When William Wheeler Whitsett was born on 31 August 1884, in Kress, Swisher, Texas, United States, his father, Jessie James Whitsett, was 34 and his mother, Margaret Melinda Jane Pickens, was 38. He married Clara May Alexander in 1911. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Clinton, Hunt, Texas, United States in 1920 and Commissioner's Precinct 2, Hale, Texas, United States in 1940. He died on 30 November 1963, in Plainview, Hale, Texas, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Tulia, Swisher, Texas, United States.
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Historical Boundaries 1887: Hunt, Texas, United States
Texas completed the construction of the Praetorian Building (Stone Plane Tower) in 1909. It was the first skyscraper in Texas and the Southwestern United States. The building had 15 stories and was 190 ft tall.
English: possibly a habitational name fromWitsett Farm near Leominster, Herefordshire.
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