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Mary White

Female Abt 1815 - Abt 1842  (~ 27 years)


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  • Name Mary White  [1
    Birth Abt 1815  Madison County, Georgia Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3
    Gender Female 
    Death Abt 1842  Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I450  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  [1
    • 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 Benjamin Franklin Easley,   b. Abt 1810, Hickman County, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown 
    Marriage 24 Jan 1828  Amite County, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 3
    Children 
     1. Jane E. Easley,   b. Aft 1828   d. Yes, date unknown
     2. Robert Benjamin Easley,   b. 22 Dec 1830, Amite County, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 8 Aug 1894 (Age 63 years)
     3. E.W. Easley,   b. 1832, Amite County, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
     4. G.G. Easley,   b. 1836, Amite County, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
     5. Welden Easley,   b. 1838, Amite County, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
    Family ID F364  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 9 Dec 2006 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - Abt 1815 - Madison County, Georgia Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 24 Jan 1828 - Amite County, Mississippi Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - Abt 1842 - Mississippi Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [S461] White & Toole, "Sabine County Historical Sketches and Genealogical Records" c. 1972, p 58 (Reliability: 3).

    2. [S540] Cox, Trudy-Family Researcher, San Jose, CA (Family Group Sheets submitted to STRICKLAND SCENE).

    3. [S79] Ezell, Patricia--Contributor to the Volunteer Helplist.