Alberta Martin

Family/Spouse: John Day Stewart. John was born on 4 Feb 1897 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana; died on 6 Jun 1955 in Greenwood, Leflore County, Mississippi; was buried in Hollywood Cemetery, McComb, Pike County, Mississippi. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

When he registered for the the draft during World War I, his closet relative was shown as Mrs. Ara Martin, Wife. They were residents of Pike County, MIssissippi, and he was the General Foreman of the Round House. He was shown as tall and slender.

His will was probated on 4 Apr 1944 in Amite County, Mississippi by Mrs. Beatric Martin Habig.

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Census Listings:

1900 Census
Mississippi, Pike County, Beat 4 (part) McComb City Town
SD 7 ED 112 Sheet 7A Stamped page 167
Enumerated 6 Jun 1900
105-120
White, William F. (sic) W M July 1838 61 M 32 Miss Miss Miss Merchant
White, Mary Wf W F Nov 1845 54 M 32 11/9 Miss Miss

106-121
Martin, Albert Head W M Nov 1875 24 M 1 Miss Miss Miss Machinist
Martin, Ary Wf W F Jan 1877 (*) Wife 23 M1 1/1 Miss Miss Miss
Martin, Ida/Ica? Dtr W F Nov 1899 7/12 S Miss Miss Miss

107-122
White, Louie Hed W M Apr 1872 28 M 3 Miss Miss Miss Merchant
White, Mady Wf W F Jan 1877 23 M 3 2/2 Tenn Tenn Tenn

1910 Census
Mississippi, Pike County, McComb City
SD 7 ED 106 Sheet 31A
Enumerated 7 and 9 May 1910
Third Strett
194-198
Martin, Albert A Head M W 35 M1 11 Miss Miss Miss Foreman RailRoad Co
Martin, Ary Wf W F 32 m1 11 2/2 Miss Miss Miss
Martin, Alberta Dtr F W 10 S Miss Miss Miss
Martin, Beatrice Dtr F W 8 S Miss Miss Miss

1920 Census
Mississippi, Pike 4th District, McComb City
Enumerated 10 Jan 1920
SD 7 ED 110 Ward 2 Sheets 16 A and 16B
530-226-268
Martin, Albert A head O F M 2 45 M Miss La Miss ForemanRoom Hoouse RR Shop
Martin, Ary W F W 42 M Miss Tx Miss
Martin, Alberta Dtr F W 20 S Miss Miss Miss
Martin, Beatrice Dtr F W 18 S Miss Miss Miss
Moore, Ary A Wifes Aunt F W 76 W Miss Miss Miss

Albert married Ary White on 10 Oct 1898 in Pike County, Mississippi. Ary (daughter of William Thompson White and Mary Cornelia Felder) was born in Jan 1877 in Summit, Pike County, Mississippi; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Rachel Habig emailed, in February 2019, that she knew for a fact that her "2nd great grandmother was names Ary White, after Ary Felder Moore, Mary's aunt. Ary White had a twin sister named Elizabeth "Bessie" White. (My aunt is named "Ary Elizabeth" after them). Due to whatever circumstances, they weren't always in the same household growing up making it tough to research."

On the 1880 census, Ary and Bessie, both shown as age 3, where living with W. W. Moore and Ary A. Moore in Pike County, Mississippi. They were listed as Nieces of Ary Moore. Two of their cousins, also lived with WW and Ary Moore, 15 year old Ida Felder, and 7 year old WIll Gardner.

On the 1900 Federal Census enumeration, Bessie, age 23, as living with her parents in McComb, Mississippi. She was shown as being born in Jan 1877 in Mississippi.

In the next household, Ary Martin, the wife of Albert, was also shown as born in Jan 1877 in Mississippi. She and Albert had been married for one year.

Shown in Louisiana, Wills and Probate Records, 1775-1984, Succession File No. 2322-2380, 1914-1915, for Mary C. White, as one of eight surviving children of her parents, viz "Mrs. Ary Martin, wife of Albert A. Martin, residents of Pike County, Mississippi."

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Census Information:

1870 Census
Mississippi, Pike County, Twp 4 Range 7, P.O. Summit
Enumerated 16 Jun 1870
Stamped 80
224-225
White, Wm. J. 32 M W Merchant $400 $4000 Miss
White, Mary C. 24 F W House Keeper Miss
White, Charles F 2 M W Miss
White, Wm. E 2/12 M W Miss
Weatherby, Seaborn C 21 M W Druggist Miss

1880 Census
Mississippi, Pike County, P.O. Summit
Page 436A
W.T. White Self M M W 31 (sic) Ms Farmer Va Ga
M.C. White Wf M F W 33Miss Sc Miss
Charly White Son S M W 12 Miss Miss Miss
Willie White Son S M W 10 Miss Miss Miss
J.L. White Son S M W 8 Miss Miss Miss
Henry White Son S M W 5 Miss Miss Miss
Cade White Son S M W 1 Miss Miss Miss

1900 Census
Mississippi, Pike County, Beat 4 (part) McComb City Town
SD 7 ED 112 Sheet 7A Stamped page 167
Enumerated 6 Jun 1900
105-120
White, William F. (sic) W M July 1838 61 M 32 Miss Miss Miss Merchant
White, Mary Wf W F Nov 1845 54 M 32 11/9 Miss Miss
White, Bessie Dtr W F Jan 1877(*) 23 S Miss Miss Miss
White, Nelia Dtr W F Sept 1881 18 S Miss Miss Miss At School
White, Emma Dtr W F Aug 1884 15 S Miss Miss Miss At School
White, Walter Son W M Nov 1886 13 S Miss Miss At School
White, Leon Son M W May 1888 12 S Miss Miss Miss At School
Marclious, Louis Boarder W M May 1876 24 S Miss Miss Miss Book Helper
(Could their boarder, Louis Marclious actualy be the same person, as Marcelles L. VESEY, father to their daughter in law, May D. Vesey White, in HH 107-122)
106-121
Martin, Albert Head W M Nov 1875 24 M 1 Miss Miss Miss Machinist
Martin, Ary Wf W F Jan 1877 (*) Wife 23 M1 1/1 Miss Miss Miss
Martin, Ida/ICA? Dtr W F Nov 1899 7/12 S Miss Miss Miss
107-122
White, Louie Hed W M Apr 1872 28 M 3 Miss Miss Miss Merchant
White, Mady Wf W F Jan 1877 23 M 3 2/2 Tenn Tenn Tenn
White, Willie Son M W feb 1898 2 S Miss Miss Tenn
White, Louis Son W M Apr 1900 2/12 S Miss Miss Tenn

*Bessie and Ary are twins sisters, both the daughter of William T White and Mary Cornelia Felder

1910 Census
Louisiana, Calcasieu Parish, Lake Charles City, Ward 4
SD 3 ED 38 Ward 4 Sheet 1A
Enumerated 15 Apr 1910
Miller Avenue
422 5-5
White William T Head M W 73 M1 43 Miss Unk Unk English Manufacture Mattress
White, Mary C Wf F W 64 M1 43 11/9 Miss Miss Miss

William married Mary Cornelia Felder on 21 Jan 1867 in Amite County, Mississippi. Mary was born on 1 Nov 1847 in Mississippi; died on 16 Feb 1914 in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana; was buried in Hollywood Cemetery, McComb, Pike County, Mississippi. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

A Cornelia Felder, of Amite County, Mississippi, was listed as a student in the Amite Female Seminary, in the first division of the Middle class in 1859.

Notes:

Married:
Ancestry.com. Mississippi, Compiled Marriage Index, 1776-1935 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004, complied from information in Hunting for Beart, Mississippi Marriages, 1776-1835, shows him as marrying Cornelia M. FELDER on 21 Jan 1867 in Amite County, Mississippi.

Notes:

There is an Ed White in Pike County, Mississippi in 1820. This may or may not be the same Edward White that is located in Amite County, Mississippi 10 years later. The family composition is 3 males under the age of 10, 1 male between 10-16, two males between 26 and 45, two females under the age of 10, and one female age 26 to 45.

On the 1830 Amite County, Mississippi census, Edward White and wife had 3 boys & 3 girls, 0-9, 1 boy and 1 girl 10-19. He was between the ages of 40 to 60 and his wife was between 20 and 40.

He was still in Amite County in 1840, on page 52. The microfilm at the San Antonio Public Library was faded and difficult to read. It appeared to show the following, however< Edward White Males 1-0-2-0-0-0-0-1 Females0-2-0-2-0-0-1-0 He appears to have held at least two female slaves, one under the age of five, and the other between five and ten. The number of male slaves is difficult to read. It is probably just one.

Edward White, his wife Elizabeth, and several of his children can be found in Amite County, Mississippi on the 1850 census as well. Sometime after this enumeration, they moved to Sabine County, Texas.

In White and Toole's book, Sabine County Historical Sketches and Genealogical Records it was noted hat "Later that year (ca. 1843-sic), the Edward White family...and many of their friends and relatives came to Sabine County. Some forty or fifty covered wagons, some of them drawn by oxen, travelled together." From "Sabine County Historical Sketches And Genealogical Records."

Edward White is shown on various internet trees, most unsourced, as either the son of William White and Mary Matilda Mason of Mecklenberg, Virginia or as the son of Edward White and Pembrook Singleton of Kingston Parish, Gloucester County, Virginia. In neither case has documentary evidence been shown. Mildred Bell Landers emailed that she had "heard from a ggg grandson of Edward White (through his daughter who married Cannon Travis), and he asked if I had ever heard that Edward was an Indian named Whitecloud or Whitefeather, like his father, William. I had never heard this, and in Sabine County the past is closer than elsewhere. Nor had I heard that Edward White's father was William. One of my other gg grandfathers was part Indian, and this seems to be known in Sabine County, at least by descendants. Ever heard of any of this? There was a picture of an Edward White, Civil War veteran, in an issue of the Sabine County Reporter (maybe a son or grandson) and he did not appear to be part Indian. In my mother's family, some of them had characteristics that could be considered Indian."

Jack Hutchins White emailed, in August 2013, that his White ancestor was "Cajabeth White, who was living in Bute Co, NC with his brother, William, as early as 1766. He had two sons, John and Robert. John White inherited land from a man named John Seagrove, whose will names John White as his nephew. It seems likely that Cajabeth's wife, Frances, was a Seagrove, but this is not proven. The 1771 tax list for Bute Co shows that Young McLemore....had an overseer named John Seagrove, who appears on a number of documents with members of the McLemore family before they migrated out of Bute (later Warren) Co. I have been trying for a couple of years to piece together precisely how the Seagrove, McLemore and White families may have interacted with one another, but the Seagrove family history is as complicated as that of the Whites.

The thing that interests me about your website is that Cajabeth White was frequently referred to in court documents as Cade, and I see in your website that two sons of Edward White (b. 1781 in Mecklenburg Co, VA) each had sons they named Cade.

I believe it is likely that the Edward White in your website is the son of William White Sr. of Mecklenburg Co, VA. The personal property tax lists for that county show a son of William named Edward who is first listed as a taxable adult in the household of his father in 1797 and as head of his own household in 1800. He is gone from the county by 1801.




I am researching the possibility that William White Sr. was the brother of Cajabeth "Cade" White named in the 1766 tax rolls for Bute Co. The fact that the name Cade appears twice among the grandchildren of Edward White seems to support this theory.

I am still a bit fuzzy on when this White line intermarries with the Strong and McLemore families. I am hoping one of your family researchers would be willing to collaborate with me on the foregoing topics. I have copied Lisa Lisson, a White family descendant, who is assisting in this research."

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Census Listings:

CENSUS YR: 1850
STATE or TERRITORY: MS
COUNTY: Amite REEL NO: M432-368
PAGE NO: 93A
REFERENCE: Enumerated 12 Dec 1850 by Henry Flowe
23 615 615 White Edward 69 M Farmer 750 Va
24 615 615 White Elizabeth 55 F Geo 25
615 615 White Jane E. 25 F Amite Co Miss (Widow of J.H. Wente---I believe she is actually listed as Went on the microfilm)
26 615 615 White S. P. 17 F Amite Co Miss
27 615 615 White Wm. T. 12 M Amite Co Miss
28 615 615 Went Elizabeth 7 F Amite Co Miss
29 615 615 Went John E. 6 M Amite Co Miss
30 615 615 Went Jane E. 4 F Amite Co Miss
31 615 615 Went James T. 1 M Amite Co Miss

On the 1860 Sabine County, Texas census, Edward and Elizabeth (age 79 and 66) were living with 11 year old L.E. White, a female born in Texas. Edward's real property was valued at $500 and he had personal property valued at $7,943. I speculate that L.E. White might actually be M.E. White, Mary Elizabeth Sophronia White, the oldest daughter of James and Drucilla White. James died prior to 1860, and his wife remarried John C. Partin. James and Drucilla's two younger daughters are listed with Drucilla and her new husband, but their oldest daughter, born circa 1848/1849, has disappeared. It could be that this oldest daughter died. Or it could be that the oldest daughter went to live with and/or care for her elderly grandparents. Additionally, the 11 year old L.E. White does not seem to fit into any other of the White families shown on the 1850 census, nor can she be found after 1860.

Edward married Elizabeth Strickland after 1809 in Elbert County, Georgia. Elizabeth (daughter of Henry Strickland and Ruth Thompson) was born about 1795 in Elbert County, Georgia; died on 25 Dec 1864 in Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas; was buried in Travis Cemetery, Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From the JERUSALEM CHURCH CHURCH BOOK, Mississippi Territory of Amite, 29 Feb 1812

This church was located near the present town of Gillsburg. Organized 29 Feb 1812, when Mississippi was Indian Territory. The transcription is courtesy of Mrs. Alva McEwen, McComb, Mississippi.

Nov 1836: Received by experience, Elizabeth White Oct 1837: Elizabeth White, Pernecia Travis baptized Apr 1842: Members included: Elizabeth White, Emily and Patsy Strickland, Rutha White, Henry Strickland, Elizabeth White (dec'd), Polly (Mary) Travis, William Travis, Nancy Travis, John Travis, John Travis, Sr., Nancy Travis, Mary Travis

Elizabeth Strickland White and 10 others founded the regular Baptist Church of Jesus Christ on the banks of the Housen Bayou on May 29, 1858. This later became known as the First Baptist Church of Hemphill. Elizabeth joined by letter from the Jerusalem Church in Amite County, Mississippi. The other founding members were Richard and Ruth Travis, Henry S and Mary Etta White, Simon and Mary Ann Beckcom, John and Sophronia Everett, and Cannon and Sophronia Travis.

Elizabeth's husband, Edward, did not become a member of this church, founded by his wife and several of his children, until over six years had passed. He then joined on a profession of faith and Baptism in June 1864. According to the minutes of June 25, 1864, "Confarence was adjorned for the Church to meete at Father E Whites at 4 oclock for the purpos of hearing what the Lord had don for his precious sole, after hearing of his Experiance it was moved that Father E White be Received in Christian fellowship."

This experience must have caused him to evangelize, because on July 23d, 1865, "after preching, the privelege of the Church was Extended when too Servint Girls came forward, Amy belongin to Edward White & Charitee also belonging to Edward White. after hearing ther Experience was Received the church and then adjorned to the water" By September, 1865, Father E. White was Moderator of the Conference, though it appears he gave up this reponsibility quickly. He was replaced by Pastor John L Mills in October of 1865. His faith apparently never wavered as it was noted that he "Dyed Jan 13th 1871 in the Faith."

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Married:
Bears and Panthers and Sabine County Women

This story from the 1800s, as told by the master storyteller, J.Frank Dobie, gives another reason not to mess with Sabine County women:

"One winter day the White family on Bear Creek in Sabine County killed a hog, cut it up, put the meat in a wooden tub, and set it in a corner of the cabin, to be salted down and smoked on the morrow.

Then the man went off with his dogs to join the neighbor on a hunt.

That night while Mrs. White was chunking up the fire in the fireplace, the children covered up in bed and a quilt wrapped around herself to shut out the cold norther blowing through the chinks in the log walls, she heard a panther scream.

She knew it had smelled the fresh meat. It prowled under the puncheon floor and then leaped up on the roof, every once in a while letting out a scream. Then it went to clawing on the logs and finally got a paw through a crack near the tub of meat and took out a piece.

At this, Mrs. White threw her quilt over the tub, seized an axe standing just inside the door, and waited.

In a little while the panther put its paw back through the crack for another piece of meat. She had the axe raised and now she came down with it, cutting the paw clean off.
That panther did not bother around the cabin any more that night."

----- J. Frank Dobie, "Tales of Old-Time Texas"

Posted by Ronad Barlow on his Facebook group, Farm Road 1 - From one end to the other. It is not known which Mrs. White this story relates to.