Hello, I would also add that there is a Granny White Pike road in Nashville, was this named after this lady that is being discussed? In Christ, Melissa Barker ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 12:53 PM Subject: Re: [TNDAVIDS] Granny White > >>>I just read the article about "Granyy White" on Nashville History. >>>I wondered if anyone is descended from her line, or the children she >>>raised??? > > > Here are links to two stories about Granny White. One is from a > newspaper > account written and published in 1808 from a personal interview with > Lucinda > "Granny' White. The article is reproduced on the Friends of Metro > Archives > website - > _http://freepages.misc.rootsweb.com/~nashvillearchives/granny.html_ > (http://freepages.misc.rootsweb.com/~nashvillearchives/granny.html) > > The other is an essay written by Doris Boyce and published by Mike Slate > and > Kathy Lauder on their Nashville Historical Newsletter - > _http://pages.prodigy.net/nhn.slate/nh00017.html_ > (http://pages.prodigy.net/nhn.slate/nh00017.html) > This one indicates that Granny White was the widow of an early pioneer > Zachariah White, but that is unlikely. Zachariah White was killed at > Nashville in > 1781 and left heirs in Pennsylvania. The writer may be a descendant of > one > of the boys reared by Granny White. I'm sure Mike Slate could put you > in > touch with Doris Boyce. His email is; [email protected]_ > (mailto:[email protected]) > > The two stories have similarities, but give different accounts of who the > little boys were and how Lucinda/Lucy White came to raise them. Whether > or not > the boys were biologically her grandchildren, Lucy raised them as such > and > they used the surname White. I have seen her will and I believe she left > her > property to Willis White. See his cemetery listing here - > _http://www.davidsoncocemeterysurvey.com/Cemeteries/S/willis_white_cemetery.htm_ > (http://www.davidsoncocemeterysurvey.com/Cemeteries/S/willis_white_cemetery.htm) > > > > > ************************************** See what's free at > http://www.aol.com. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.9.7/868 - Release Date: 6/25/2007 > 12:20 PM > >