William Clark (Babe) White was born just hours after his father, William
Clark White, was murdered by the bushwhackers on Christmas eve, 1864 at his
father's Giles Co. farm. Babe was born December 26, 1864 and died October
13, 1889. He is at rest in Pleasant Hill Cemetery in Stella, Giles Co beside
his beloved wife, Mary Alice Townsend.
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Their children were:
1. Maggie White md Virgil H. Crowder Sr.
2. Peggie E. White b 1889, died 1892
3. Joseph Clark White md Martha Ella Griffin
4. James Herschel md Ina Lee Coffman
5. Exey V. White born 1898, died 1899
6. Essie Marks White md William Bryan Pigg
Babe and his wife lived where Earl Gilbert lived and the hill is called Babe
White Hill. They moved to Minor Hill and ran a store there about where the
driveway of the Black/Griffin/Stafford/Adams house is. Babe ran and shared
ownership of a grocery store with the Pigg family.
This store was sold to the Griffin brothers, later torn down and some of
the material used to build the house owned by above four names. The room
next to the highway has wide planks from the store. This house was built for
John Booth, who rented it out to two teachers at Minor Hill School. The first
teacher and family was Noll P. Davis.
The White's lived in a two story house between where Morgan Thompson lives
and the Black/Griffin/Stafford/Adams house. The house burned when John Booth,
father of Frances Booth Buchanan, lived there.
The 1870 Giles Co. Census in District 4 has Clark, aged five, living with his mother,
Eliza K. Wilkerson White, aged 49, and his seven siblings still living at home.
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