Alma White

Brief Life History of Alma

When Alma White was born in October 1883, in Nebraska, United States, his father, Jonathan A White, was 40 and his mother, Sarah Jane Hamblet, was 26. He lived in Platte Township, Buffalo, Nebraska, United States in 1900. He died in 1900, in Wood River, Hall, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 17, and was buried in Wood River Cemetery, Wood River, Hall, Nebraska, United States.

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Family Time Line

Jonathan A White
1843–1909
Sarah Jane Hamblet
1857–1938
Alice M White
1873–1945
William Adkins White
1876–1954
Charles T White
1879–1881
Lottie White
1879–
Clara Frances White
1880–1923
Alma White
1883–1900
Myrtle Laura White
1885–1966
Walter White
1885–
Jason B. White
1887–1966
Mamie White
1891–
Lola P White
1892–1971
Harriet Avis " Hattie" White
1894–1976
Jessie Mildred White
1896–1989

Sources (4)

  • Alma White in household of John White, "United States Census, 1900"
  • Alma White, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Alma White, "BillionGraves Index"

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1886 · Giving Working Men a Union

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1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act

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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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