Ann White

Little has been collected specifically about Ann Garner White, but it is clear that as a long-time widow Ann White was called upon to rear her children with determination and a will beyond that incredible will and determination that all frontier women, and Chester was very much a frontier area during these two decades, with some help of their husbands needed to do all that was necessary to tend to the rearing of the large families, including spinning, making clothing, preparing full meals and other food requirements in a land with little but a home of natural materials found on site and a running creek, stream or river to provide all water requisites.

Ann seems to have lived three maybe even four decades longer than her husband John who was cut down early in life by a Cherokee native in a skirmish many miles south of his home. It is presumed Ann remained in Chester District in the family home with her son's family after her other children, all daughters, were married.

It is thus presumed that Ann died in or quite near the White farm which is in area later (and still so by the natives) as Evans, which is the approximate location of Purity Cemetery, irrespective of the location shown elsewhere.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Garner-927

JOHN and ANN WHITE were the progenitors of that large connection of WHITES, who, since the earliest settlement of what is now Chester Co., South Carolina, have lived in the neighborhood of Old Purity Church and cemetery, about 2-1/2 miles southeast of the town of Chester on the Chester Great Falls Highway.

JOHN and ANN WHITE were the parents of one son and six daughters. All were born in Ireland before 1767, besides the youngest child, JANNET WHITE, who was born in Chester Co., South Carolina.

ANN GARNER WHITE died Jan. 25, 1818, in the ninety-third year of her age and was buried in the Old Purity Cemetery, where a headstone marks her grave. Burial Place: Old Purity Presbyterian Cemetery, Chester, South Carolina, USA

It is believed that Joseph Bryant White is a descendant of John and Ann.

Children (1 son, 6 daughters)

1. Elizabeth
2. William
3. Margaret
4. Helen
5. Isabel
6. Jannett
7. Victoria

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comments

Date and place of birth have also been (erroneously?) reported to be 1725 in County Antrim, Ulster, Ireland (unattested).

links

• https://wc.rootsweb.com/trees/217417/I00057/ann-garner/individual
• http://morethanjustacemetery.com/getperson.php?personID=I4857&tree=...
• Reference: FamilySearch Family Tree - SmartCopy: May 18 2016, 20:59:00 UTC
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Garner-927

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Died after 1830 census:
Living with son:
1830 United States Federal Census
Name: David White
Home in 1830: , Wilcox, Alabama
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Free White Persons - Males - 15 thru 19: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 50 thru 59: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 100 and over: 1 John White
Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 14: 2
Free White Persons - Females - 50 thru 59: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 60 thru 69: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 80 thru 89: 1 Keziah White
Slaves - Males - 10 thru 23: 2
Slaves - Males - 36 thru 54: 1
Slaves - Females - Under 10: 5
Slaves - Females - 10 thru 23: 1
Slaves - Females - 24 thru 35: 2
Free White Persons - Under 20: 3
Total Free White Persons: 8
Total Slaves: 11
Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored): 19

Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/55385284/keziah-white: accessed 19 January 2023), memorial page for Keziah White (1740–unknown), Find a Grave Memorial ID 55385284; Burial Details Unknown; Maintained by June Tedder Martin (contributor 47143437).