WHITE, J. Hayes, Montgomery County, TN., then E. Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana Submitted by Mike Miller ************************************************* Submitted to the LAGenWeb Archives ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** . J. Hayes White, Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge parish, La., has been engaged in agricultural pursuits in Louisiana since he was eighteen years of age. He is a native of Montgomery county, Tenn., born December 28, 1826, and is a son of William Stewart White, who was born in 1787 near Elizabethtown, N. C., of Scotch parents, a short while after emigrating to the state. His mother was born in 1802, on the Roanoke river, Botetourt county, VA., her maiden name was Lucy W. Sherman, and they were married in 1822. Six children were born to them, four of whom are living. The parents were members of the Presbyterian church. Our subject received his education in a boys' school in his native county, and was reared on his father's plantation. He was trained to all the details of farming, and has worked in a field with fifty or sixty negroes. As before stated he came to Louisiana at the age of eighteen years, and engaged in the cultivation of cotton. This experiment did not prove wholly satisfactory, so he began to give some attention to sugar culture. When he came to the state his means were limited, and he had but 275 acres in his plantation. He has added to this until now he has 1,000 acres in a high state of cultivation. His principal crops are sugar and cotton and corn. His sugar-house was recently destroyed by fire, which is a great inconvenience as well as a serious loss. Mr. White has always been a man of industrious habits, and before the war he had accumulated a considerable amount of property. When there was a call for men to go to the defense of the South he abandoned his private interests and enlisted in the ordnance department. He was engaged chiefly in carrying communications from Shreveport to Mexico, and had control of the trains. He remained in the service until the close of the war, and when he returned to his home he met a most discouraging prospect. His lands were laid waste, his buildings were partially destroyed, and the country was generally reduced to a state of desolation. Like many another courageous soul he went to work, and with the labor of the past twenty-five years he has succeeded in retrieving his fortunes. He has never taken an active part in political movements, and has no ambition to hold public office. He is a man of unquestioned integrity, and has the confidence of the entire community. Since his father's death, in 1841, Mr. White cared for his three sisters until they married, also for his mother, and for the last fifteen years of her declining life satisfied her every financial wish. She died in 1889. He is unmarried. Biographical and Historical Memoires of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 451-452. Published by the Goodspeed Publishing Company, Chicago, 1892. *************************************************************** WORTHY, (Dr.) J. D., East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana Submitted by Mike Miller ************************************************* Submitted to the LAGenWeb Archives ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** . Dr. J. D. Worthy, son-in-law of Mr. Palmer, was a prominent and successful physician and surgeon of East Feliciana parish, and was born near Jackson, November 20, 1833. He was the son of Thomas and Maria (Carney) Worthy, the former a native of Georgia, who came to Louisiana when a young man and settled on the place later owned by his son, the Doctor, where he died at an advanced age, a member of the Methodist church. He had a family of four sons and three daughters, all of whom reached maturity, but of whom only Mrs. Sallie Lee the wife of Zach Lee, and Rhoda, the wife of H. Lea, still survive. Of the others, Thomas, William and Scott left families. Rebecca died when about grown. Dr. J. D. Worthy was the third child in order of birth. He graduated from Centenary college, studied medicine at Jackson under Dr. Thomas Jones, graduated in medicine from Tulane university at New Orleans, commenced practice in Bossier parish in 1855, and at the close of the war returned to East Feliciana and engaged quite extensively in planting, relinquishing the practice of his profession for the time being, excepting as to a specialty, in which he has been very successful in his immediate neighborhood and for one year in New Orleans. While in Bossier parish he was married to Mrs. Mary Andrews, daughter of Archibald D. Palmer. This lady was born in East Feliciana parish, May 22, 1836, and was the only child born by Mr. Palmer's third wife. Mrs. Palmer was a native of South Carolina, born March 11, 1802, bore the maiden name of Catherine Williams, but at the time of her marriage to Mr. Palmer was the widow of Mr. Norwood. Mrs. Mary Worthy was reared in East Feliciana, but was educated in St. Michael's school in St. James parish. She was first married to Edwin C. Andrews, who was born in Hinds county, Miss., February 18, 1830, a son of Elisha Andrews, of South Carolina, who early moved to Mississippi, but later came to East Feliciana parish, La., where he was extensively engaged in planting. Edwin C. Andrews was a member of a family of seven children and died at Camp Moore, December 22, 1861, a lieutenant of the Nance guard, Nineteenth Louisville volunteer infantry. He left two brothers: James and Thomas Andrews. Edwin C. was married in 1854 at Clinton, La., moved to Shreveport, and followed planting in Caddo parish. He was the father of two sons: Edward P. and Clarence, the latter of whom died in childhood. To Dr. J. D. Worthy and wife was born one child, Sallie E., now deceased. The Doctor died November 24, 1891, and his widow, Mrs. Mary E. Worthy, August 8, 1892. Biographical and Historical Memoires of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 297-298. Published by the Goodspeed Publishing Company, Chicago, 1892.