"Emmons and Elmira (Smith) White were both born in the Green Mountain State [Vermont], where they were united in marriage. Mr. White cleared a farm from the hardwood timber country, near which sprung up the town of Mason [Michigan]. He had a yoke of oxen and a cow, and, in passing through an Indian village, which they found deserted, they put their cattle in one of the wigwams over night; Mrs. White was fearful during the night that they would be massacred. On arriving at Mason they found all the Indians making sugar from the hard maple trees. Mr. White built the third house in Mason, having taken up a quarter section in the woods, in which he had to clear a space large enough to build his house; he also constructed a dam, and a sawmill, the latter being the first mill in that section of country. In their house in the timber country their children were all born, except the eldest, who was born in Ohio, where the parents stopped about a year on their way to Michigan. The sons and daughters are: Franklin, died in 1905 at Mason, MI; Adaline, married Lafayette Jones, and died in her native state; Mary Jane came to California in 1867 with her mother, taught school in Butte and Plumas counties, and died unmarried, in Chico. She erected a two-story frame building in front of the old brick school house. Lorinda, married Albert Butler and lives in Mason, MI; Emmons, of this review, and the youngest that grew up; and Ella, died aged sixteen years.
[Emmons White], the father, came to California about 1851; he was a wagon-maker by trade, and engaged at that trade in Chico where he had a wagon and blacksmithing shop, owning the property at the right of the Chico Hotel. He had come to this state by water, and after some time his wife and daughter came to join him, making the trip via the Isthmus in 1867. The father died in Chico at the age of sixty-one, after which the mother made her home with her son, our subject, and died at his ranch home in 1898, aged eighty-three years." History of Butte County, CA 1918 by George C. Mansfield, B.L., pgs. 687-88. Publication: Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA pgs 687-88.
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63-year-old Emmons White Senior was interred, per the Chico Cemetery Association Records, in the plot noted, in July 1873. There is no marker.
[Emmons White], the father, came to California about 1851; he was a wagon-maker by trade, and engaged at that trade in Chico where he had a wagon and blacksmithing shop, owning the property at the right of the Chico Hotel. He had come to this state by water, and after some time his wife and daughter came to join him, making the trip via the Isthmus in 1867. The father died in Chico at the age of sixty-one, after which the mother made her home with her son, our subject, and died at his ranch home in 1898, aged eighty-three years." History of Butte County, CA 1918 by George C. Mansfield, B.L., pgs. 687-88. Publication: Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA pgs 687-88.
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63-year-old Emmons White Senior was interred, per the Chico Cemetery Association Records, in the plot noted, in July 1873. There is no marker.
"Emmons and Elmira (Smith) White were both born in the Green Mountain State [Vermont], where they were united in marriage. Mr. White cleared a farm from the hardwood timber country, near which sprung up the town of Mason [Michigan]. He had a yoke of oxen and a cow, and, in passing through an Indian village, which they found deserted, they put their cattle in one of the wigwams over night; Mrs. White was fearful during the night that they would be massacred. On arriving at Mason they found all the Indians making sugar from the hard maple trees. Mr. White built the third house in Mason, having taken up a quarter section in the woods, in which he had to clear a space large enough to build his house; he also constructed a dam, and a sawmill, the latter being the first mill in that section of country. In their house in the timber country their children were all born, except the eldest, who was born in Ohio, where the parents stopped about a year on their way to Michigan. The sons and daughters are: Franklin, died in 1905 at Mason, MI; Adaline, married Lafayette Jones, and died in her native state; Mary Jane came to California in 1867 with her mother, taught school in Butte and Plumas counties, and died unmarried, in Chico. She erected a two-story frame building in front of the old brick school house. Lorinda, married Albert Butler and lives in Mason, MI; Emmons, of this review, and the youngest that grew up; and Ella, died aged sixteen years.
[Emmons White], the father, came to California about 1851; he was a wagon-maker by trade, and engaged at that trade in Chico where he had a wagon and blacksmithing shop, owning the property at the right of the Chico Hotel. He had come to this state by water, and after some time his wife and daughter came to join him, making the trip via the Isthmus in 1867. The father died in Chico at the age of sixty-one, after which the mother made her home with her son, our subject, and died at his ranch home in 1898, aged eighty-three years." History of Butte County, CA 1918 by George C. Mansfield, B.L., pgs. 687-88. Publication: Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA pgs 687-88.
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63-year-old Emmons White Senior was interred, per the Chico Cemetery Association Records, in the plot noted, in July 1873. There is no marker.
[Emmons White], the father, came to California about 1851; he was a wagon-maker by trade, and engaged at that trade in Chico where he had a wagon and blacksmithing shop, owning the property at the right of the Chico Hotel. He had come to this state by water, and after some time his wife and daughter came to join him, making the trip via the Isthmus in 1867. The father died in Chico at the age of sixty-one, after which the mother made her home with her son, our subject, and died at his ranch home in 1898, aged eighty-three years." History of Butte County, CA 1918 by George C. Mansfield, B.L., pgs. 687-88. Publication: Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA pgs 687-88.
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63-year-old Emmons White Senior was interred, per the Chico Cemetery Association Records, in the plot noted, in July 1873. There is no marker.
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