Lawrence County AlArchives Obituaries.....White, Pamela B.H. Jeffries August 6, 1831 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Kim Curlin Wettroth kwet@mindspring.com September 21, 2011, 2:03 pm Valley Leaves (North Alabama), Tennessee Valley Genealogical Society, Inc.; Quarterly, Vol. 36, No. 3, Page 127, March 2002 Pamela B.H. (Jeffries) White Dies 19 Aug 1831 Courtland Herald [Courtland, Lawrence, AL] Died at Courtland, Al on the night of 6th inst. At the residence of her father, Rev. Charles L. Jeffries, Mrs. Pamela B.H. White, wife of Mr. Thomas E. White. She was born in Mechlenburg Co., Va., 20th June 1814. She lost her mother at a very early period of life, emigrated with her father to Gallatin, Tenn., where she was married 20 Apr 1830 before she had completed her sixteenth year. Circumstances having induced her father to change his residence to this place [Courtland], such was her filial affection, as, not being able to endure a separation from him, she prevailed on her husband to change his plans and co- operate with her father in the teaching of the Female Academy here, to which she lent her most strenuous endeavors, to the cares and fatigue of which may be mainly attributed to the cause of her premature demise..... (Continues at length.) [Note: This is verbatim from the article in which the transcription of the obituary is incomplete.] Additional Comments: Pamela B.H. Jeffries was daughter of Charles L. Jeffries and Lucy Berry. [b. 20 Jun 1814 , Mecklenburg, Virginia; d. 6 Aug 1831 Courtland, Lawrence, Alabama] She married Thomas E. White on 8 Apr 1830 in , Sumner, Tennessee. They were the parents of Charles Esmond Jeffries White, b. 20 Apr 1831 in Courtland, Lawrence, Alabama. Her father Charles L. Jeffries left Courtland soon after her death in 1831 and relocated in Little Rock, Pulaski, Arkansas where he was the proprietor of the City Hotel [aka Jeffries Hotel] near the Old State House and was known to have entertained Davy Crockett, among others. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/lawrence/obits/w/white1917gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 2.4 Kb