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Note: The Kentucky marriage records on ancestry.com has Joseph White & Mary Jones married May 12, 1824 in Cynthiana, Harrison Co., KY. I have a marriage certificate that also states this but according to familysearch.org, the parents of that Joseph White were Smith White and Phyliss McKey. That Joseph White was born 1801 in Harriso Co., KY and died 1860 in Holt Co., MO (according to familysearch.org). Old Northwest Texas, Vol. 1-B, Navarro Co., 1846-1860, compiled by Nancy T. Samuels & Barbara R. Knox, pg. 673, states that Joseph White married Mary Elizabeth Jones of Alabama. I have not been able to locate a marriage certificate for Joseph and Elizabeth in Alabama. I did find a Joseph White and Elizabeth Nelson who married Dec. 16, 1830 in Frederick Co., VA. All refrences I find to "Mary Elizabeth" refer to her as "Elizabeth" and not "Mary". Marriage, Death, & Legal Notices from Early Alabama Newspapers 1819-1893 by Pauline Jones Gandrud, pg. 20 "Voice of Sumter" April 19, 1836 Died on Wednesday last, after an illness of 4 days, Mrs. Elizabeth White, wife of Mr. Joseph White, age about 29 years......member of Methodist Episcopal Church. Signed O. B. W. Voice of Sumter, Livingston, Alabama, Tuesday, April 19, 1836, Vol. 1, Number 6 Died on Wednesday evening last, after an illness of four days Mrs. Elizabeth White, wife of Mr. Joseph White of this town, aged about 29 years. In announcing the demise of this truly amiable woman, grief is at a loss for words to express the feelings which a fond respect for her memory would seem to call--for the last 10 or 12 years a devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, her whole life seemed devoted to the carrying into effect the charities which the economy of religion has proscribed to her true votaries on earth, ---as a wife she was fond, devoted and affectionate, as a mother tenderly alive to the true interest of those who owe their existence to her; as a neighbor kind, obliging and compassionate, and it might have truly been said of her---that, "She lived beloved and died regretted."
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