Walter Edward "Ed" White was born in Columbus, Ohio at Camp Chase Hospital (Camp Chase was where civil war confederate prisoners were kept,but there was a hospital there also). He was born on Jan. 3, 1888 to George Weadon White and to Mary Ann Ward. (Note- his birth record is in the name of Walter Lee White by mistake). When he was a boy, his father George took him out in a boat on a pond and threw him in to "teach him to swim" and he almost drowned. On Aug. 22, 1907, he married Frances R. Lavely. They had 4 children, Eugene Weaden (died at 4 of spinal meningitis), Charles E., Peregrine Lavely, and Jack Alvin (died at 4 of being kicked in the head by a cow).They lived mostly at 4309 Clime Rd, Columbus, Ohio on a small farm. On June 25, 1917, he signed his WWI draft registration card. Sometime after his two young children died he had a nervous breakdown and took to bed. His other two sons, Charles and Peregrine had to drop out of school and get jobs to help the family during The Great Depression. Ed lived a quiet comfortable life towards in his later years. Frances tried to raise small African violets in the dining room windows.They had a screened porch off the kitchen with white adirondack chairs that Ed built.In later years there were no farm animals in the barn but sometimes large rats that Ed had to shoot through the kitchen window. They had a screened porch off the kitchen with white adirondack chairs that Ed built.They had a coal furnace with a coal room in the basement and coal was delivered by a dump truck throught the basement window. It was stoked at night and then got cool in the morning and had to be re-stoked with coal. They had well water that was red color (rusty?) and had a unique flavor. Frances would wash the clothes with an electric wringer washer and hang them on the clothes line. The water was pumped into the house with an electric pump, but there were manual pumps outside. There was a small on by the milkhouse that had a tin cup that was rinsed but never washed and everyone drank out of it and it stayed outside. They had an outhouse until after Ed died and Peregrine and Rita White convinced Frances to let them get a toilet and shower and bathroom put into the house to avoid falls.Frances used to keep a skunk with a green tail of airwick in the bathroom and one time Walter Edwin White (grandson) was 2 and spilled it all over their bed and Frances was furious. Ed was good at wood working and building small step stools and such. Frances liked to invite her brother and sister over and Ed's siblings to play cards in the dining room and drink Wedemeyer Beer. Ed and Frances like to watch Lawrence Welk in black and white on tv. Once a lightening bolt struck the house on the corner that the tv was on. Frances would make mulberry pies from a tree in the yard and rhubarb pies from plants in the yard. Frances would save coupons and take them to the store and they would take them even if she didn't buy the items.She would give you a scoop of vanilla ice cream in a bowl. Ed smoke Chesterfield or Camel cigarrettes (once in awhile) and drank Wedemeyer Beer (once in awhile). Ed and Frances liked to eat the fat off steaks and even the marrow in the round bones.Ed and Frances had an older model Chevrolet car. I think it was puke green. Ed died at home on April 14, 1963 from a cerebrovascular accident (stroke).Frances said he first complained of not being able to see across the road.He is buried in Greenlawn cemetery beside his wife Frances and two young sons, Eugene W. and Jack A. White, in section 68 (center), lot 495, grave 3. Follow the red line in the cemetery road to get to the section.