White

James Lewis White built "Nettie's Place" and owned a lot of land around there at one time. James is brother of John, pictured below. James Lewis White is great grandfather of our John White who helped with this information, and whose 4th grade teacher was Willie Hight, wife of Seavy. (Small world, big internet, long story. ha.)

James Lewis White had a son, John, born 1867, and another son Robert (Bob) (ancestor of our JW).
James Lewis White's mother was Margaret Covey, of the Culleoka Covey's.

James Lewis White with grandson Earl Gilliam

James Lewis White with his grandson Earl Taylor Gilliam (circa 1917) According to the Goodspeed Histories, James Lewis White “was reared on the farm and received his education in the common schools.” In 1861 he enlisted in Captain Howlett’s Company F, 48th Infantry …….After the war he was in Charlotte and family legend has it that he walked the entire 500 miles home to his farm. In addition to farming, in 1878 he was elected constable and served 4 years. In 1882 he was elected magistrate as a Democrat and was holding that office at the time of Goodspeed’s publication in 1887. In his obituary, entitled “Prominent Official Summoned by Death,” it says that James Lewis was a “former deputy sheriff and served as a member of the county court for many years collecting accounts.” The article states that he was considered the best in county as a collector, and had held public office for 38 years as a deputy under sheriffs Webb, Forgey, and Godwin. He was a “most capable and highly esteemed officer.” James Lewis’s and John’s farms were less than two miles east of Groveland. Also, two farms over from them was the farm of Goodman Smith Hight, the grandfather of Seavy Hight, a contemporary of my (our JW) grandparents. Goodman Smith’s family can be traced to John “Hite” (born before 1700 who lived in Lunenburg, Virginia). Wood Hite's line can be traced to Jost Hite born 1685 who lived in Berkeley County, Virginia. There is good circumstantial evidence that Wood Hite and Goodman Hite (Hight) are related, but nothing with a paper trail. However, a view of the comparson head shots on the Goodman page shows amazing similarity.

Ophelia Tennessee Davidson White

John White..... John “Uncle Jackie” White (1849-1935). James Lewis White’s brother.

About the Photographer:
C. S. Judd opened his shop in Columbia in 1883: Link. This photo may be earlier than 1895.

Notes from John White:

On the 1880 census it looks like William and James Lewis are living in the two houses across from one another on the New Lewisburg Highway. John and Annie are still living with William and Margaret. they are living next to Hights and down the road from Parks.
The Park Station homeplace was right across the road from what is now called “Fred White Road” on the “new” Lewisburg Highway.
Uncle Fred White’s place is a good-sized brick house that still stands on the corner of Fred White Road and the New Lewisburg Highway. The back of the house faces the Lewisburg Highway. John White -- “Uncle Jackie” White – my great-grandfather James Lewis White’s brother lived in that house with his old maid sister Annie before Fred and his wife Mary and family.
That portion of where the highway now runs is where the old N.C. and St. Louis Railway track ran. We lived across what is now the New Lewisburg Highway from Uncle Fred’s house. We had a 6-party telephone line back then but we had another old wooden box wall phone that connected us directly to Uncle Fred’s.
Uncle Fred sold that house to Tom Gilliam, Jason’s uncle.
Our old house burned in the early seventies – but if you look close as you drive by – you’ll see an old barn behind an old house trailer. That’s our old barn. It must be about 140 years old. We were right on Silver Creek.
About Nettie’s house.... James Lewis White supposedly built the house but I don’t know that he lived in it. Before living where I described, he lived in a house described in a late cousin’s notes as “the Cochran Place, a large farm along the railroad tracks just east of Hill Station (Groveland).” I’ve also heard that he lived near -- what became --the Ray Weaver place. I don’t know if that’s the same place or not.

The White Home Place

The old homeplace at Park’s Station. The door in the picture leads to the main room which originally was an old store on Silver Creek. My great-grandfather moved the store up the hill about 100 yards and built on to it. The house burned in the early 1970s.