| Home Surname List Name Index Sources Email Us | Eighth Generation84. Joshua WHITE was born on 9 April 1792.4,49,67 According to the LDS Family Group Record, he may have been born in Roxbury, Delaware County, NY, or Red Kill, NY.
"They (Joshua & Elizabeth (Morse) Ganung White) came to the Abingtons from Delaware County, N.Y. in 1828 and settled on a farm known as Eber White's. Joshua was baptized in the Baptist church by Elder John Miller. Of the thirteen children born to Joshua and Elizabeth White, all lived to manhood and womanhood except the last child, who died as an infant and the ninth child, Lydia, who died when she was twelve years of age. The others all married and settled on farms between Green Cove and Clarks Green, except the second child, Cynthia, who married Jason Stanton and lived at Cannon, near Waymart, PA. Joshua and Elizabeth White are buried in the White Cemetary on the farm where he settled in South Abington, later known as the Eber White Farm. The farm is now owned (as of 1970) by Carl White, grandson of Eber White. Joshua was in the War of 1812. They came here in 1828. Joshua and Elizabeth White had 13 children." Joshua WHITE and Elizabeth MORS were married on 11 September 1811 in Red Kill, Delaware County, NY.31,32,67,68 (Red Kill is not a city or village, but an area south of Roxbury in Delaware County, NY.) Elizabeth MORS, daughter of Joseph MORS and Irene HAYNES, was born in 1790 in Frederickstown Township, Putnam County, NY.1,68 (Here surname may have been spelled "Morse.") She appeared in the census in 1850 in Abington, Luzerne County, PA.69 She was living with her son Eber and his family. She died in 1882 at the age of 92 in Pennsylvania.4,68 Joshua WHITE and Elizabeth MORS had the following children:
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