New Information on William White
Filename: Time line of William A White.doc
by Travis Hardin, 31 May 2015
	Narrative of William A. White
(For best flow of the narration, this section does not cite sources. The citations follow in later sections.)
	His Ancestors
William White’s father Adolphus White (b. 1811) came from South Carolina to Carroll County, Georgia, where he married Emily Davis 9 Jan 1832. His brothers William (b. 1820) and Asa (b. 1832) also relocated to Georgia. They all made their home in Paulding County, Georgia. When Polk County was taken from Paulding in 1851 Adolphus and family found themselves at Ven Wert in Polk County. The others nearby fell into Utah District in Paulding.  Records of both counties must be searched. I know nothing of Martha White (b. 1828) the sister of Adolphus. 
	The Army
William A. White was born 15 October 1844, the youngest son of Adolphus and Emily White of Paulding County, Georgia. Adolphus and Emily White were born in South Carolina. The ten children were born in Georgia. When Polk County was taken from Paulding in 1851, the family farm was left in Polk County, at Van Wert.
William White enlisted in the Confederate army along with his brother Moses B. White about as soon as anyone could – on May 15, 1761. It was Company D of the 20th Georgia Regiment. They enlisted at Cedartown. William was aged 16 years 7 months. Moses, 27 (born about 1833), his wife Joana 23, and his daughter Mary L. 3, lived at Van Wert post office in 1860. 
Much but not all of the chronology is taken from William White’s 18 April 1895 indigent pension application from Whitfield County, Georgia. He says he was discharged from that regiment on 1 June 1862 for sciatic rheumatism and bronchitis but the Roster of Confederate Soldiers of Georgia reads 15 Aug 1861. On 15 August he was age 16 and 10 months. 
William again enlisted in the fall of 1862 in Troup County’s Company K of the 60th Georgia Regiment, Capt. William Howard’s company for a total service of 18 months. William says he was discharged from that regiment sometime in 1863 while in Gordonsville, Virginia, again for disability caused by rheumatism and bronchitis.
William says his occupation was farming from 1865 to 1895. His brother Moses returned from the war and in 1870 lived at Van Wert in Polk County and was a railroad laborer.
	His Marriages
You might suggest there is more than one William White. That is so – William White’s uncle William White, who was born 1820 in South Carolina, married a Georgian about 1841, lived in Carroll County in 1850,  and spent the rest his life in Paulding County, Georgia. William White, Jr, youngest son of the latter, was born 1860 in Paulding County and was too young to be confused with his cousin born 1844.   

 1.	Lucinda C. C. Brazile
William A. White and L. C. Brazile received a marriage license in Polk County on 14 July 1866 and were married the next day by minister Wm W. Simpson, C.M.G.   L. C. was born August 1840 (as reported in 1860 and 1900) and was one month from age 26 at her marriage.
The Brazell family lived in Van Wert, district 1073, during the 1860 census:
Brazell, William, 47 M farmer, $300 personal estate, born SC
Brazell, Mary G, 46 F domestic, born SC
Brazell, Lucinda C. C.,20 F domestic, born Ala.
Brazell, William C., 16 M farmer, born Ala.
The race was not indicated but white was the default. The family owned no slaves.
Lucinda C. C. Brazell, a neighbor, was without doubt one woman William White married.
William C. Brazile, the apparent brother of Lucinda, married Catherine Winsor in Polk County 25 Aug 1866. He was four years younger than Lucinda. Private William C. Brazile survived the entire war in Company D of the 22nd  Georgia Volunteer Regiment. Company D was formed mostly of Murray County men. William C. Brazile enlisted on 11 Sep 1861 at age 16 or 17 and saw much action. He was captured at Gettysburg on 3 July 1863 and became a prisoner of war at Fort McHenry and was sent later that month to Ft. Delaware. On 14 Sep 1864 he was paroled at Point Lookout Maryland and transferred at Aikens Landing VA for exchange. On 22 Sep 1864 he was received for exchange at Varina, VA. On 9 Oct 1864 he appeared on a receipt for clothing at Jackson Hospital, Richmond, Va. He was paroled at Appomattox Court House 9 April, 1865.
Lucinda C. White next appears 34 years after her marriage, a widowed head of household living as a neighbor to W. A. White and wife Sally in Hollis Precinct, Etowah County, Alabama. She was family no. 169; he was no. 130. Obviously she was not a widow of William White, but she probably had to say so because divorce or separation, or whatever strange arrangement they had, was unacceptable in those days. The same pretense would apply if her husband had deserted her. Her birthdate was August 1840. Her occupation looks like farmer, but the census-taker McCluthery could not spell. In 1900 she owned her farm free of mortgage. She reported she had a total of three children, two living as of June 1, 1900. She reports she was born in South Carolina and so were her parents.
	2. Mary Adams     
In other parts of my White history I have developed the history of Mary Adams – how that her son James (White) passed down aural history about a pirate attack crossing the Atlantic which I have documented as happening to John Bale, an English immigrant. It is documented that John Bale sold off all his slaves except Mary, later giving her as a servant to his daughter Josephine when she married Burwell Harbour.
This narration takes up in 1870 where we find Mary Adams, her children Josephine and James, and William White, then a laborer, all living in a  household adjacent to Burwell Harbour and family. An awareness of the massive upheaval of society caused by the nominal freeing of the slaves will be useful in trying to imagine what happened in those days. Also remember that surnames for former slaves, and possibly first names had to be invented. Adams could have been pulled out of thin air.

	Yancey White born 1810-12
I located Yancey White (first cousin of Adolphus White) on the 1840 Pickens District, SC census. He was married to Rebecca Brice and had one daughter Jane, b. 5 Aug 1833, who later married a Burns in that place.
A death certificate issued in Oconee County, SC in 1918 confirms Yancy’s presence there in 1833.  Jane Burns, female, white, widow, died 28 June 1918. She was born 5 Aug 1833 in Oconee County, SC. Her father was Yancey White, born SC, and her mother was Rebecca Brice, born SC. The informant was J. Y. Burns of Seneca, SC. Debbie Bryce Mccollum, pedigree16@att.net has the name as Margaret Rebecca Brice on wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com.	
1849: Pickens District Real Estate Divisions (Continued from Volume XVIII, p.158)
The undersigned respectfully shows that so far as he knows or is advised that Jas R. G. Bryce for whom he had been appointed “Guardian ad Litem” would receive no injury for the sale of the Real Estate of Thomas Bryce Decd and that he therefore consent to said sale 3 Decr 1849. Yancy White Guardian ad Litem for J. R. G. Bryce.
The South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research, SCMAR, Volume XVIII, Number 4, Fall, 1990 
ancestry.com
(Yancey White’s wife was a Bryce. So the young man may have been his wife’s nephew.)
In 1850 Yancey White lived in the Northwestern Division of Anderson County, SC. His daughter Jane was age 17 and instead of Rebecca a 48-year-old woman named Margaret White (b. SC) resided with him. There were three slaves: One woman, 25, black; one girl, 2, black; and 1 male 8 months, black.	
By the 1860 census Yancey White had moved to Cave Spring, Floyd County, Georgia. He was a farmer and the only household member was Eliza White, 80. That person born in 1780 is likely his mother. The form is mixed up, but one or both of them was born in South Carolina. His name is not on the slave schedule as an owner that year. If Yancey’s mother was Eliza and Adolphus’s mother was Nancy, then Yancey and Adolphus can be related no closer than first cousins.
In 1870 Yancey White, age 61, lived in subdivision 141, Livingston Post Office, Floyd County, Georgia. As in 1860, he was a farmer and owned real estate. He was born in South Carolina. His partner and housekeeper was Talitha White, 30, born in Georgia. Children in the household were Mary Elizabeth White, 2, born Georgia; and Alice Walters White, 5 months, born December.
In 1880 Yancey White continued to live in Livingstone district 1059. He understated his age as 67. He was a farmer and he and his parents were all born in South Carolina. Mary White, age 28 was his wife and housekeeper. She and her parents were born in Georgia. Three children were in the house: Mahalie, 4, female, daughter; Martha, 2, female, daughter; and Yancey, 7 months, male, son. Yancey Jr. by the way was buried at Oakland Cemetery, Rome, Georgia and his stone says born 30 Sep 1879. The children were born in Georgia. The last person in the household was Billey, 24, male, black, a servant who worked on farm. He and his parents were born in Georgia.
Two marriage certificates exist for Yancey White and Mary Murry. On 10 Jan. 1875 he was married in Floyd County by A. D. Hardin, J.P. In Dallas County, Alabama, on 9 Feb 1871, Yancey White married Mary Murray. No one with those names is found in the Dallas County 1870 census.
	COMPTON'S PLACE OF GEORGIA CONNECTONS AND MUCH MORE
“Compton’s Place of Georgia Connections and Much More” is a tree on wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com by Billkerr1937@gmail.com. Under Margaret Rebecca Bryce he prints this note he received:  “My name is Debbie Bryce Mccollum and my E-mail address is pedigree16@att.net.  Jane White born June 5, 1833 is the only child of Yancey White born 1812 and Margaret Rebecca Brice/Bryce born 1802 possibly a sister of my second great grandfather Alezander Bryce and his brother Thomas Bryce born 1805 married to Mahala White born 1804 (sister of Yancey). I do not know the parents although I think the mother is possibly Elizabeth.”
Sincerely,
Debbie McCollum
End Yancey White

    
	
	Summary
Last week I ran across a Georgia Confederate pension application for William A. White. It was filed in Whitfield County in 1895, and there was information that he had lived in Floyd County, Georgia, and would again. He looks suspiciously like the ancestor I knew only from the 1870 census at Cave Spring who said he was born 1831-2. The known ancestor lived with Mary Adams, a light skinned mulatto, whose son James he (or a White relative) conceived, and whom we know as Jim White (married Miranda Martin). The main difference with my new discoveries is this one was born 15 Oct 1844, and stays consistent over the years. The history of both of them is so similar I doubt if they are two separate men. But they could be.
The new facts ask us to believe William White was as young as 17 years and 3 months at the conception of James. The DNA from uncle J.W. White tells us the father was someone in the White family. Another candidate for Jim’s father is Moses White, William’s older brother born 1832-34. He was married and living in Van Wert, Polk County, in 1860, and it is likely William joined his household, for they both – Moses and William – joined the Confederate army at Cedartown on the same date – May 1, 1861. Polk is just south and adjacent to Floyd County.
Another change in the earlier story I developed is that William White married another woman in 1875 and had at least 6 children, 4 of which were boys, of which one died single. Therefore James White had half-brothers and half-sisters. If William White “stepped out one night for a piece of firewood and was never seen again” by Mary, it may have been before his 1875 marriage to Sarah “Sally” b. Aug 1856.
But other puzzling records indicate an uncanny coincidence with a second William A. White or a man who loved the institution of marriage very much.  A marriage took place in Polk County on 15 July 1866  between Wm. A. White and L. C. Brazile. The Braziles in that county in 1770 were all black or mulatto as listed by the census, but the marriage license was not marked “colored.” The woman L. C. White, born August 1842, widowed, is found again on 21 June 1900 in the Hollis Precinct of Etowah County, Alabama with a paid-for farm. Two days and two pages of the census earlier, and in the same district, W. A. White b. Oct 1844 and wife Sally b. Aug 1856 lived in a rented house with son George b. June 1884. W. A. White was a furnace laborer and his son was a miner. If the same William White married both L. C. and Sally, was it serially or bigamously? If serially, why did L. C. locate near William in 1900 if William had married Sally in 1875?  
I leave further research and reporting in your hands, White descendants. I need to set this aside now and work on the Hardins and finish all genealogy by the end of 2015. 

	Time line of William A. White (mostly from his confederate pension application of 1895)

1844 Oct 15	Born in Paulding  County, Ga.
1861 May 1	Enlisted in the confederate army at Cedartown, Ga., Co D, 20th Ga. Reg.
1861 Aug 15 	Discharged from Co. D, 20th Infantry at Manassas, Va. (Roster of confederate soldiers of Georgia v. 2, p. 796)
1861 Fall	He was “well and stout when he went into the army but in the latter part of 1861 he was taken with sciatic rheumatism and bronchitis.”
1862 Jun 1	Discharged from that company after about 12 months (conflict with roster).
1862 Fall	In fall of year joined Capt Houlands Co [Howard, Co. K], 60th Ga Reg. and discharged for disability in 1863. Total service was about 18 months, he says.
1862 Fall 	White joined the 60th Infantry Regiment that had been formed in Troup County. There was a Capt. William H. Howard of Co. K, only captain beginning with an “H”.  The same list shows White, William to be a private in company K. ( William White stated he served a second time in “Capt. Houlands” company in the 60th Ga Reg.)  (Troup County GaGenWeb, posted by C.W. Barnum -http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gatroup2/60thregimentinfantry2.htm)
1863	Sometime in that year was discharged at Gordonsville, Va for disability caused by rheumatism and bronchitis.
1865 – 1895	Occupation was farming.
1866 July 14	Polk County marriage license issued by Stephen A. Borders, Ordinary.
1866 July 15	Wm. A. White married L. C. Brazile, Polk County, Georgia. Minister: Wm W. Simpson C.M.G.  "Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1951-25515-21765-60?cc=1927197 : accessed 29 December 2014), 0419307 (005191034) > image 27 of 415; county courthouses, Georgia.
I don’t know the meaning of this unless L.C. Brazile is another name for Mary Adams, or it is a different man. 
1870	He lived at State Line, Floyd Co. Ga with domestic servant Mary Adams, her daughter Josephine Adams and her son James Adams. He was a farm laborer, probably for Burwell Harbour.
1875	He married Sally and began to have children. (1900 census)
1882-3	Says youngest daughter was born.
1884 June	Next to youngest son George was born in Alabama. (1900 census)
1885 Dec 2	Son John William White born in Ga.
1893-94	William was unable to work but was support by one of his boys farming.
1894 Jan 1	Residence was Gordon County in 1894.
1894 Apr 12	Became totally disabled and unable to work 4 years before application.
1894 Dec 15	Pension Act approved.
1895 Apr 8	Statement from Floyd County Tax Collector Jno. Black that William A. White returned [declared] for taxes in 1893 in Floyd County household & kitchen items, $20; Stock of all kinds, $60; total $80.
1895 Apr 12	Submitted application and swore to truth of it. He wants $100 for the year.
1895 Apr 12	Lives now at Phelps P.O., Whitfield County, Ga.
1895 Apr 12	Has lived in Ga. About 51 years (his whole life)
1895 Apr 12	He has no property but a little household goods worth less than $25. He had a cow in 1893 and 1894 that he had to sell to get corn.
1895 Apr 12	He is married. Wife living. He has 4 boys and 2 girls, all of age except one boy of 10 and 1 girl of 12 at home.
1895 Apr 15	James H. Whitfield of West Rome, Floyd County, Ga. gave a deposition that he is acquainted with William White. He served in the same Company as William White. (Co. D, 20th Ga.) and says White’s service was one year.
1895 Apr 18	Deposition in Whitfield County by Charles P. Gordon and J. C. Bivings, M.D.’s, say his exact condition is as follows: “Chron. Bronchitis with Sciatic Rheumatism, causing such disability as to render him unable to earn a support for himself by manual labor.”
1895 Apr 18	White gave power of attorney to Richard Johnson, Secretary of Executive Department of Atlanta Ga. for receiving and forwarding pension.
1900	W. A. White (b. Oct 1844) was in Hollis District of Etowah County, Alabama with wife Sally (b. Aug 1856), and son George (b. June 1884). He rented a house.
1914 Jan 22	His son John William Hardin died at Centre, Ala. He was 28 and single.	

	Further Information and Thoughts  by Travis Hardin on this man being the father of James White, born about 1863.
The William White believed by me to be the father of James White before the pension application was found lived with Mary Adams, Josephine, and James, in State Line Georgia in 1870 (subdivision 141, Cave Spring post office). The date of enumeration was 19 July 1870 and the census date for that year was June 1.  White said he was age 38, therefore born 1831-1832. The newly found William A. White was born 15 Oct 1844 in Paulding County, Ga., the youngest of 10 in 1850. The parents were Adolphus White born 1811 and Emily born 1809. 
The challenge is to reconcile the two reported ages of William White and to place the Paulding County one in Cave Spring not only in 1870, but at the conception of James White, who was born between June 1 1861 and June 1, 1862 according to the 1870 census (age 8),   June 5, 1880 was 17. Census day was June 1. Age 17 means he was born June 1 1862 to June 1 1863. Tulare County newspapers imply he was born late 1863. According to Lovia White’s birthday list he was born Oct. 5, 1865. If we take October 5th as correct, then conception was either January 1861 or January 1862 (most trustworthy data), or January 1863 or January 1865 (data from after his death).
We have to locate either William White or an older brother (to explain the White DNA) near Mary Adams in January 1861 or January 1862, keeping in mind that Mary was at that time a slave. We have to find the newly discovered birthdate of William White to conform to reality. (He would have been 6 or 7 years the junior of Mary.)  We have to show William not being in two places at once. If he is, we are talking about two men with the same name and same affinity to Rome and Dalton, Georgia, a coincidence that would surprise me.
	Adolphus (B or D) White marriage
1832 Jan 9 Adolphus White married Millie Davis in Carroll County, Georgia
(Hunting for Bears, compilation, Georgia Marriages 1699-1944, ancestry.com)

	The Adolphus (B. or D.) White Family of Paulding County, Ga. in 1850
Militia District 839, enumeration date 18 Oct, 1850. Census date June 1.
(1811) Adolphus White,   39, M, Farmer, born SC
(1809) Emily White,           41, F,                  born SC
(1830) Mahala 20, born Georgia
(1832) Moses, 18, born Georgia, laborer
(1833) July Ann, 17,   “
(1835) Peter, 15, born Georgia, laborer
(1836) Nancy 14, born Georgia
(1837) Martha, 13, born Georgia
(1839) Malinda, 11, born Georgia
(1841) Margaret, 9, born Georgia
(1842) John, 8, born Georgia
(1844) William, 6, born Georgia
Note: It was not until 1851 that Polk County was formed from Paulding. At that time district 839 could have been at Van Wert. The Whites may not have ever moved. Only the jurisdiction changed.

	Whereabouts of the Whites of Paulding County 1860 - 1870
Referene: Roster of the confederate soldiers of Georgia v. 2, p. 796,  http://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89059402289
The 20th Infantry was formed in Columbus, Ga in May 1861. Company D was formed of Polk County men.
1861 May 1 William A. White, age 16 years and six and one-half months,  joined Company D of the 20th Georgia Regiment at Cedartown, Polk County, just south of Floyd. He was discharged at Manassas, Va. Aug 15, 1861.
1861 June 1 Moses B. White, older brother of William, joined the same company. He was born 1831-32. He was age 28 on joining. He was discharged at Warrenton, Va. Oct 4, 1861.  On 1 June and 4 July 1860 he lived at Van Wert post office, Polk County, Georgia with his family:
Moses B. White   27   “Farming, 50 cts per day”   born Georgia (b. 1832-3)
Joana White           23    Domestic                                        “
Mary L. White        3                                                               “
Second 1860 enumeration 18 July 1860:
Yellow Stone Post Office, 1074th district, Polk County.
Moses White,   25, M, “Hireling, $13 per month”, born Georgia (b. 1834-5)
Joanna White,   23, F                                                              “
Mary L. White,     3, F                                                              “
After being discharged Moses returned to Polk County. He was on the 1870 census and was listed on the property and poll tax roll in Van Wert (militia district 1072, as was James H. Whitfield, between 1874 and 1877. (Georgia Property Tax Digests, 1793-1892, ancestry.com, image 485) and between 1878 and 1880 at the same district (image 365).

On May 31, 1861, Peter White, brother of Moses and William, about age 26, joined Company C of the 7th Regiment, Georgia Volunteer Infantry, raised in Paulding County, Georgia. He was captured at Wilderness, Va. May 6, 1864 and died of pneumonia at Pt. Lookout, Md. Dec. 23, 1864. Grave #1099, Woodlawn National Cemetery. Reference: Vol 1, p. 857 of Roster of Confederate Soldiers of Georgia.
The fourth brother, John C. White was about 2 years older than William. In 1870 he lived at Van Wert in Polk County. He said he was 24 and a farm laborer.  He lived with his mother Milly and his father Adolphus D. White, who was listed as insane. 
1860 census, Georgia, Polk County, Van Wert post office, 1073rd district, family # 309
Brazell, William, 47 M farmer, $300 personal estate, born SC
Brazell, Mary G, 46 F domestic, born SC
Brazell, Lucinda C. C.,20 F domestic, born Ala.
Brazell, William C., 16 M farmer, born Ala.
1869 Jan 10, Paulding County, Ga., Marriage
“Adolphus B. White and  Sarah Ann Holcombe. License to join the above named couple in matrimony were issued on the 8th of January 1869. Returned officially by A. D. Jenkins J.P. on the 10th January 1869. A. D. Jenkins J.P.” 
(Georgia Marriage from Select Counties, 1828-1978, ancestry.com)
1870 census, Georgia, Polk County, Van Wert district, 8 June, p. 252
White, Adolphus D. 53 M W no occupation b. SC Insane, voter.
White Milly, 64 F W Keeping house  SC, cannot read or write.
(1846) John C. 24 M W  Farm Labor  GA, voter. 
2&3 June, p. 246:
White, Moses B. 36 M W RR Laborer  GA
White, Joanna A. 32 F W GA
White, Mary L. 13 F W GA
White, Francis L. E. 9 F W GA
White, John W. 5 M W GA
White James E. 3 M W GA
White,  Thomas M. 5/12  born “Jany”
2&3 June p. 246
Barber, Wiley C. 49 M W Farmer $8000 $1000 GA voter
Barber, Emily  36 W Keeping House GA
(4 children, mother, domestic servant)
WHITE, JONATHAN C. 21 M W $0 $100 GA (near Moses)
5 July p. 280:
White, Joseph T, 21, M W Farm labor, GA, voter
Lavina E., 19 F W Keeping house, GA
John W. 1 M W
Georgia Property Tax Digests 1873-1877 Paulding County, Eutah District #1207. Note Eutah District adjoins Polk County at the dogleg on the border. 
Name	Acres	District &section	Land value	Household &kitchen furniture	Livestock value	Plantation & mechanical tools	Other property		Aggregate value	
Frame 516 of 697										
White, Moses B.	200	19,3	1000	75	202	2			1279	
White, John C.	100	19,3	400	40	110	5	10		565	
White, William	120	19,3	500	50	20				570	
White, Asa L.	1/16	19,3	50	50	115				355	
White, Adolphus	50	19,3	200	20	100	3	20		343	
Frame 669 of 697										
White, Moses B.	740	19,3	1000	75	138	2			1215	
White, William	86		350	20	20				410	
White, Adolphus	80		180	40	100	2	15		317	
White, William T.				20		12			192	
Georgia Property Tax Digests, Paulding 1878-1882, Eutaw district #1207. All listed are in district 19 section 3.
Frame 136 of 924 	Acres	Value of land	Amount of money and solvent debts	p.2: Household and kitchen	Livestock	Plantation and mech. Tools, books, pictures	Other property value		Aggregate value	
White, Moses B.	240	1000	50	75	207	5			1337	
White, John C. Jr.	-	-		40	20				60	
White, John C. Sen.	90	400		40	125	10			575	
White, William	120	420	175	25	100	5				
White, Adolphus	80	200		20	100	5			325	
Source: Floyd County, Georgia, Property Tax Digests, ancestry.com
Year, District, image#	Name	Acres	District &section	Land value	Household &kitchen furniture	Livestock value	Plantation & mechanical tools	Other property	Note	Aggregate value	
1873, Livingston,
255 	White, Mrs. E.	140	3,4	400						400	
1874, Livingston, 479	White, Mrs. E.	140	3,4	400	50			75		525	
1874, Livingston, 479	White, Yancey	160	3,4	200	50		100	500		850	
1874, Livingston, 479	White, W.A.				30			30	ab	120	
1875
Livingston
703	White, W.A.				15			55	c	70	
1875 Livingston 703	White, Yancey	160	3,4	200			70	305		575	
1875 Livingston 703	White, Mrs. E.									No entries at all	
1876, Livingston p949	White, William A.	1 poll			50	50				130	
1876, Livingston p949	White, Yancey	160	3,4	200	50	315	90			685	
1863 Dalton, Whitfield Co. p46	White, W.A.							Your own children 6-18: 4		One poll, $0.25	
187?Van Wert, Polk p128	White, W.A.										
P172											
Note a: Your own children between 6 amd 18 years old: 8
Note b: Number of hands employed by you between 12 and 65:1
Note c: 1875 your own children between 6 and 18 years old: 4

The below is a distant possibility to be L. C. Brazile White. The 3 year old boy was born June 1, 1866-June 1-1867 and conceived Sep. 65 to Sep. 66. He could be named after the William White who married her in 1866.

1870 U.S. Census (16 Aug), Cherokee County, Alabama, Township 10 Range 10, Howells Crossroads, page 318B:
household #34
White, L.	37 F W Housekeeper, Georgia
White Disa M.	12 F W born Alabama. 3 children attended school during the year. Oldest 2 cannot write.
Nancy		10 F W born Alabama
Jesse S.		 9 M W born Alabama
William F.	 3 M W born Alabama
(L’s age is off by 7 years. White’s wife’s age would be 30.)

1875 Marriage License in Murray County, Georgia (Chattsworth) adjacent to Whitfield.
A. J. White and Salley Taylor, issued 8th April 1875 by W. H. Ramey, Ordinary. Married 12 April by C. D. Gilbert, J.P.
(Comment: I continue to imagine, without evidence, that William White married and lived with Mary before disappearing, perhaps in 1875 to marry Sarah, otherwise how did Jim “listen to them tell stories about the Turk ship around the fire”? This is the only license I found anywhere around showing a marriage in 1875 between a White and a Sally somebody. A motivated man could walk from Dalton to Chatsworth.)  

	Possible Explanation of a White meeting Mary, a Slave
20th Regt., Ga. Volunteer Infantry, Army of Northern Virginia, C.S.A. began mustering in the spring of 1861 and was officially assigned duty as part of the Army of Northern Virginia in August of 1861. 
They were attached to Early's Brigade in September of 1861 but were not involved in any major conflict until April of 1862. (Taylor County, Ga. USGenweb - http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gataylor/20th.htm)
William White says of his second enlistment that in the fall of 1862 he joined Capt Howard’s Company (Co. K) of the 60th Georgia Infantry. According to the national parks service the unit was formed in the spring of 1862 in Savannah. In August 1862 the unit was at the second battle of Manasses. In September, at Sharpsburg; In November and December, at Fredericksburg, Virginia. In June and July of ’63 it was at Gettysburg. William White says that sometime in 1863 he was discharged. 
The mystery for me is how and where did he join the 60th Infantry when the unit was in the field? The core issue, however, is where was he when Mary became pregnant with James? Since he joined May 1, 1861 with his brother who had been in Polk County since at least 1860, then William White was in Polk County from as early as 1860 to May 1, 1861. And so was Moses, for that matter. William White may have returned to his brother Moses’s home in Polk County after his first discharge at Manasses, namely Aug. 15, 1861, and stayed until he enlisted a second time in the fall of 1862. Moses was discharged Oct 4, 1861 in Warrenton, Virginia and I suppose went home. 
If Mary became pregnant in January 1861, which White was nearby? William and Moses. (In January William was 16 years and 3 months old.) If in  January 1862? William and Moses.
The next question is, “How did they meet Mary?” One could guess at a market day, auction, or sale in Rome or Cedartown, two towns equally near to Mary’s home on Black’s Bluff Road at State Line, Georgia where she was a light-skinned slave, a household servant, I believe, of Josephine Bale Harbour.
When I am called on to explain why the single William White was living in Mary’s house in 1870, after emancipation, I can’t, except by guessing: (1) Perhaps he loved her and became a farm hand of the Harbours to be near her; (2) Perhaps he felt responsible for his son or Moses’s or John’s or his father Adolphus’s son, as the case may be.
It comes from me directly from John Connor White, my mother’s first cousin, that William White adopted Jim White.   
	  William A White in Etowah County, Alabama 1900.
The Hollis district is north of Gadsden. 
Report of the 1900 census:
Hollis Precinct 19 June p. 139. Family # 130 
W. A. White, head, born October 1844 in Georgia, white, male, married 25 years. Father and mother born South Carolina. Furnace labor. Rented a house.
Sally White, wife, born August 1856 (age 41) in Georgia, white, female, married 25 years. Mother of 1 child, 1 child living, mother and father born Georgia.
George White, son, born June 1884 in ALABAMA, age 15, single.
The son George would be the son he said was 10 years old in his 1895 census application in Whitfield Count, Ga. George lived in Leesburg, Ala in 1910 and says he was born Georgia.
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Hollis Precinct 21 June , p. 141. Family # 169
White, Mrs. L. C., head, W F Aug 1842 age 59, widowed, 3 children total, 2 living. SC  SC  SC, occupation illegible, owned farm free of mortgage.
Wimmir, W.C.  Border, W M Sep 1870 age 29, married 2 years, AL  AL  AL, occupation carpenter
Wimmir, Evy, Wife, W F Oct 1874, age 25, married 2 years, 1 child total, 1 child living. AL  Vermont  SC
Wimmir, Franie, daughter, W F Oct 1898 age 1   
	George S. White, son of William, 1910 Census
Alabama, Cherokee County, Leesburg. P. 113.
George S. White (1884) Had M W 26 M1, 11 years married, GA  GA  GA Farm Labor, rented a house.
Georgie E. White (1879) Wife F W 31 M1, married 11 years, 3 total children, 3 alive.  GA  GA  GA can read and write.
Mamie L. White (1902) Daughter F W 8 S  GA  GA  GA attended school since Sep 1, 1909 - no
Pluma M. White (1904) Daughter F W 6 S  AL  GA  GA attended school since Sep 1, 1909 - no
Edgar W. White (1907)  Son  M W 3 S  GA  GA  GA
comments: George had first child at 18. Pluma born 1904 in Alabama, rest in Georgia. 
	John William White, son
An Alabama death record shows the death of Jno. William White on 22 Jan 1914 at Centre, Cherokee County, Alabama. He is white and age 28 years, 1 month, 20 days (Birth year 1886). He was single, his occupation was farmer. He was buried at Tates Chapel Cemetery. His father was stated as William A. White and his mother Sarah E. White. The mother was born in Alabama.
"Alabama Deaths, 1908-1974," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JDDJ-MY5 : accessed 1 June 2015), Jno. William White, 22 Jan 1914; citing reference cn 565, Department of Health, Montgomery; FHL microfilm 1,894,106.
	Wild Geese
A death certificate in the familysearch.org file “Alabama Deaths, 1908-1974” exists for William A(bner) White. He died 25 Mar 1931 at Keener, Etowah County, Alabama. He was 91 years old (b. 1840). His wife was Mahaley Massengill. From a found tree this man is a son of Samuel White, born 1806 in Chesterfield, SC. He is not our relative. His residence in the tree was shown:
1880 – Cherokee County, Alabama
1900 – Cedar Bluff, Alabama
1910 – Waterloo, Cherokee County
1920 – Gaylesville, Alabama
1930 – Keener, Etowah, Alabama 
End note: This paper is not conventionally sourced.  A packet of files showing some original documents is attached. To ask about further documentation contact Travis Hardin, PO Box 485, Meridianville, AL 35759. Email ke3y@comcast.net. This is supplemental to the White material at my genealogy Web site, gen.intelec.us/white/ .=================================
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  ID: I071
  Name: Nancy
  Sex: F
  Birth: ABT 1797 in South Carolina
  Death: AFT 1880 in Georgia
  Note: Nancy is on the 1880 Census for Paulding County and she was living in the household with William and Mary White. It states that she is 87 years of age and that she was born in South Carolina and both her father and mother were born in Virginia. It is not proven that Adolphus, Martha, or Asa are their children, but they were all born in South Carolina and lived close together. 
Marriage 1 Spouse Unknown
Children
 1.	Adolphus D. White b: 1811 in South Carolina
 2.	William White b: 1820 in South Carolina
 3.	Martha White b: 1828
 4.	Asa White b: 1832
  Name: Adolphus D. White
  Sex: M
  Birth: 1811 in South Carolina
  Death: 1870 in Paulding County Georgia
  Note: 
Year: 1870; Census Place: Not Stated, Polk, Georgia; Roll: M593_170; Page: 252; Image: 23.Name: 

Adolphus White 
Spouse: Millie Davis 
Marriage Date: 09 Jan 1832 
County: Carroll 
State: Georgia 
Mother: Nancy b: ABT 1797 in South Carolina
Marriage 1 Emily Davis
Married: 9 JAN 1832 in Carroll County Georgia
Children
Mahala White b: 1830
 1.	July Ann White b: 1833
 2.	Peter White b: 1835
 3.	Nancy White b: 1836
 4.	Martha White b: 1837
 5.	Melinda White b: 1839
 6.	John C. White b: 1842
 7.	William White b: 1846	
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  Name: William White
  Sex: M
  Birth: 1820 in South Carolina
  Death: in Paulding County, Georgia
  Note:
Year: 1850; Census Place: Division 11, Carroll, Georgia; Roll: M432_63; Page: 75; Image: 151.

Year: 1860; Census Place: District 1207, Paulding, Georgia; Roll: M653_133; Page: 868; Image: 478.

Year: 1870; Census Place: Burnt Hickory and Eutah, Paulding, Georgia; Roll: M593_168; Page: 348; Image: 698.

Year: 1880; Census Place: Eutah, Paulding, Georgia; Roll: T9_160; Family History Film: 1254160; Page: 407.2000; Enumeration District: 157; Image: 0819.
Mother: Nancy b: ABT 1797 in South Carolina

Marriage 1 Mary Renfro b: 1824 in Georgia
Children
Allen White b: ABT 1842
Sophronia White b: 23 MAR 1845 in Carroll County Georgia
 1.	Asa Leonard White b: 20 DEC 1845 in Carroll County Georgia
 2.	Jonathan B. White b: ABT 1849 in Carroll County Georgia
 3.	Adolphus White b: ABT 1850 in Georgia
 4.	Martha White b: ABT 1854
 5.	Amanda White b: ABT 1856
 6.	Mary White b: ABT 1858
 7.	William White b: ABT 1860