James William White (1813-1885) - Find a Grave Memorial

James William White

Birth

1813

Laurens County, South Carolina, USA

Death

1885 (aged 71–72)

Henry County, Georgia, USA

Burial

Masters Cemetery

DeKalb County, Georgia, USA Add to Map

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James married Jane Young, his first wife. She is buried next to James. His second wife,a widow woman, Margaret Catherine Gaar Young White, is buried next to her husband George W. Young.

James William White is the Great Great Great Great Grandfather of Larry Thomas White.

LINEAGE: Larry Thomas WHITE, Fred Thomas WHITE Jr, Fred Thomas WHITE SR, Oliver Lawson WHITE, James Thomas WHITE, James William WHITE and Thomas Allen WHITE.

James, the second child of Thomas Allen White I, was a farmer and blacksmith and lived in Henry County, Georgia. He married first, ca 1833, Jane Young, and second Margaret Catherine Gaar Young. Jane was born ca 1815, probably in South Carolina, and died ca 1849. Her last child, Marcus Allen White was born in 1849 and was six months of age when the 1850 census was taken, but Jane was not listed. The family say she died from complications of childbirth.

Sometime before December 12, 1857, when James and Margaret were married, the story goes ".....at a church supper, James, a widower with seven children was being 'joshed' by his friends and relatives as to why he was being so slow to find a wife. (More than the required year had passed and he was not known to be courting anyone). He tried to shrug it off and continued to eat as the teasing got rough and he was stun to reply. 'WELL, in the first place, nobody would have me!" His sister-in-law, Margaret, was one of the church women serving supper. Her husband George Young, had died before his sister, Jane. She was about to fill his cup when he spoke. As she poured his coffee, she said (loud enough for several people to hear), 'I WOULD.' We think she had already been asked, and he had despaired of a favorable answer." (Came for the history of Mt. Zion United Methodist Church by Teresa McCullough).

Upon marrying James, margaret had a ready-made family of seven children - ages 8 to 24 - even though some had already married and left home. Margaret had eight children by her first marriage and then four by James, making a total of 17 children between the two of them.

James and Margaret were among the original founders of Mt. Zion United Methodist Church along with his father, mother and two of his siblings.

The 1860 sensus shows James had seven slaves and two slave houses. The slaves ranged from three years old to sixty years of age.