Thomas Harvey White (1882 - 1971)

Born 22 Aug 1882 in Opelika, Alabama

Ancestors

Husband of Clevey (Goolsby) White — married 2 Jun 1909 in Samson, Alabama

Descendants

Died 7 Jul 1971 at age 88 in Opelika, Alabama

Biography

Thomas was born in 1882. Thomas White ... He passed away in 1971. ^[1]

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Sources

United States Federal Census 1900 Birth: Aug 1882 Age: 17 Home: Opelika, Lee, Alabama Father: Edmund White Mother: Martha White

U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 Birth date: 22 Aug 1882 Name: Thomas Harvey White County: Geneva State: Alabama

Death: July 1971 Born: 22 Aug 1882 U.S. Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014

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Footnotes

1. ↑ Entered by Carolyn Hunter, Thursday, August 22, 2013.

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Carolyn Hunter for creating White-14058 on 22 Aug 13. Click the Changes tab for the details on contributions by Carolyn and others.

Memories: My paternal grandfather, T. Harvey White, was born in 1882. He grew up at the end of what is now White Road, where I am living now. He was the next-to-the youngest of five boys in his family. He told us, his granddaughters, about his childhood. At Christmas the family cut a big holly tree off the place, and they decorated it with actual lighted candles. Toys were put on the tree itself, and he recalled how happy he was one Christmas to see a trumpet high up on the tree. The only time he got oranges to eat was at Christmas. Another memory was a big Christmas at Harvey and Peggy’s house on Johnson Street in Samson. Harvey had made doll beds, and Peggy had made little quilts and sheets and pillowcases with eyelet lace edges. They looked as if they had come from Santa’s workshop, and it was only later that we learned where they really had come from. Harvey made us a wooden swing shaped like and ridden like a horse. He made a black walnut bed and chest of drawers that I still use. He had his own shop in Samson down behind their house where he could make all kinds of things. Harvey had many skills and could garden, butcher hogs, build fences, dry fruit on a dryer he made, raise chickens, and help to build a house. He knew about carpentry and plumbing. He patiently taught me to drive a tractor when I was a teen. He was playful, and I never saw him angry or in a bad mood. He loved to laugh and to make others laugh. He was fun, and he loved to show people where he had accidentally sawed off the end of a thumb while making his grandchildren a guinea pig casket. He was a source of joy in my childhood. Carolyn White Hunter