Rutha Caroline White

Abt 1822 -

• Name	Rutha Caroline White  [1, 2]
  Born	Abt 1822	Mississippi   [3]
  Gender	Female
  Buried	Travis Cemetery, Sabine County, Texas
  Person ID	I454	Strong Family Tree
  Last Modified	17 Aug 2014

  
  

  Father	Edward White,   b. Abt 1781, Virginia ,   d. 13 Jan 1871, Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas  (Age ~ 90 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Strickland,   b. Abt 1795, Elbert County, Georgia ,   d. 25 Dec 1864, Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas  (Age ~ 69 years)
  Married	Aft 1809	Elbert County, Georgia   [4]
  	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.
  Family ID	F68	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Richard "Dick" Henry Travis,   b. Abt 1820, Amite County, Mississippi ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Married	14 Sep 1843	Amite County, Mississippi   [5]
  Children	1. Nancy Caroline Travis,   b. Abt 1845, Amite County, Mississippi ,   d. Aft 1910  (Age ~ 66 years)   2. Malissa J. Travis,   b. 1848, Amite County, Mississippi ,   d. Yes, date unknown   3. Barthena Caroline Travis,   b. 1849, Texas ,   d. Abt 1898  (Age 49 years)   4. John Travis,   b. 1851, Texas ,   d. Yes, date unknown   5. Baritta Travis,   b. 1853, Texas ,   d. Yes, date unknown   6. Barrett Travis,   b. 1853, Texas ,   d. Yes, date unknown   7. Theodosa Travis,   b. 1855, Texas ,   d. Yes, date unknown   8. Delaney Travis,   b. 1856, Texas ,   d. Bef 1870  (Age 13 years)   9. Mary Travis,   b. 1859, Texas ,   d. Bef 1870  (Age 10 years)   10. St. Helena "Lena" Travis,   b. Abt 1861, Texas ,   d. Yes, date unknown   11. Richard Jefferson "Dick" Travis,   b. 1863, Texas ,   d. Yes, date unknown   12. Mary Lanney Travis,   b. Abt 1864, Texas ,   d. 28 Jul 1936, Sabine County, Texas  (Age ~ 72 years)   13. Quincy Travis,   b. 1866, Texas ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Last Modified	9 Dec 2006
  Family ID	F369	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - Abt 1822 - Mississippi Buried - - Travis Cemetery, Sabine County, Texas Married - 14 Sep 1843 - Amite County, Mississippi  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Sources

  [S461] White & Toole, "Sabine County Historical Sketches and Genealogical Records" c. 1972, p 41, 58, 59 (Reliability: 3). [S416] Casagranda, Kathy "Sabine Parish The 1850 Census with added Family Information" (May, 1999: P.O. Box 2195, Palmer, Alaska 99645), p 85 (Reliability: 3). [S352] Schluter, Helen Gomer "1860 Census of Sabine County Texas with Civil War Records". [S461] White & Toole, "Sabine County Historical Sketches and Genealogical Records" c. 1972, p 58 (Reliability: 3). [S282] Pickett, Tony--Family Researcher (abpickett@aol.com).