Lyman Egbert White (1849-1934)

WHITE, CRABB, BELDEN, HOYMAN, MINKLER

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 5/17/2021 at 16:53:14

From Nevada Evening Journal June 18, 1934 (page 1)

PIONEER NEVADA MERCHANT DEAD

L. E. WHITE PASSED AWAY AT RESULT OF STROKE OF APOPLEXY

Lyman E. White, 85, for over 58 years a resident of Nevada, died at his home 720 Ninth street, Saturday, at 8:10 p. m., after a few days illness.

Mr. White had been taken ill on Wednesday and a short time before his passing suffered a stroke of apoplexy. A fall at his home ten days before, it is thought in no way contributed to his death.

Funeral services were held at the home this afternoon with his pastor, Rev. Geo A. Lawton in charge, after which interment was in the family lot in the Nevada cemetery by the side of the wife who passed away about 4 years ago.

Mr. White, a native of Rush, Pennsylvania, where he was born February 25, 1849, had been a resident of Nevada for fifty-eight years. For the first thirty-eight years of that time he was engaged in the retail hardware trade with E. S. Bamberger under the firm name of White & Bamberger and is remembered as one of the very substantial merchants engaged in the retail business in Nevada during the period of its most rapid growth.

Since disposing of his business he had lived in retirement in his Ninth street home. His health had been fairly good and he continued mentally alert and his unusually keen intellect was active to the end.

Members of the immediate family here for the funeral were the daughter, Miss Nellie, who has maintained the home for the father, Miss Zella White of Sioux City who has been at home for the summer vacation; the daughter Mrs. Ollie Crabb of Fairfield and the son Warren G. White of Omaha. The son Charles who has his home in Seattle and daughter, Mrs. Lois Belden of New Jersey, were unable to be here.

Besides these children there are two sisters, Mrs. G. W. Hoyman of Huron, S. D., and Miss Alma White of Rochelle, Ill. One sister, Mrs. C. M. Minkler and a brother, John White, preceded him in death and are buried in the Nevada cemetery, while a brother Will was buried in Denver.