Celestia "Lesta" MacFarland

1884 - 1972  (87 years)

• Name	Celestia "Lesta" MacFarland
  Birth	11 Sep 1884	Garfield, Montgomery, Iowa
  Gender	Female
  Death	2 Jan 1972	Long Beach, Los Angeles, California
  Burial	Sunnyside Mausoleum, Long Beach, Los Angeles, California
  Person ID	I17228	Whipple Descendants
  Last Modified	26 Aug 2012

  
  

  Father	Charles McFarland
  Mother	Anna P. Runnels
  Family ID	F9260	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Harry Lawrence Whipple,   b. 26 Sep 1882, Union Twp, Harrison, Missouri d. 28 Nov 1963, Long Beach, Los Angeles, California (Age 81 years)
  Marriage	1906	, , Iowa
  Children	+ 1. Fred Lawrence Whipple,   b. 5 Nov 1906, Red Oak, Montgomery, Iowa d. 30 Aug 2004, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age 97 years)   2. Glen Orville Whipple,   b. 4 Jul 1908, Wright, Pottawattamie, Iowa d. 2 Jun 1910, Wright Twp, Pottawattamie, Iowa (Age 1 year)
  Family ID	F9261	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 11 Sep 1884 - Garfield, Montgomery, Iowa Marriage - 1906 - , , Iowa Death - 2 Jan 1972 - Long Beach, Los Angeles, California Burial - - Sunnyside Mausoleum, Long Beach, Los Angeles, California  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  !SOURCE: GEDCOM file from Clark Edwards (email hidden) to the Whipple Web Site, March 1998. !SOURCE: "Whipple, Fred Lawrence," The International Who's Who, 37th ed., 1973-74 (London: Europa Publications, 1973), p. 1808. !SOURCE: 1930 Census, Berlekey, Alameda, California. Census of son Fred's household gives Celestia's birth in Iowa. !SOURCE: IGI. Gives birth 11 Sep 1884 in Garfield, Montgomery, Iowa, to Chas. McFarland and Anna P. Runnels. !SOURCE: Social Security Death Index gives death Jan 1972 in California, birth 11 Sep 1884. !SOURCE: 1920 Census, Deer Creek, Mills County, Iowa. Celestia is the wife, age 35, born in Iowa; her parents both born in Ohio. Others in the household are husband Harry L. Whipple and son Fred L. Whipple, as well as Francis M. [illegible], a laborer. !SOURCE: Email from N. Combs to Weldon Whipple, 10 Nov 2007. Cites the California Death Index, 1940-1977: "Celestia (MacFarland) Whipple d. 2 Jan 1972 in Los Angeles, CA." !SOURCE: Janice Morgan Seligman, So Proudly We Hail: Ancestors and Descendants of Harold and Elsie Cole (Whipple) Morgan (Boston: Newbury Street Press, c2011), p. 275.