Alice Clark White is my 2nd great grandmother. She was affectionately called “Ma Alice”.
She was born about 1878.
The story I heard growing up was that she was born in Alabama, possibly Union Springs, Alabama.
Recently, at a family reunion, an elder told the story that she was born in Alabama and her mother passed away when she was a young girl. Her father went to Alabama to bring her back to Georgia. The name Johnson/Johnston was mentioned.
Alice met a man with the surname Swindell or Swindelly and between 1896 and 1899 they had two sons, G.D. and Charlie. In 1900, they were no longer together and Alice lived with her father Green Clark in Webster County, GA. Others in the household included Chaney, wife of Green Clark, Alice’s sisters Mittie, Sallie, Minnie, Gracey, and brothers John, Sam and R.K.
Alice married James White on December 28, 1907. The 1910 US Census record shows that this is the second marriage for her and the first for James. Her sons G.D. and Charlie are now 14 and 10. They lived next door to her brother Samuel and parents Green and Chaney in Stewart County, Georgia.
Between 1911 and 1920, Alice and James add more children to the family: Viola, twins Lessie and Bessie and son Johnnie Sam. Alice’s sister, Gracie, lives in the household.
Alice and James were still living in Stewart County, Georgia in 1930 and had another son, David.
Ma Alice died December 31, 1948.