Greenbrier County, West Virginia    Biography: Augustus E. WHITE

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Transcribed and submitted by Valerie Crook, <vfcrook @earthlink.net>, 1998.
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AUGUSTUS E. WHITE - born in Augusta County, Virginia, was a son of John D. and 
Eliza A. (TEABO) WHITE, both natives of Augusta County. His father was born in 1825,
his mother in 1826, and his birth was in 1849. In 1876 they accompanied him on his
settlement in Greenbrier County in that year, and his father was killed by a 
shifting train on the railroad, while trying to rescue his little grandson, 
Henry K. WHITE, at Ronceverte, in 1882. In the war between the States, A. E. 
WHITE was orderly for the quartermaster's department, at Staunton, Virginia, 
under Major H. M. Bell, Confederate service. He had a brother who was killed 
at Staunton by an explosion of a magazine. At Covington, Virginia, in 1871, 
Augustus E. WHITE was united in marriage with Mollie M. WHITE, and in the 
home they established are four children, born to them: Ernest M., May 29,
1873; Henry Kirke, May 30, 1876; Stella B., September 5, 1878; John A., 
August 30, 1822.  Capt. Norman B. WHITE, born in Augusta County, Virginia, 
married Sarah E. FEAMSTER, who was born in Greenbrier County, Augustus E. 
WHITE has been marshal of the town of Lewisburg, and mayor of Ronceverte. 
He is engaged in dealing in general machinery, all kinds of farming machinery, 
wagons, buggies, and fertilizers, doing a large business in nearly all the 
counties of West Virginia and many of the border counties of
Virginia, and is also State agent for three of the largest engine and saw 
mill manufacturers in Ohio, the C. G. Cooper & Co. machine works of Mt.
Vernon, Ohio. His post office address is Ronceverte, Greenbrier County, 
West Virginia.

Source:  Hardesty, Henry H.  Hardesty's Historical and Geographical
Encyclopedia.  New York: H.H. Hardesty and Company, 1884.
Rpt. in West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia.  Ed. Jim Comstock.
Richwood: Comstock, 1974.