Mr. Thurman Ellison White
House Site Today
Thurman White as a young man
The Thomas Freeman Family visiting 219 Scotch Road
Barbara White (third daughter)
Louise "Sister" White (Youngest of the four girls)
(Back) Eloise and Betty (Front) Louise and Bobby
Bobby, Eloise, Betty, Louise
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Sharon Corey: These are photos of my grandparents home and my father and mother visiting at the home
of Thurman Ellison White and Lethea Vaden Smith White on Scotch Street in Chesterfield.
My mother says that all she remembers is that Nezzie Eddins owned the house before they lived there in 1934-1944. She says that most of the people that would have any early knowledge of that house are all dead now.
Mama said that when they moved there the house did not have an indoor bathroom, so her mother, Lethea, added one on the back porch. She said that you couldn't get that bathroom warm no matter what you did. Also the kitchen was in the very back of the house and they moved it the room just behind the dining room (to the left of the house) that was actually a porch that had been closed in. There also was a hallway in the house that was removed to make the living room.
A black man by the name of George Walker lived on the by-pass near what used to be the Ney Steele home. He would come by their home for work and Lethea Smith would pay him to plow their garden which which was located on the corner to the right of the house.
I just vaguely remember the house, but they are very fond memories of playing in the loft of the little barn in back of the house, climbing the huge old oak tree that was to the right in front of the house, trying to step in the footprints that were in the cement sidewalk along that side of the street, running back and forth to the Wiley Clinic (which was just behind the house) just after cousin Bill Hurst was born, and walking from the house to the swimming pool just around the corner from the old Armory.
Louise White King: I have so many wonderful memories of growing up in Chesterfield and at our home, that it would be hard for me to pick out the ones that are the most significant. I do recall that we had very little income, and so my mother made all the clothes that we four girls wore. We were close in size, so we could all wear each other's clothes. You might get up in the morning and have in mind what you were going to wear only to find that one of your sisters already had it on.
HA!!! When I was "Miss Chesterfield" in 1953, my mother made me the most beautiful evening gown that I had ever seen. I still have a program from the Watermelon Festival (I was sponsored by Hancock Motor Company), and they cost ten cents each. Needless to say, "Miss Chesterfield" didn't win the Watermelon Festival Crown. We almost wore the street out roller skating in front of our house, and we always had that skate key on a string around our neck. I was the youngest of the four girls, and I would climb a tree
in front of our house and hid in the tree leaves and watch Betty, Bobby, and Eloise's date come to pick them up. It is a wonder I didn't fall out of the tree and land on them. Daddy took me out in the back yard and made me change the car tire before he let me take the car off by myself for the first time. What a great Dad!!!
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