"James White, son of James White and Elizabeth Irwin, was born in Weathersfield township, 28 May 1821. He came to Nauvoo, Middlefield township, about 1856, and settled on an hundred acres of land bought from his father for $200. This was forest land and had to be cleared. The men cut the logs during the day piling them into huge piles which the women, after placing their children at a safe distance, fired at night. When the Civil War came he enlisted 30 Sep 1862 in Co. B., 41st Regiment, O.V.I. Here he contracted smallpox and died in Louisville, KY 14 Feb 1865. He married Rozanna Phillips in 1842." (source: Family History of James White and Fannie Pittinger and their descendants, by Andrew J. White and Franc White, The Acorn Printery, Painesville, OH 1932, page 74)
Additional Research (© Judith A. Davison):
"James White enlisted 30 Sep 1862. He died of smallpox in a Louisville KY hospital in Feb 1865. When I applied for his service record and his widow's pension file, I discovered many additional facts about him. James was 40 years of age, an "old" man for military service. He left behind a wife and eight young children, and it's a wonder to me that he was even in the War at all. His father died in March 1862 and his brother was killed in battle in December of that same year. All this leads me to speculate that he may have been conscripted or drafted, apparently about a year after the war started. James deserted and returned home early in 1863. He was captured (after being turned in for a $10 reward in Weathersfield Twp., where he was born), and he spent most of the rest of the war in prison camps or army hospitals.
"A description of James and information concerning his death, are in his widow's pension file: 5 feet 9 inches tall; hazel, or gray, eyes; black hair; dark complexion. Adm to hospital with frost bite of toes of both feet, chronic diarrhea, and disability from injury rec'd by falling of a tree. Developed smallpox.
"James White was the grandson of two Irish immigrants, James White and Christopher Erwin/Irwin, both of whom died in Trumbull County, Ohio. Although James White's name is on his wife Rozannah's tombstone in Middlefield Village Cemetery, Geauga Co OH, he is buried in the hauntingly beautiful Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville KY, where I located and photographed his tombstone."
Additional Research (© Judith A. Davison):
"James White enlisted 30 Sep 1862. He died of smallpox in a Louisville KY hospital in Feb 1865. When I applied for his service record and his widow's pension file, I discovered many additional facts about him. James was 40 years of age, an "old" man for military service. He left behind a wife and eight young children, and it's a wonder to me that he was even in the War at all. His father died in March 1862 and his brother was killed in battle in December of that same year. All this leads me to speculate that he may have been conscripted or drafted, apparently about a year after the war started. James deserted and returned home early in 1863. He was captured (after being turned in for a $10 reward in Weathersfield Twp., where he was born), and he spent most of the rest of the war in prison camps or army hospitals.
"A description of James and information concerning his death, are in his widow's pension file: 5 feet 9 inches tall; hazel, or gray, eyes; black hair; dark complexion. Adm to hospital with frost bite of toes of both feet, chronic diarrhea, and disability from injury rec'd by falling of a tree. Developed smallpox.
"James White was the grandson of two Irish immigrants, James White and Christopher Erwin/Irwin, both of whom died in Trumbull County, Ohio. Although James White's name is on his wife Rozannah's tombstone in Middlefield Village Cemetery, Geauga Co OH, he is buried in the hauntingly beautiful Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville KY, where I located and photographed his tombstone."
"James White, son of James White and Elizabeth Irwin, was born in Weathersfield township, 28 May 1821. He came to Nauvoo, Middlefield township, about 1856, and settled on an hundred acres of land bought from his father for $200. This was forest land and had to be cleared. The men cut the logs during the day piling them into huge piles which the women, after placing their children at a safe distance, fired at night. When the Civil War came he enlisted 30 Sep 1862 in Co. B., 41st Regiment, O.V.I. Here he contracted smallpox and died in Louisville, KY 14 Feb 1865. He married Rozanna Phillips in 1842." (source: Family History of James White and Fannie Pittinger and their descendants, by Andrew J. White and Franc White, The Acorn Printery, Painesville, OH 1932, page 74)
Additional Research (© Judith A. Davison):
"James White enlisted 30 Sep 1862. He died of smallpox in a Louisville KY hospital in Feb 1865. When I applied for his service record and his widow's pension file, I discovered many additional facts about him. James was 40 years of age, an "old" man for military service. He left behind a wife and eight young children, and it's a wonder to me that he was even in the War at all. His father died in March 1862 and his brother was killed in battle in December of that same year. All this leads me to speculate that he may have been conscripted or drafted, apparently about a year after the war started. James deserted and returned home early in 1863. He was captured (after being turned in for a $10 reward in Weathersfield Twp., where he was born), and he spent most of the rest of the war in prison camps or army hospitals.
"A description of James and information concerning his death, are in his widow's pension file: 5 feet 9 inches tall; hazel, or gray, eyes; black hair; dark complexion. Adm to hospital with frost bite of toes of both feet, chronic diarrhea, and disability from injury rec'd by falling of a tree. Developed smallpox.
"James White was the grandson of two Irish immigrants, James White and Christopher Erwin/Irwin, both of whom died in Trumbull County, Ohio. Although James White's name is on his wife Rozannah's tombstone in Middlefield Village Cemetery, Geauga Co OH, he is buried in the hauntingly beautiful Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville KY, where I located and photographed his tombstone."
Additional Research (© Judith A. Davison):
"James White enlisted 30 Sep 1862. He died of smallpox in a Louisville KY hospital in Feb 1865. When I applied for his service record and his widow's pension file, I discovered many additional facts about him. James was 40 years of age, an "old" man for military service. He left behind a wife and eight young children, and it's a wonder to me that he was even in the War at all. His father died in March 1862 and his brother was killed in battle in December of that same year. All this leads me to speculate that he may have been conscripted or drafted, apparently about a year after the war started. James deserted and returned home early in 1863. He was captured (after being turned in for a $10 reward in Weathersfield Twp., where he was born), and he spent most of the rest of the war in prison camps or army hospitals.
"A description of James and information concerning his death, are in his widow's pension file: 5 feet 9 inches tall; hazel, or gray, eyes; black hair; dark complexion. Adm to hospital with frost bite of toes of both feet, chronic diarrhea, and disability from injury rec'd by falling of a tree. Developed smallpox.
"James White was the grandson of two Irish immigrants, James White and Christopher Erwin/Irwin, both of whom died in Trumbull County, Ohio. Although James White's name is on his wife Rozannah's tombstone in Middlefield Village Cemetery, Geauga Co OH, he is buried in the hauntingly beautiful Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville KY, where I located and photographed his tombstone."
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3138 James White Ohio
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Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville is his actual burial place. But his name is on a tombstone where is wife is buried in Middlefield Cemetery, Geauga Co OH.
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