Matilda (White) Starnes (1831 - 1865)

Born 1831 in Burke, North Carolina, United States

Ancestors

Wife of William L. Starnes — married 1841 in Alexander, North Carolina, USA

Descendants

Died 1865 at about age 34 in Alexander, North Carolina, USA

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Biography

Matilda "Tilda" White was born in 1831 in Burke County. North Caolina, United States. She married William Starnes in about 1851. She died in 1865 in Alexander County, North Carolina. She is buried in the Bethlehem Baptist Church Cemetery. William went off to serve in the U.S. Civil War and did not come back until after she died.

William and Matilda had the following children ^[1]:

1. S. Wilson (1852-?)
2. Calvin (1854-?)
3. Monroe (1855-?)
4. Martha (1856-?)
5. Sarah (after 1860-?)

Sources

1. ↑ #C1860 and #Crouse

• Source: Historical Sketches of Alexander County, N.C., Book was published in 1905 and authored by Rev. A.L. Crouse, Subtitles is Friendship Lutheran, Hopewell Reformed , and Charity Baptist Churches and of the Bowman & Fry Families
• Source: The History of Alexander County, by W.E. White, 1926
• Source: Find a Grave for Matilda White Starnes, accessed Feb 9, 2017
• Source: "United States Census, 1860", database with images, (FamilySearch: 30 December 2015), Matilda Starnes in entry for W L Starnes, 1860.