White, W. S.

WHITE

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 9/30/2008 at 16:08:07

W. S. White

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.182, Minden Twp.)
W. S. White, farmer, P. O. Neola, was born in Kentucky in 1829; he came to this State in 1871, settling where he now lives; he cultivates about seventy-five acres of land, which was, at the time of his purchasing it, unimproved, and cost about $10.75 per acre. He is the son of Joseph and Mary (Jones) White; his father was a farmer, born in Delaware in 1803, moved to Missouri in 1849 and died in 1854. The mother of our subject was born in Kentucky in 1802, and was the mother of eight children - five sons and three daughters. She died in Missouri in 1854, within twenty-five days of her husband's death. Our subject received his education in the common schools of Indiana. He went to Missouri and began life for himself by taking up a claim and farming it. He afterward sold it, and went to Nebraska, where he lived for six years. He returned to Missouri and from there to this State. He married his first wife - Alice Linville - in Missouri in 1853. His second marriage occurred in the same State in 1862, when he was wedded to Sarah J. McDowell, born in Missouri in March, 1843. She is the daughter of Matthew and Jane (Hughes) McDowell. Our subject has six children - Maggie, Joseph, John, Dolly, Nora and Iva Myrtle. He votes the Democratic ticket.