Newton-Butts County GaArchives News.....HUGH WHITE CELEBRATES HIS NINETIETH BIRTHDAY. March 9 1906
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The Georgia Enterprise
Mr. White is One Of The Pioneer Settlers of This County...Widely known.
   Hon. Hugh White, familiary called "Uncle Hugh" by his most intimate friends, 
the subject of this sketch, celebrated his ninetieth birthday in this city, 
Sunday, March 4. Around him were gathered on this occasion at the home of his 
daughter, Mrs. Wood Aiken, children, grandchildren, great grandchildren and two 
of his lifelong friends, Dr. J. S. Moore and Rev. Asbury C. Nixon, both of this 
county.
   Mr. White's only son, Charles H. White, one of the leading merchants of this 
city. There are three daughters- Mrs. Wood Aiken of Covington; Mrs. George 
Aiken and Mrs. John Wright, of Stewart.
   Mr. White is a pioneer settler of this county, and for three-score years or 
more has been prominent among the foremost citizens of this section. He is a 
native of Ireland, and was born in Larue, on the shore of the Irish sea, where 
in the distance, could be seen, in clear weather, Scotland and England.
   On account of the native home becomeing so thickly settled, and believing 
that they could realize more profit from their manufactures in America, the 
family consisting of the father, mother and eight children, emigrated 
to the new world. In the winter of 1829, on the ship, " The William of 
Liverpool," they set sail from Belfast, and after a smooth voyage of several 
months, landed at Charleston, S. C., going thence immediately to Anderson 
county, South Carolina, where they remained for three years. In 1888 the family 
removed to Athens, Ga., remaining in that vicinity about ten years before 
settling in Newton county.
   This family of Whites were among the first to engage in the cotton 
manufacturing industry in Georgia. For a number of years prior to the civil war 
Hugh White owned and operated two cotton mills, one on Ocmulgee river in 
Butts county, and the other situated in Newton county, on the Alcova river. 
Both factories were burned by Sherman's army in 1865. About 450 bales of cotton 
were destroyed in the burning of the mills. About this time or a little later 
cotton sold in New York at $1 a pound.
   Mr. White's wife, who was Miss Alice Hardeman, daughter of the late Hon. 
Felix Hardeman, died in her sixty-fifth year.
   All of this family were noted for their longevity. An elder brother died 
several years ago in Mississippi at the age of 92. The subject of this sketch 
is the only surviving member of the family. In many respects he is one of the 
most remarkable men living in this section today. Notwithstanding his four-
score and ten years, his mental faculties are strong and he relates his life's 
story in an unusally intelligent and interesting manner. He is likewise well 
preserved physically for one of such advance age. He takes daily walks to and 
from the homes of his son and daughter of this city. He has a remarkable 
retentive memory, and recalls with accuracy many stirring events of the early 
history of Georgia. He relates many interesting reminiscences of the fifteen or 
twenty years just preceding the civil war and can entertain the friends for 
hours in discussing matters showing the industrial progress and development of 
this section in the last half century. Mr. White lives within easy reach of his 
thirty grandchildren, who are devoted to their venerable grandfather, and are 
untiring in their efforts to keep him bright and cheerful and to make his last 
years happy ones.



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