Virginia Frances White

Brief Life History of Virginia Frances

When Virginia Frances White was born on 22 October 1870, in Tucker, West Virginia, United States, her father, John Taylor White, was 21 and her mother, Elizabeth Jane Mason, was 22. She married Lewis Edwin Burger in 1892. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Licking District, Tucker, West Virginia, United States in 1880 and United States in 1949. She died on 29 January 1959, in Terra Alta, Preston, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 88.

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Family Time Line

Joseph Andrew Bohon
1873–1953
Virginia Frances White
1870–1959
Marriage: 1896
Ralph Clifford Bohon
1898–1940
Erma Alma Bohon
1901–1978
Dailey Erris Bohon Sr.
1903–1976
Pauline Jane Bohon
1905–1993
Madaline "Madge" Kirk Bohon
1907–
Mary Louise Bohon
1910–1970
Fairfax (Joseph) Bohon
1914–1979
Charles Doyen Bohon
1918–1993

Sources (15)

  • Virginia Bohon, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Virginia F. White, "West Virginia Births, 1853-1930"
  • Jennie F White, "West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970"

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Name Meaning

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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