Margaret was born in 1836. She passed away in 1913. Details of her parents and names of siblings John D. and Margaret White – (John Donaldson, b. October 25, 1796, d. May 1855) (Margaret Baker White, b. 1806, d.1867) Parents of Netta Taylor. John Donaldson was born in North Carolina, and moved with his parents to Kentucky where he married Margaret Baker. The White‟s son, Carr, was born in Kentucky before the family moved to Georgetown, Ohio. In Georgetown, John Donaldson taught school (his most famous pupil was Ulysses S. Grant); served as county surveyor; was a Representative and, later, a senator to the Ohio State Legislature; and, in the last years of his life served as Assistant Treasurer and Treasurer of Brown County. The Whites had nine children: Carr, Grafton (who died prior to the Civil War), Chilton, Ann (d. 1863), Margaret “Netta,” John G. (b. 1837, d.?), Leonard (b. Jan. 14, 1841, d. June 15, 1862), Mary Jane (b. 1843, d. October 29, 1864), and Elizabeth (b. 1846, d. ?).. By the time of the Civil War, Margaret White had been a widow for several years and was no longer living on the family farm, but in Georgetown proper. In Tom Taylor’s Civil War historian Albert Castel refers to Netta‟s father numerous times as “Hugh Donaldson White.” However, Thomas Taylor, in “My Family and I,” Ulysses S. Grant in his memoirs (Ulysses S. Grant Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant. ([repr]New York: DeCapo Press,1982). 9, and the 1850 census all refer to him as “John D. White.” It is unclear exactly what the living arrangement of Margaret White was during the 1860s. Her husband had owned property in town that was divided between his sons Carr and Chilton after his death. Since Chilton already had his own residence it appears that Margaret, and her unmarried children, lived in the section of the townhouse left to Chilton by his father.
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