Benjamin Harrison Whitcanack 1889-1941

WHITCANACK, ROUSH, WELLS, SHIPLEY, HULL, GANDY

Posted By: Harold & Mary Hull (email)
Date: 9/20/2007 at 15:33:12

Harrison Whitcanack of Keosauqua, who was injured critically in a fall from a load of hay at his farm about six weeks ago and who had been in hospitals since that time, died at the University Hospital in Iowa City about 4:00 Saturday afternoon. He was 52 years old.

Mr. Whitcanack at the time of the fatal accident was helping store hay in a barn. The hay rope broke and he fell backward from the load of hay to the ground, landing on his head. From the time of the accident, he remained paralyzed except for slight use of a few muscles.

After being in a hospital at Kirksville, MO about a month, he was taken to the University Hospital in Iowa City. X-ray examination failed to disclose any broken bones.

Mr. Whitcanack was born near Lebanon and spent most of his life in Van Buren County. His wife died a year ago.

Surviving are six children, Mrs. Everett Wells and Mrs. Harvey Dodds of Stockport, Mrs. Howard Shipley of Cantril, and Betty, Earl and Rex at home. Mr. Whitcanack also leaves four brothers, Willis Whitcanack of Park City, MT, Charles Whitcanack of Des Moines and Ira and John Whitcanack of Keosauqua; two sisters, Mrs. Emma Hull of Milton and Mrs. Everett Gandy of Des Moines and other relatives.

Funeral services were conducted at the Methodist church in Keosauqua at 2:00 Tuesday afternoon in charge of the Rev. A. M. Hadley of Milton. Burial was at the Lebanon cemetery.

(Photocopy of this obit found in the Van Buren County IA Genealogical Society’s collection at the Keosauqua Public Library.)

Note: Born 10feb1889, died 30aug1941
Married to Dott Roush 26nov1911
Son of William Whitcanack and Mary Angeline Hull Whitcanack

Harold Hull descends from Henry Hull (1807)