Fanny (Alvord) White (abt. 1793 - 1878)

Born about 12 Sep 1793 in Bernardston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ancestors

Wife of Josiah White — married 3 Apr 1817 in Greenfield, Massachusetts

Died 1878 at about age 84 in Nashua, New Hampshire

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Biography

Fanny Alvord, born 12 Sep 1793 at Bernardston, Massachusetts, was the tenth and final child of Caleb Alvord and Mary Murdock.

She married 3 Apr 1817 @ Greenfield, Massachusetts, Josiah White ^[1] [b. 2 Mar 1791 @ Heath, Massachusetts, son of Benjamin & Abigail (Wilder) White; d. 3 Oct 1852]. They had 7 children, the first born at Bath, New Hampshire, all others in Brattleboro, Vermont:

1. Fanny White, b. 5 Feb 1818; resided at Nashua
2. Josiah Carleton White (8 Apr 1820 - 4 Jul 1828)
3. Edwin Buckingham White, b. 14 1822; married 1) Jun 1848 Serena W. Bragg; 2) 22 Aug 1855 Laurana A. Clement
4. Charles King White, b. 9 Oct 1825; married 11 Oct 1848 Sarah Elizabeth Barnard; d. 7 Nov 1850 in California
5. Josiah Clinton White, b. 9 Jul 1828; married 1 Jan 1856 Edna A. Underwood; served in U.S. Civil War
6. Jane Elizabeth White, b. 31 Jul 1831; married 1 Jan 1855 Isaac H. Marshall; d. 31 Jan 1878
7. Caleb Benjamin White, b. 11 Jan 1835; married 3 Nov 1858 Marietta Hodge; carpenter and iron moulder

Fanny (Alvord) White passed away 1 May 1878 @ Nashua, New Hampshire. The death was recorded in Templeton, Massachusetts ^[2]. Her grave is in Woodlawn Cemetery, Nashua, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA ^[3].

Note: The cited memorial site banner panel conveys inaccurate data on both the birth year and the death year of Fanny (Alvord) White. The death date error is particularly evident viz the correct death year, 1878, inscribed on the face of the collective White family monument, fashioned from granite, and the above cited death record.

Sources

1. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29G-RJBF : Wed Oct 25 14:56:22 UTC 2023), Entry for Josiah White and Fanny Alvord, 02 Apr 1817.
2. ↑ "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915, 1921-1924," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N728-XZ9 : 2 March 2021), Fanny White, 01 May 1878; citing TEMPLETON, Massachusetts, v 303 p 388, State Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 960,215.
3. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #187155342

• A Genealogy of the Descendants of Alexander Alvord an Early Settler of Windsor, Conn. and Northampton, Mass. (1908), no. 399: https://archive.org/details/genealogyofdesce00alvo/page/108/mode/1up; https://archive.org/details/genealogyofdesce00alvo/page/191/mode/1up