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Rutha Caroline White

Female Abt 1822 -


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  • Name Rutha Caroline White  [1, 2] 
    Birth Abt 1822  Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Gender Female 
    Burial Travis Cemetery, Sabine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I454  Strong Family Tree
    Last Modified 17 Aug 2014 

    Father Edward White,   b. Abt 1781, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 13 Jan 1871, Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 90 years) 
    Mother Elizabeth Strickland,   b. Abt 1795, Elbert County, Georgia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 25 Dec 1864, Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 69 years) 
    Marriage Aft 1809  Elbert County, Georgia Find all individuals with events at this location  [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 Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown 
    Marriage 14 Sep 1843  Amite County, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    Children 
     1. Nancy Caroline Travis,   b. Abt 1845, Amite County, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1910 (Age ~ 66 years)
     2. Malissa J. Travis,   b. 1848, Amite County, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
     3. Barthena Caroline Travis,   b. 1849, Texas Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt 1898 (Age 49 years)
     4. John Travis,   b. 1851, Texas Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
     5. Baritta Travis,   b. 1853, Texas Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
     6. Barrett Travis,   b. 1853, Texas Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
     7. Theodosa Travis,   b. 1855, Texas Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
     8. Delaney Travis,   b. 1856, Texas Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 1870 (Age 13 years)
     9. Mary Travis,   b. 1859, Texas Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 1870 (Age 10 years)
     10. St. Helena "Lena" Travis,   b. Abt 1861, Texas Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
     11. Richard Jefferson "Dick" Travis,   b. 1863, Texas Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt 1910, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 47 years)
     12. Mary Lanney Travis,   b. Abt 1864, Texas Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 28 Jul 1936, Sabine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 72 years)
     13. Quincy Travis,   b. 1866, Texas Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
    Family ID F369  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 9 Dec 2006 

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

  • Sources 
    1. [S461] White & Toole, "Sabine County Historical Sketches and Genealogical Records" c. 1972, p 41, 58, 59 (Reliability: 3).

    2. [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).

    3. [S352] Schluter, Helen Gomer "1860 Census of Sabine County Texas with Civil War Records".

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

    5. [S282] Pickett, Tony--Family Researcher (abpickett@aol.com).


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