrie was a life-long resident of the Webb City, Stone's Corner and Fountain Road vicinity. For a number of years during her married life, her family lived on the Daugherty farm, at the west edge of Webb City. At the time of her death in 1946, the Rusk farm had become the Whitworth farm, the address of which was RR 3, Joplin, Missouri.
At some point during her life, Carrie dropped the middle name of Malinda. This name was given to her at birth and was recorded in the family Bible. She adopted and began using her mother's middle name of Alice as her own middle name. Thus her headstone was inscribed Carrie A. Whitworth.
On Sunday, July 28, 1946, Carrie Whitworth had been invited to the Snyder family reunion and dinner at Robert's Cafeteria in Joplin, and when the party left the floor, Mrs. Whitworth slipped, falling to the floor, suffering a fractured left hip, fractured left arm and other injuries. She died eight days later, at the age of 55, on Monday, August 5, 1946 at 2:15 p.m. at St. John's Hospital in Joplin, Missouri. Her death certificate states that the immediate cause of death was a "Diabetic Coma, due to Diabetes", the additional supplement to the death certificate specifically states "Death not due to fall". Several obituaries published in the local newspapers erroneously publish accounts that her death was due to injuries suffered in the above mentioned fall.
She was preceded in death by her mother, Mary (Woodrow) Rusk on January 25, 1892; infant son, James Mitchell Whitworth on February 24, 1929; and her father Walter "Bud" Rusk on May 8, 1929.
Carrie was survived by her husband of 37 years, William B. Whitworth; two daughters, Mrs. Nellie Murphy of Huston, Texas, and Mrs. Dorothy Richey of RR 3, Joplin, Missouri; two sons, Leland Whitworth of San Francisco, California, and Lynn Whitworth of St. Louis, Missouri; a sister, Mrs. Maude Ashmore of San Francisco, California; six grandchildren; and step-mother, Frenchie Rusk of RR 3, Joplin, Missouri. All the children, with the exception of Leland, were present at the funeral services.
Funeral services were conducted at 2:30 p.m. Thursday, August 8, 1946, at the Webb City Funeral Home chapel. The Rev. E. W. Love, Presbyterian minister of Joplin, officiated.
Burial was in the Ozark Memorial Park Cemetery in Joplin, Missouri
[bio by Teresa Richey - great-granddaughter of Carrie (Rusk) Whitworth]
*"Fulton School for the Deaf & Dumb" is now known as Missouri School for the Deaf.
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Daughter of Walter B. "Bud" Rusk and Mary Alice Woodrow Rusk.
Wife of William Benjamin Whitworth.
Mother of 5 children:
Lynn Rusk Whitworth (1909-1989)
Leland W. Whitworth (1911-1969)
Nellie Alice Whitworth Murphy (1912-1992)
Dorothy Treva Whitworth Richey (1915-2008)
James Mitchell Whitworth (1929-1929)
Burial was in the Ozark Memorial Park cemetery in Joplin, Missouri.
Carrie Alice Withworth Rusk
August 8, 1891 - August 5, 1946
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Carrie Malinda Rusk was born on August 8, 1890 on the Rusk family farm in Jasper County, Missouri. She was a daughter of Walter B. "Bud" Rusk and Mary Alice (Woodrow) Rusk.
Carrie's mother died when she was only 17 months old.
Carrie's father had been a deaf mute from the age of 3, a result of typhoid fever during the Civil War. When Carrie was 5 years old her father married 34 year old Miss Frenchie H. Woods of Trenton, Missouri on July 16, 1896. Both Walter and Frenchie were deaf mutes, and graduates of the then known as *Fulton School for the Deaf & Dumb at Fulton, Missouri, where their acquaintance first began.
On November 21, 1908 Carrie Rusk, age 18, married William Benjamin Whitworth, age 22, in Webb City, Jasper County, Missouri. The marriage was solemnized by Rufus E. Holden, pastor of the Baptist Church.
Carrie and William had five children, son, Lynn Rusk Whitworth born on Oct 14 , 1909; son, Leland Willis Whitworth born on March 11, 1911; daughter, Nellie Alice Whitworth born on December 11, 1912; daughter, Dorothy Treva Whitworth born on November 5, 1915; and son, James Mitchell Whitworth who was born February 24 , 1929 and died that same day.
U.S. census records reveal Carrie and William kept a full house. The U.S. Census, enumerated on March 12, 1920 reports Carrie Whitworth is a 29 year old wife of a farmer, with a husband and four children, ages 10, 9, 7, and 4, listed in her household.
A year into the great depression, on April of 1930, the U.S. Census lists Carrie Whitworth at age 39, with husband William Whitworth, age 42, and her four children, Lynn age 20, Leland age 19, Nellie age 17, Dorothy age 14, and Frenchie Rusk age 69. The only employed person in the household was her son Leland, listed as a laborer in construction.
The U.S. Census enumerated May 6, 1940 we find a 49 year old Carrie Whitworth, in a household with her 52 year old husband who is employed as a laborer at a gravel company, and a 78 year old Frenchie Rusk. The children are all grown and gone. The next household on this census lists her daughter Dorothy [(Whitworth)] Richey with her growing family as living next door to her parents.
Carrie was a life-long resident of the Webb City, Stone's Corner and Fountain Road vicinity. For a number of years during her married life, her family lived on the Daugherty farm, at the west edge of Webb City. At the time of her death in 1946, the Rusk farm had become the Whitworth farm, the address of which was RR 3, Joplin, Missouri.
At some point during her life, Carrie dropped the middle name of Malinda. This name was given to her at birth and was recorded in the family Bible. She adopted and began using her mother's middle name of Alice as her own middle name. Thus her headstone was inscribed Carrie A. Whitworth.
On Sunday, July 28, 1946, Carrie Whitworth had been invited to the Snyder family reunion and dinner at Robert's Cafeteria in Joplin, and when the party left the floor, Mrs. Whitworth slipped, falling to the floor, suffering a fractured left hip, fractured left arm and other injuries. She died eight days later, at the age of 55, on Monday, August 5, 1946 at 2:15 p.m. at St. John's Hospital in Joplin, Missouri. Her death certificate states that the immediate cause of death was a "Diabetic Coma, due to Diabetes", the additional supplement to the death certificate specifically states "Death not due to fall". Several obituaries published in the local newspapers erroneously publish accounts that her death was due to injuries suffered in the above mentioned fall.
She was preceded in death by her mother, Mary (Woodrow) Rusk on January 25, 1892; infant son, James Mitchell Whitworth on February 24, 1929; and her father Walter "Bud" Rusk on May 8, 1929.
Carrie was survived by her husband of 37 years, William B. Whitworth; two daughters, Mrs. Nellie Murphy of Huston, Texas, and Mrs. Dorothy Richey of RR 3, Joplin, Missouri; two sons, Leland Whitworth of San Francisco, California, and Lynn Whitworth of St. Louis, Missouri; a sister, Mrs. Maude Ashmore of San Francisco, California; six grandchildren; and step-mother, Frenchie Rusk of RR 3, Joplin, Missouri. All the children, with the exception of Leland, were present at the funeral services.
Funeral services were conducted at 2:30 p.m. Thursday, August 8, 1946, at the Webb City Funeral Home chapel. The Rev. E. W. Love, Presbyterian minister of Joplin, officiated.
Burial was in the Ozark Memorial Park Cemetery in Joplin, Missouri
[bio by Teresa Richey - great-granddaughter of Carrie (Rusk) Whitworth]
*"Fulton School for the Deaf & Dumb" is now known as Missouri School for the Deaf.
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Daughter of Walter B. "Bud" Rusk and Mary Alice Woodrow Rusk.
Wife of William Benjamin Whitworth.
Mother of 5 children:
Lynn Rusk Whitworth (1909-1989)
Leland W. Whitworth (1911-1969)
Nellie Alice Whitworth Murphy (1912-1992)
Dorothy Treva Whitworth Richey (1915-2008)
James Mitchell Whitworth (1929-1929)
Burial was in the Ozark Memorial Park cemetery in Joplin, Missouri.
August 8, 1891 - August 5, 1946
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Carrie Malinda Rusk was born on August 8, 1890 on the Rusk family farm in Jasper County, Missouri. She was a daughter of Walter B. "Bud" Rusk and Mary Alice (Woodrow) Rusk.
Carrie's mother died when she was only 17 months old.
Carrie's father had been a deaf mute from the age of 3, a result of typhoid fever during the Civil War. When Carrie was 5 years old her father married 34 year old Miss Frenchie H. Woods of Trenton, Missouri on July 16, 1896. Both Walter and Frenchie were deaf mutes, and graduates of the then known as *Fulton School for the Deaf & Dumb at Fulton, Missouri, where their acquaintance first began.
On November 21, 1908 Carrie Rusk, age 18, married William Benjamin Whitworth, age 22, in Webb City, Jasper County, Missouri. The marriage was solemnized by Rufus E. Holden, pastor of the Baptist Church.
Carrie and William had five children, son, Lynn Rusk Whitworth born on Oct 14 , 1909; son, Leland Willis Whitworth born on March 11, 1911; daughter, Nellie Alice Whitworth born on December 11, 1912; daughter, Dorothy Treva Whitworth born on November 5, 1915; and son, James Mitchell Whitworth who was born February 24 , 1929 and died that same day.
U.S. census records reveal Carrie and William kept a full house. The U.S. Census, enumerated on March 12, 1920 reports Carrie Whitworth is a 29 year old wife of a farmer, with a husband and four children, ages 10, 9, 7, and 4, listed in her household.
A year into the great depression, on April of 1930, the U.S. Census lists Carrie Whitworth at age 39, with husband William Whitworth, age 42, and her four children, Lynn age 20, Leland age 19, Nellie age 17, Dorothy age 14, and Frenchie Rusk age 69. The only employed person in the household was her son Leland, listed as a laborer in construction.
The U.S. Census enumerated May 6, 1940 we find a 49 year old Carrie Whitworth, in a household with her 52 year old husband who is employed as a laborer at a gravel company, and a 78 year old Frenchie Rusk. The children are all grown and gone. The next household on this census lists her daughter Dorothy [(Whitworth)] Richey with her growing family as living next door to her parents.
Carrie was a life-long resident of the Webb City, Stone's Corner and Fountain Road vicinity. For a number of years during her married life, her family lived on the Daugherty farm, at the west edge of Webb City. At the time of her death in 1946, the Rusk farm had become the Whitworth farm, the address of which was RR 3, Joplin, Missouri.
At some point during her life, Carrie dropped the middle name of Malinda. This name was given to her at birth and was recorded in the family Bible. She adopted and began using her mother's middle name of Alice as her own middle name. Thus her headstone was inscribed Carrie A. Whitworth.
On Sunday, July 28, 1946, Carrie Whitworth had been invited to the Snyder family reunion and dinner at Robert's Cafeteria in Joplin, and when the party left the floor, Mrs. Whitworth slipped, falling to the floor, suffering a fractured left hip, fractured left arm and other injuries. She died eight days later, at the age of 55, on Monday, August 5, 1946 at 2:15 p.m. at St. John's Hospital in Joplin, Missouri. Her death certificate states that the immediate cause of death was a "Diabetic Coma, due to Diabetes", the additional supplement to the death certificate specifically states "Death not due to fall". Several obituaries published in the local newspapers erroneously publish accounts that her death was due to injuries suffered in the above mentioned fall.
She was preceded in death by her mother, Mary (Woodrow) Rusk on January 25, 1892; infant son, James Mitchell Whitworth on February 24, 1929; and her father Walter "Bud" Rusk on May 8, 1929.
Carrie was survived by her husband of 37 years, William B. Whitworth; two daughters, Mrs. Nellie Murphy of Huston, Texas, and Mrs. Dorothy Richey of RR 3, Joplin, Missouri; two sons, Leland Whitworth of San Francisco, California, and Lynn Whitworth of St. Louis, Missouri; a sister, Mrs. Maude Ashmore of San Francisco, California; six grandchildren; and step-mother, Frenchie Rusk of RR 3, Joplin, Missouri. All the children, with the exception of Leland, were present at the funeral services.
Funeral services were conducted at 2:30 p.m. Thursday, August 8, 1946, at the Webb City Funeral Home chapel. The Rev. E. W. Love, Presbyterian minister of Joplin, officiated.
Burial was in the Ozark Memorial Park Cemetery in Joplin, Missouri
[bio by Teresa Richey - great-granddaughter of Carrie (Rusk) Whitworth]
*"Fulton School for the Deaf & Dumb" is now known as Missouri School for the Deaf.
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Daughter of Walter B. "Bud" Rusk and Mary Alice Woodrow Rusk.
Wife of William Benjamin Whitworth.
Mother of 5 children:
Lynn Rusk Whitworth (1909-1989)
Leland W. Whitworth (1911-1969)
Nellie Alice Whitworth Murphy (1912-1992)
Dorothy Treva Whitworth Richey (1915-2008)
James Mitchell Whitworth (1929-1929)
Burial was in the Ozark Memorial Park cemetery in Joplin, Missouri.
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