Mary White

Abt 1815 - Abt 1842  (27 years)

• Name	Mary White  [1]
  Birth	Abt 1815	Madison County, Georgia   [2, 3]
  Gender	Female
  Death	Abt 1842	Mississippi
  Person ID	I450	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)
  Marriage	Aft 1809	Elbert County, Georgia   [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 d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	24 Jan 1828	Amite County, Mississippi   [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 d. 8 Aug 1894 (Age 63 years)   3. E.W. Easley,   b. 1832, Amite County, Mississippi d. Yes, date unknown   4. G.G. Easley,   b. 1836, Amite County, Mississippi d. Yes, date unknown   5. Welden Easley,   b. 1838, Amite County, Mississippi d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F364	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	9 Dec 2006

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - Abt 1815 - Madison County, Georgia Marriage - 24 Jan 1828 - Amite County, Mississippi Death - Abt 1842 - Mississippi  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S461] White & Toole, "Sabine County Historical Sketches and Genealogical Records" c. 1972, p 58 (Reliability: 3). [S540] Cox, Trudy-Family Researcher, San Jose, CA (Family Group Sheets submitted to STRICKLAND SCENE). [S79] Ezell, Patricia--Contributor to the Volunteer Helplist.