Sarah Elizabeth WHITE

CAPTAIN - Black Hawk War 1832
October 20, 1814 - December 17, 1885
Married June 20, 1833 at the Apple River Fort in Illinois
during the Black Hawk War of 1832.
They had one known child: Alonzo L White
Sarah October 9, 1811 - October 14, 1889
Infomation below is from research of Ruth Hasten Walsh:

Whitesboro News October 11, 1889
Our Mother Gone-
We refer to the mother of Whites-
3ro. Mrs. S. E. White the aged
wife of Capt, A. B. White, was buried
the cemetery of Whitesboro, Oct. 16.
The funeral services were conducted
Rev. E. B. Hardie, assisted by Rev.
Campbell, pastor of the Baptist
Curch.
The day was wet and the streets were
muddy, but a large circle of devoted
friends were present. One son and
daughter from out of Texas, Mrs
Mrtha Edmiston, from Nebraska, (edge blurred) Luther White, from the Indian Territory.
The undertaker was Capt. T. J (edge blurred) ire. The pallbearers were Mayor (edge blurred) E. Webster, Capt. T. M. Arnett, lf J. B. Choice, and Messers W. (edge blurred) Walker, J. M Mackey, and James McKool Mrs. Sarah Evaline White, before her marriage was Miss S. e. Murdah. she was born on a farm in North Carolina, Oct 11, 1811. Her parents were poor but honerable.
She died Oct. . 4, , 1889, at her son’s-in-law Mr. Harris, four miles east of Montague town in Montague county, Texas, being seventy-cight years and three days old. She died of old age. Her faher left North arolina in her early girl-hood and located in the state of Illinois, where she was raised to a pure life with industrious habits. When about the age of twenty-two years she was unit4ed in marriage to Mr. A. B. White, June 20, 1833, in (blurred) Davis county, where they lived for about twenty years, when in 1853 they moved south to Texas, and located in Grayson county, and thirty six years ago, they formulated the first elements that constructed Whitesboro, erecting the first house on the beautiful hill near the present home of Dr I. H. Trolinger. It was constructed of hewn logs, amid the tall waving gass that grew around.
One day in a hopeful mood, her
husband said to her, when the turkeys
were gobbling and the wolves were
howling in the distance and when
there were more bears and buffaloes
than wild Indians around than people,
exclaimed “Evaline, some day we will build us a town right here.” id in the early years after this, and others joined them in this enterprising purpose.
Such was the magnitude of their
magnectic power, that they drew people
after them. They were both unselfish, active and liberal. They possessed the very elements that every new country needs in its formative stage.
There is no flattery when we pen the
fact that Mrs. S. E. White was a true
woman. She was ever industrious
and pure and a “keeper at home.” She was indeed a helpmeet to her hus band. Soloman31: 10—31 wrote of her. “The heart of her husband doth safety trust in her.” And now that she is gone the text Rev. 14:13, used at the funeral applies to her. Her husband was the first Deacon the Baptist church this place ever had, and she ever honorably filled the Scripture requirements of a Deacon’s wife.
She was the mother of fifteen children.
Eight of these—-four sons and four daughters— are yet living. She has had in all sixty four grand children.
This of course includes the great
grand children.
The mayor and citizens of Whitesboro
on June 20, 1883, joined the
family friends in celebrating their
“golden wedding,” On this occasion valuable presents were presented, and a pleasant time enjoyed. Many of the children aud grand children had come to witness the scene. But it is allover now. Dec. 17, 1889 will be four years since her husband, noted and admired, was lain to rest. To-day she was lain, while it was raining, by his side.
Cease, ye mourners, cease to languish Over the grave of those you love, Pain and death, uight and anguish Enter not the world above.

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