McLemoreStrong
Genealogy
Strong - McLemore History and Ancestry
First Name:  Last Name: 
[Advanced Search]  [Surnames]

Family: Edward White / Elizabeth Strickland (F68)

m. Aft 1809


Family Information    |    Notes    |    Sources    |    All    |    PDF

  • Father | Male
    Edward White

    Born  Abt 1781  Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  13 Jan 1871  Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location
    Buried    Travis Cemetery, Sabine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location
    Married  Aft 1809  [1]  Elbert County, Georgia  [1] Find all individuals with events at this location
    Father   
    Mother   

    Mother | Female
    Elizabeth Strickland

    Born  Abt 1795  Elbert County, Georgia Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  25 Dec 1864  Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location
    Buried    Travis Cemetery, Sabine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location
    Father  Henry Strickland | F71 Group Sheet 
    Mother  Ruth Thompson | F71 Group Sheet 

    Child 1 | Male
    Henry Strickland White, Sr

    Born  Abt 1812  Georgia Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  10 Feb 1886  Sabine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location
    Buried    Spring Hill Cemetery, Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location
    Spouse  Eliza Jones | F66 
    Married  8 Jul 1836  Amite County, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this location
    Spouse  Ann Vardeman | F67 
    Married  Bef 1842  Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this location
    Spouse  Mary Etta "Polly" Vardeman | F65 
    Married  Aft 1852  Sabine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location

    Child 2 | Female
    Mary White

    Born  Abt 1815  Madison County, Georgia Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  Abt 1842  Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this location
    Buried     
    Spouse  Benjamin Franklin Easley | F364 
    Married  24 Jan 1828  Amite County, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this location

    Child 3 | Female
    Nancy White

    Born  Bef 1818  Amite County, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  Oct 1848  Amite County, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this location
    Buried     
    Spouse  Simpson Raborn | F3987 
    Married  10 Jul 1838  Amite County, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this location

    Child 4 | Male
    John Ragan White

    Born  9 Mar 1819  Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  12 Jun 1894   
    Buried     
    Spouse  Jemimah Amazia Vardeman | F368 
    Married  3 Aug 1843   

    Child 5 | Female
    Rutha Caroline White

    Born  Abt 1822  Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died     
    Buried    Travis Cemetery, Sabine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location
    Spouse  Richard "Dick" Henry Travis | F369 
    Married  14 Sep 1843  Amite County, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this location

    Child 6 | Female
    Elizabeth Jane White

    Born  1 May 1825  Amite County, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  19 May 1899  Sabine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location
    Buried     
    Spouse  J.H. Wente | F365 
    Married  30 Nov 1842  Amite County, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this location
    Spouse  Clementine Watterson Easley | F366 
    Married  Abt 1852  Spring Hill Community, Sabine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location

    Child 7 | Male
    James White

    Born  1 Mar 1826  Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  Bef 1858   
    Buried     
    Spouse  Drucilla C. Watkins | F367 
    Married  29 Oct 1846  Sabine Parish, Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this location

    Child 8 | Female
    Theodosia S. White

    Born  8 Nov 1830  Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  13 Apr 1901  Pike County, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this location
    Buried     
    Spouse  Winston Elija McDaniel | F3988 
    Married  13 Dec 1848  Liberty, Amite County, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this location

    Child 9 | Female
    Sophronia Pauline White

    Born  Nov 1833  Amite County, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  15 Jun 1915  Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location
    Buried    Hemphill City Cemetery, Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location
    Spouse  James Cannon Travis | F370 
    Married  5 Dec 1850  St. Helena Parish, Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this location

    William Thompson WhiteChild 10 | Male
    William Thompson White

    Born  15 Jun 1838  Amite County, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  9 Dec 1927  Rapides Parish, Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this location
    Buried    Hollywood Cemetery, McComb, Pike County, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this location
    Spouse  Mary Cornelia Felder | F3999 
    Married  21 Jan 1867  Amite County, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this location

  • Notes  Married:
    • Bears and Panthers and Sabine County Women

      This story from the 1800s, as told by the master storyteller, J.Frank Dobie, gives another reason not to mess with Sabine County women:

      "One winter day the White family on Bear Creek in Sabine County killed a hog, cut it up, put the meat in a wooden tub, and set it in a corner of the cabin, to be salted down and smoked on the morrow.

      Then the man went off with his dogs to join the neighbor on a hunt.

      That night while Mrs. White was chunking up the fire in the fireplace, the children covered up in bed and a quilt wrapped around herself to shut out the cold norther blowing through the chinks in the log walls, she heard a panther scream.

      She knew it had smelled the fresh meat. It prowled under the puncheon floor and then leaped up on the roof, every once in a while letting out a scream. Then it went to clawing on the logs and finally got a paw through a crack near the tub of meat and took out a piece.

      At this, Mrs. White threw her quilt over the tub, seized an axe standing just inside the door, and waited.

      In a little while the panther put its paw back through the crack for another piece of meat. She had the axe raised and now she came down with it, cutting the paw clean off.
      That panther did not bother around the cabin any more that night."

      ----- J. Frank Dobie, "Tales of Old-Time Texas"

      Posted by Ronad Barlow on his Facebook group, Farm Road 1 - From one end to the other. It is not known which Mrs. White this story relates to.

  • Sources 
    1. [S461] White & Toole, "Sabine County Historical Sketches and Genealogical Records" c. 1972, p 58 (Reliability: 3).