Southern Graves

Charley Andrew White, the eldest son of Virginia Cathey and Andrew J. White, was born on New Year's Day 1873 in Bienville Parish, Louisiana. The world Charley was born into was full of racial tension. He was just 103 days old when the Colfax Massacre took place that year on Easter Sunday, about 80 miles south of his home. As many as 150 men, all but three of whom were Black, were murdered at the Colfax courthouse in Grant Parish, Louisiana—the deadliest incident of racial and political violence of the Reconstruction Era. When Charley was three years old, white men were still undoing Reconstruction Era policies in spectacular fashion. The Supreme Court decided, in U.S. v. Cruikshank , that the federal government couldn't prosecute individuals for civil rights violations; only states could. As Charley grew up in the 1880s, he witnessed the total collapse of Reconstruction Era protections for Black Americans and the solidified rise of the Jim Crow system in North-Central Louisiana...

Decades before penicillin was widely available to the public, Cherry White had an accident with a fork. It cost her her life. Newspapers all across Georgia and neighboring states carried the story: Stuck Fork in Hand and Died: Miss Cherry White Loses Life from Peculiar Accident Death from Poisoning is Fate of Girl Student Wounded By a Fork, Young Girl Dies Cherry Ann White was born in Georgia on New Year's Eve in 1889, just a couple of weeks after the gold-domed State Capitol building in Atlanta was completed. She was the first daughter born to Coley B. and Elizabeth A. "Lizzie" White, and named after her paternal grandmother, Cherry Ann Coley. Also in 1889, the Georgia General Assembly established the Georgia Normal and Industrial College. Located in Milledgeville, just over 60 miles from where Cherry's family resided in Cochran, its mission was to educate and train young white women to become teachers and to provide industrial education in areas such as sewing, cook...

[Originally posted at the Rose Hill Cemetery blog .] William G. White Born Aug 12, 1841 Died Jan 22, 1885 One Word Tells The Story Of His Life "Faithful." Husband. Father. Husband of Annie Amos White (1842-1929), who is at rest beside him in Rose Hill Cemetery at Macon, Bibb County, Georgia.