Henry White was accidentally scalded to death at the tannery in Old Fort, North Carolina. He would have been forty-eight years old in another two weeks time. He was buried in Kingsport, Tennessee on October 27, 1928. At the time of his death, he left a widow, their sixteen-month-old daughter, and the four children from his first marriage. According to Hazel White Huey, her mother, Mae Elkins White, died a month later at the age of twenty-nine.
Siblings of Henry Thomas White were: Waitstill, Weaver, Charlie, Othelia, Minnie, Minnie Geneva, Margaret, Willard, Grace, Willie Mae, Jack Jonas, and Harlen Ray. (The first Minnie was from the 2nd marriage and the 2nd Minnie was from the 3rd Marriage).
Quoted from: Greene, Bobbie Baird.1990. "Descendants of Joseph Henry White and Margaret Saphronia Shell."
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From the Kingsport, TN newspaper:
"Henry Thomas White arrived here yesterday. Died Wednesday as the result of an injury he received in a North Carolina industrial plant, [Services]were conducted at the Broad Street Methodist Church yesterday afternoon by Rev. C. W. Dean. Interment was made in the City Cemetery. Services at the grave were in charge of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics of which Mr. White was a member.
The deceased is survived by his widow and one child by a second marriage [Hazel Marie White], also four children by his first wife, Ralph, Edith, Mildred, and Clifford White. His father, J. M. White also survives.
Mr. White lived in Kingsport for about 10 years but had been living for the past 3 years in Old Fort, North Carolina where he was employed in an extract plant.
He joined the Southern Methodist Church when a young man and lived an admirable Christian life. He leaves many friends, in addition to relatives, to mourn his passing."
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"My dad, Henry, died in an accident at the tannery where he worked; he was scalded to death when he fell into a vat." (Reference: his son, Robert R. White as told to Henry's granddaughter, Jean White Jorgensen).
Siblings of Henry Thomas White were: Waitstill, Weaver, Charlie, Othelia, Minnie, Minnie Geneva, Margaret, Willard, Grace, Willie Mae, Jack Jonas, and Harlen Ray. (The first Minnie was from the 2nd marriage and the 2nd Minnie was from the 3rd Marriage).
Quoted from: Greene, Bobbie Baird.1990. "Descendants of Joseph Henry White and Margaret Saphronia Shell."
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From the Kingsport, TN newspaper:
"Henry Thomas White arrived here yesterday. Died Wednesday as the result of an injury he received in a North Carolina industrial plant, [Services]were conducted at the Broad Street Methodist Church yesterday afternoon by Rev. C. W. Dean. Interment was made in the City Cemetery. Services at the grave were in charge of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics of which Mr. White was a member.
The deceased is survived by his widow and one child by a second marriage [Hazel Marie White], also four children by his first wife, Ralph, Edith, Mildred, and Clifford White. His father, J. M. White also survives.
Mr. White lived in Kingsport for about 10 years but had been living for the past 3 years in Old Fort, North Carolina where he was employed in an extract plant.
He joined the Southern Methodist Church when a young man and lived an admirable Christian life. He leaves many friends, in addition to relatives, to mourn his passing."
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"My dad, Henry, died in an accident at the tannery where he worked; he was scalded to death when he fell into a vat." (Reference: his son, Robert R. White as told to Henry's granddaughter, Jean White Jorgensen).
Henry White was accidentally scalded to death at the tannery in Old Fort, North Carolina. He would have been forty-eight years old in another two weeks time. He was buried in Kingsport, Tennessee on October 27, 1928. At the time of his death, he left a widow, their sixteen-month-old daughter, and the four children from his first marriage. According to Hazel White Huey, her mother, Mae Elkins White, died a month later at the age of twenty-nine.
Siblings of Henry Thomas White were: Waitstill, Weaver, Charlie, Othelia, Minnie, Minnie Geneva, Margaret, Willard, Grace, Willie Mae, Jack Jonas, and Harlen Ray. (The first Minnie was from the 2nd marriage and the 2nd Minnie was from the 3rd Marriage).
Quoted from: Greene, Bobbie Baird.1990. "Descendants of Joseph Henry White and Margaret Saphronia Shell."
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From the Kingsport, TN newspaper:
"Henry Thomas White arrived here yesterday. Died Wednesday as the result of an injury he received in a North Carolina industrial plant, [Services]were conducted at the Broad Street Methodist Church yesterday afternoon by Rev. C. W. Dean. Interment was made in the City Cemetery. Services at the grave were in charge of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics of which Mr. White was a member.
The deceased is survived by his widow and one child by a second marriage [Hazel Marie White], also four children by his first wife, Ralph, Edith, Mildred, and Clifford White. His father, J. M. White also survives.
Mr. White lived in Kingsport for about 10 years but had been living for the past 3 years in Old Fort, North Carolina where he was employed in an extract plant.
He joined the Southern Methodist Church when a young man and lived an admirable Christian life. He leaves many friends, in addition to relatives, to mourn his passing."
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"My dad, Henry, died in an accident at the tannery where he worked; he was scalded to death when he fell into a vat." (Reference: his son, Robert R. White as told to Henry's granddaughter, Jean White Jorgensen).
Siblings of Henry Thomas White were: Waitstill, Weaver, Charlie, Othelia, Minnie, Minnie Geneva, Margaret, Willard, Grace, Willie Mae, Jack Jonas, and Harlen Ray. (The first Minnie was from the 2nd marriage and the 2nd Minnie was from the 3rd Marriage).
Quoted from: Greene, Bobbie Baird.1990. "Descendants of Joseph Henry White and Margaret Saphronia Shell."
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From the Kingsport, TN newspaper:
"Henry Thomas White arrived here yesterday. Died Wednesday as the result of an injury he received in a North Carolina industrial plant, [Services]were conducted at the Broad Street Methodist Church yesterday afternoon by Rev. C. W. Dean. Interment was made in the City Cemetery. Services at the grave were in charge of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics of which Mr. White was a member.
The deceased is survived by his widow and one child by a second marriage [Hazel Marie White], also four children by his first wife, Ralph, Edith, Mildred, and Clifford White. His father, J. M. White also survives.
Mr. White lived in Kingsport for about 10 years but had been living for the past 3 years in Old Fort, North Carolina where he was employed in an extract plant.
He joined the Southern Methodist Church when a young man and lived an admirable Christian life. He leaves many friends, in addition to relatives, to mourn his passing."
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"My dad, Henry, died in an accident at the tannery where he worked; he was scalded to death when he fell into a vat." (Reference: his son, Robert R. White as told to Henry's granddaughter, Jean White Jorgensen).
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