Carl Eugene White was the seventh of seven children. His mother Mila died of consumption when he was four years old. His sister Jessie died of the same cause at age 20 when Carl was 10 and his brother Arthur died of an infection from a cut finger at age 23, when Carl was 19. At the time of the 1900 census Carl, age 13, was living with his father Elwin, Uncle Selwyn and Aunt Carrie. All his brothers, sisters, and cousins had moved out or died. Maude was living in Franklin, a widow with four children, age 2 to 8. Her children spent summers at the farm so that she could work in hotels in New York. Claude had gone to Massachusetts, where he cared for a rich family's horses. He later moved to California. Tin had married Thomas Berry and was stepmother to Fay and Harry Berry, never having children of her own. Kate, aged about 19, had married John Sheehan and moved a few miles down the road in Milton. And Arthur, who would have been 17, may have been in New York, where he worked in the hotels. It was there he got the cut that led to his death. Carl attended grade school at the Milton Borough school, walking the 2.5 miles each way. When it came time for him to attend high school he went to live with his sister Maude in Franklin, as she lived in town and he could get to school more easily. After high school Carl joined his brother Claude in Massachusetts where he worked at electric motor construction (GE?) He returned home when his father became ill. By the time of the 1910 census Carl was back at home with his father. Again the two of them and Uncle Selwyn and Aunt Carrie were the only people on the place. Carl played baseball in a local league with a team from Camp Rich. In December of 1910, when Carl was 24, his father, who had been sick for a year, died. After his father's death, Carl began "reading law" with Marshall Alexander, a St. Albans lawyer. He gave this up however after his marriage and took over the running of the farm, eventually buying it from the other heirs. He belonged to a fraternal organization (Masons?) in Milton and met Mabel Hinton, who had come to Vermont to teach math at Milton High School. Carl and Mabel had four children; Murl, Myrtis, Bernice (Babe), and Carol. Carl continued to run the family farm. He represented Georgia in the State Legislature for one term in 1919. In 1925 he bought his first car - a 1925 Essex. Carl worked on the farm until his death at age 75 in 1961. He entered the hospital for surgery to repair a hernia which had been bothering him more and more. He tolerated the surgery well and was released from the hospital. He went to his daughter Carol's house in St. Albans to recuperate. Several days later he developed a massive infection and died.
Physical characteristics: 5'10", 175 lbs., hair brown, turned white in his twenties, blue eyes, excellent health. Died one week after a hernia operation, due to, "Post-Op Accident-Vascular"