Ray County, Missouri Biographies - William Alexander White (b. 1820)

Source: History of Ray County, Missouri 1881; p. 621-622

WM. A. WHITE

William Alexander White was born in Amherst county, Virginia, in the month of May, 1820. He is of
English-Irish descent. His father, Mr. Merritt M. White, removed to Ray county, Missouri, in the
year 1837, and settled upon a farm which he had entered, four miles north of Camden. His father
died in 1861, and our subject subsequently bought the old homestead, but after a while he sold it
and bought the place upon which he now resides, in sections four and nine, of township fifty-one,
range twenty-eight. This farm consists of three hundred and thirty acres of very fertile and
productive soil. Mr. White also owns another tract, of one hundred and forty-four acres, in the
same township. He has been a life long farmer, most of the time in Ray county. Wm. A. White was
married in the month of November, 1842. to Miss Ann Eliza Williams, daughter of Rev. James Williams,
a prominent minister of the Baptist Church, now deceased. Eleven children have been born of this
union: Henry Mc., born September 22, 1843; Mary P., born May21, 1845; George Merritt, born
February 7, 1847; Sarah Elizabeth, born September 23, 1848; Martha Ellen, born June 13, 1850;
Judith Rosanna, born March 7, 1852; William Andrew, born August 26, 1854; Eliza Ann, born April 5,
1857; John David, born February 25, 1859; Rhoda Frances, born April 19, 1861; Lucy Jane, born
August 30, 1863. William A. died September 3, 1856, and Rhoda F., died December 13, 1872. The rest
are living, and all married except John D. and Lucy J. As the offspring of these various marriages,
Mr. White has some thirty of more grandchildren. Both Mr. and Mrs. White have been members of the
regular Baptist Church for more than thirty years. In 1876 Mr. White made an extended tour of the
eastern states, and even went into Canada. At different times, during this trip, he visited his old
friend s in Virginia, the United States centennial exposition, Niagara Falls, and other places of
interest in the east.


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