Billy Foster of Foster Stone and Cemetery Care discovered a new headstone while repairing and resetting Lucinda White‘s broken marker yesterday. Buried in the soil about seven feet in front of her stone was her husband George Washington White‘s marker.
George White, 34, of Craven County, son of Louisa Dew, married Lucinda Parker, 20, of Craven County, on 27 December 1898 at Jackson Dew‘s residence in Wilson township, Wilson County. Alfred Dew applied for the license, and Baptist minister J.T. Deans performed the ceremony in the presence of James T. Alston, L.A. Allen, and Jackson Dew.
In the 1900 census of Wilson, Wilson County: George White, 25, day laborer fireman, and wife Lucinda, 23.
In the 1908 Hill’s Wilson, N.C., city directory: White George (c) fireman h 605 Wiggins
In the 1910 census of Wilson, Wilson County: on Suggs Street, George White, 35, box factory laborer, and wife Lucindia, 30.
In the 1912 Hill’s Wilson, N.C., city directory: White Geo (c) fireman h 411 Wiggins
Lucinda White died 13 November 1915 in Wilson. Per her death certificate, she was born in 1883 in North Carolina to Henretta Richardson; was married; and was buried in Wilson. George White was informant.
In the 1916 Hill’s Wilson, N.C., city directory: White George (c) fireman h 409 Wiggins
In the 1930 census of Wilson, Wilson County: at 409 Stantonsburg Street, cotton mill fireman George White, 54, and wife Maggie, 29. [The Whites were next door to Ben Mincey and family, and the Whites’ burial plot is close to the Minceys’.]
In the 1925 Hill’s Wilson, N.C., city directory: White Geo (c) fireman h 648 Wiggins
In the 1928 Hill’s Wilson, N.C., city directory: White Geo W (c; Maggie) firemn Wilson Cotton Mills h 106 N Reid
In the 1930 Hill’s Wilson, N.C., city directory: White Geo W (c; Maggie) firemn Wilson Cotton Mills h 106 N Reid
George Washington White died 7 December 1939 in Wilson. Per his death certificate, he was 62 years old; was born in Wilson County; was married to Maggie White; lived at 916 Robeson Street; and worked as a stationary boiler fireman at Wilson Cotton Mills.
Photo by Lisa Y. Henderson, February 2023.