When Elizabeth Frances White was born on 8 March 1848, in Kemper, Mississippi, United States, her father, James Wesley White, was 36 and her mother, Eliza Emily Pearce, was 29. She married George Pinkney Stokes in 1865, in Lauderdale, Mississippi, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Beat 1, Neshoba, Mississippi, United States for about 10 years and Philadelphia, Neshoba, Mississippi, United States in 1930. She died on 24 January 1931, in Neshoba, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Starr Family Cemetery, Philadelphia, Neshoba, Mississippi, United States.
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Mississippi became the second state to leave the Union at the start of the Civil War in 1861.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
English: from Middle English white, wit (Old English hwīt ‘white’), hence a nickname for someone with white hair or a pale complexion. In some cases it is perhaps from a Middle English survival of the Old English personal name Hwīta, a short form of names in Hwīt- (from hwīt ‘white’). The name may also be topographic, referring to someone who lived by a bend or curve in a river or road (from Old English wiht ‘bend’), the source of the placename of Great Whyte in Ramsey, Huntingdonshire (compare Wight ). This name is also a variant of Wight . The surname White is also very common among African Americans.
Irish and Scottish: adopted for any of several Irish and Scottish Gaelic names based on bán ‘white, fair’ (see Bain 1, McElwain ) or fionn ‘fair’ (see Finn 1). The English surname has been Gaelicized in Ireland as de Faoite.
Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames meaning ‘white’, for example German Weiss , French Blanc , Polish Białas (see Bialas ), Slovenian Belec , or any other synonymous Slavic surname beginning with Bel-, Bev-, Biel- or Bil-.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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