Birt year is probably not correct. His mother was illiterate and like many of that era, they guessed. DNA tests by GG-Grandson Bruce D. White confirms descent from his father Addison White via descendants of Addison's brothers and sister.
His father was mortally wounded at the Fort Pillow Massacre on 12 April 1864, during the Civil War and his mother passed away on 16 February 1884 on the family farm, near Holladay, Tennessee.
In 1903, he and his siblings and their families all moved from Benton County, Tennessee to Hopkins County, Texas. Only his uncle, James "Jim" White, who was single, already worked as a railroad detective in Oklahoma.
He died 15 May 1942. He was on a riding cultivator, plowing cotton, when he had a heart attack and keeled over - still on the cultivator. He was using a team of mules, (more about them later) and they continued on the the end of the row, and turned around and was headed back down that row when Myrtle Ann Reynolds White looked out and saw him keeled over. They got to him, but he was already dead.
The Mules: They were both white, mules. Looked like twins, but were not. The slightly smaller one was a surviving twin, and just a little younger. These mules were very high spirited, and a tight reign had to be kept at all times, else they would run away. That is why it seemed very strange that they did not run away, when he died on the cultivator, and the reins were slack. John had raised these mules from colts. He was very proud of his beautiful paired mules. He had beautiful all-leather harness: Bridle, reins, trace chains which were wide studded leather), Breast Harness, and martin gale (all studded). He used this harness at all times.
His father was mortally wounded at the Fort Pillow Massacre on 12 April 1864, during the Civil War and his mother passed away on 16 February 1884 on the family farm, near Holladay, Tennessee.
In 1903, he and his siblings and their families all moved from Benton County, Tennessee to Hopkins County, Texas. Only his uncle, James "Jim" White, who was single, already worked as a railroad detective in Oklahoma.
He died 15 May 1942. He was on a riding cultivator, plowing cotton, when he had a heart attack and keeled over - still on the cultivator. He was using a team of mules, (more about them later) and they continued on the the end of the row, and turned around and was headed back down that row when Myrtle Ann Reynolds White looked out and saw him keeled over. They got to him, but he was already dead.
The Mules: They were both white, mules. Looked like twins, but were not. The slightly smaller one was a surviving twin, and just a little younger. These mules were very high spirited, and a tight reign had to be kept at all times, else they would run away. That is why it seemed very strange that they did not run away, when he died on the cultivator, and the reins were slack. John had raised these mules from colts. He was very proud of his beautiful paired mules. He had beautiful all-leather harness: Bridle, reins, trace chains which were wide studded leather), Breast Harness, and martin gale (all studded). He used this harness at all times.
Birt year is probably not correct. His mother was illiterate and like many of that era, they guessed. DNA tests by GG-Grandson Bruce D. White confirms descent from his father Addison White via descendants of Addison's brothers and sister.
His father was mortally wounded at the Fort Pillow Massacre on 12 April 1864, during the Civil War and his mother passed away on 16 February 1884 on the family farm, near Holladay, Tennessee.
In 1903, he and his siblings and their families all moved from Benton County, Tennessee to Hopkins County, Texas. Only his uncle, James "Jim" White, who was single, already worked as a railroad detective in Oklahoma.
He died 15 May 1942. He was on a riding cultivator, plowing cotton, when he had a heart attack and keeled over - still on the cultivator. He was using a team of mules, (more about them later) and they continued on the the end of the row, and turned around and was headed back down that row when Myrtle Ann Reynolds White looked out and saw him keeled over. They got to him, but he was already dead.
The Mules: They were both white, mules. Looked like twins, but were not. The slightly smaller one was a surviving twin, and just a little younger. These mules were very high spirited, and a tight reign had to be kept at all times, else they would run away. That is why it seemed very strange that they did not run away, when he died on the cultivator, and the reins were slack. John had raised these mules from colts. He was very proud of his beautiful paired mules. He had beautiful all-leather harness: Bridle, reins, trace chains which were wide studded leather), Breast Harness, and martin gale (all studded). He used this harness at all times.
His father was mortally wounded at the Fort Pillow Massacre on 12 April 1864, during the Civil War and his mother passed away on 16 February 1884 on the family farm, near Holladay, Tennessee.
In 1903, he and his siblings and their families all moved from Benton County, Tennessee to Hopkins County, Texas. Only his uncle, James "Jim" White, who was single, already worked as a railroad detective in Oklahoma.
He died 15 May 1942. He was on a riding cultivator, plowing cotton, when he had a heart attack and keeled over - still on the cultivator. He was using a team of mules, (more about them later) and they continued on the the end of the row, and turned around and was headed back down that row when Myrtle Ann Reynolds White looked out and saw him keeled over. They got to him, but he was already dead.
The Mules: They were both white, mules. Looked like twins, but were not. The slightly smaller one was a surviving twin, and just a little younger. These mules were very high spirited, and a tight reign had to be kept at all times, else they would run away. That is why it seemed very strange that they did not run away, when he died on the cultivator, and the reins were slack. John had raised these mules from colts. He was very proud of his beautiful paired mules. He had beautiful all-leather harness: Bridle, reins, trace chains which were wide studded leather), Breast Harness, and martin gale (all studded). He used this harness at all times.
Family Members
Sponsored by Ancestry
Advertisement
Records on Ancestry
Advertisement
