Person:Thomas White (85)

BIOGRAPHY: Ancestral Chronological Record of the William White Family From 1607-9 to 1895 Concord Printed by the Republican Press Association 1895 Page 81 Thomas, son of William and Lydia (Goodale) White, b. January 20, 1784; mar., October 11, 1807, Rebecca D., dau. of Asa and Mehitable (Upham) Metcalf.

  Thomas White d. October 16, 1865,  of Typhoid Fever, aged 83 year. For a number of years he suffered much from bodily infirmities. He was a worthy member of the Methodist church for sixty year, and he walked with and feared God. 
  He was ready, waiting, longing even to depart and be at rest with Jesus. His partner in life d. the 12th of April, the same year. She had joined the same church sixty-nine years before, being the eleventh member when the church was formed in 1796. The lived together fifty-nine years. Their house was sought and loved by the circuit preachers, who ever found with them a welcome home. The writer recollects many greeting and partings with the injunction, "Farewell, prove faithful, and by the grace of God we'll meet in that better land."

DEATH: Cause of Death:<CAUS> Typhoid fever Thomas, for a number of years, suffered much from bodily infirmities. He was a worthy member of the Methodist Chuch for 60 years, and he walked with and feared God. He was ready, waiting, longing evento depart and be at rest with Jesus.