Typed by: Kay Ward


WHITAKER, GEORGE DAVID VINCENT

Surnames: WHITAKER, PRYOR, COCHRAN, HATCHET, BAKER, BROWN, SIKES

George David Vincent Whitaker, b October 24, 1875 in Georgia, d August 18, 1961 and buried in Cego Cemetery, Falls County, Texas-came to the Eddy area of Falls County in 1895, where he worked as a farm laborer. He was followed to Texas by his friend John Pryor, and the two encouraged their widowed mothers and siblings to join them. George's mother, Mrs. M.F. Whitaker, did come to Texas, b November 11, 1843, d August 9, 1934 and buried in Cego Cemetery.
In 1899, George was married to Martha Elizabeth Pryor, b February 2, 1880 in Georgia, d March 15, 1974 and buried in Cego Cemetery-a daughter of John Cecil Pryor, b 1849 in Georgia, who married February 24, 1851 in Georgia-a daughter of Robert and Sarah (Hatchet) Cochran, of Pike County, Georgia, and a sister of John Pryor, who joined George David Vincent Whitaker in Texas. Matha's paternal grandparents were Jesse Jack and Mary Ann (Baker) Pryor.
During his life-time, George acquired farm property in the Chilton area of Falls County, and invested in land in Nueces County, Texas. The depression of the 1930's caused great loss of property, although descendants still own land near Chilton on which there are several oil wells.
George and Martha (Pryor) Whitaker were the parents of ten children; Ida Mae Whitaker, Robert Emmett Lee Whitaker, Lida Julia Whitaker, Minnie Carrie Whitaker, John George Whitaker, Charles Clarence Whitaker, b January 27, 1909 who married Mary Elizabeth Brown; Eula Willie Whitaker, Pinkney Carter Whitaker, b December 23, 1912 who married Crystal Alice Sikes; Martha Elizabeth Whitaker, and Carl David Vincent Whitaker.
Charles Clarence Whitaker and Pinkney Carter Whitaker remained in Falls County, and their children and grandchildren continue to live there.

Copyright Permission granted to Theresa Carhart for printing these bios of these Falls County Families to this Web page
"Families of Falls county", Compiled and Edited by the Falls County Historical Commission,
page 479, column 1 and column 2
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