Greenbrier County, West Virginia    Biography: George WHITE

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Transcribed and submitted by Valerie Crook, <vfcrook @earthlink.net>, 1998.
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GEORGE WHITE - born on the headwaters of Howards Creek, Greenbrier County, 
December 11, 1821, was a son of William and Rebecca (ORR) WHITE, who located 
in this district in 1817, coming direct from Ireland. Both were natives of 
Ireland, the father born in 1784, and the mother in 1788, and they died in 
Greenbrier County, the father on the 29th of July, 1849, and the mother on 
the 1Oth of February, 1874. On Anthonys Creek, June 10, 1856, George WHITE was 
united in marriage with Elizabeth J. RODGERS, and the children of their union
are one daughter and one son: Mary Virginia, born June 5, 1857; George Lake, 
February 13, 1860.  William and Julia (RUCKER) RODGERS, Virginians by birth,
the latter born in 1785, were the parents of Elizabeth J. RODGERS, and she 
was born after their settlement in Greenbrier County on Anthonys Creek, on 
the last day of the year 1821. Her father was a soldier of the 1812 war. 
Mr. WHITE's brother, Richard Dickson, was a member of Edgars battalion, 
Confederate service, during the war between the States. He was severely 
wounded at Winchester, shot through the left breast. George WHITE by untiring
energy, industrious looking after his possessions and economical expenditures,
has amassed one of the best properties in Greenbrier County. He has 824 acres
of land in this county, and about 450 acres in Alleghany County, Virginia. 
Iron ore is round on his property, and the Chesapeake & Ohio road runs 
through his farm.  His post office address is White Sulphur, 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.