Family Card - Person Sheet
Family Card - Person Sheet
NameMary ELLIS 
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26Birth Date?
Spouses
Birth Date15 Nov 1823
Birth PlaceWhite County, Tennessee
Death Date28 May 1881 Age: 57
Death PlaceNashville, Davidson County, Tennessee
Burial PlaceLancaster, Dallas County, Texas, Edgewood Cemetery
FatherWoodson Phillips WHITE (1783-1839)
MotherNancy MITCHELL (1792-1871)
Family ID3608
Marr Date17 Apr 1860
Notes for Mary ELLIS
Information received in Mar 1998 from Donna Lee Sandusky Plummer.
Notes for William Love (Spouse 1)
Colonel E. G. Bower received a telegram from Nashville yesterday morning announcing the death of Mr. W. L. White, whose home was at Lancaster in this county. He was afflicted with gravel and went to Nashville to have an operation performed. It was done, and for a day or so, seemed to rally, but he was suddenly taken worse, and yesterday morning at 12:20, he breathed his last. The deceased was a worthy citizen, a kind husband and father and leaves a wife and a host of friends to mourn him. The remains will be shipped to Lancaster for interment.
- June 2, 1881, Dallas Weekly Herald, p. 5?, col. 2.
Source: Delores
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WILLIAM L. WHITE, deceased, for many years a prominent business man of Lancaster, and at his death probably the wealthiest man in the southern part of Dallas county, was born in White County, Tennessee, November 15, 1824, a son of Woodson P. and Nancy White, and a brother of Francis M. White, a sketch of whom appears in this work and contains their family biography.
William L. White was reared in White county, Tennessee. When about 13 years old he commenced clarking in his father's store of general merchandise in Sparta and continued in that business until his father's death. He afterward went into the mercantile business with his uncle, J.G. Mitchell, at the same place.
In about 1846 he was elected clerk of the branch bank of the Tennessee Bank, located at Sparta, in which capacity he remained about six years. During this time he lived miles inthe country, riding horseback each day over rough, mountainous roads, braving all kinds of weather, promptly and faithfully filling his position at the bank, also superintending his farm work at home.
In the spring of 1854 he made his first visit to Texas, remained about three weeks, returned to Tennessee and brought his family to Texas the following October, bought and improved a 640-acre tract, now owned by J. P. Apperson. After coming to this county, Mr. White was for a number of years engaged in the stock business, buying and selling horses and mules, in which he made considerable money. In 1860, he removed to Lancaster, where, in the fall of that year, he opened a dry goods store and was so engaged during the war. In 1865, his brother-in-law, John T. Ellis, became a partner, but later William L. White sold his interest to his brother, Francis M. White. During the war, he was also engaged in the milling business, operating, what was then known as the Keller Mill, at Lancaster, which was then the only mill at that place, and during that time, he was also Postmaster. After selling his interest in the dry goods business, Mr. White began handling cattle, and was actively engaged at that for a number of years, buying in western and central Texas and shipping or driving to Junction City and Abilene, Kansas, New Orleans and Shreveport, Louisiana, and other places. When the cattle busines went down he began handling cotton, and was also interested in farming. Having considerable money of his own and business connections with parties East, he was engaged in the brokerage business, in which he made a great deal of money, and in fact was successful in everything he undertook and at his death left a large estate. He was a man of clear head, good foresight and great adaptability, and was the financier of Lancaster and vicinity for many years. He died at Nashville, Tennessee, May 28, 1881, while there for treatment under the celebrated Dr. Briggs, and was buried at the cemetery at Lancaster. Mr. White was always interested in the welfare of the community inwhich he resided, and took a leading part in every public enterprise. Five years before his death he made a bright profession of faith in Christ.
He was married in White County, Tennessee, to Lucinda F., a daughter of Samuel Turney, a prominent and at that day a well-known lawyer of Sparta, Tennessee. This lady accompanied her husband to Texas, and died a few months later near Wilmer, in the southern part of the county. She had two children;
1. Woodson P., who is now a citizen of Dallas county
2. Sophronia, who died young.
Six years after the death of his first wife, William L. white was married, April 17, 1860, to Louisa F., the youngest child of Thomas M. and Mary Ellis. To this union were born seven children as follows:
1. Addie H., the wife of Samuel L. Randlett, of Lancaster
2. Minnie E.
3. William L.
4. Hallie E.
5. Karl L.
6. Lula Pearl, twin of Byrd E.
7. Byrd E., twin of Lula Pearl
The children still reside with their mother. Mrs. White is a member of the Baptist Church and gives of her means to that and other worthy causes. She has acted as guardian for the six youngest children, developing a wonderful business woman and devoted mother, as best she could filling her own and that of her deceased husband.
- Memorial & Biographical History of Dallas County, Texas, 1892, pp. 366-67.
On Find A Grave.
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Information received in Mar 1998 from Donna Lee Sandusky Plummer.
- June 2, 1881, Dallas Weekly Herald, p. 5?, col. 2.
Source: Delores
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WILLIAM L. WHITE, deceased, for many years a prominent business man of Lancaster, and at his death probably the wealthiest man in the southern part of Dallas county, was born in White County, Tennessee, November 15, 1824, a son of Woodson P. and Nancy White, and a brother of Francis M. White, a sketch of whom appears in this work and contains their family biography.
William L. White was reared in White county, Tennessee. When about 13 years old he commenced clarking in his father's store of general merchandise in Sparta and continued in that business until his father's death. He afterward went into the mercantile business with his uncle, J.G. Mitchell, at the same place.
In about 1846 he was elected clerk of the branch bank of the Tennessee Bank, located at Sparta, in which capacity he remained about six years. During this time he lived miles inthe country, riding horseback each day over rough, mountainous roads, braving all kinds of weather, promptly and faithfully filling his position at the bank, also superintending his farm work at home.
In the spring of 1854 he made his first visit to Texas, remained about three weeks, returned to Tennessee and brought his family to Texas the following October, bought and improved a 640-acre tract, now owned by J. P. Apperson. After coming to this county, Mr. White was for a number of years engaged in the stock business, buying and selling horses and mules, in which he made considerable money. In 1860, he removed to Lancaster, where, in the fall of that year, he opened a dry goods store and was so engaged during the war. In 1865, his brother-in-law, John T. Ellis, became a partner, but later William L. White sold his interest to his brother, Francis M. White. During the war, he was also engaged in the milling business, operating, what was then known as the Keller Mill, at Lancaster, which was then the only mill at that place, and during that time, he was also Postmaster. After selling his interest in the dry goods business, Mr. White began handling cattle, and was actively engaged at that for a number of years, buying in western and central Texas and shipping or driving to Junction City and Abilene, Kansas, New Orleans and Shreveport, Louisiana, and other places. When the cattle busines went down he began handling cotton, and was also interested in farming. Having considerable money of his own and business connections with parties East, he was engaged in the brokerage business, in which he made a great deal of money, and in fact was successful in everything he undertook and at his death left a large estate. He was a man of clear head, good foresight and great adaptability, and was the financier of Lancaster and vicinity for many years. He died at Nashville, Tennessee, May 28, 1881, while there for treatment under the celebrated Dr. Briggs, and was buried at the cemetery at Lancaster. Mr. White was always interested in the welfare of the community inwhich he resided, and took a leading part in every public enterprise. Five years before his death he made a bright profession of faith in Christ.
He was married in White County, Tennessee, to Lucinda F., a daughter of Samuel Turney, a prominent and at that day a well-known lawyer of Sparta, Tennessee. This lady accompanied her husband to Texas, and died a few months later near Wilmer, in the southern part of the county. She had two children;
1. Woodson P., who is now a citizen of Dallas county
2. Sophronia, who died young.
Six years after the death of his first wife, William L. white was married, April 17, 1860, to Louisa F., the youngest child of Thomas M. and Mary Ellis. To this union were born seven children as follows:
1. Addie H., the wife of Samuel L. Randlett, of Lancaster
2. Minnie E.
3. William L.
4. Hallie E.
5. Karl L.
6. Lula Pearl, twin of Byrd E.
7. Byrd E., twin of Lula Pearl
The children still reside with their mother. Mrs. White is a member of the Baptist Church and gives of her means to that and other worthy causes. She has acted as guardian for the six youngest children, developing a wonderful business woman and devoted mother, as best she could filling her own and that of her deceased husband.
- Memorial & Biographical History of Dallas County, Texas, 1892, pp. 366-67.
On Find A Grave.
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Information received in Mar 1998 from Donna Lee Sandusky Plummer.
Notes for William Love & Mary (Family)
!information received in Mar 1998 from Donna Lee Sandusky Plummer.