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    1. Re: [WHITE] Fulton Co., Arkansas Whites; RASP
    2. Phillip D. Jones
    3. I don't recognize any of the names, however, NE Arkansas is where some of the Whites from TN settled. Will keep a lookout for Rasp White. Thanks for the reply. At 07:43 PM 3/24/00 -0500, you wrote: >Phillip, > I am so sorry to be so slow on the reply, Computer troubles. >Rasp White, is the only name I have for my great-grandfather, this is a >family Bible entry. He is buried in Arkansas. I believe he is buried at >Burk's Chapel Cemetery in Fulton county, near Camp Arkansas. This is located >near Pocahontas Ark, and Salem Ark., in the north eastern part of Arkansas, >very near the Missouri border. > He had married a Amanda F. Burk. Amanda Burk, is buried at Burk's Chapel as >is her father, grandfather, second husband Wiley J. Green, siblings, his >daughter my grandmother Ruth C. White-Holloway, and other Burk kin. There >are two WHITES in this cemetery. But they are buried, and marked with >initials. > Amanda remarried this Wiley Green, and had a son with him named Gainie, he >was born in 1885. So the dates. work for either grave? Ruth C. was born in >1873, but I don't have her other siblings dates of birth to aliment, the >other grave? But I suspect it is E.D. White, because the age more closely >matches Amanda's >Burk's Chapel Whites; > WHITE, E. D. Dec 19, 1843- Feb 7, 1883 > WHITE, W.G.. Dec 19 1866- Nov 30, 1872 >I think one of these must be Rasp? But Which one? > I know very little about Rasp, himself, but his daughter, my grandmother >was suppose to have had Indian blood, tribe unknown. > Below you will find his Wife and children. If rings the tiniest bells, I'll >pursue the clues. I have been contacted by a woman on this list that thinks >because of close proximity, of her Whites, in the same area of Arkansas that >we connect, and I believe her, but I can't get past this Rasp WHITE. I have >just sent for a death certificate of my Grandmother Ruth White- Holloway in >the hopes of finding her father's name. But I haven't had much luck with >death certificates from this line, due to a fire at the Salem Court house >some time back. So I am all ears???? If you have any clues, for me to run >down???? >Thanks in advance. >Peggy Holloway-Thompson >ronpegt@tir.com >details below > >Descendants of Rasp White > > >Generation No. 1 > >1. RASP1 WHITE was born Unknown in ? Arkansas, and died Unknown in ? >Arkansas. He married AMANDA F. BURK Unknown in ? Arkansas, daughter of >JESSE BURK and SUSANNA B.. > >Children of RASP WHITE and AMANDA BURK are: >2. i. RUTH CORDELIA2 WHITE, b. December 16, 1873, Camp, Fulton Co., >Arkansas; d. April 13, 1955, Camp, Fulton Co., Arkansas. > ii. CLYDE WHITE, b. Unknown. > iii. JO ANN WHITE, b. Unknown. > > >

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