Marion County IN Archives Biographies.....White, James July 31, 1809 - April 25, 1861 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/in/infiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Cathy Nuzum c.nuzum@att.net February 15, 2010, 4:44 pm Source: Personal family information Author: Cathy (Rott) Nuzum BIOGRAPHY OF JAMES WHITE MARION COUNTY, LAWRENCE TOWNSHIP James White was born on July 31, 1809 in Clermont County, Ohio. He married Margaret Vansickle on December 4, 1834 Marion County, Indiana.(1) Margaret was born about 1816 in Ohio. James and Margaret are listed in the 1840, 1850 and 1860 census, all of which are in Lawrence Township. In the 1870, census Margaret is listed as the “head of household”. James’s Will is dated March 27, 1861-(2). He died April 25, 1861-(3) and is buried in the Vansickle Cemetery on the West side Franklin Road, just South of 30th street. Margaret died on February 24th 1886-(3). She too is buried in the Vansickle family cemetery. There are many land transactions recorded for James due to the fact he was dividing his property for a new town called Lanesville. He is called the “Founder of Lanesville”(4) or Lawrence(5), as it is known today. James and Margaret had ten children; Andrew J., Diana, Mary Catherine, William M., John Lafayette, Martha J., James K., George W., Reuben P. and Silvester B. Many of James and Margaret’s descendants are buried in the nearby Spring Valley cemetery on the grounds of Fort Benjamin Harrison. The known history of James White begins with his father John White Sr., moving to the area of Clermont County, Ohio about 1800 from Campbell County, Kentucky (6). How long John Sr. lived in Kentucky or whom he was traveling with, at this point, is not known. JOHN WHITE (abt 1774 VA. -1833) and his wife, DINAH KYLE (abt 1774 PA. -1852) of Clermont County, Ohio were married April 7, 1800 in Campbell County, Kentucky (7). They are also listed among the “First Families of Clermont County, Ohio”(8) and they lived and died in Clermont County, Ohio. There are several different years noted that John crossed the river over into Ohio, but it was approximately around 1800. They had eight sons and two daughters. Two sons died early in life. Those two were; Thomas who died at age 22 and William who died at age 17. They are buried at Nine Mile Cemetery, Clermont County, Ohio, along with their parents. Just a few years prior to John Sr. dying in 1833, five of the sons; Robert, John, George, James and Thomas were purchasing ground in Marion County, Indiana. (Later, after Thomas died, his ground was sold to Zacheus). Reuben, having just turned 16 at the time of his father’s death, stayed in Clermont County with his mother. He married Catherine Corbly and lived his entire life there. One daughter, Sarah (unmarried), shows up living with her mother in the 1840 and 1850 census for Clermont County. Sometime after her mother’s death in 1852, Sarah probably went to live with one of her brothers in Indianapolis, either John or George. The reason for believing this is because she is buried in Old Anderson Cemetery on East 10th Street in Indianapolis, Indiana. The brothers John and George along with their families are buried in the same cemetery. Mary married Johnathan Stansbury on April 26, 1834 in Clermont County, Ohio. The White brothers bought ground in the County of Marion, Indiana throughout the years of 1828-1835(9) and moved to Marion County, Indiana from Clermont County, Ohio. The ground that was bought by the five brothers’ was issued from the “Sale of Public Lands” making them the original landowners for the property. These dates of issue were all (except for two purchases of George’s), before their father John died in 1833. If you read the Will of John White Sr. he talks about “advancing his sons money”. One would assume that he gave his sons money for the purchase of the ground that they were buying in Marion County, Indiana and was trying to be fair to each child. (It is only my opinion, but Zacheus was probably not legally old enough to purchase his own ground during the period his brothers were buying.) If you look at the Deed information, the issue dates were as follows: John (Jr.) 03/03/1828 Document # 8646 160a James 11/15/1830 Document # 10161 160a George 01/13/1831 Document # 9370 160a Robert 06/08/1833 Document # 11428 160a George 04/16/1835 Document # 18121 80a George 04/16/1835 Document # 18125 80a Thomas 11/15/1830 Document # 100160 160a (Thomas died in 1832 and the family deeded it to Zacheus – Marion County Deed Book “G” pages 250 and 251) It has the signatures of: George White and Nancy White Robert White and Zillah White John White and Mahala White Sarah White James White and Mary White (note: James was not married at this time, Mary is the sister) 1 WPA Records Book 2 Page 33 2 Indiana Wills to 1880 Book C Page 308 3 Headstone inscription reading 4 History of Indianapolis and Marion County by B.R. Sulgrove 5 Uniquely Lawrence 1849-1999 “Discovering Our Past & Future published by the City of Lawrence and Topic Newspaper 6 History of Clermont County, Ohio by Louis H. Everts Page 444 7 Clermont County Marriage Records 8“First Families of Clermont County, Ohio” Member Number 273 9 Land Patent BLM GLO Records For more information on the White family, please refer to my database located on Rootsweb.com in the “World Connect Project” I am a member of "The First Families of Clermont County, Ohio" File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/in/marion/bios/white1013nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/infiles/ File size: 6.1 Kb