WILLIAM WHITE, Jasper, son of John and Catherine (Simons) White, was born in Logan County, Ky., October 12, 1812, and removed with his parents, in 1824, to Wayne County, Ill., where he has esided to the present time.
John was born in Virginia in 1785, was a ranger in the war of 1812, died in 1860, and was buried at the Buckeye Cemetery. He was the son of Capt. John White of the Revolutionary war. Three of Catherine's brothers were in the battle of New Orleans, with Gen. Andrew Jackson, two of whom received honorable wounds.Subject was first married, December 13, 1834, to Temperance, daughter of Richard and Nancy (Martin) Owen, and to them were born
Subject was again married, February 26, 1859, to Mrs. J. Maria Russell, to whom was born Julius E., January 31, 1860.
Mrs. White is also the mother of N.H. Russell, of Colorado. She is the daughter of Julius C. and Catherine (Carrol) Hart; was born near Canton, Ohio, March 9, 1827, and came to Illinois in 1855, where she has taught school many years,(having taught thirty-six years in all), being one of the most thorough and efficient teachers, as ver many can attest, that the county has ever known. At a time when all passing from the States to the army in the field was prohibited, by her indomitable courage and perseverance she passed through the lines, arriving at Vicksburg in time to nurse her sick husband and step-son into life again. Her father, an old teacher, was born in Palmyra, N.Y., in 1779, died July 29, 1855, and was buried in Buckeye Cemetery. Silas, his father was born in Connecticut. Catherine Carrol's father, a soldier of the war of 1812, was from Pennsylvania, and died at Sandusky, Ohio.
Our subject served his country first in the Black Hawk war in 1832, and was also a member of the Fifty-sixth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry in the late war. He is a farmer, a Methodist, a Republican and Prohibitionist.
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