Handy White (1830 - bef. 1900)

Born 1830 in Stockton, Baldwin, Alabama, United States

Died before 1900 before age 70 in Alabama, United States

Biography

Handy White is a part of US Black heritage.

Handy's daughter Janie Scott was interviewed in Mobile, Alabama on July 14, 1937 about her life and her time as an enslaved person.

There were only a few, inconsequential quotes from Janie recorded by the interview. Most of the interview is just recounted by the interviewer. Janie herself was not enslaved, but knew the stories of her parents' enslavement.

Janie's mother, Sarah Porter, was a slave on the Myers plantation in Tensaw, Alabama. Janie's father was Andy White, and he was raised on the plantation of John Jewett at Stockton, Alabama. The couple had eleven children, of which two -- Janie and her sister Daisy -- are still living.

After the Surrender her father and mother moved to Mobile, Alabama and her father continued to work for Mr. Jewett at his mill located at the foot of Palmetto Street on the Mobile river front.

Interview: Janie Scott was interviewed in Mobile, Alabama by Mary A Poole as part of the Federal Writer's Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). The results are made available by the Library of Congress. ^[1]

Handy died before the 1900 census where his wife Sarah is enumerated as a widow.

Sources

1. ↑ [1] Library of Congress - WPA - Slave Narrative - Janie Scott - Vol. 1, Alabama, page 337-339, image 343-345 of 442.

• "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHKL-K23 : 28 May 2021), Mary Jane White in entry for Handy White, 1870.

• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4VQ-L25 : 13 January 2022), Janey White in household of Handy White, Mobile, Mobile, Alabama, United States; citing enumeration district ED 139, sheet , NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm .

Daughter's death record names parents: "Alabama Deaths, 1908-1974", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JD15-5XW : 11 January 2021), Janie Scott, 1943.