Extracted from: Minutes of the Michigan Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church NINETY-FOURTH SESSION Kalamazoo, Michigan, September 11-16, 1929 by Patrick McCleary MRS. MARY WHITMAN Mrs. Mary Whitman, who was the widow of Reverend B.H. Whitman, for 20 years as itinerant in the Michigan Conference, died at the Clark Home, Grand Rapids, January 2, 1929, having been a resident of the Home for a little more than a year. She was born April 29, 1842, her parents being [Francis "Frank" Wells and Jane Miller Wells]. Her ministry with Brother Whitman in the Conference was rendered on the following charges: Bronson, Orange, Alaska, Cannonsburg, Charlevoix, Boyne City, Manton, Norwood, East Jordan. Brother Whitman died in 1907, since which time Mrs. Whitman had made her home at Boyne City, where they had had a pleasant pastorate. During her last illness at the Home she was a great and patient sufferer. She is survived be a son, E.A. Whitman, of Flint, and an aged sister at Boyne City. Her body was taken to Boyne City by Reverend J.B. Peatling, the Superintendent of the Home, where he conducted appropriate services and later it was laid to rest in the cemetery at Charlevoix, by the side of her husband.