Brief Life History of William Preston
When William Preston White was born on 11 August 1889, in Bodcaw, Nevada, Arkansas, United States, his father, William Henry White, was 36 and his mother, Julia Emma May, was 23. He married Blanche I. Fincher on 8 September 1910. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Texarkana, Miller, Arkansas, United States for about 5 years and Justice Precinct 1, Bowie, Texas, United States in 1940. He died on 11 November 1961, in Pacific Crest Cemetery, Redondo Beach, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Redondo Beach, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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- W Preston White, “United States Census, 1940”
- William Preston White, “California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994”
- Preston White, “Arkansas, County Marriages, 1837-1957”
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1890
EARLIEST RECORDED MARKER: Almina Scott BIRTH unknown DEATH 16 Jan 1890 BURIAL Pacific Crest Cemetery Redondo Beach, Los Angeles County, California, USA PLOT 1 82 1C MEMORIAL ID 160507344 · View Source
1891 · Angel Island Serves as Quarantine Station
Angel Island served as a quarantine station for those diagnosed with bubonic plague beginning in 1891. A quarantine station was built on the island which was funded by the federal government at the cost of $98,000. The disease spread to port cities around the world, including the San Francisco Bay Area, during the third bubonic plague pandemic, which lasted through 1909.
1910 · Angel Island Serves Immigrants
Angel Island served as a western entry point for hundreds of thousands of U.S. immigrants, mainly from China, from 1910 to 1940.
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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