HISTORY OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI

Biographical Appendix

THOMAS F. WHITE

Thomas F. White, farmer, of Fredericktown, Mo., was born in Hardin County, Tenn., in 1838, and is the son of James and Ruth (Snow) White. The father was born in Tennessee in 1809. In 1842 he immigrated to St. Francois County, Mo., settled five miles southeast of Farmington, on 160 acres of land, and there he now lives. His wife was born in Tennessee in 1815 and died in 1876. She was the mother of eleven children, nine now living. Thomas F. the fifth child, was but four years old when he came to Missouri, He was reared and grew to manhood on the farm. In 1865 the married Miss Mary Pool, a native of New Madrid County, Mo., born in 1849 and the daughter of C. Augustus Pool. C. A. Pool was born in Petersburg, Va., and immigrated to New Madrid in his twenty-fourth year. He married Amanda Herbert in 1846. She was the mother of nine children, of whom four are now living. Three children (one of whom died in 1872, named Emma) were the result of this union, two living: Lizzie (wife of J. W. Buchanan) and Amanda Snow. Mr. White resided in St. Francois County until 1865, when he moved to Mine La Motte and began working in the lead mines. This business he followed for thirteen years. In 1877 he bought sixty acres of land adjoining the town of Fredericktown, where he settled in 1878, and where he has since resided. Mr. White is a hard-working industrious man, and highly respected citizen. He is a Democrat in politics, and he and wife and children are members of the Christian Church.