Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1914 — SAW 4 GREAT-GRANDFATHERS [ARTICLE]

SAW 4 GREAT-GRANDFATHERS

The Long Lived Forbears of an Oregon Boy ; Only One Has Succumbed to Death.

Albany, Ore. —When Luther White, a Linn county pioneer, died at hlB home at Brownsville he was the first of the four great-grandfathers of five-year-old Luther Burnelle White of Harrisburg to die. The boy has the distinction of having seen each of his great sires. The boy is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Connie F. White of Harrisburg. His father is the son of ex-Sheriff and Mrs. • Robert L. White of this city. White’s father, Luther White, died at Brownsville only a few days ago at the age of ninety-nine years. ThefatherbfMrs.Whlte,Sr.,isJerry Hay of Harrisburg, seventy-three years old.

Mrs. Connie White is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. Bussard of this city. Mr. Bussard’s father is W. H. Bussard, eighty-three years old, of Benton county., Mrs. Bussard’s father is L. T. Mackey, seventy-nine years of age, of Akron, O.