Dear Dix, It's great to hear from someone with DeKalb Co. ALABAMA connections! I'm fairly sure we are not related. I think you come from the "other" White family. The one that was there first. Does the "M" in James M. stand for Mason (Uncle Dock)? Was he the one that was a Pastor of Bethel Baptist Church and owned and operated J.M.White Gin and Lumber Company? My ggrandfather, Manuel Nathan White was b. TN 1892. He and his brother Ezzel Moved to DeKalb co. and m. in the 1920's to two Saffell girls, Emma and Birdie. They were just farmers but they helped to est. Kelly's Chapel. Do you still live in the area? I was b. in Ft. Payne. Surely we are related. Just being from that area, it seems that everyone is a cousin one way or another! Cousin Kathy, Dickinson, TX