When Ira Jewett White was born on 9 July 1843, in Mendon, St. Joseph, Michigan, United States, his father, Ziba White, was 41 and his mother, Elsey Davis, was 40. He married Ella Brown on 29 November 1874, in Cadillac, Wexford, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Township of Orange, Kalkaska, Michigan, United States in 1880. He died in 1897, in Michigan, United States, at the age of 54, and was buried in Fife Lake, Fife Lake Township, Grand Traverse, Michigan, United States.
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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-.
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