Mary White

Born: 08 Aug 1840, Vermillion Co., IN

Married: 02 March 1862 Vermillion Co., IN

Died: 1932 Vermillion Co. IN

Buried: Helt's Prairie Cemetery, Vermillion Co., IN

FATHER

Enoch White

MOTHER

Lydia Hellenback

HUSBAND

Nicholas Leiton
     b. Aug 1834 OH
     d. 08 Apr 1911

CHILDREN

Ambrose Leiton b. 09 April 1863

In 1983 Madeline White Morgan wrote a letter in which she reminisces about her "Great Aunt Mary."

She, of course, was my great aunt and much older by the time I remember her. She had no children. She had an open "old oaken bucket" well - and was a character. She was very tiny - short and slender. And very hard hearing by that time.
She had a small wood armed rocking chair, which I bought at her sale after het death for 25 cents. We couldn’t afford to buy the dated coverlet, and it went to an antique dealer. It broke our hearts.
Anyway, the chair was very old and had sentimental memories for me. When we called on her, she would pull this chair up as close as she could to my father’s chair so she could converse (shout, rather) with him. Then she would half stand, holding the chair under her as she walked and scooted chair and all, sit by mother’s chair and talk with her, then chair and all, come sit by me.
On one of our visits after I finished college, I asked her about the White’s. She didn’t know what country Abraham came from only that he spoke "broken" English or with an "accent".

Martha White Helt also wrote of her Great Aunt Mary
 "Aunt Mary would give her grocery order in the morning to the conductor as the train stopped in Summit Grove and he would deliver her purchases on the return trip in the afternoon.  Her house was a low rambling one-story with a brick court yard and out kitchen memorable to me for a still usable open well.  It was fascinating and a bit scary when I was young to lean over the wall and stare down those black depths and watch some grownup carefully turn a windlass to bring up an old half cask tumbling over with water."