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John White
Born: 22 Feb 1816 Bullitt Co., KY
Married: 25 Jan 1838 Vermillion Co., IN
Died: 10 Jan 1877 Appanoose Co., IA
FATHER
MOTHER
WIFE
Jane Pearman
CHILDREN
1. Mary F. White
married Henry Hollingsworth
2. John W. White b. 07 Nov 1844 (see biography below)
married: 1868
Mary F. Hollingsworth
3. Delilah J. White
married: A. J. Wood
4. James A. White
5. Alexander E. White
6. Leonard W. White
7. Sarah E. White
married: A. M. Burton
8. Rosa C. White
9. Lillie J. White
born: Jan/1861
died: 26 July 1882
Married: A. H. Stokey
From the "Biographical and Historical Record of Wayne and Appanoose Counties, Iowa, Chicago, Inter-State Publishing Company, 1886"
"John White, one of the pioneers of Appanoose County, and an enterprising and successful farmer, was born near Nashville, Tennessee, February 22, 1816. He was reared on a farm, his education being obtained in the subscription schools of his neighborhood. When a young man he went to Indiana with his parents, Abraham and Permelia White, who settled in that State. His father served as a soldier in the war of the Revolution. John White was married January 25, 1837, to Jane Pearman, a daughter of Siebert and Sarah Pearman, of Newport, Indiana, who were both natives of Kentucky, the father born in the year 1793. To Mr. and Mrs. White were born eleven children, four sons and seven daughters, nine of whom lived to maturity. - Mary F., wife of Henry Hollingsworth; John W.; Delilah J, wife of A. J. Wood; James A.; Alexander E.; Leonard W.; Sarah E., wife of A. M. Burton; Rosa C.; Lillie J., married A. H. Stokey, and died July 26, 1882, two years after her marriage, at the age of twenty-one years and six months. After his marriage Mr. White settled on a farm in Indiana where he lived till 1849. He then came to Douglas Township, Appanoose County, where he pre-empted a claim, which he bought when the land came in the market. By his industry and good management he added to his lands till he owned nearly 2,000 acres. He was an extensive stock trader, and also dealt largely in real estate, and at his death, which occurred January 10, 1877, he left a large estate. His widow, who still survives, lives on the old homestead on section 1, Douglas Township, the home farm containing 300 acres. Mr. White was a member of the Board of Education. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church of Salem, of which building he was a contractor and builder. Mrs. White is a member of the same church."
"John W. White, the eldest son of John White, one of the pioneer settlers of Washington Township, was born in Vermillion County, near Terre Haute, November 7, 1844. The father was married in Indiana, to Jane Pierman, who was born in Kentucky, moving to Indiana with her parents when a child. In the fall of 1848 John White, Sr., removed with his family to Appanoose County, Iowa, locating in Douglas Township before the county was organized, where he entered a large tract of land. He made the journey to this county by team, bringing with him $100 cash. He was very successful in his farming operations, and at the time of his death, which occurred in January, 1877, he was the owner of 3,200 acres located in Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska. He was an active, energetic and public-spirited citizen, and gave largely of his means for the advancement of his adopted county, giving at one time $3,000 to the Rock Island Railroad. He was also a liberal supporter of his church. His widow is still living on the old homestead in Appanoose County. John W., whose name heads this sketch, was about four years of age when his parents came to Appanoose County, and here he attended school, completing his education at the schools of Centerville, after which he taught school for one term. He remained on the home farm with his parents till his marriage, in 1868, to Mary F. Hollingsworth, the eldest daughter of Jeremiah Hollingsworth, a local preacher of the Methodist church. They have six children living, four sons and two daughters. After his marriage Mr. White settled on his present farm on section 3, Washington Township, where he owns 600 acres of choice land, under a high state of cultivation. Mr. White is classed among the successful and enterprising stock-raisers of ninety head of cattle on his farm at present, having some of the finest specimens of short horn cattle in the township, for which he has carried of the first prizes a number of times in Appanoose and Davis counties, Iowa, and in Scott County, Missouri. He has a good residence, two fine barns, and other outbuildings in good condition, every place about his farm betokening care and improvement."
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