Detail View: Wyoming State Archives WPA Federal Writers Project Files: WPA Bio 1018

Title: 
Wyoming WPA Biographical File regarding Charles White
Collection Name: 
WPA Collection
Collection Number: 
WPA Bio 1018
Item Description: 
White, Charles - Biographical information for Charles J. White; "Wyoming As I Found It", interviewed by Mr. Vivian F. Cooper for "Stories of Pioneer Life"
Creator: 
Mr. Vivian F. Cooper
Location: 
Sheridan (Wyo.)
Date: 
1939 January 4
Link to Finding Aid: 
https://rmoa.unm.edu/docviewer.php?docId=wy-arwpa.xml
Notes: 
born: Jun. 17, 1852, at El Paso (Tex.)
Notes: 
died: Jun. 7, 1852
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buried: Mount Hope Cemetery (Memorial ID: 31768063) at Big Horn (Sheridan Co., Wyo.)
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Sheridan (Wyo. Terr. - 1884) Buffalo (Wyo. Terr. - Jul. 3, 1884)
Notes: 
Sheridan Co.
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homesteaded at Big Horn (Wyo.)
Notes: 
Norther Pacific Railroad, freighter of supplies (Custer Junction to Sheridan & Casper)
Notes: 
farmer, relocated to foot of the Big Horn Mountains
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cowhand
Notes: 
Odd Fellows lodge, member
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Buffalo (Wyo. Terr. - Jul. 3, 1884)
Notes: 
freighting across Crow Indian Indian Reservation, war path problems (1887)
Notes: 
White, Mrs. Martha Jane Bullard (wife, born: Nov. 1854, in Pontotoc Co., Miss. - married: ? - died: Jul. 31, 1922 - buried: Mount Hope Cemetery at Big Horn, Wyo.)
Notes: 
8 children: J. W. Charles, Ragan, David, James Malcolm, M. A., Lily Belle and Richard Reagan
Rights: 
No Copyright - United States, https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en
Type: 
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