Henry is buried in the Whipple plot in San Marcos. He was first buried in France but when things were being sorted out after the war, his remains were transferred to a casket and sent to his parents. The flag indeed draped the casket. Uncle Howard told me about the funeral one time, that a bugler stood on the hill across Ranch Road 12 from the cemetery and played taps at the end of the funeral. He said it was very moving.
As for what it says on the back of the photo: “Front view of my porch with flag that draped Henrys casket. This was made soon after porch was made over 1941 on armistice day. I am in picture. Howard took the picture. The ___?___ was blooming.” Maybe someone can tell what the unclear word is or can remember what the bush was. I can’t tell, but I remember that bush was there for a very long time.
The article I included is a newspaper article from the San Marcos Newspaper at that time. I wrote the date on it because of what it says and when the casket came. There was no date on the article. This article was copied from the Saunders Williamson book that Calla Day Enlow wrote. You should have a copy of it.
Ray
I was looking through some old photos I have and ran across a photo that apparently Raymond Whipple used when he made the sketch of his sister Virginia. It is marked on the back thus: 1927 (?). It’s possible that is a wrong date, since whoever wrote it put a question mark after it, or perhaps Raymond made his sketch much later in 1929, as appears on it. One thing is apparent, though. I had a beautiful mother and a very talented uncle.
Well, here it is, John, the knife you mentioned. It ended up in my box of childhood treasures, which includes all of my Captain Midnight badges, telescope ring, Skyking Ring, and many other things that were dear to me. As near as I could tell from entries in my mom’s diaries, the time was Sept 4, 1948. Our family car was a 1936 Cheverolet, not a 1935 car. It was black. What fun we had in those days!
My Mom and Dad had what young people today would have a hard time believing: a courtship that lasted from 1924 to 1931. She was almost 15 when they met and he was 17 1/2. Seven years later they married. Mom and Dad dated often, even thought she lived in San Antonia and he in Yoakum, San Marcos, and Austin at various times. They dated a lot with all of Virginia’s brothers and their future wives: Raymond and Peggy, Howard and Alice, some cousins, and visited with Lester and Ester who were already married, and many relatives that lived in Wimberley.
One reason for this post though, is I have a question for anyone who can remember well the house at 505 Rigsby. Mom mentioned in her Diary (where I got all of this information), that she and Dad would sit by the fire in the dining room. Try as I might, I cannot picture a fireplace in the dining room. John Sr., since you lived in that house, where was the fireplace? I am really curious, as I can remember everything else about the house.
This is a picture of Henry and Beth Edwards, our cousins. He is the oldest of Mary’s children. They live in Lakewood, CO, in the Denver area. I visited them in 1999.
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