William “Billy” White, sixth child, a son of David and Mary “Betsy” Elizabeth (Summerfield) White, was born in 1813 in Dry Fork, Randolph County, West Virginia and died in 1898 in Red Creek, Tucker County, West Virginia. He married Mahala “Hale” Summerfield/Flanagan on July 08, 1836 in Beverly, West Virginia. She was a daughter of E.B. Flanagan and Mary Summerfield, a granddaughter of Joseph and Winnie (Nelson) Summerfield and was born in 1815 in Beverly, West Virginia.


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514William White was a very tall, dark man of about 6 feet, 3 inches in height. He had coal black hair and eyes. He was a lean lanky raw boned man. I personally remember seeing Billy on many occasions with his straight black hair swarthy features. (E.C. Wyatt) Billy was darker than the rest of the family and his father, David White used this as an excuse to leave Elizabeth and elope with Ruth. He claimed that Billy was fathered by another Indian, but the family seems to agree that his features were merely a carry back through David’s own family, as Solomon Carr, who was also a grandson, came out so dark and swarthy in complexion that the census taker (in 1850) took it upon himself to list this member of the family as a mulatto. Possibly the family never knew this but it was left on record.