By the Associated Press
Asheville, N.C., Oct. 6—T.C. White, one of the best known railroad men in the south, as well as in the north and east, died at a hospital here this afternoon at 1:30 o’clock following a prolonged illness. He was 52 years old.
For 12 or 15 years Mr. White was general passenger agent of the Atlantic Coast Line railway with headquarters at Wilmington, N.C. He became an employe of the old Port Royal and Augusta railway in Augusta, Ga., while a young man and in 1902 became connected with the A.C.L. He served as division passenger agent at Tampa, Fla., for two years and in 1905 was transferred to Savannah, Ga., in the same capacity. Later he was transferred to Wilmington and promoted to general passenger agent.
Mr. White’s health failed last fall and he went to Baltimore and later came to Asheville several months ago.
He was a native of Saluda, S.C. The body will be taken there tomorrow and the funeral services will be held at 1 o’clock.
The deceased was unmarried. He is survived by two sisters, Mrs. J.W. Pitts and Mrs. J.M. Smith of Saluda, and four brothers, John D. White, Johnston, C.C.; W.H., L.F. and J.T. White, all of Augusta.
From the front page of the Durham Morning Herald, Sunday, October 7, 1923
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