Individual Details

Granddaughter Audrey gave her name as Sarah Jane. Middle initial is "C" on application for Confederate widow's pension, #6163, copies obtained from the Texas State Archives. Her Application dated 20 Oct 1899 and marked as Approved 20 Feb 1900. She gives age as 65 which does not agree with birthdate of Sarah "Jane" Williams as given by Audrey but does agree with the census information. (Born 1834) Sarah stated she married Andrew White in 1859 in Fannin Co TX and that's when she came to Fannin Co. Says he died in 1881. Witnesses to her affadavit were T. L. Cashion and Riley Inglish. J. S. White [her son] and C. B. Bridges testified that Sarah C. White was the widow of Andrew White and that she was unable to support herself by labor of any sort, dated 21 Nov 1899.

The birthday, 15 Mar 1828, given by Audrey [White] Haden, does not agree with Sarah's application for Andrew's pension. Audrey had the marriage date for the 1st marriage, I also suspect this 1828 birthday is the birthdate of Elizabeth Sebastian, the first wife, not Sarah.
Sarah stated her age as 65 when she applied for Andrew's Pension on 25 Oct 1899 [born 1834]. This age confirmed by the 1880 Census.

Appears in censuses as Sarah C. Jane is likely not her middle name, although Audrey thought it was - perhaps that was Elizabeth Sebastian's middle name?

By 1900, Sarah made her home with her eldest daughter. The youngest daughter Mary also lived with them.
1900 Census Keller Twp, Tarrant Co, TX, Hh 351
Lucinda Brigance, b. Feb 1861, age 39, widow 4 children b. TX, father b. TN, mother b. MO
John ?H., son, b. Nov 1885, age 14, b. TX, father b. AR, mother b. TX
Jessie B., dau, b. Feb 1891, age 9
Nannie B., dau, b. Apr 1893, age 7
Edgar, son, b. July 1895, age 4
Sarah C. White, mother, b. Aug 1834, age 65, widow 3 children b. MO, father b. TN, mother b. VA
Mary E. White, sister, b. Dec 1872, age 27
Both ladies gave the number of children living....perhaps the directions from the enumerator were not clear

1910 Census Commerce City Ward 1, Hunt Co, TX Hh 65
Lucinda Brigance, age 49 widow had 7 children, 4 are living
John, son, age 24, keeper of a restaurant
Nannie, dau, age 17, saleslady, millinery store
Edgar, son, age 14
Sarah White, mother, age 75, widow [did not state number of children]
Mary White, sister, age 36, waitress, restaurant

Rosemound Cemetery, Commerce, TX
White, Sarah C. b. Aug. 9, 1834 d. Oct. 20, 1914
White, Mary E. b. Dec. 20, 1871 d. May 15, 1965


In 1850, in St. Francois Co MO, on p.159, living only two households from a James White and next door to Elijah Sebastian, grandfather of Elizabeth, Andrew White's 1st wife, was the family of John J. Williams. He was age 56, b. SC. Wife Nancy age 56, b. VA. Elias age 22, b. TN, Ambrose 18 b. MO as were the rest of the children: SARAH & Lucinda both age 15, Nancy age 11, Mary age 21, and Robert Cantrell 11, and Mary F. Cantrell age 10. This Sarah age 15 could well be the 2nd wife of Andrew White. There were other Williams families in the neighborhood, but none with a daughter named Sarah. It appears that Sarah was a twin to Lucinda.

I believe this to certainly be Sarah's family though at this time the proof is circumstantial. Here are my reasons:
1. Andrew White came to Texas with his first wife's family from St. Francois Co MO.
2. Sarah herself stated that she had come from Missouri and married Andrew in 1859 - why would she have done so if she did not already know him. He was a man with six motherless children including an infant and he was nearly 15 years older than she. Sarah was about age 25 and had not yet married.
3. The appearance of a Sarah Williams in St. Francois Co MO in 1850, of the same age and living in the same neighborhood as James P. White, also born in TN, as was Andrew - James is very likely a brother or cousin of Andrew. By the 1880 census, both Andrew White and James White [still in St Francois MO] gave their father's birthplace as Delaware. Also in that neighborhood was the Sebastian grandfather of Andrew's first wife, Elizabeth Sebastian.
4. According to databases found online, John J. & Nancy Williams had an older son, Thomas Davis Williams. In St. Francois Co is a marriage record for Thomas D. Williams to Huldy Sebastian, recorded on 2 Aug 1842. Huldy Sebastian was an older sister of Elizabeth Sebastian, Andrew White's 1st wife. In 1850, Thomas & Hulda Williams were living in Fannin Co TX, along with Andrew & Elizabeth White, and the parents and siblings of Hulda & Elizabeth Sebastian. In 1860, the year after Sarah Williams came to Texas to marry Andrew White and is in the census with him and his children, Thomas & Hulda were still living there in Fannin Co.
5. Sarah & Andrew named their first daughter together, Nancy Lucinda, and the first son, John, the given names of her parents [Lucinda was also the name of a sister]. Andrew had likely already used his parents' names in naming children by his first wife.

Birth	9 Aug 1833	Saint Francois County, Missouri
Marriage	1859	ANDREW WHITE
Death	20 Oct 1914	Commerce, Hunt County, Texas

Spouse	ANDREW WHITE (1821 - 1881)
Child	Nancy Lucinda WHITE (1861 - 1958)
Child	JOHN SEBASTIAN WHITE (1863 - 1917)
Child	Andrew J. WHITE (1866 - 1868)
Child	Mary Evelyn White (1871 - 1965)
Child	Sarah J. WHITE (1874 - 1876)

Father	JOHN JEFFERSON WILLIAMS (1792 - 1874)
Mother	NANCY M. Bowles (1796 - 1876)
Sibling	Louisa WILLIAMS (1816 - 1860)
Sibling	Frances "Fannie" WILLIAMS (1818 - 1877)
Sibling	Charlotta WILLIAMS (1820 - 1869)
Sibling	Thomas Davis Williams (1822 - 1908)
Sibling	John WILLIAMS (1825 - 1898)
Sibling	Elias WILLIAMS (1827 - 1892)
Sibling	Mary A. WILLIAMS (1829 - 1917)
Sibling	Ambrose/Ambers WILLIAMS (1832 - 1913)
Sibling	Lucinda WILLIAMS (1833 - 1920)
Sibling	Nancy E. WILLIAMS (1837 - 1887)