Dear Mike

     I enjoyed hearing from you. It has been some time since I did research on the family.  I started in 1977, my goal was to join the DAR which my good friend, Mary Lyle Land, had been prodding me to do far ages.  I achieved that in a year or two through the Golightly line.  By then I was "addicted" and kept at it for 12 years, all together. In 1989 I had a book printed to give to my relatives at a reunion of my mother and father's descendants.  

     One of the people who helped me was Katherine Freeman White (Mrs. Perry Merrill White Jr.).  Her husband, Dr. White, is from your branch because they, too, lived in Bowie County, Texas.

     My parents were J. Linton and Bessie Smith White.  His father was B.F. White Jr. and his father was B.F. White Sr. who compiled the hymn book, Sacred Harp, which was published in 1844.

     If I can get my son, off the golf course long enough, I'll get him to run some copies of charts in my book, I think you might like.

     Last Oct 'me' had a family reunion of my parent's descendants, at my grandson's farm out from Alpharetta GA.  to celebrate my 90th birthday.  We had about 80 there. I was the oldest of four, in our family. The youngest of the four, my brother, Ritchie, died Sept 28th. So I'm the only one left. Ritchie was 83. 

     Good luck with your searching's. It's a fun hobby, isn't it?  One of my daughter's in-law Mrs. Reese Coppage (Matha Ann), has done scads of research, and so much faster than the old way. I don't know that she has done any on the White's, but I'll send her your letter and if she has any thing she thinks you'd be interested in, I'm sure she'll get in touch.

Sincerely,

Mary Cappage