JOHN T. WHITE
JOHN T.
WHITE, farmer, Banks (post office, Maysville, Jackson) county,
Ga., son of Robert and Sarah (Miller) White, was born in Clarke county, Ga.,
in 1847. His paternal grandparents,
John and Lavinia (Gray) White, were born in what is now Clarke county. He was a schoolteacher and quite a large farmer,
and was a soldier during the war of 1812. Mr. White's father was born in Clarke county, served in the Confederate
army for a considerable time, doing faithful service. His mother was a daughter of Joram and Lavinia
(Ross) Miller. He was a native of
South Carolina, but moved to Georgia while a young man, where he married and
raised a family. He was a farmer,
and finally moved to Forsyth county, Ga., where he died.
Mr. White enlisted
in Company D, Capt. Dorsey, Young's battalion, and participated in many important
arguments-in the defense of Atlanta, and generally in front of the Union army
when "Marching Through Georgia". At the close of the war his only capital was
industrious habits, energy and a determination to succeed. He has now a fine
300-acre farm under good cultivation, and operates a ginnery; is content with
his grains and the good will of his friends
and neighbors.
Mr. White was married, in 1866, to Miss Elizabeth-born in
Jackson county, Ga., in 1846-daughter of William and Mary A. (Baugh) Saville,
native Georgians. Of the children
born to them, eight are living: Robert, Tresne, Sallie, Morgan, Louisiana,
Minnie, Pauline and Paul. Mr. and
Mrs. White are members of the Baptist church.
Source: Memoirs of Georgia, Volume I., Southern Historical
Association, 1895
Copy and Copyright 2003 by Jacqueline King
