She is mentioned by name in a land sale registered in Dyer County 17 August 1853. Jeremiah White bought 129 acres from Daniel Easley Parker and gave that land to Martha Ann in her own right, free from her husband. She is identified by Mai Alexander as being Ed White's sister. She and her husband lived one mile south of Hurricane Hill Church where they reared a family of nine. Five of those children were born before the Civil War.
In the 1870 census, there are two more children named George and Sallie.

He was born in Davidson County, eight miles from Nashville. He served on the Staff of Lt. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest during the Civil War. He is listed as serving in Russell’s Regiment, Company G, 15th Tennessee Cavalry, T. H. Bell’s Brigade, Forrest’s Calvary under Captain Daniel Parker. He enlisted on 1 Dec 1863 at Camp Bell (outside Newbern) and even though he was badly wounded, he was never discharged. He was a sabreutes. He was wounded at the Battle of Harrisburg, Mississippi in 1863. He took part in the Fort Pillow skirmish. His pension # is 754. He was member of the Dawson Camp Confederate Veterans. He sold Tobacco to Thomas Frazier, a Dyer County Lawyer, to pay for legal fees for himself and his father, William. He was living with his son, Charles, in Dyersburg in the 1900 Census. He was living with his daughter, Nancy E. Ferguson and her husband Henry F. Ferguson in the 1910 Federal Census., , , , , , ,, , , , , , ,, , , , , , ,

Planter And Landowner

Rev McCord and Ransom at burial

Stomach Trouble, 83 yrs., 1 mo., 15 days