Sarah N. White

1899 - 1988  (88 years)

• Name	Sarah N. White  [1]
  Birth	8 Oct 1899	Whitley County, Kentucky   [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Female
  Death	8 Jul 1988	Dayton, Montgomery, Ohio   [3, 4, 5]
  Person ID	I9843	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	24 May 2020

  
  

  Father	Alfred Franklin White,   b. 14 Apr 1880, Williamsburg, Whitley, Kentucky d. 6 Sep 1952, Dayhoit, Harlan, Kentucky (Age 72 years)
  Mother	Mary Jane Freeman,   b. 27 Feb 1880, Whitley County, Kentucky d. 22 Oct 1932, Kayjay, Knox, Kentucky (Age 52 years)
  Marriage	4 Jan 1899	Williamsburg, Whitley, Kentucky   [6]
  Notes	A family story has it that they eloped and married in Tennessee, where the age to marry without parental consent was (allegedly) lower. But the actual record of their marriage shows this to be untrue. They were married by the Rev. Henry Patrick in Williamsburg, Whitley County, Kentucky, on 4 Jan 1899. The record includes two laid-in notes handwritten on small pieces of ruled paper. One note reads "Jan the 4. 1899. We have no objection to Alfred White and Mary Freeman a mering [sic]. John Freeman, Stase Freeman". The other note is mostly illegible, but it's clearly signed "J. N. White".
  Family ID	F4170	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Brad Mayfield
  Children	+ 1. Paul Mayfield White,   b. Abt 1917   d. Abt 1970, Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio (Age ~ 53 years)
  Family ID	F4640	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Jun 2015

  
  

  Family 2	William Harrison Ward,   b. Abt 1902, Pulaski, Kentucky
  Marriage	Aft Oct 1927
  Children	1. Billy Ward   2. Charles Edward Ward,   b. 14 May 1928, Jenkins, Letcher, Kentucky d. 16 Jun 1946, Letcher, Kentucky (Age 18 years)   3. Edna Mae Ward,   b. Abt 1930 (Age ~ 94 years)   4. Francis Ward,   b. Abt 1933 (Age ~ 91 years)
  Family ID	F7673	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 Jun 2018

  
  

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  Sarah White

  
  

• Notes

  From the notes of Jeannette (White) Hayden: "Sarah b. 1899 ran off and married a Mayfield very young. One son: Paul (Mayfield) who called himself Paul White. A good fellow. He was raised by her parents and died in a car accident. He married June _____. [Their children were] Joyce b. 1940; Robt. b. 1944; Randy b. 1949; P. Gibb b. 1954; Carol b. 1957, died 1973 (car accident). "Then she married a Ward. [Their children were] Billy Ward; Charles Ward; Edna Mae Ward; Francis Ward." ***** The death records referenced here for Sarah N. White (Ohio deaths index; Social Security deaths index) are for a "Sarah N. Miller". Did she marry a third time, to a Miller? (We have no death date for her second husband, a Ward whom we believe to have been William Harrison Ward.) The Ohio deaths index gives her birth date as "1900" and the place as "Tennessee", but the Social Security death record (which gives the same SSN as the Ohio record) gives a birth date of 8 Oct 1899, matching our other records. The Social Security death record also notes that her SSN was issued in "Minnesota (Before 1951)." PNH's mother Jeannette (White) Hayden notes that she and her family visited Sarah N. White in 1945 "in an awful mining town," presumably Jackhorn, Letcher, Kentucky, where she is recorded as living at the time of her son Charles's death in 1946. "Bill Ward" is also recorded as alive and living with her at that time, so if she went to Minnesota "before 1951" it has to have been after 16 June 1946. If our Sarah N. White is the Sarah N. Miller recorded in the death records referenced here, perhaps this 1946-1951 period is when he died and she married her hypothesized third husband named Miller. Jeannette Hayden's notes, written in the mid-1980s, report Sarah N. as "in a nursing home in Southern Ohio." This does correlate with the Ohio death report, which says that Sarah N. Miller died in a long-term care facility in Dayton. The Ohio report also gives her as "widowed", which means that none of her two or three husbands can have lived past 8 July 1988.

  
  

• Sources

  [S4024] 1930 United States Federal census, on ancestry.com. [S285] Notes and records of Jeannette (White) Hayden (1935-living), mother of Patrick Nielsen Hayden., month & year only. [S286] "familywest" on ancestry.com, "Ancestors (for my DNA matches)". [S2224] Social Security Death Index, on ancestry.com. [S5] Ohio, Death Records, 1908-1932, 1938-2007, on ancestry.com. [S3485] Kentucky, County Marriage Records, 1783-1965, on ancestry.com.