A Tender Mother and A Faithful Friend
Lottie Charlotte Lee’s Early Life
Lottie Charlotte Lee was born on November 7, 1849 according to her tomb stone[1]. She does not appear in the 1850 census with her family. In the 1860 census she appears with her family. Her family living in the home includes her father William Lee (51), her mother Martha Elizabeth (51), Brothers John Thomas (21), Samuel William (19), and sisters Ann (14), Sarah Jane (12), and Eliza (11). Lottie would have been a young girl when her mother died and when the Civil War broke out.[2]
[1] Find A Grave at Lottie Charlotte Lee White (1849-1891) – Find a Grave Memorial accessed May 23, 2024.
[2] Year: 1860; Census Place: Chesterfield, South Carolina; Roll: M653_1217; Page: 101; Image: 205; Family History Library Film: 805217.
Lottie Charlotte Lee White and Samuel Wesley White
In February of 1863, William Lee purchased 991 ½ acres on Westfield Creek for consideration of $2,500 from Gideon W Duvall who was a neighbor in 1850. This land joined the land of John G White. John G White was the father of Lottie’s future husband, Samuel Wesley White.[1]
[1] Year: 1860; Census Place: Chesterfield, South Carolina; Roll: M653_1217; Page: 101; Image: 205; Family History Library Film: 805217.
Transcription:
G W Duvall to William Lee Deed[1]
The State of South Carolina
To all persons to whom these presents shall concern
Now know ye that in consideration of the sum of Twenty five hundred dollars the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged the said Gideon W Duvall have granted bargained sold and released and by these presents to grant bargain and release unto to William Lee all that tract or parcel of land conveyed to George W McIver executor of last will and testament of Daniel Odom of the district and state aforesaid by Deed bearing date the sixteenth day of ___ in the year of our Lord One Thousand eight Hundred and Fifty six and described in said deed as “all that tract or parcel of land lying on the west side of the Creek Beginning at a stake 3 x 11 near or opposite the old Hickory corner of Big Westfield’s Creek and running SW 75 degrees – 22 ch 50 degrees to a pine 3 x 11 through 31 chain 25 r to a pine 3 x 11 in John G Whites line, thence SW 63 degree with said 73 chain 50r to a stake 3 x 11 thence SE 13 degree 31 ch 50 4 to a stake near Sawney’s Branch South 29 ch 10r to a sassafras stake in Parker’s old field, thence SE 88 to a stump 3 x 11 in Benj Brock’s field thence NE 3 degree 12 chain 50 r to a pine by an Oak dead, thence SE 89 degree 9 ch 50 r to a Post Oak 3 x 0 dead and down thence SE “ to a corner stake at Brock’s fence, thence SE 30 degree 19 ch 50r to a piece on the bank of Westfields Creek there as SE 75 degree 37 ch 50r to a stake 3 x 0. Squire Brock’s corner Odom’s line. Thence NE 24 degree forty ch 50 r to the head of the Mill Pond, thence and “high water marks to the run of the Creek. Big Westfield’s Creek thence __”with its various courses to the beginning corner stake containing ___ ____”ninety one and one half acres more or left” together with all and singular rights members hereditaments and appurtenances to the said premises ___or in any wide incident or appertaining: To have and to hold all the being the promises before mentioned unto the said William Lee his heirs and assignees and I the said Gideon W Duvall do hereby and myself my heirs Executors administrator to warrant and forever defend all and singular the ___ unto the William Lee His heirs and assigns forever against the lawful and demand of all persons claiming by from or under the said Gideon W Duvall. Witness my hand and seal this Eleventh day of February in the year of our Lord one Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty three and in the Eighty ____ year of the Independence of the State of South Carolina.
Liquid, sealed and delivered
In the presence of
WLJ Reid
EF Bryan
[1] Register of Deeds Burnt Book page 73 and 74.
The star is approximately where William Lee’s Westfield Creek land was located.
Current Map from Google[1]
Historical Map from Library of Congress[2]
[1] Westfield Creek – Google Maps accessed October 16, 2023.
[2][Chesterfield District, South Carolina | Library of Congress (loc.gov) accessed October 16, 2023.
Lottie’s husband Samuel Wesley White lived next door to the William Lee family. In the home in 1860 was father John J White (44), mother Catherine White White (44), David Frank White (18), Mary Jane White (16), Samuel Wesley White (12), Rachel White (10), Elizabeth White (4), and Henry White (1).
This land where the John G White family lived is currently owned by Phillips which borders land owned by Thalia Sings Sellers appears to be the land owned by John G White, father of Samuel Wesley White.[1][2] John G White was also the father of Sidney David White. Sidney David White’s wife was Elizabeth Adams Crawford Herndon. His son was David Franklin White who deeded the land to T J Johnson in 1913.
[1]Chesterfield Co, SC Map (wthgis.com)
[2] 2022 07 31 The White Family Reunion Buds Presentation.pdf, Online lookup 226840, Series 213192, Volume 0056, Page 00006, Item 1.
Samuel Wesley White’s parents were both White’s. It is unknown if they are related. They were married on May 23rd, 1841.[1] John G White’s occupation was Blacksmith in 1860.
[1] Newspapers.com – Cheraw Gazette – 9 Jun 1841 – Page 3
Samuel Wesley White’s oldest brother was David Frank White. He enlisted in Company D , 21st Regiment South Carolina Infantry under Milford G Tarrh. On April 14, 1862.10 He died on June 26th 1862 at home. His mother Catherine filed for a settlement in 1863 from the Confederate Army.1
In 1841, John G White was involved in a lawsuit along with his brother Thrashly White.[1]
[1] Newspapers.com – Cheraw Gazette – 15 Dec 1841 – Page 3
In 1855 John G White owed $18.62 to the South Carolina Secretary of State. His brother Thrashly White owed $7.00.[1]
[1] South Carolina. Land Records 1853–1856, Public Records 1853–1856, Enslavement Records 1853–1856 • FamilySearch
Samuel Wesley White was 18 when he joined the Confederate forces in 1864.[1] His second wife Mary Aremanta Lowry applied for a pension based on this service in March of 1921.
[1] Page 2 – US, Civil War Service Records (CMSR) – Confederate – South Carolina, 1861-1865 – Fold3
Mary Jane White was Samuel Wesley White’s older sister. She married Eli Brock around 1862 and in 1880 the family lived in the Westfield Creek community.[1]
[1] Ancestry.Com. Year: 1880; Census Place: Cheraw, Chesterfield, South Carolina; Roll: 1225; Family History Film: 1255225; Page: 287B; Enumeration District: 002.
Sister Rachel Brock white had two children.[1] According to her daughter’s Hattie Belle White Teal’s death certificate their father was Jim White.[2] It is not known what happened to sister Elizabeth after 1880. Brother Henry is not found after the 1860 census. Brother Sidney married Elizabeth Adams Crawford and he died in 1894 at the age of thirty-one. He had three children. His wife Elizabeth married several times and her son David was one who forced the sale of the “Sidney White Lands” which was the homeplace of Samuel Wesley White’s father John G White. It was the result of a complaint against his mother.
[1] Ancestry.Com. Year: 1880; Census Place: Cheraw, Chesterfield, South Carolina.
[2] South Carolina Death Records, 1821-1955
Lottie Charlotte Lee White’s Married Life
In 1879, Wesley White was called as a witness in the Sam Lee Trial murder trial of Frank Presley. There is no evidence that he testified though.[1]
[1] From the South Carolina Archives Chesterfield County Court of General Session Indictments 1880 #651 Box 5
In the 1880 census Lottie Charlotte Lee White was twenty-eight years of age. Her husband Samuel was thirty-four. They had three children living in the house: John (8 years of age), William (4 years of age) and Theodocia who was 10 months old.[1]
[1] Ancestry.Com. Year: 1880; Census Place: Cheraw, Chesterfield, South Carolina; Roll: 1225; Family History Film: 1255225; Page: 287A; Enumeration District: 002.
The couple had three more children before Lottie Charlotte Lee White passed away at the age of 41 in 1891. Those children were: Samuel Burton White born in 1882, Mary Jane White born in 1885, and Carrie Mae White born in 1888.
When Lottie Charlotte Lee White died in 1891, she was buried at the Brock Cemetery. This is the direction to the cemetery. Directions: From Chesterfield take Highway 9 East to Zoar Road on the left. Turn left onto Zoar Road and travel approximately 4 miles to insection with Brocks Mill Road. Turn right onto Brocks Mill Road and travel approximately three miles to Brocks Mill Church. Go another .1 of a mile beyond Brocks Mill Baptist Church and turn right onto a dirt road. This cemetery is straight across where the dirt road intersects with S13-586.[1]
[1] Find a Grave at Lottie Charlotte Lee White (1849-1891) – Find a Grave Memorial accessed May 28, 2024.
When Lottie died in 1891, family members who were gone on before were:
- Mother Martha Elizabeth Thomas Lee who died around 1868
- Sister Mary Lee Parker who died around 1869’
- Sister Ann Lee Wilkerson who died in 1889
Those who survived Lottie included:
- Father William Lee and stepmother Hannah Thomas Lee. William died in 1892 and Hannah died in 1893.
- Brother James Crawford Lee who died in 1907
- Brother John Thomas Lee who died in 1916
- Brother Samuel William Lee who died in 1915
- Sister Hannah Elizabeth Lee Parker who died in 1901
- Brother Henry Alexander Lee who died in 1912
- Sister Eliza Lee Butler who died in 1900
Lottie was also survived by her husband Samuel Wesley White and her children.
- John Wesley White was nineteen and single when his mother died
- William F White was fourteen when his mother died
- Theodocia White was twelve when her mother died
- Samuel Burton White was eleven when his mother died
- Mary Jane White was six when her mother died
- Carrie Mae White was three when her mother died
After Lottie’s death, Samuel Wesley White remarried a younger woman. He married Mary Aremanta Lowry. They had six children together:
- Pearce E White (single)
- Rosa A “Bessie” White (single)
- Eddie Coyt White married Katie Johnson
- Hardy White (single died at age 24 of auto accident)
- Nannie White (died in infancy)
- Clarence Albert White married Lola Jacobs
Samuel Wesley White died in 1920. He was 74 years of age. He died of broncho pneumonia and was suffering from senility.[1] He was buried with Lottie Charlotte Lee White, his first wife at Brock Cemetery.[2]
[1]Ancestry.Com. North Carolina, U.S., Death Certificates, 1909-1976..
[2]Find A Grave at Samuel Wesley White (1846-1920) – Find a Grave Memorial accessed May 28, 2024.
Samuel Wesley White’s second wife Mary Aremanta Lowry lived until 1930. She is buried at Old Saint Davids Episcopal Church Cemetery.[1]
[1] Find A Grave at Mary Lowery White (1868-1930) – Find a Grave Memorial accessed May 28, 2024.
Descendants of Lottie Charlotte Lee and Samuel Wesley White
Conclusion:
Lottie Charlotte Lee was born soon after the 1850 census. She was probably born in the Cash community of South Carolina. However, her first memories were probably of the Westfield Creek Community where the family moved after her father William purchased 991 ½ acres in 1863. She was well acquainted with her husband, Samuel Wesley White who was five years older and her next door neighbor on Sneedsboro Road (Wright’s Folly) and presently Hinson Hill Road. Samuel Wesley White was a Confederate Veteran when the couple married. They lived in Cheraw where they reared their family. Lottie Charlotte Lee White died at the age of 41. She had six surviving children. Her widower Samuel lived twenty-eight years afterwards, remarried and had six more children with his second wife. Mary Arementa Lowry.
Two of Lottie and Samuel’s sons (Will and Johnny) lived near Chesterfield, South Carolina. They were farmers. Will White later became a Works Progress Administration foreman. The third son, Samuel Burton White’s was a jeweler. He was not settled in his residences or his companions. He lived in Bladen County, North Carolina, Morven, North Carolina and had at least three different female relationships. He was living in Cook Georgia when he died at McBee, South Carolina when he returned to Chesterfield County for a family reunion.
Lottie’s three daughters followed their husbands away from the Chesterfield area. Theodocia White Tuttle moved to Society Hill where her husband worked on the Railroad. Mary Jane White Crowley also lived Society Hill. Carrie Mae White Teal followed her husband and children to High Point, North Carolina where they worked in the furniture city. Those who moved to the High Point, North Carolina area sometimes ventured to other nearby places such as Mount Airy, Winston Salem, Thomasville, Trinity, and Archdale.
Lottie Charlotte White’s descendants who lived in Chesterfield County mostly lived in Cheraw, Chesterfield, and Patrick.
Other nearby North and South Carolina towns also attracted the White descendants were McFarlan. Morven, Hamlet, Laurinburg, Rockingham, Wadesboro, Lumberton, Charlotte, Pinehurst, Rock Hill and Bennettsville. Some of the Whites made Beaufort, South Carolina, their home. A few others called Charleston home.
Darlington County, South Carolina was home for many of the White descendants. Many worked in the lumber industry and lived in Hartsville, Mont Clare, Dovesville and Society HIll. Other South Carolina places included Anderson, Fountain Inn, Pickens, Marion, Evergreen and Galivant’s Ferry. Quite a few lived in Florence, South Carolina
Places where White descendants were influenced by the military and many lived in Cumberland and Lee Counties, near Fayetteville.
A few Whites moved to faraway places or more culturally diverse places such as New York City, Bradford, Pennsylvania, Champaign, Illinois, San Antonio, Texas, Myrtle Beach, Asheville, North Carolina, Jacksonville, Orange County and West Palm Beach, Florida, Maryland, Roanoke Virginia, Mohave, Arizona. Henderson, Nevada and San Diego, California. Saint James and Ouachita Parish in Louisiana became the home for some of Lottie White’s descendants. The Langston tribe of the Lottie White clan moved to Georgia and called Fayette, Savannah and Fulton, Georgia their home.
Samuel Wesley White was a farmer’s helper. Many of his descendants who lived in Chesterfield were sharecropper farmers or farmer’s helpers. At least one owned their owned farm. Others were cattlemen/ranchers. Trucking was also a prevalent occupation with at least one owning a trucking company. During the Depression, many of the descendants worked for the Works Progress Administration. After the depression, many of the descendants went into military careers, or were plumbers, carpenters, painters, welder’s helpers. Some worked in military businesses such as Gulfstream Aerospace or federal jobs such as the Post Office. One individual was a dentist for the military. Descendants worked in textiles such as Steele’s Mill, Cotton Mill, Entwistle’s Mill, and JP Stevens. Other descendants worked in retail such as for Belk’s, Sears, Wannamaker Oil Company, and Allen Grocery Company. Others worked in bookkeeping and finance management. Construction type jobs included working for Becker Sand and Gravel, Fripp Development Company, golf course operations, landscaping, and being a water superintendent for a local government. Two of the descendants were Baptist ministers. One was a professional baseball player. Many of the descendants who lived in the Darlington/Mont Clare area worked in the lumber industry. Those who worked in High Point area worked mainly at Carolina Container or in the furniture industry.
Samuel Wesley White was a Confederate Veteran. He served in Company C of Brown’s Battalion. His son (Pearce E White 1897-1964) by his second wife, Mary Lowry White served as a warrant officer in World War II. All of Charlotte Lottie Lee White’s brothers (who were old enough) and father (who was really too old) served in the Confederate military.
Samuel and Lottie’s oldest grandson William Franklin White 1894-1968 served in Company I of the Cheraw Guards in World War I.
Descendants of Lottie Charlotte Lee White who served in World War II included Cecil Ernest White who was killed in action in the Pacific Theater.
- Samuel Wesley “Sam” White (great grandson) 1920-1991 served in World War II as a warrant officer
- William H Guinn (great grandson) 1927-1980 served in World War II as a Corporal in England
- John Lee White (grandson) 1912-1953 – served in World War II in Coast Artillery Corp
- Cecil Ernest White (great-grandson) 1924-1945 – US Army killed in action on Negros Island, Philippines on April 22, 1945
- David Franklin White (great-grandson) 1926-1984 – US Navy
- William Franklin White (great grandson) 1929-1955 US Navy
- Sidney Eugene White (grandson) 1916-1977 US Army
- James Ernest White (grandson) 1921-1993 US Navy
- Walter David Byrd (great grandson) 1919-1986) National Guard Career Soldier
- Harry Galdwin Byrd (great grandson) 1925-1985 US Army
- Jaynes Irvin Gandy (great-grandson) 1920-1976 National Guard
- Charles Gladwin White (grandson) 1922-1977 US Navy
- James Arthur Langston (great-grandson) 1922-1974 US Army
- Thomas Jefferson Langston (great grandson) 1927-2006 US Navy Career Soldier
- James Lonnie Driggers US (great grandson) 1925-1987 US Army
- Clarence Wesley Teal (grandson) 1924-2012 US Army
- Leroy Furman Teal (grandson) 1926-1992 US Army
Descendants of Lottie Charlotte Lee White who served in the Korean Conflict included:
- James White Sr. (great-great grandson) 1935-2008 US Airforce
- Charles Wellington Curry (great-great grandson) 1931-2005 US Navy – also a Vietnam Veteran
- James Perry Curry (great-great grandson) 1936-2005 Marine
- Eugene Curry (great-great grandson) 1937-2013, US Navy – Career Soldier
- Robert Curry (great-great grandson) 1932-2015 US Navy
- Marian Edward “Ed” Curry (great-great grandson) 1935-1986 US Airforce
- Henry Clyde Langston (great grandson) 1931-1987 US Navy
- Edward Wilson McGhee (great grandson) 1933-1991 US Army
- Thomas Teal, Jr. 1930-1987 (grandson) 1930-1987 US Army
Descendants of Lottie Charlotte Lee who served in the Vietnam era included:
- Michael Wayne White, Sr. (great-great grandson) 1951-2009 US Army
- Donald Rogers (great-great grandson) 1950-2017 US Airforce
- Ronald Rogers (great-great grandson) 1950-2001 US Airforce
- James Franchant Wilson (great great grandson) 1941-2010 US Navy
- Gerald Wesley “Jerry Wilson (great great grandson) 1947-2022 US Army
- Kenneth Wayne “Kenny” Pierce (great great grandson) 1949-2005 US Army Career Soldier
- Wiley Glen Curry 1943-2015 (great grandson} SC Army National Guard
- George Maxton “Mack” Maloch (great great grandson) 1939-2008 US Army
- Arthur Allen Flowers (great great grandson) 1946-2010 US Army
- James Randolph “Randy” Segars (great great grandson) 1947-2012 US Marine Corp
- James Allen Langston (great great grandson) 1947-2007 US Airforce
- Steven Clyde Langston (great great grandson) 1952-2011 US Army Veteran
- Timothy Craig Walton (great great grandson) 1951-2016 Corporal US Marine Corp
- Lloyd Cleveland Gainey (great grandson) 1947-2019 US Army TET Offensive
Other descendants of Lottie Charlotte Lee White who served in the military were:
- William David Bryant (great great grandson) 1942-2021 US Navy
- Raymond Cecil Graham (great great grandson) 1955-2022 US Navy
- Michael Darwin White 1948-2023 (great great grandson) 1948-2023 served as dentist in US Navy
- Jerry Eugene White (great grandson) 1954-2012 National Guard
- William Hugh Wood (great grandson) 1941-2016 Coast guard
- Curtis James Byrd (great grandson) 1916-1971 US Airforce
- Raymond Dee Langston (great great grandson) 1961-1985
- Herman Osma “Ozzie” Teal (great grandson) 1935-2004 National Guard
- William Wallace Gainey (great grandson) 1944-2015 US Airforce, Duke University ROTC
There is no record of what Lottie Charlotte Lee White died from. She was only 41 when she passed away. There are several records of family infant deaths. Reasons documented include acute colitis, prematurity and broncho pneumonia, diphtheria, and sudden infant death. At least one descendant, Alice White, passed away of chronic nephritis due to pregnancy. There were several childhood deaths. There was a four year old who was burned to death in an abandoned car and another who died of pesticide (parathion) poisoning. One teenager died from drowning in a state hospital pool where she was institutionalized. Several descendants died from car accidents. The Hector Wellington Curry family lost their father and mother in separate incidents involving vehicles and the surviving orphaned children were raised in the Connie Maxwell orphanage. There was a work accident involving a logging accident caused by a falling chainsaw. There was also a domestic violence incident of murder-suicide. Other causes of death include cancer, heart attacks, strokes and gangrene of the leg caused by chronic Brights disease. Several descendant’s died during the COVID pandemic, most likely from having contracting the virus.
Shared Matches DNA analysis[1] shows a relationship between Margie Lee Kinney (granddaughter of John Thomas Lee), the sibling of Lottie Charlotte Lee shows a relationship between Margie and five of the six children of Lottie Charlotte Lee and Samuel Wesley White.
Triangulation of Margie Lee Kinney’s DNA using DNA Painter shows a relationship between the five descendants of the couple (Samuel Wesley Lee and Lottie Charlotte Lee White) who have taken DNA tests at sites where the chromosome can be examined. These children include: John Wesley White, William F White, Theodocia White Tuttle , Samuel Burton White and Carrie Mae White Teal.
Other Lee siblings who have descendants who triangulate with Margie and Lottie Charlotte Lee White. These children of William Lee and Martha Thomas are: Hannah Elizabeth Lee Parker, Eliza Lee Butler, Sarah Jane Lee Brock, Ann Lee Wilkerson, Henry Alexander Lee, and James Crawford Lee.
Triangulation[2] of Margie Lee Kinney’s DNA shows a relationship to the descendants of Samuel Wesley White on both the maternal and paternal side. This is most likely through Samuel’s father John G White who is hypothesized to be the brother of Thrashley White. This would be on Margie’s paternal side. On the maternal side, Margie’s relationship would be between John G White’s mother Elizabeth Parsons. Margie’s fourth great grandmother was Cynthia Parsons who appears to be related to Elizabeth Parsons.
Triangulation of Margie Lee Kinney’s DNA also shows a relationship on her maternal side to Wiley Morris and Charity Short’s descendants to the descendants of John G White and Catherine White. My hypothesis at this time is that Wiley and Charity Short are related to Catherine White. Catherine may be related to the Hosea White family.
[1] Shared Matches is a tool offered from Ancestry.
[2] Triangulation is a tool offered from DNA Painter using chromosome information from GEDMatch, FTDNA, 23 and Me and My Heritage.
Lottie Charlotte Lee White’s descendants lived mainly in South Carolina and North Carolina. They were mainly Baptist and Methodist. There were a few Catholics who settled in Louisiana and Georgia. The church home of the descendants in the Chesterfield area included Brock’s Mill Baptist, Mount Olivet Baptist Church, and Lower Macedonia Baptist Church. In the Hartsville area, many attended and were buried at Black Creek Baptist Church. Some are buried at Darlington Memory Gardens and Florence Memory Gardens. A lot of the military participants are buried in military cemeteries. Many are buried at Chatham Memorial Park in Cheraw. Many of the descendants from High Point are buried at Floral Memorial Gardens in High Point, North Carolina. In Rockingham, North Carolina many descendants are buried at Northam, Hillside and Richmond Memorial Parks. Many are buried at Beaufort Memorial Park in South Carolina. Others are buried at family cemeteries including Curry Cemetery, White Cemetery, Seago Cemetery, Carpenter Cemetery, and Hurst Cemetery.
Lottie Charlotte Lee White and her husband rest in peace at the Old Brock’s Mill Cemetery. The inscription on her tombstone reads “A tender mother and a faithful friend.” Samuel Wesley White’s inscription reads “Gone But Not Forgotten.”
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