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Charles White

10 Sep 1786 – 15 Dec 1854

Birth10 Sep 1786
Death15 Dec 1854
Added byLori on 12 Sep 2025
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Charles White fought in the Texas Revolution, and has descendants with membership in the Daughters of the Republic of Texas. Charles was the son of Revolutionary War patriot Littleberry Swinney White and 1st wife Ann Wortham. His exact date of birth is found in the White Family Bible. Charles was the 7th of the 13 children born to his parents' marriage. His mother died in 1800, and soon after Charles and most of his brothers and siblings migrated to Tennessee or Missouri, where they were pioneering settlers. Their father remained in North Carolina, remarrying and having two more children, then eventually dying at age 92 in Nash County NC. Charles is named in his father Littleberry Swinney White's will, which reads in part: "Item 6th: I give and bequeath to my son Charles White one negro boy named Nelson which he has now in possession, and twenty-five dollars in lieu of a feather bed which will be raised out of property which I shall leave to be sold to him and his heirs forever." Charles married 1st) LaVerne Hunt 30 Nov 1810 Sumner County TN. They had 3 children: Edmund C (b ca 1811, also fought in the Texas Revolution ); Lucinda (b. 11 Feb 1814, m. Isaac C Skillern), and Hardy H (b 1815, m. Mar y Ann Sanders Wynne/Winn). After his first wife's death Charles married 2nd) Sarah/Sally King 12 Jul 1817 Sumner County TN. Three additional children with his second wife: Martha K (b 1820, m. John T Eubank), Littleberry (b 20 Aug 1822, m. Martha E. King), and Eliabeth S (b 1826 m. William Bowen). Charles and Sarah moved steadily westward, living in Carroll County TN and then Haywood County TN, where they were among the first settlers and where Charles helped to lay out the town of Brownsville TN. In April 1837 Charles sold his lots in Brownsville TN and the family removed to Texas, first settling in Milam County and then Montgomery. His name is found on a petition to the Senate and House of Representatives of the Republic, begging for frontier protection from the Indians for the Milam County settlers. Soon afterwards, Charles moved his family to more civilized territory. Although he received a land grant of 1280 acres in Wood County, which is evidence of his military service in the Texas Revolution, he settled in Nacogdoches County near Douglass and apparently never lived on his Wood County land. On 4 Dec 1854, Charles White, no doubt knowing that death was near, made a deed of gift to his "beloved wife" Sarah, passing to her his land, notes receivable, slaves, and "a wagon, 2 yoke of oxen, a carriage, a gray mare and colt, and all my household furniture and farming utensils." By the 15th of December he was dead. It is assumed Charles and Sarah were buried in some cemetery near Douglass, Texas. [Sources include the book "Nacogdoches County Families", cited in the Daughters of the Republic of Texas applications by descendants] Note: Charles was the only one of the children of Revolutionary War Littleberry Swinney White to make it all the way to Texas from North Carolina. Later generations, descendants of Charles' brothers Littleberry II/Jr and Wortham, would reach Texas after the Civil War. but Charles and his family were the first of the Littleberry Swinney White family tree to reach Texas before it became part of the US. Charles arrived the year after the Battle of the Alamo.

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