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JESSE FRANKLIN WHITE

JESSE FRANKLIN WHITE

Male 1885 - 1973  (88 years)

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  • Name JESSE FRANKLIN WHITE  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9] 
    Birth 1885  Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [10] 
    Gender Male 
    Death Nov 1973  Scotts Hill, Decatur, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [11] 
    Burial Y  [12] 
    Person ID I405  1794 BARLOW-GAWF/GOFF (US-NC-WAK / US-TN-HEN) I-FTA50669
    Last Modified 20 Oct 2023 

    Family ARTIE GOFF,   b. Abt 1886, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 5 Mar 1971 (Age 85 years) 
    Other Partners: David R. Townsell  m. 16 Oct 1921 
    Marriage 10 Sep 1905  Decatur, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [13, 14] 
    Children 
     1. Ernest Leonard White,   b. 10 Sep 1910, Scotts Hill, Decatur, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 28 Aug 1999, Pensacola, Escambia, Florida, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 88 years)
    ▻ MAUREEN ELIZABETH TERRY  m. 18 Jun 1932;   Ulma Reen Shumack  m. 26 May 1990
     2. Robert Earl White,   b. 1912, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 21 Sep 1995 (Age 83 years)
     3. Delores Ethel White,   b. 11 Aug 1916, Scotts Hill, Decatur, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 7 Jul 2012, Humboldt, Gibson, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 95 years)
    ▻ William Lewis Meals  m. 21 Oct 1934
    Family ID F220  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 20 Oct 2023 

  • Notes 
    • Timeline for Jess WHITE
      1885, 18 May born in Scotts Hill, Decatur Co., TN
      1905, 10 Sep married Artie GOFF in Decatur
      1910 Decatur Census, farm laborer living with father, listed as single
      1913 engaged to Myrtle BARTHOLOMEW, livery stable with John BAILEY recently closed (The Lexington Progress 18 April 1913) (his stepmother, Mary MOORE BARTHOLOMEW WHITE had no children)
      1919, 30 April married Ozzie JOHNSON MANESS in Madison Co., TN
      1920 Medina Census, across from ballfield, blacksmith, owns shop; Jesse had a livery, sawmill and general store in Medina. Dr. Keeton's office was upstairs. He financed his son Ernest and a friend when they opened up a cafe. He rented them the space bertween the livery and store and financed the inventory. Ernest was around 17. They began "bootlegging" (selling liquor) out the back door so he shut them down. Same page as Dr Keeton.
      1930 Toppenish, Yakima, Washington, listed as divorced, night watchman for the city, Ethel, Earl & nephew Malcolm PATTERSON with him
      1931, 10 Jan married Amanda PARRISH BOYD
      1938, 17 Mar married Ozzie JOHNSON MANESS WHITE in Decatur Co., TN
      1940 Medina, Gibson Co., TN, Jesse F White, renter, age 54 lived in same place in 1935, truck driver, odd jobs, highest grade completed, 6th, married works 30 hours/week. Worked 35 weeks in 1939 Ozie, age 54. Listing next to Stella BAGBY KEETON and her son Waters and his wife Alba May

      before1946 married Essie JOHNSON in Mississippi
      ? This story was told by Jess' grandson (James Patrick White) and son (William Franklin White). Someone insulted Jess' wife, Essie and Jess took offense. The man stabbed Jess who then knocked him out cold.
      1973, 7 Nov The day he died he had shoed a horse. Later he was cleaning the attic and accidentaly ignited an old powder horn that belonged to his father and received burns. He then had his 2nd heart attack and later died at the hospital.

      http://genealogytrails.com/tenn/henderson/obitW.html
      JESSE FRANKLIN WHITE - Services for Jesse Franklin White were Friday at the Scotts Hill Pentecostal [son William says they were in the Methodist Church] Church with the Rev. J. W. Hanna and the Rev. E. J. Grimsley officiating. Burial was in the Methodist Cemetery with Scotts Hill Funeral Home in charge. Mr. White, who was 88, died Wednesday morning at the Lexington Hospital after a long illness. He was a retired law officer, blacksmith and merchant. He was a member of the Pentecostal Church. He leaves his wife, Mrs. Essie Johnson White of Scotts Hill, three sons, Lt. Ernest White, U. S. Navy retired of Jackson, Earl White of Milan, Ill., and S. Sgt. William F. White with the U. S. Air Force in Germany; a daughter, Mrs. Ethel Meals of Humboldt; a brother, Walter White of Forrest Park, Ga.; eight grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren.
      (The Lexington Progress, November 14, 1973)

      http://genealogytrails.com/tenn/henderson/obitW.html#ww1119
      JESSE FRANKLIN WHITE
      Scotts Hill - Services for Jesse Franklin White, 88, will be at 2 p.m. Friday at the Scotts Hill Pentecostal Church with the Rev. J. W. Hanna and the Rev. E. J. Grensley officiating. Burial will be in the Methodist Cemetery with Scotts Hill Funeral Home in charge.

      Mr. White died Wednesday morning at the Lexington-Henderson Co., Hospital after a long illness.

      He was a retired law officer, blacksmith and merchant.

      He was a member of the Pentecostal Church.

      Surviving are his widow Mrs. Essie Johnson White of Scotts Hill; 3 sons, Lt. Ernest White, U.S. Navy retired of Jackson; Earl White of Milan, IL and S. Sgt. William F. White with the U.S. Air Force in Germany; a daughter Mrs. Ethel Meals of Humboldt; a brother, Walter White of Forrest Park, GA; 8 grandchildren; and 10 great grandchildren.
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      1910 Decatur Co., TN; 4/27/1910, CD 10, ED 65-90-90: Billy White (53), head of household, with wife of 30 years, Mandy E (48), sons Jesse (24), Walter (14), and grandson Ben T . Tucker (6).

      1920 Medina, Dyer Co., TN Jess F. WHITE 34, Ozie 34 Ernest, Earl 6 &Tom B. LOOMIS Boarder. Everyone and parents b. TN

      Home in 1930: Toppenish, Yakima, Washington
      Jess F White 45 Divorced, TN/TN/TN
      Earl White 18
      Ethel White 13
      Malcolm Patterson 20
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      p. 78 of Austin's Chapel, the Tribe of Benjamin has Jesse White donating $.20 to Elias AUSTIN & family whose home was destroyed in a tornado (that was the least amount on this page of the ledger).

      World War I Registration Card - medium height, medium built, light blue eyes, dark hair

      This story was told by Jess' grandson (James Patrick White) and son (William Franklin White). Someone insulted Jess' wife, Essie and Jess took offense. The man stabbed Jess who then knocked him out cold.

      The day he died he had shoed a horse. Later he was cleaning the attic and accidentaly ignited an old powder horn that belonged to his father and received burns. He then had his 2nd heart attack and later died at the hospital.

      Jesse had a livery, sawmill and general store in Medina. Dr. Keeton's office was upstairs. He financed his son Ernest and a friend when they opened up a cafe. He rented them the space bertween the livery and store and financed the inventory. Ernest was around 17. They began "bootlegging" (selling liquor) out the back door so he shut them down.

      Jess was a Decatur Co., deputy sheriff and at one time was a warden at Ft. Pillow prison, later he worked there again and was a guard. He had a convict who worked the farm for him.

      Re the general store picture. Dr. Keeton's office was upstairs and Dr. Keeton moved from Scotts Hill following the 1917 tornado & Jess was in Washington State in 1930 so he had to own the store in Medina between 1917-1930.

  • Sources 
    1. [S34] 1900 United States Federal Census, Database online. Year: 1900; Census Place: Civil District 10, Decatur, Tennessee; Roll: T623_1566; Page: 7A; Enumeration District: 25.
      Record for Jessey F White

    2. [S49] 1910 United States Federal Census, Year: 1910; Census Place: Civil District 10, Decatur, Tennessee; Roll: ; Page: ; Enumeration District: ; Image: .
      Birth date: 1886 Birth place: Tennessee Residence date: 1910 Residence place: Civil District 10, Decatur, Tennessee

    3. [S84] 1920 United States Federal Census, Year: 1920; Census Place: Medina, Gibson, Tennessee; Roll: T625_1739; Page: 3B; Enumeration District: 40; Image: .
      Birth date: abt 1886 Birth place: Tennessee Residence date: 1920 Residence place: Medina, Gibson, Tennessee

    4. [S94] Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002.
      Marriage date: 10 Jan 1931 Marriage place: Gibson, Tennessee

    5. [S88] Web: Tennessee, Find A Grave Index, 1796-2011.
      Birth date: 18 May 1885
      Birth place:
      Death date: 7 Nov 1973
      Death place:

    6. [S52] Tennessee, Delayed Birth Records, 1869-1909.
      Record for Jesse Franklin White

    7. [S120] 1940 United States Federal Census, Year: 1940; Census Place: Medina, Gibson, Tennessee; Roll: T627_3892; Page: 3B; Enumeration District: 27-1.
      Record for Jesse F White

    8. [S1] 1920 United States Federal Census, Year: 1920; Census Place: Medina, Gibson, Tennessee; Roll: T625_1739; Page: 3B; Enumeration District: 40.

    9. [S2] 1930 United States Federal Census, Year: 1930; Census Place: Toppenish, Yakima, Washington; Page: 10B; Enumeration District: 0097; FHL microfilm: 2342259.

    10. [S48] 1930 United States Federal Census, Database online. Year: 1930; Census Place: Toppenish, Yakima, Washington; Roll: ; Page: ; Enumeration District: ; Image: .
      Record for Jess F White

    11. [S35] U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014, Database online. Number: 409-24-5620; Issue State: Tennessee; Issue Date: Before 1951.
      Record for Jesse White

    12. [S110] Cemetery, Scotts Hill - Scotts Hill Meth. Church Cem.

    13. [S112] Goff, James Edward.
      citing infomration from Mrs. Leverene Shannon that he received in 1995

    14. [S109] Early Marriage Records (1869-1921) of Decatur County, Tennessee, p. 96.