This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: White/Wood/Gillis Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/iJB.2ACE/1005 Message Board Post: I am searching for the White family of Tippah, MS. Descendants of Devery/Duvernor/Duverny WHITE 1. DEVERY/DUVERNOR/DUVERNY1 WHITE1 was born 1825 in South Carolina2, and died in Mississippi. He married NANCY WOOD/GILLIS. She was born 1824 in Alabama, and died in Mississippi. More About DEVERY/DUVERNOR/DUVERNY WHITE: Date born 2: 1824, South Carolina6 Residence 1: 1870, Township 5 Range 4, Tippah, Mississippi9 Residence 2: 1900, Beat 4, Tippah, Mississippi10 Residence 3: 1860, Southern Subdivision, Tippah, Mississippi11 Residence 4: 1880, Beat 4, Tippah, Mississippi12 More About NANCY WOOD/GILLIS: Name 2: Nancy WHITE12 Children of DEVERY/DUVERNOR/DUVERNY WHITE and NANCY WOOD/GILLIS are: i. JAMES W.2 WHITE, b. 1845, Mississippi. ii. WILLIAM R. WHITE, b. 1851, Mississippi. iii. MARY J. WHITE, b. 1853, Mississippi. iv. JOHN R. WHITE, b. 1855, Mississippi. 2. v. THOMAS JEFFERSON WHITE, b. 1857, Claysville, Tippah, Mississippi; d. 04 Oct 1924, Tahlequah, Cherokee, OK. vi. MATILDA WHITE, b. 1859, Mississippi. vii. GILLES WHITE, b. 1860, Mississippi. viii. J.T. WHITE, b. 1863, Mississippi.