White

William married Zudie Powell. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Has decedents in Gainsboro, South Carolina.

Had two wives, a son William First wife, Small, second wife, Little. By
second wife, daughter, Mary Lynn White

William married Alice McCabe Small in 1890/1905. Alice was born on 27 Oct 1874 in Brown's Summit, NC; died on 10 Jun 1915. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Fought in Civil War for the Tennessee Volunteer's (Northern) at about the
age of 17.

He went down the river as a teenager, seeing a slave-market in New
Orleans, and was horrified. Vowed if he could do anything about it, he
would.

Tennessee was a Confederate State.

William heard a bird-call, the call to slip down to the creek, to join
the other volunteers. His mother and sister were having tea with
good Southern women, and therefore, could not say goodbye to William.

Sister Adelaide discovered that the meeting point was known by the
Confederate Army, and rode down on her horse to warn the boys. The boys
made it out safely.

His sister Ella Adelaide refused to Reading or Rutland, VT during the
Civil War, to stay with her mother's sisters and brother and attend
school. At school she wrote a remarkable essay (copy exists) about how
she warned the Union Volunteers of the Cleveland region (including her
older brother William Orlando White) and thus prevented their capture by
the Confederates.

William was made a Captain of the union army while still a teenager.

William and Grandfather Samuel Tarrant fought against each other at The
Battle of Missionary Ridge. Both survived.

As a perk for doing well during the Civil War, William White was made a
'revenuer' for Tennessee. This was much more dangerous than the war.

I now have his revolver. William White has a gun as well.

Financier. Dealt in wholesale pharmaceuticals and other enterprises.
Fortunes shifted regularly.

It seems unlikely that both he and his future wife were born on the same
day.

William married Letitia Dalton Lynn on 22 Dec 1870. Letitia (daughter of Joseph Lynn and Elizabeth Moore Gaines) was born on 14 Mar 1843 in Tennessee; died in 1881/1938. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Caroline Townsend: (NOT Leticia Lynn)

Born in Vermont,

Came to Tennessee as a Schoolteacher. She didn't get along with her
stepmother.

Although we don't believe either Townsend, MA or Lynn, MA is related to
us, the Townsend's landed in Lynn, MA.

Leticia Lynn:
Lynn from Virginia.

Had six children, all sons, three of whom died in infancy

May have come from Lund, Sweden, as part of the Viking invasion to
Northern Ireland. (probably apocryphal)

A Lynd, Presbyterian in Northern Ireland rebelled against the English
(early 19th century) when their property rights revokes, children declared
bastards. Was supposed to be deported to Australia, but got a deal to be
sold as an indentured servant (fixed period) to Virginia - already part
of the U.S. After working off his indentureship, he (name unknown) sent
for his family -- they settled in Tennessee. Name in Virginia changed to
Lynn, because no one could pronounce Lynd.