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African American WHITE Denison
Denison Daily News
Friday, August 30, 1878 ...In the afternoon, Mat White, a colored barber was brought before his Honor charged with disturbing the peace by fighting and with resisting an officer. It seems that Mat White created a rumpus in Brenner's saloon, and being ordered out, commenced to fight Brenner and others; also laid violent hands on the Marshal. He requested that the trial be continued until to-day which was granted. According to
the 1880 Denison census, "Mat" White is 26 years of age and was born in
1854 in the state of Missouri; his race is listed as "Mulatto" and his
occupation is "barber". Residing in his household are his
wife, Mary, aged 22, and four children: daughter, Adlade, age
7; daughter, Anna, age 5; and son, Frank, age 2 - all the children were
born in Texas.
The Sunday Gazeteer
Sunday ,October 16, 1898 pg. 4 Matt White, the pioneer colored barber of Denison, who married an Indian woman, had 11 members of his family enrolled yesterday by the Dawes commission at Colbert.  African American Biography Index Biography Index Susan Hawkins © 2024 If you find any of Grayson County TXGenWeb links inoperable, please send me a message. |