John White

TAYLOR, WHITE

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 10/14/2004 at 09:58:17

White, John, Ohio twp., farmer, Sec. 32; P.O. Prairie Grove; born in Randolph county, North Carolina, December 19, 1819; he was raised there until 1862, when he, with his family left North Carolina and removed to Indiana, where they lived four years; they drove their team from North Carolina to Indiana, a distance of over twelve hundred miles; they were detained on account of the war for over eleven months, between Taylorville and Elizabethton, county seats of John and Carter counties; they came to this county in October, 1867, and located where he now lives; he owns in this county 180 acres of prairie land, and thirty-three acres of timber in Clarke county; has three sons and two daughters: John E., Mary F., now Mrs. Wm. Taylor, Junis R., David A. and Cynthia E.; the children were all born in North Carolina, except Cynthia E., who was born in Indiana.

Taken from the book, "The History of Madison County, Iowa, 1879" page 571