West Carroll-East Carroll-Ouachita County Louisiana Archives News.....Mrs. Emma White Obit December 20, 1934
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West Carroll Gazette-Oak Grove, La. December 20, 1934
  
  Funeral services and burial for Mrs. Emma Anderson White, 78, a widely known 
and beloved resident of West Carroll Parish for a long period of years, were 
conducted Friday morning at Alexandria, with Dr. Briscoe Carter and the Rev. 
E.N. Joyner officiating.  The funeral was held from the First Methodist Church 
and interment was in the Mt. Olive Cemetery.
  Mrs. White, widow of the late Rev. B.F. White died Thursday at noon in a 
hospital at Monroe, La. following a brief but serious illness.
  Surviving are two nieces, Miss Bernice Anderson and Mrs. Mark McCurdy of New 
Orleans; a nephew, Frank Anderson of Algiers; a stepson, Judge Horace H White 
of Alexandria; a step-daughter, Mrs. Neal Davidson of Dallas, Texas and other 
relatives.
  Born on December 14, 1856, in East carroll Parish, near Monticello, Mrs. 
White was a daughter of John Walter Anderson and Permelia Jackson Anderson.
  She attended the public school at Floyd and, at the age of 18 graduated from 
Grenada, Miss. woman's college.
  In 1876 she was married to Dunkin Glenn, attorney of Floyd and Lake 
Providence, who died only four years later.
  She wed again in 1883 to the Rev. B.F. White, then president elder of the 
Monroe district of the Methodist Church, at Floyd.  Going to Monroe to live 
during her husband's pastorate in this territory.  Mrs. White was later a 
resident of New Orleans and Alexandria at which places the Rev. White served 
in the ministery.
  Rev. White died a number of years ago, and Mrs. White came back to Floyd to 
live for several years before moving to the home of the late S.T. Jackson, 
near Pioneer, where she remained until 1912, going back to Floyd at that time 
to manage her farm property and other affairs.  Later she returned to the S.T. 
Jackson home and in recent years she lived at Pioneer.
  A devout and consecrated christian always, being a member of the Methodist 
Church since early childhood, Mrs. White provided largely for support of the 
Floyd Methodist Church until her death.  She also liberally supported other 
church and civic activities.
  A wide circle of friends and relatives mourn her death.  The Gazette family, 
to whom Mrs. White was related and closely associated acknowledges a distinct 
loss in her passing. 

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