Left to right, front row:
Cora White, Unknown man (probably Samuel Thomas Brown),
Lizzie Lane, Jennie B. White,
Charles F.
Davis (my grandparents).
Back Row: Bruce
Lane (brother
of Lizzie), Effie White, Sam White, Jim White, and George Lady.
Photograph probably taken in Baileyton, Tennessee around
1900-1905, before Cora White and Samuel Brown migrated to Kansas.
All of
the Whites,
except Sam, are the youngest children of James Madison White and Rachel
Jane Campbell. His youngest child, Effie, was born when
James
was 73! There were two Samuels, but this one probably
was the Knoxville minister, son of Dr. John Blair White.
Bruce Lane was my grandfather's best friend, and Lizzie was his
sister.
George Lady was another friend. The graves of Charles Davis,
Jennie
White Davis, Effie White, Bruce Lane, Elizabeth (Lizzie) Lane, and
George
Lady are located at Cross Anchor Cemetery near Baileyton.
Our Direct Descendancy:
1
Frederick Tillman White, believed to be the son of
Bloomer White, was b.
1785 in the
Lost Mountain area of Greene County, Tennessee; d.
1844,
He married Deborah McNeese July 25, 1810 in Greene
County.
She was b. 1791 in Greene County, and died April 1, 1871.
2
Their fourth child, James Madison White, b. February 6,
1813 in Greene
County, Tennessee, died September 15, 1888; He married 1st
Margaret Yeager. He married (second)
June
8, 1862, Rachel Jane Campbell, who was born July 9, 1844 in
Greene
County, and died August 2, 1925. They are buried at Cross
Anchor
Cemetery, Greene Co, TN.
3
Their 13th child, Jennie Belle White, born March 6, 1884
in Greene
County, Tennessee, died September 5, 1961 in Greene County. She
married
about January 14, 1914, Charles Franklin Davis, who was born near Baileyton,
Greene County, 1883, and died 1947.
4
Their third child, Dorothy Mayo Davis, born December 7,
1922 in Greene
County, Tennessee. She met Donald Gavin Sabin at East
Tennessee
State College, and they married October 8, 1945. She died
July 30, 1996 in Decatur, Georgia. He died May 10, 2014. Both are buried at Maplelawn Cemetery,
Jonesborough, Tennessee.
White-Davis
Family Gedcom
at World Connect, Ancestry.Com
Group Photo
with Jennie Belle White
Interesting Stories about Dr. John F. White,
Country Doctor in Leoti,
Kansas!
Thanks
to many diligent White family researchers who have worked on this
family for decades and have been kind enough to share their work with
me: (Nola) Geraldine Saavedra, Ida Huff, and Katie Merritt.
Bennie Day shared information about his Andrew Jackson family who
migrated to Kansas and Nebraska.
I would love to hear from any
other White researchers, especially descendants of James Madison White,
and would really enjoy seeing some old photographs! My email
addresses are patricia.sabin@comcast.net or genealogy@patsabin.com
.
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