White Family Stories
As told by Edwin M. “Brother” Davis
Letter to L.F. “Bud” Hammond dated August 10, 2009
Thrashley E. White was born October 25, 1805, in Westfield Community of Chesterfield County, South Carolina. (He) died April 8, 1880, age 75, in Westfield Community of Chesterfield County, South Carolina.
Eliza Ann Jones, daughter of Reverend Wiley Jones and Sara (last name may be Bell?), was born December 12, 1827, Buffalo Community, Kershaw County, South Carolina. Her mother, Sara, was Indian either full or 1/b blood. This is very obvious by all the dark complexion cousins we have, also she told her grandchildren that her mother was Indian. They did not think or care to ask if Sara was full blood or ½ blood.
Buffalo is a cross roads, store, fire department, school, and Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church about 3 miles south of Kershaw, South Carolina. Reverend Wiley Jones was pastor of Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church in the Buffalo Community and is buried in the Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church cemetery. Sharon Freeman Corey has been to his burial site.
Rev. Wiley Jones came to the Westfield Community, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, around 1850-1851 to hold a revival bringing with him his daughter Eliza Ann Jones who was around 22 – 24 years old. While here she met Thrashley White, many, many years her senior, fell in love, married him and to the best of knowledge never went back to Kershaw Buffalo Community. She and Thrashley had 7 or 8 children. The youngest Ellison Thrashley White, my grandpa that we all called “Dee”.
When Thrashley died in 1880, Eliza Ann Jones White came to live with several of her children as she and Thrashley owned no land. Thrashley lost his land, 202 acres more or less because of debt and taxes. His property was sold at the court house in 1844.
Sometime around 1906 Eliza Ann Jones White came to live with her youngest son Ellison Thrashley White, his wife Alice Mae Eddins White and their two daughters, Myrtle and Ethel. Myrtle White Davis is my mother and Ethel White King my aunt.
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These are exactly the type of stories and memories I think are great for this site.
ReplyDeleteAn anonymous person posted the question below (in quotation marks) back on March 2, 2012 and I am just now (May 22, 2014) seeing it. I have no idea how the William got added to Thrashley's name. I have never seen the name William as a part of his name on any type of documents. I have ONLY seen the name William added through other family member's research compilations. If you search for Thrashley White through the Find A Grave website you can view his cemetery marker which reads: Thrashley White. In census records he is enumerated as: Thrashley White. On my maternal great-grandfather, Henry Wiley White's, death certificate (for which he was listed as the informant on his own death certificate) he gave his father's name as: Thrashley Parsons White. This is the only other name that I have seen in an actual document as a given name for Thrashley White. I would really love to know who originally added the William to Thrashley's name and WHY! What was the reasoning? Did they see his name written as such in a document? I would like to see it if this is the case. - Sharon F. Corey
ReplyDelete"Should the "Thrashley E. White" at the top of this actually read "William Thrashley White"? on White Family Stories shared by Brother Davis"