MRS. KATE WHITE
Sarah Katherine Smith White
1879 - 1965
Grandmother told my sister Judy that, as a girl, she walked across the prairie, beside a covered wagon, from Mississippi where she was born, to Texas, with her family. That was likely in the summer of 1890. After graduating from high school, "Miss Sarah" taught school for a while before marrying William Alfonso White on Valentine's Day 1899 in the Baptist Church in Evergreen in San Jacinto County, Texas. ~~ Together they raised eight children: Fonso, Luke, Bob, Doug, Walton, Katherine, Elizabeth and Neil. ~~ Grandmother also ran a dress store, The Smart Shop, in downtown Cleveland, Texas. ~~ Many thanks to my cousin Jeff from Corsicana for sending a copy of the 1965 news clipping telling of my grandmother's life and death. Not only did it answer many questions, it also opened a world of research.
Respectfully submitted,
Carolyn White Davis
Kate's granddaughter
From the 1965 article:
Born Sarah Katherine Smith, November 18, 1879, in Fannin County Mississippi, she was the daughter of Mary M and James Jefferson Smith.
Her father died in July 1884.
In the spring of 1890, at the age of ten, she joined the Baptist Church and was baptized in Fannin, Mississippi. She came to Texas with her mother and two sisters in August 1890. She completed high school in Coldspring in May 1895 and taught school [there] for two years.
She married Mr William A White at Evergreen on February 14, 1899. They moved to Oakhurst where she was teaching at the time. They moved to Cleveland in June 1905, where he preceded her in death several years ago.
They were members of the First Baptist Church of Cleveland until their deaths. Mrs White lived in Cleveland for over 50 years before moving to Dallas to be with her children because of ill health. She was a prominent business woman here [in Cleveland] for many years.
MRS. KATE WHITE
Sarah Katherine Smith White
1879 - 1965
Grandmother told my sister Judy that, as a girl, she walked across the prairie, beside a covered wagon, from Mississippi where she was born, to Texas, with her family. That was likely in the summer of 1890. After graduating from high school, "Miss Sarah" taught school for a while before marrying William Alfonso White on Valentine's Day 1899 in the Baptist Church in Evergreen in San Jacinto County, Texas. ~~ Together they raised eight children: Fonso, Luke, Bob, Doug, Walton, Katherine, Elizabeth and Neil. ~~ Grandmother also ran a dress store, The Smart Shop, in downtown Cleveland, Texas. ~~ Many thanks to my cousin Jeff from Corsicana for sending a copy of the 1965 news clipping telling of my grandmother's life and death. Not only did it answer many questions, it also opened a world of research.
Respectfully submitted,
Carolyn White Davis
Kate's granddaughter
From the 1965 article:
Born Sarah Katherine Smith, November 18, 1879, in Fannin County Mississippi, she was the daughter of Mary M and James Jefferson Smith.
Her father died in July 1884.
In the spring of 1890, at the age of ten, she joined the Baptist Church and was baptized in Fannin, Mississippi. She came to Texas with her mother and two sisters in August 1890. She completed high school in Coldspring in May 1895 and taught school [there] for two years.
She married Mr William A White at Evergreen on February 14, 1899. They moved to Oakhurst where she was teaching at the time. They moved to Cleveland in June 1905, where he preceded her in death several years ago.
They were members of the First Baptist Church of Cleveland until their deaths. Mrs White lived in Cleveland for over 50 years before moving to Dallas to be with her children because of ill health. She was a prominent business woman here [in Cleveland] for many years.
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KATE WHITE 1879 - 1965
