Biographical Sketch of Moses White, Wright County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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Moses White is one of the prosperous farmers and stockmen of Wright 
Co., Mo., and deserves much credit for the success which has attended
his efforts, as he started in life a poor boy.  He was born in Roane
Co., Tenn., in 1829, and was the first of the family to leave home and
fight the battle of life for himself.  In 1848 he came to Wright Co.,
Mo., having walked the most of the way, and on his arrival here had 
just $1.  He worked by the month as a farm hand for three years, then
returned to Tenn., and brought his mother, brothers and sisters back
to Missouri with him.  He then entered a good piece of land, but sold
his claim soon after, and bought 160 acres at the head waters of the
Gasconade River.  This land he also sold, and bought his present prop-
erty, which proved a good investment, and on which he located in the
fall of 1858.  On the 8th of March, 1855, he wed Miss Amanda Freeman,
who was born in Roane Co., Tenn., in 1846, and five of their ten 
children are living at the present time: Robert Jason, Samuel, Louella
(wife of Ralph Simmons), Minnie and Eva.  Those deceased are Joseph,
Alonzo, Emma, Sadie (wife of M. G. Henslee) and Martha (wife of C. C.
Hensley).  When the civil war broke out Mr. White joined the Home 
Guards, then the Enrolled Militia, serving six months in each.  He was
taken prisoner by Marmaduke's men, but was afterward exchanged.  Since
the war he has been successfully engaged in farming.  His farm consists
of 230 acres, and is well adapted to raising the cereals and stock.  He
is a Republican, a member of the A. F. & A. M., and he and family
worship in the Baptist Church.  His father, Daniel White, was a native
of North Carolina, and went to Tennessee with his parents when a boy,
where he was reared, educated and married, the latter event being to 
Miss Jane Mattox.  He was a farmer by occupation, and died in Tenn.
His wife died in Missouri in 1863.  Five of their eight children are 
now alive.  The paternal grandfather was probably born in North Caro-
lina, and was married in Tennessee to a Miss Hawkins.  She came with
her children to Missouri, and died in Wright County at the age of
seventy-two years.
 
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