Mr. William B. White, Sr., died at his home near Hickory Grove, in Crawford county, on Saturday, January 21, and was buried next day at Elam church. His age was 79.

The above lines note the ending of a remarkable life. Old as he was, Mr. White served in the late war between the states. Besides being in the army himself, he had seven sons engaged in battling for their country; and although they did their full duty and encountered dangers inseparable from four years of active warfare, all of them survived except one. This one was wounded near the close of the war, and died in a hospital at Macon.

Two of Mr. White's sons were in the Sixth Georgia regiment, two in the Twenty-seventh Georgia, one in the Fifty-ninth Georgia, one in the Fourth Louisiana battalion, and one in the Sixth Alabama regiment. Mr. White himself served in the militia. The six sons who survived the war are all living yet in Crawford county near the line of Upson.

Mr. White was a man of splendid charactar, a devoted father and christian—a consistent and zealous member of the Baptist church. He was a man of plain and simple tastes. He gave directions about his funeral, and according to his wish, was buried in a plain pine coffin.

The Thomaston Times, Thomaston, Georgia, 3 February 1888, page 3, column 5.

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